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Your vote counts: Election inspectors are essential to democracy |
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Written by VIRGINIA MARTIN
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Friday, 14 January 2011 09:30 |
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PICTURE THIS: Once a year, or at most twice, you engage in a mission on which, arguably, the fate of the Western World rests.
Exaggeration? Keep reading.
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Your vote counts: The Help America Vote Act--Help or hindrance? |
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Written by VIRGINIA MARTIN
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Friday, 31 December 2010 20:28 |
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REMEMBER FLORIDA 2000? Chads, hanging and dimpled. Confusion when we should have had conclusion. Not this country's proudest electoral moment.
Congress was embarrassed. So in 2002 it passed the Help America Vote Act. “HAVA” required states to improve electoral education, training and administration, and to make it possible for people with disabilities to cast their votes, privately and independently, with the rest of the electorate at the polling place.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 02 January 2011 17:28 |
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Your vote counts: This county knows who won |
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Written by VIRGINIA MARTIN
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Friday, 17 December 2010 18:31 |
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WITHOUT CONFIDENCE in our elections, is this really a democracy?
When you hear about “suspect” elections in one country or another, what do you assume? That it's not a democracy. We know we're a democracy when we can trust our elections.
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Last Updated on Monday, 20 December 2010 22:02 |
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Your vote counts: Why county is hand-counting all its ballots |
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Written by VIRGINIA MARTIN
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Tuesday, 07 December 2010 16:36 |
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COMPUTERS HAVE TOUCHED almost every aspect of our lives, or at least it seems so. Twenty-first-century society is complexly intertwined with all things digital. Software and the programming that create it instantaneously work daily miracles in our lives -- so, of course someone would connect software and elections. That, however, is not necessarily a good thing.
The zeroes-and-ones electromagnetic technologies that enable the most utilitarian and wonderful aspects of our connected culture have their limitations. They can't, for example, replace sunlight or air or soil, or the foods that grow as a result. They can't replace a mother's loving touch or a suitor's adoring gaze.
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Last Updated on Friday, 17 December 2010 18:35 |
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