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Diana C. Rosenthal ’05 got her Florida absentee ballot the other day, but only after 10 frustrating calls to the elections commission. “I either received busy signals, prerecorded messages giving me the office hours—even though it was in fact between 9 and 5 on a workday when I called—or was left with an incompetent person on the other end of the line who seemed not to understand my questions,” she said...
Carrie E. Andersen ’08 lavishly stuck five 37-cent stamps on her ballot to Illinois. Allison K. Rone ’06 had her ballot Fed-exed to her from Washington state to make sure she filled it out in time...
...heat, and that the votes they cast will be the ones that are counted. A simpler way of doing this, of course, would have been to buy optical-scanning machines - which comply with HAVA standards, reduce the number of machines required, and already produce the contemporaneous, human-readable physical ballot necessary for true voting security. For those who prefer things truly paper-free: require open source code in any voting machine, and print out a final receipt at the end of the day. This would require no adjustments to existing machines whatsoever. It would simply require that a company like...
...Green Party nomination process that was deficient, not Mr. Nader’s loyalty. The late date which they had for nominating their presidential candidate did not allow Mr. Nader the proper amount of time he needed to begin the process of getting onto each state ballot...
...dashed yet again. For centuries, the sect has ended up on the wrong side of power, and Sistani wants to make sure it comes out on top this time. He has been adamant about elections because he believes Shi'ites can get what they want at the ballot box, and the rest of the world will have to accept it. Some Sistani aides say there is an implicit warning in that: if Shi'ite expectations of electoral victory are thwarted, Sistani could call his followers to rebel. "He does not think of jihad now," says Ali al-Mousawi al-Waath...