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...their encounters, the volunteers glimpse the elusive nature of the swing state voter. Some residents simply aren’t registered—one man, who appeared completely apathetic at first, warmed up when Jordan C. Ford ’08 offered him information on voter registration. Others are wary of the constant stream of political operatives who flood their state each year, mumbling a refusal (“I’m not interested, sorry”; “I don’t discuss my vote”) before slamming the door...
...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...
...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 on how to correct the ballot before it is cast and counted” (sec. 301), or the state may simply purchase optical...
...race nears its end, you can expect both sides to try to hack away wedges--or at least slivers--of voters with appeals to religion and morality. It is already happening. Desperately contested Ohio is one of 11 states that will decide on Nov. 2 whether to amend their constitution to ban gay marriage. Phil Burress of the Ohio Campaign to Protect Marriage, which favors that state's proposed amendment, is preparing to mail 2.5 million bulletin inserts to some 17,000 Ohio churches. His group has already submitted nearly 55,000 voter-registration cards. "The church will show...
Mariam F. Eskander ’05, a registered Democrat who said she plans to vote, attributes the increase in voter likelihood among college students to election awareness campaigns...