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Survey Finds No Consensus on Election Reform
A survey of election reform in the states, courts and Congress has found while the drive for election reform continues, any real consensus of how to repair voting has yet to form. more
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Election Reform Landscape Altered By Terror War
Most everything was altered by the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on Sept. 11 - from transportation to law enforcement to peoples attitudes to politics. The election reform landscape, once dominated by partisan disputes, might have been altered as well. more
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GAO Finds Widespread Problems in 2000 Elections
The General Accounting Office has released a long-awaited, comprehensive survey of American voting, and found that problems with voting extended well beyond the Florida border. more
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Election Campaigns Enter 'Uncharted Waters'
Patriotism, not politics, has been on the minds of many since terrorist attacks last Tuesday. Now a week past, however, elections and campaigns are resuming, entering what both election officials and candidates have called "uncharted waters." more
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Election Reform Drive Brings Little Change
Most Americans returning to the polls next year will vote in exactly the same way they did in the heavily-scrutinized 2000 presidential election. Punch card machines will not lie in scrapheaps, chads will still be hanging and swinging and 1950s-era lever machines will still be the voting machines of choice in thousands of precincts. more
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Election Reform Reports Reveal States Best, Worst
Two new reports alternately praise and chastise states for their election practices while offering vastly different proposals for how to best reform voting practices in this country. more
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Disabled Disappointed With Election Reform Proposals
While a host of election reform task forces and commissions from the public and private sector have offered recommendations for improving the way the U.S. votes, none have called for a federally-mandated right for access to polls and the opportunity to cast a ballot independently and privately. more
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Elections Aren't Broken, But Could Use Help, Study Says
Election administrators from around the country said Thursday (8/9) the nations system of voting is "not in crisis" as they presented findings of their own six-month task force look at election reform. more
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Senate Takes Awkward Step Forward On Election Reform
A U.S. Senate committee unanimously advanced one of two major election reform proposals Thursday (8/2), but not before a dispute over which one should be considered widened an already deep divide between Republicans and Democrats. more
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Carter-Ford Election Commission Softens Its Tone
In its eagerly awaited report on how to improve U.S. voting procedures, the National Commission on Federal Election Reform calls for an overhaul of registration and recount practices, but stops short of recommending the kind of systemic overhaul that some of its leaders initially favored. The group favors state-by-state election reform instead of a larger role for the federal government. The only "federal" election reforms it proposes are making election day a national holiday and asking the networks to refrain from reporting any election results until polls close on the West Coast. more
