gotta love this map, but read below about the voting challenges

[greenbriar]

http://www.electoral-vote.com/




Challenges Could Disenfranchise Millions of Voters
The Help America Vote Act, passed after the 2000 debacle in Florida, mandates that states have a statewide data base of eligible voters to help people vote and to prevent fraud. However, these data bases are full of minor errors and hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of voters may be disenfranchised as a result. To make this clear, consider the five newly registered voters listed below on the left. The data for the same people (matched by social security number) appears in the drivers license data base below on the right.

New Voters
Name Address SS #
John A. Smith 24 Maple Ave 123-45-6789
Mary Jones 50a Main St 314-15-9265
William Wong 123 North Road 271-82-8182
Nancy Wilson 62 1st Avenue 299-79-2458
Peter Adams 120 Davis Ave 602-21-4179
Drivers License Data Base
Name Address SS #
John A Smith 24 Maple Ave 123-45-6789
Mary Jones 50A Main St 314-15-9265
Bill Wong 123 North Road 271-82-8182
Nancy Wilson 62 First Avenue 299-79-2458
Peter Adams 120 Davis Avenue 602-21-4179



Unless very carefully programmed, the software might reject all these new voters on the grounds of suspected fraud because the data don't agree. Could the software be made smart enough to do "fuzzy matching?" Of course, but only if the people writing it were instructed to do so. In addition, in many states criminals have recently been purged from the rolls--along with everybody else with the same name as any criminal. But there is much dispute as to which crimes disqualify one, what about people who have served their time, and people who have been pardoned? Even if the laws are clear, which they generally aren't, the data bases are so riddled with errors and the clerical personnel so ill-trained, that the whole issue of voter registration could be a time bomb that explodes on election day.

[MichDem10]

1. 8 f'ing years and they still can't figure this shit out!!!???