Voting Systems Remain Unchanged - PhillyBlog

Sponge · #1 (**permalink**) 01-22-2004, 10:16 PM

Report Says Most Voting Systems Unchanged
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...tion_changes_1
By ROBERT TANNER, AP National Writer

Quote:

The presidential campaign season is under way, yet when voters go to the polls this year, the election systems in many states will still be susceptible to the same flaws that caused the 2000 stalemate in Florida.

A report released Thursday found that — despite promised reforms — only a few states made comprehensive changes to voting machines and registration in the last three years. The Washington-based Election Reform Information Project reported that money problems and concerns about the reliability of new, touchscreen voting systems delayed action.

It will be 2006, at the earliest, before voters nationwide see the kinds of sweeping improvements that policy-makers said were necessary after the 2000 election.

"The expectation for reform has outstripped reality," said Doug Chapin, director of the information project, a nonpartisan group that studies elections.

What do you think about this? How much of a factor do you think this will be in the next election?

regman · #2 (**permalink**) 01-23-2004, 12:40 AM

There is no question that the current system is flawed and there has been some initiative to make changes (see Help America Vote Act of 2002), however some of the changes being implemented in the form of new voting machines are still in need of further development and testing to ensure the integrity of one's vote. (See previous thread about Electronic Voting Machines)

Some of the major flaws in the last election were not the result of voting machines, but of flawed procedures/policies that removed people from voter registries and/or made it confusing and difficult for people to vote properly.

I hope there will not be a repeat of the 2000 fiasco.

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