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Widespread DRE use is already being realized. In response to the debacle that was Florida in the 2000 presidential election, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002. HAVA allocated $3.86 billion in federal funds for the replacement of lever and punch card voting systems across the country. To comply with HAVA, a state may 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...
...Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) was supposed to solve all this and please both parties. Democrats won federal money to help states improve voting technologies and the Republicans won tighter guards against fraud. But states have received less than half the money authorized by the law, and some requirements have been waived until...
...Anticipating problems, both parties have been getting an early jump by filing lawsuits. If a particular voter?s name doesn?t show up in the rolls on Election Day, HAVA requires states to offer provisional ballots. The ballots will be counted if officials confirm the person is a registered voter afterward. But Republican election officials in several states are mandating that provisional ballots can only be counted if they are cast in the voter?s correct precinct. Democrats are suing, claiming that discriminates against the poor and minority voters, who tend to change addresses more often. A judge in Ohio...
Even with the passage of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) by Congress in 2002, mistakes by the judges threaten to affect hundreds of thousands of voters. In a recent Chicago primary after the implementation of HAVA, 93 percent of provisional ballots cast were discarded, mostly due to election worker mistakes...
Rinng! Rinng! It’s shopping period, and the cell phones are back, interrupting lectures, concerts and dinners with their incessant beeps, ditties and hums. The rudeness and negligence of cell phone users is often startling, and the problem of the interrupting “Hava Nagila” is only getting worse...