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Even before voters head to the polls, IRV would generate a ripple effect on the campaign process. Efforts to bar third-party candidates from the ballot would be moot, since they would have little chance of playing a spoiler role in any election. More significantly, candidates without a clear majority would need to depend on more than just first-place votes to gain victory, so IRV would curb negative campaigning...
...right," he says, "but we'll also be looking for things like bribes, busing people in with the promise of a meal." The G.O.P. slammed Florida Democrats and their supporters for filing nine lawsuits around the state challenging the interpretation of various election laws, on everything from where provisional ballots can be cast to kicking Ralph Nader off the ballot. "They're trying to create a scare, where people think, I don't know if my vote's going to count," says Reed Dickens, a spokesman for the Bush-Cheney campaign. "They're trying to create the impression of chaos...
...House were slow, perhaps recklessly so, in setting up the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to implement it. So while states helped themselves to funding for new voting machines, the EAC developed no national standards for using them. Likewise, HAVA mandated provisional voting so that nobody would be refused a ballot for the wrong reason. But the law was ambiguous in some key areas, opening the door for states to create different rules and inviting lawsuits. Democrats and Republicans may well continue legal dueling over the fine points of election law even as the votes are being counted and beyond. Here...
...voting system is vulnerable to imperfection, abuse and human error. And it should not be forgotten that 12% of voters nationwide (and more than 70% in dead-heat Ohio) will be using the punch-card ballots that caused such havoc in Florida in 2000. But the lack of transparency in electronic voting may be particularly problematic. "The reason people trust elections is that they can see what's going on," says David Dill, a computer-science professor at Stanford University and founder of the Verified Voting Foundation. "With electronic voting, the handling of the ballots, putting ballots in the ballot...
...same is true for absentee ballots, which are expected to arrive in record levels this year. Florida counties such as Miami-Dade have reported dramatic increases in absentee-ballot requests (up 55%). Special counsel for California's secretary of state Tony Miller expects absentee voting to approach 40% of the state's electorate, up from 25% in 2000. Votes sent from overseas will be accepted in some states even after Election Day and as late as Nov. 17 in Alaska. Warns Colorado election attorney Sean Gallagher: "The days of being able to call the election on election night are probably...