Rants: Protect the Vote
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Readers put in their two cents on online voting and hoarding the music.
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Almost three-quarters of likely voters think electronic voting systems should produce a paper record the voter can verify, according to a new poll. But that's not likely to happen for many of them in November. By Laila Weir.
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Polls run by news sites to gauge public opinion of politicians are turning into partisan tools for political spin doctors. People voting, often repeatedly, in response to e-mails from their favored candidates can skew the results. By Louise Witt.
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When voters enter the polling booths in November they deserve a clear pathway forward on Utah's voucher policy.  Right now there are several lawsuits moving through the judicial system, and I will be watching with great interest to see if clarity results.
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Flaw-proof election machines. Easy-to-read ballots. Registration systems that catch double-voters or dead voters still on the rolls.
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Following is a summary of recommendations The Register-Guard has made to voters for the Nov. 2 general election. The editors are fallible human beings who stand an average chance of being wrong.
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By Gail Appleson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch  Sep. 6--Think lawyers monkey around too much, and clients would be better  served by chimps? Well, you'll have your chance to vote.
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Advocates for the mental ill are trying to secure voting rights while concern mounts about the risks of voting by people with conditions like dementia.
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Also: E-voting a 'threat' to UK democracy. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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By Jennifer Davies, The San Diego Union-Tribune  Jun. 22--From hanging chads to computer glitches that mysteriously lose  thousands of votes, Lori Steele figures there has to be a better way to run  elections.
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They talk about them all the time on the news shows, every day the major Presidential candidates have conference calls with reporters. It seems much of the real action in the campaign happens here, but we (voters, taxpayers, citizens)  have no access. I listened to an MP3 of one of the calls, with the chief strategist and communications director of the Clinton campaign. It was fascinating, gave me a picture of how the press and the candidates relate that I had never seen before.  Now I want more -- I want it all!  I've been asking around, where can I get MP3s of all the conference calls, the day they happen, in full, not spun through the reporters, and so far have come up with nothing. So I'm bringing this issue to as many people as I can think of who might either know how I can get them, or apply pressure to one or more news organizations to make them public. I'd of course like to see them made available as an RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures, so it will be accessible to everyone with a podcast client. I would help create this, even host the feed if necessary. Anyone at a major media organization would have access to this content. I'm pretty sure it's all on the record. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Paranoia, frustration, fear and even rage: not the typical emotions Americans experience when exercising their otherwise satisfying civic duty in the voting booth.
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Lawsuits! Cameras! Action! How Republicans and Democrats are gearing up for the 2004 vote
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INTERNET and telephone voting should be dumped until ministers get a grip on electoral fraud, sleaze watchdog Sir Alistair Graham warns.  (c) 2007 Liverpool Echo. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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Comment is free: Mark Lawson: Anyone stupid enough to do a computer's bidding is not losing civil liberties so much as their marbles.
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By Alan Lowenthal  Since I began in the California Legislature eight years ago I have noticed a new tactic being employed by advocates for the business community. It basically goes something like this; pass it and we will sue.
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WASHINGTON - Voting security advocates in the U.S. are bracing for a repeat of problems in the upcoming general election that could rival Florida during the 2000 presidential race.