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Election officials prepare for high voter turnout

Election officials are trying to avoid any confusion across the country on Tuesday

Zach Oliva


Six years after the biggest voting overhaul in recent memory, election officials are preparing for any problems on Election Day.

The New York Times has reported that more than half of voters will vote in a different format than the last presidential election.  The primary concern going into Tuesday is that there may not be enough paper ballots for the expected high turnout.  Paper ballots are being used in most states because of the problems with the electronic ballots used in the last election.

Voters from all over the country are already concerned that their vote may be misconstrued.

“I pushed the Democrat ticket, and it jumped to the Republican ticket for president of the United States,” Calvin Thomas, 81, an Obama supporter who tried to vote early in Ripley, W.V. told The New York Times. “I’m a registered Republican, and I’ve voted in every presidential election since 1948. I don’t like seeing my vote do something I didn’t tell it to do. I take that real serious.”

Many problems with the voting system have been fixed since the problems in Florida during the 2000 election.  Since then Congress passed the Help America Vote Act, designed to fund new machines that minimize voting errors.

“Counties and states are better prepared for machine problems than they have been in the past,” Lawrence Norden, a voting expert with the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law told The New York Times.  “Problem is that this election may not be like any other in terms of the strain on the system, and small problems can have big consequences when there are such tight margins and so many people showing up to vote.”

To read more about if America is prepared for the high voter turnout, go here.

11/03/08

Source: The New York Times

A Diebold Election Systems machine. Many voters are concerned about complications in the voting process.



Highlights
  • Counties all over the country are preparing for the expected high turnout for this years election
  • Officials are concerned that new voting systems are not ready for election day
  • Although voters are certainly concerned about potential problems, officials have said that any problems should be rare




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Comments (1):


Ana
2009 04 27

The primary concern going into Tuesday is that there may not be enough paper ballots for the expected high turnout.  Paper ballots are being used in most states because of the problems with the electronic ballots used in the last election.
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