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...Democrats worry more about vote access - preventing people from intimidating voters into not casting a ballot. Democrats point to several episodes in recent decades when off-duty police officers or lawyers have been stationed at polling places in minority neighborhoods to challenge voters on whether they are properly registered. Postcards or phone recordings have told Democratic voters the wrong date for election day. Some of the allegations, but not all, are true...
...legalities of their rights, can be intimidated by a lawyer or volunteer challenging their right to vote. Many older black voters were alive before Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965, and remember that there were often literacy tests and poll taxes barring their way to the ballot...
That Florida 2000 was a confluence of unique circumstances—technical voting problems, a near tie at the ballot box, and state law wherein post-election challenges were legal—is true. However, as improbable as the Florida fiasco seemed, it will almost certainly happen again, not in one, but in multiple states. Battleground states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida (again) are likely settings for post-election litigation. These states have large numbers of Electoral College votes, making small numbers of disputed ballots worth fighting for. According to Bobby Burchfield, a Republican election lawyer who represented President...
That Florida 2000 was a confluence of unique circumstances—technical voting problems, a near tie at the ballot box, and state law wherein post-election challenges were legal—is true. However, as improbable as the Florida fiasco seemed, it will almost certainly happen again, not in one, but in multiple states. Battleground states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida (again) are likely settings for post-election litigation. These states have large numbers of Electoral College votes, making small numbers of disputed ballots worth fighting for. According to Bobby Burchfield, a Republican election lawyer who represented President...
...give states money to upgrade equipment, develop computer registration lists, and provide guidance through the newly created Election Assistance Commission. The actual election commissioners, however, weren’t appointed until Dec. 2003, and there is a conspicuous lack of funding. Moreover, the technical voting problems of the Florida ballot still exist; an estimated 32 million voters in 19 states will use the ill-fated punch cards. Thus we must prepare ourselves for an encore of the notorious hanging chads. The few reforms that have been instituted are still vulnerable to litigation post-election. For example, new electronic voting equipment...