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...course, some will contend that it is foolish to think that a baby who cannot speak, write or pull a lever can vote, but along the same lines, a catatonic adult is not able to vote either. Again, the distinction of a truly acceptable vote is not the age of the voter, but simply the voter’s ability to cast a ballot. Also, it should be noted that every four-year-old child will not be shoved into a polling both and forced to deliberate in elections. All I am suggesting is that those few children who independently...
...turned out to be Putin's worst failure," says one official in Moscow. If Putin fails to install Yanukovych and thus "loses" Ukraine, the official says, his domestic position will be undercut. "Putin will strike back," he says. "But except for encouraging eastern separatism, he does not have a lever to work." For now, Putin must wait like everyone else for the outcome of the election. The future will depend on how quickly and thoroughly Yushchenko can flush the toxins out of his system - and whether Ukraine's body politic can do the same...
...least initially, will likely strengthen the two-party system, because it will decrease the chances of a third-party spoiler. So politicians have little excuse not to push for it. More serious concerns involve educating voters about the ranking system and refitting (or replacing) older punch-card and pull-lever voting technologies. But asking voters to rank candidates in their order of preference is hardly an overwhelmingly unreasonable (or confusing) request, and the proliferation of electronic voting machines increases the prospects for widespread IRV elections. Indeed, IRV voting has been successfully implemented for elections in several spheres, including Republican congressional...
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...
...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 that resemble ATMs are supposed to be far more accurate than the old punch card or lever systems, but lawyers still argue that they are susceptible to computer hackers and power failures...