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“We can create a better improved election administration at a state level or with federal regulations and more federal effort,” Fung said. “We ought to try those things, but another strategy would be grassroots, bottom-up, citizen-based monitoring.?...
“My hope is that on Election Day we are going to help at least one polling place to function,” said Russell G. Richardson, the software engineer who volunteered to develop MyFairElection.com.
Political apathy and confusing absentee voting rules have depressed youth turnout on past election days. And while the apathy may have lessened, a labyrinth of voting regulations remains, leaving experts guessing just how much of the youth vote will materialize—and whether it will last past 2008.
In 2004, youth turnout in the presidential election jumped 11 percent, according to the final election report of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.
College voters in Massachusetts face other exacting requirements. Registering by mail in the Commonwealth requires a state ID with a residential address, but many undergraduates don’t have dorm addresses printed on their IDs. The Cambridge Election Commission lets Harvard students register by mail with their home-state...