So now what happens at the Election Commission?
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Of course rumors are flying... but lets be real...
Something needs to happen...
I have heard something about servers... all I can think to say is servers, smervers!
Maybe the Election Commission is not in charge of the servers... but if they are not, WHO IS? Who was in charge of testing? Or lack of testing?
Maybe the Election Commission is not in charge of Election Judges (though it appears that they are.)
What about provisional ballots? WHO is in charge of making sure there are enough at the vote centers…
Lots of questions for the Election Commission… with 2 elected officials and 1 appointed by the Mayor…
One more question... how do you trust any answer you get going forward? I am sure there are a few City Council members asking themselves that very question right now... my guess is a Mayor as well...
Something needs to happen...
I have heard something about servers... all I can think to say is servers, smervers!
Maybe the Election Commission is not in charge of the servers... but if they are not, WHO IS? Who was in charge of testing? Or lack of testing?
Maybe the Election Commission is not in charge of Election Judges (though it appears that they are.)
What about provisional ballots? WHO is in charge of making sure there are enough at the vote centers…
Lots of questions for the Election Commission… with 2 elected officials and 1 appointed by the Mayor…
One more question... how do you trust any answer you get going forward? I am sure there are a few City Council members asking themselves that very question right now... my guess is a Mayor as well...
The state should remove this silly ID requirement. The old signature affidavit method worked just fine. The amount of fakery and improper voting was probably next to nothing, if not nothing. This is just a Republican method to make it harder for working people to vote. A lot of the time problems had to do with the up-front verification process.
The US Congress needs to re-write the HAVA law. Too many secretaries of state simply used this as an excuse to reward election machine companies with contracts. Let's examine whether the Oregon mail-in system might work here. 55 vote centers would be fine if they were just collecting sealed mail-out ballots all day on "election day." Instead of two scanners to count the absent ballots (one of which is broken now according to channel 4), we could have a large number of them and not have to have any of these other stupid machines! (Of course, we have to make sure the scanning machines meet integrity standards too.)
Those of us who pay attention more than the average voter need to get very involved the next time the elected Denver Election Commission positions are open. Too often nobody knows who is running for these positions and why. We need to pay the kind of attention that we pay to the Secretary of State race.
One other thought, looking forward to 2008, is that regardless of what happens in the way of reform, it should be quite easy to convince Denver voters in 2008 to vote absentee.