More Election Irregularities–on Both Sides
Two brief excerpts from this New York Times story:
RedState.com, the conservative journal, heralded a “massive meltdown in Pennsylvania†early in the day, citing “widespread reports of an electoral nightmare shaping up in Pennsylvania with certain types of electronic voting machines.â€
Among the litany of issues cited at Talking Points: computer problems that caused long lines in Denver; polling stations that stayed open later in Indiana after voting problems and delays; votes for Claire C. McCaskill in the Missouri Senate race that somehow registered for her opponent, Jim Talent; complaints that crashed an Ohio county phone system.
In short, our work is not over even with most of the votes counted.
I think the time has come for a mass movement around electoral fairness. We have the right to now that
Watch this space. I will be contacting voting rights experts to help draft legislation, and then asking them to help contact mass-advocacy groups such as MoveOn and yes, its conservative counterpart RightMarch to create a massive bipartisan push for fair elections.
The goal: Passed in 2007 and implemented in time for the 2008 elections.