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Opponents of this proposal, however, argue that the paper trail is unnecessary and will prove cumbersome to the voting process. According to an article in The New York Times, critics of attaching a printer to current and future electronic voting machines—so voters can “confirm” their ballot—cite “paper jams, voter confusion and delays in the voting booth while voters read their receipts,” as potential disincentives to vote. But, at present, studies show that electronic voting systems are not currently designed to ensure we won?...
...candidates, given the poll's margin of error, remain in a virtual dead heat and the election could still go either way. They face a long road, with many turning points, between now and November. Nonetheless, the decline in support for Bush since February came across in almost every voter group TIME surveyed but most notably among females, independents, Westerners and voters ages 18 to 24. The drop comes at a time when the economy is widely thought to be gathering strength and after Bush bought more than $60 million worth of ads that make the most of his accomplishments...
...pretty amped about the situation. I've never been asked if I want to vote." JOE HERBRAND, 23, at a voter-registration drive held by owners of the Isabella Queen strip club in rural Wisconsin...
...earlier this year, Vernet is seeking to sponsor democracy in his mother country by championing political participation in the U.S. Haitians make up one of the largest immigrant groups in New York City without a City Council member from its ranks. Vernet's organization, Initiatives Democratiques, has set up voter-registration drives in New York in an attempt to create a Haitian-American voting bloc, and he is compiling a computer database of Haitian-American voters in the U.S. The average annual per capita income in Haiti is just $440, a figure supplemented by many Haitian Americans who send...
...years later, Phillips discovered a way to make a quieter and immeasurably greater impact on politics. He and his brother Dean founded a company committed to an analogous task: unearthing and assembling hidden but public information--voter rolls, driver's licenses, census data--for use by activists and politicians. Information and connectivity fuel democracy, Phillips reasoned, so the more that people have of each, the easier participation becomes...