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...Free, democratic elections in Iraq would presumably mean more than one candidate for each position. What is to prevent the insurgents, who hate the U.S. and the U.N., from placing on the ballot candidates who are sympathetic to the insurgents' position and having these sympathizers elected to the new Iraqi parliament? And if that should occur, will we then need to overthrow the parliament? Janet Herbst Millersport...
...Cleveland, OH, the elections board is running television advertisements on how to properly punch an absentee ballot, and in Florida lawsuits are already underway to challenge the use of touch screen voting machines in 15 counties. While the final weeks before the election may find much of the country arguing over who they will vote for, in many places, the real question is how they will vote...
...center of this debate is the issue of Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) type voting machines, much like those currently in use in Florida. Such systems typically do not produce simultaneous paper ballots, meaning that voters do not have the opportunity to physically confirm the content of their vote. And while the 2000 presidential election demonstrated the importance of voter-confirmation, the proposed solution for providing that feedback is more dangerous still: the widespread use of DREs that do not create a physical, human-readable ballot at the time of voting. And as long as the concurrent production of a human...
...either continue to use punch card systems by “(i) establishing a voter education program specific to that voting system that notifies each voter of the effect of casting multiple votes for an office; and (ii) providing the voter with instructions on how to correct the ballot before it is cast and counted” (sec. 301), or the state may simply purchase optical scanning or DRE voting machines...
...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...