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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-08 10:59 PM
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Ten states have inadequate voting contingency plans, "least prepared,"
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/102108dnpolvotesnafu.3dcf529.html

Texans could face major disruptions at polling places on Election Day because of voting machine breakdowns or massive turnouts that overwhelm local authorities.

So says a report by three nonpartisan voter advocacy groups that cited Texas and nine other states as having inadequate contingency plans for using emergency paper ballots.

Texas also does not have a procedure for auditing vote totals or the number of ballots cast statewide, said the report by the Common Cause Education Fund, the Verified Voter Foundation and the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law.


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Other states that the report identified as being the "least prepared," were Colorado, Delaware, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia.





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JimDandy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-08 01:13 AM
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1. Santa Clara Co, CA is sending out sample ballots on half sheets of paper to absentee voters!
A woman in Canada got one along with a note telling her to fill it out and when she turned it in the county would transfer her votes to a proper ballot. Talk about unprepared. This was on NPR tonight.
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