Call-in line gives voice to voter frustration, provides data of problems

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electionline Weekly

April 7, 2005

I. In Focus This Week

‘I hear disenfranchised people’

Call-in line gives voice to voter frustration, provides data of problems

By Doug Chapin
electionline.org

New data from a voter hotline reveals that registration problems were the leading source of voter complaints leading up to and on Election Day 2004.

As concerns about the 2004 election mounted last fall, several organizations set up voter hotlines to enable voters to register complaints and concerns about the electoral process. The hotline, 1-866-MYVOTE1, was funded by a consortium led by the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government and designed by InfoVoter Technologies of Bala Cynwyd, Pa.

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Patusky and Smukler are both seeking additional funding to analyze the full list of voter messages. In so doing, they hope to fill out the nation’s understanding of the conduct of the 2004 election as well as to help guide the election reform process for the 2006 election and beyond.

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