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Published: 11/15/10

Opinion: 4 Lessons About Voting from the 2010 Elections

By  not in system - AOL News
Opinion: 4 Lessons About Voting from the 2010 Elections

(Nov. 15) -- Ten years after Bush v. Gore and the spectacle of the nation's most important political contest going into overtime, the country's voting experience this Nov. 2 highlights the changes America has seen since 2000. Here are some key lessons we have learned about election reform -- looking back and forward: New machines aren't the only answer. In the immediate aftermath of the 2000 election, the prime targets for criticism were the machines -- specifically, the punch card ballots whose hanging, swinging and dimpled chads were a source of legal and popular fascination. The Help ...

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Published: 11/10/10

Opinion: 10 Years Later, Our Electoral System Is Still Broken

By  not in system - AOL News
Opinion: 10 Years Later, Our Electoral System Is Still Broken

(Nov. 10) -- Let's face it -- our electoral system is broken. Not completely. In most instances the system does its job and determines a winner. But if the race is close and the outcome determines who gets political power, the cracks in the structure become painfully clear. This was the real lesson of the 2000 presidential recount crisis in Florida: In close elections, when every vote counts, our electoral machinery is not up to the job. Sadly, this lesson was lost in the controversy ignited by the Supreme Court's unprecedented ruling in Bush v. Gore, in which a five-justice majority ...

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Published: 10/15/10

Green Party Candidate's Name Misspelled as 'Rich Whitey'

By  not in system - AOL News
Green Party Candidate's Name Misspelled as 'Rich Whitey'

CHICAGO (Oct. 15) - An Illinois gubernatorial candidate's name was mistakenly listed as "Rich Whitey" instead of Rich Whitney on thousands of Chicago electronic-voting machines and will be corrected, elections officials said Thursday. Chicago elections board Chairman Langdon Neal said crews will work overtime to reprogram and retest 530 machines being used for early voting and an additional 4,200 destined for the Nov. 2 election. The mistake in the Green Party candidate's name appears on a review screen that allows voters to double-check their selections and not on the screen where the vote ...

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Published: 10/11/10

DC Electronic Voting Site Hacked by Iran, China, University of Michigan

By  Steven Hoffer - AOL News
DC Electronic Voting Site Hacked by Iran, China, University of Michigan

(Oct. 11) -- What do Iran, China and the University of Michigan have in common? The civic duty to ensure that American Web-based voting platforms are safe and secure for overseas voters, of course. (That and a vicious hatred for Ohio State football, believe it or not.) As a program security trial, the D.C. Board of Elections & Ethics encouraged outside parties to hack and find flaws in its online balloting system, part of the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation, which administrators plan to offer for roughly 950 military and overseas voters during November's 2010 midterm elections. Taking ...

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Published: 09/15/10

Angry New Yorkers Hate New Voting Machines

By  Deborah Hastings - AOL News
Angry New Yorkers Hate New Voting Machines

NEW YORK (Sept. 15) -- They're loud, they're arguably obnoxious and they don't like to be messed with. The latest target of New Yorkers' ire: new voting machines, which perplexed them, broke down and ate their primary election ballots. One of the most irked voters was New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who proclaimed the new electronic system "a royal screw-up" and blasted the local board of elections for not being prepared. Katie Orlinsky, The New York Times / Redux Voters cast their ballots during the primaries using an electronic voting machine at a polling station in New York on ...

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Published: 11/3/08

Predictions From Greg

By  Greg McNeilly - Politics Daily
Predictions From Greg

What would prediction folly be without foolish predictions! So here's my 2.5 cents of clairvoyance: 1. People vote. Pretty sure that'll happen. In fact I can boldly predict tomorrow, Tuesday, November 4th people will vote. I'll go further. Some will make the right choice, others a wrong one. But all together, they're be more voices than we seen in a very long time. Nationally, between 65-68% of the voting age population will participate. 2. Someone wins. There will be a winner Election Night. 3. Margins won't matter. Closer than many expect, contests in battleground states will surprise ...

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Published: 04/22/08

Ballot Trouble?

By  Faye Anderson - Politics Daily
Ballot Trouble?

In the 2000 presidential election, voters in Palm Beach County, Fla., were flummoxed by the butterfly ballot. The confusing ballot design caused thousands of voters, including some Holocaust survivors, to vote for Pat Buchanan when they intended to vote for Al Gore. Eight years later, it's happening in Palmer Township, Penn., where the absentee ballot design places the name of the candidate below the matching bubble or between two bubbles. One confused voter said:I'm not a stupid person, and I was very distressed, because here we are; Pennsylvanians -- us, Pennsylvanians! -- could determine ...

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