Yikes..these "little" glitches can add up..look at the number mentioned in the sentence about 2000 election prevented from voting. Just IMAGINE what that number must be this time around with all the fur flying in other states besides Florida...well, I say that, they probably happened elsewhere in 2000 but everyone was focused on Florida. You THINK 4 yrs would be long enough to FIX the problems..oh, yeah, I forgot, it's the problems that allow shrub to steal the election each time.
http://www.civilrights.org/issues/voting/details.cfm?id=23088Civil Rights Coalition Warns of Voter Registration Problems for 2004 Election
May 26, 2004
The following statement on election reform was given by Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), at a joint LCCR and League of Women Voters press conference.
"While much of the attention following the 2000 election focused on outdated voting technology, ... a study by Caltech and MIT estimated that between 1.5 to 3 million citizens were kept from voting because of registration problems. There were a number of reasons for this, including:
-New registrations under "Motor Voter" were never forwarded to election officials,
-Incomplete and inaccurate voter lists at polling places; and
-Voters being sent to the wrong polling places.
"Statewide voter registration databases will be an important part of preventing voter registration problems in the future. More than two-thirds of the states will not have statewide databases in place in time for the 2004 elections. And regardless of whether states will have their statewide computerized databases in place by then, we are already seeing many signs that voters are still going to face significant obstacles when it comes to registration.
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