Monday, September 19, 2005
Election commission recommends keeping N.H., Iowa first
By Will Lester, Associated Press Writer
Former President Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker, the panel's co-leaders, cited the loss of confidence in a report they were to deliver Monday to President Bush and Congress.
Among the commission's recommendations:
--Congress should pass a law requiring voter-verifiable paper audit trails on all electronic voting machines.
--States should require voters to present photo IDs and offer free photo IDs to those who don't have drivers' licenses.
--The presidential primary system should be reorganized into four regional primaries, held after the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. A regional primary would take place each month from March to June.
--All "legitimate domestic and international election observers" should be granted unrestricted access to the election process, within the rules of the election.
--News organizations should voluntarily refrain from projecting any presidential election results in any state until all polls have closed in all states but Alaska and Hawaii.
--States should prohibit senior election officials from serving or assisting political campaigns in a partisan way.
--States should establish uniform procedures for the counting of provisional ballots, which voters can use when there are questions about their registration.
full story @ bostom.com
Until the electronic machines are dealt with in a serious and honest way, I think all votes should be on paper, counted by hand - just like we do here in the north country. I don't really care how long it takes - at least then we'd know the results were true.
I don't approve of the photo ID thing, either. It's a handy way of keeping poor, and homeless people from voting. A domicile affadavit should be sufficient - it's worked just fine all these years. The GOP hates it because they want to prevent students and indigent folks from voting.
If you charged people $3 at the door to vote how many do you think would come out? What economic or social class do you think would be represented by these voters?
I might consider the ID seriously if it was completely free and obtainable even on the day on election.
NH should not be first. It's too damn conservative. And whatever it helps the democratic party coffers it also helps the republicans. So they mutual benefit balances out, or not really as repubs always have more money them dems.
Screw the Mainstream Media Horserace.... let them wait for weeks to find out who the new liar is. They are the ones that stand in the way of fair elections. They want to have a winner in the first 4-6 hours.
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