The recount report from the national media consortium, using data painstakingly gathered by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), at a cost of almost a million dollars, was finally released. The data provide strong support for reform, as the data demonstrate (among many other things) that:Steve Cobble, Are We Really Going to Abandon Election Reform?
- our current voting system has class, racial, and disability biases;
- punch card balloting must be eliminated;
- ’second-chance’ technology, which cuts down on overvotes, needs to be available at the precinct level, everywhere;
- provisional voting should be a universal right;
- ballot design should be taken out of the hands of local officials, who may be partisan, incompetent, or just bad designers;
- hand recounts are justified, to ascertain the will of the people;
- voting rights should be restored to felons who have served their time;
- poll workers need (and deserve!) more training; and
- voter education should be a serious and well-funded public obligation.
originally posted by xowie
