"Are American elections broken? White House panel proposes fixes."

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Are American elections broken? White House panel proposes fixes.

By Mark Guarino at the Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2014/0122/Are-American-elections-broken-White-House-panel-proposes-fixes

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The recommendations include:

Expanding online voting registration to improve voter roll accuracy.

Expanding mail balloting or early voting before Election Day, and improving military and overseas voting access.

Greater reliance on schools as polling sites.

Updating voting technology and integrating voter data collected from Departments of Motor Vehicles with state election office lists.

Making sure that no voter should have to wait more than 30 minutes to vote.
Creating uniform training standards by state.

Auditing voting equipment after each election with full public disclosure of the results.

Many election reform advocates are cheering the report’s recommendations. They are “a significant advance in the way we think about voting,” said Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s School of Law.





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[Scuba]

1. Is this in doubt?

Should include a ban on proprietary electronic systems, at the least. I'd much prefer paper ballots, hand counted, in public, cameras rolling.

And why not a federal holiday for federal election day?