Particularly interested in what changes will be/were implemented in battleground states like Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, etc. since 2000. Adoption of new voting machines, whether or not they generate a paper tracking system, changes restoring voting rights to felons in voter rolls, etc.
Oh, and Florida, too. Why not.
Thanks, Askia. I’ve been thinking about asking this same question, and I hope Dopers will provide the answers many of us are hoping for. I.e., paper trails are required and the software has to be checked by unimpeachable experts.
Washington completely revamped its primary system (for which I have not forgiven CA, or either of the major parties) - which doesn’t matter for the Presidential election, but could matter for all other partisan elections.
Any place that is changing the system for the Presidential election probably put the system in place already for the primaries. Test runs and such.
What does california have to do with Washington’s primary system? For that matter, what’s your (Washingtonian) problem with California’s electoral system?
Well, rumor has it that Florida is going to try the popular vote method this time around…
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In seriousness, what I’ve heard is that several states are going with electronic Diebold equipment, with the restriction that it is supposed to generate a permanent voting record for proof /comparison purposes.
This should be a significant improvement overall.
I’m not certain but I think New York is going to stick with those old-fashioned mechanical machines with the metal pull-tabs and the huge honkin’ lever that works like the big Enter key on an old mechanical cash register – records what’s pressed down and pops all the levers up and opens the curtain for you as well.
In 1935 Washington went to a blanket primary. It worked wonderfully for decades, every so often someone complained, but it always won constitutional challenges (and the overwhelming majority of voters love the blanket primary), so the complaints weren’t very loud.
In 1996 CA went from a closed primary to a blanket primary that was vaguely like ours, but different in very significant ways. Having suddenly lost power, the GOP and Dems in CA sued and got their primary declared unconstitutional. The parties here noticed the CA suit, and filed their own. The one here went back and forth - but time was running out and we needed something put in place by September, so now we’re stuck with a closed primary.
Here’s some good news. Florida has to release the list of ineligible voters that were purged from the voting rolls. This will allow those people who were mistakenly purged to opportunity to get back on the voter rolls, if it hasn’t happened already.
I just hope there are iron clad provisions that require the released list to be the unexpurgated roster that was used in the stolen election.
Since this is Jeb’s state, can we expect any semblance of honesty in this matter? Names are going t get “lost” I suspect.
I’m a pollworker in NYC. For 2004, big honkin’ metal machines it is. They are trying to buy nice new electronic ones, but are insisting on paper trials and other inconveniences like that, so we won’t see them until 2005/6.
Since we have large numbers of voters already unable to understand the instuctions 1) Pull over giant well-marked red lever 2) Vote! 3) Prof–I mean, pull back giant well-marked red lever to original position, I hope I have a good enough job by then so I can scoff at the $225/day paycheck when the New Electronic Ones come along.