From Jim Gilliam's blog archives
Tired: Tort Reform ... Wired: Electoral Tort Reform
September 27, 2004 11:22 PM
AP has a list of potential voting problems in battleground states. The heat is turning up on voting shenanigans popping up all over the country: Florida (27): Voter intimidation of blacks, and a new felon purge list remarkably devoid of hispanics (80% of Cubans vote R). Ohio (20): Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell issued a directive requiring people to show up at the right polling place. Democrats have sued. And a battle is brewing over whether the state will notify felons on parole of their right to vote. Lousiana (9): Broken and late voting machines during the gay marriage referendum prevented roughly 11% of people from voting. California (55): Counties are struggling with e-voting machines all over the state -- none of which will print paper receipts this election. Meanwhile, the guy in charge of the elections, Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, is embroiled in numerous scandals with the spectre of impeachment looming near. Colorado (9): A referendum on the Nov. 2nd ballot would divvy up the state's 9 electoral votes based on the popular vote, instead of the standard winner-takes-all. If this passes, and the election is tight, this would become a likely legal battleground. South Carolina (8): Lawsuits are flying as a result of widespread voter fraud in the June 8th Democratic State Senate primary. Arizona (10): A local Fox affiliate intimidated college kids registering to vote claiming they would face jail time because they were only temporary residents, but Arizona law requires someone live in the state for only 29 days before voting. And Bev Harris at Black Box Voting demonstrated that even a chimp could erase a Diebold voting machine audit trail. I'm sure there are many more.
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