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10.29.2008
7 Things That Could Go Wrong on Election Day from http://time.com As someone that works with a large database on a daily basis, I found this interesting. You should read the whole article, but this is the part that fascinated me. Actually, a better word is concerned. I encourage each of you to make sure your registration is correct. ======================== "Joe the plumber" is not registered to vote. Or at least he is not registered under his own name. The man known to his mother as Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, who has become a feature of John McCain's stump speech, is inscribed in Ohio's Lucas County registration records as "Worzelbacher," a problem of penmanship more than anything else. "You can't read his signature to tell if it is an o or a u," explains Linda Howe, the local elections director. Such mistakes riddle the nation's voting rolls, but they did not matter much before computers digitized records. The misspelled Joes of America still got their ballots. But after the voting debacle in 2000, Congress required each state to create a single voter database, which could then be matched with other data, such as driver's licenses, to detect false registrations, dead people and those who have moved or become "inactive." In the marble halls of Congress, this sounded like a great idea � solve old problems with new technology. But in the hands of sometimes inept or partisan state officials, the database matches have become a practical nightmare that experts fear could disenfranchise thousands. In Wisconsin, an August check of a new voter-registration database against other state records turned up a 22% match-failure rate. Around the time four of the six former judges who oversee state elections could not be matched with state driver's license data, the board decided to suspend any database purges of new registrants. But database-matching continues elsewhere. In Florida, nearly 9,000 new registrants have been flagged through the state's "No Match, No Vote" law. (Their votes will not be counted unless they prove their identity to a state worker in the coming weeks.) In Ohio, Republicans have repeatedly gone to court to make public a list of more than 200,000 unmatched registrations, presumably so that those voters can be challenged at the polls, even though most of them, like Joe, are probably legit. "It's disenfranchisement by typo," explains Michael Waldman, executive director of the Brennan Center for Justice, which tracks voting issues. Elsewhere the purges are peremptory. A county official in Georgia this year removed 700 people from voter lists, even though some of those people had never received so much as a parking ticket. Another Georgia voter purge, which seeks to remove illegal immigrants from the rolls, has been challenged by voting-rights groups that say legal voters have been intimidated by repeated requests to prove their citizenship. Back in Mississippi last March, an election official wrongly purged 10,000 people from the voting rolls � including a Republican congressional candidate � while using her home computer. (The names were restored before the primary.) With just days until the election, the scale of the database-purge problem is unknown. Millions have been stripped from voter rolls in key states, but the legitimacy of those eliminations remains unclear. The sheer volume of state voter checks against the federal Social Security Administration database, however, has raised concerns. Six states that are heavily using the federal database were recently warned by Social Security commissioner Michael Astrue about the danger of improperly blocking legitimate voters. "It is absolutely essential that people entitled to register to vote are allowed to do so," he said in October. Labels: election 10.28.2008
Presidential Myths Quiz I scored 7 out of 10 on this fun Encarta quiz! Can you do better? Eeeep! 10.22.2008
20 Days Later mood: feelin' fine listening to: a blissfully quiet office free of pesky co-workers I cannot believe I haven't posted in twenty days. I fear you all have forgotten about me out in here in BlogLand. :P First, thanks to all of my loved ones for a wonderful birthday. I feel very loved and very fortunate to have such good friends. Second, meet the newest member of our family, a new, COLOR, digital TV for my kitchen! Thanks to D for hooking a sister up!  Next, please read my review on Foodbuzz about James' new restaurant, Silver & Stone. We went Monday night for my birthday, which also happened to be their first night open for business. Work: After a bit of personnel drama with NG3 (that's New Girl #3 for those who haven't had to listen to my complaints), things are better and are very busy. We are supposed to move to another building here on campus in the next few weeks, but no news as to when that might happen. The good news is I will have real, actual sunlight! There are windows across from where my new cubicle will be. We currently reside in an office stuck in the middle of one of the buildings - i.e. no sunlight. Other news: D and I are hosting our first Thanksgiving this year. We've done all of the other major holidays, but not Turkey Day. The menu's already set and guests invited. Thanks so much to Juls for the awesome CD from Fine Cooking on everything D could possibly need to know about cooking the bird. :) I hope you guys are all doing well, too. I am going to try very hard to catch up on everyone else's blogs this week and be "in the know". Labels: birthdays, television, thanksgiving, updates, work 10.02.2008
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