The Next Voting Debacle?

["David Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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From: "steven cherry" <steven () panix com>
Subject: The Next Voting Debacle?
Date: 1st October 2006
Time: 10:56:15 am

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> From: steven cherry <steven () panix com>
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> Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 10:43:22 -0400
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> Dave, there's one aspect to new voting technologies that hasn't 
> gotten a lot of attention yet: new federally-mandated statewide 
> voting databases. Our lead news story for October concerns them.
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>  Steven
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> http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/oct06/4663
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> The Next Voting Debacle?
> Database problems may disqualify legitimate voters in upcoming U.S. elections
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> The Help America Vote Act of 2002, or HAVA, has garnered most of its 
> notoriety because it required election officials throughout the 
> United States to replace old paper-based voting machines with 
> controversial new electronic equipment by 2004. But there are other 
> provisions in the law that took effect only in January 2006, and 
> these are quietly creating their own potential for disrupting 
> elections this November-including the 468 House and Senate contests 
> that will determine control of Congress.
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> The new HAVA rules concern the databases that contain the voter 
> rolls-and in 49 of the 50 states, if you are not on the rolls, you 
> can't vote. Elections have often turned on the question of who gets 
> to vote and who does not. This time around, voter eligibility will 
> depend in large part on the contents of a number of databases, most 
> of which have been in existence for less than a year and some of 
> which have not been constructed in accord with the best practices of 
> the database industry. <more>
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