Coalition fears major voting problems will recur

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Problems that voters encountered in Florida and elsewhere in 2000 are likely to recur this fall unless Congress, states and voters fix them quickly, a coalition of voters' rights groups warned Wednesday.

The main problems are:
Confusing voter registration and identification requirements.
Errors in purging lists of eligible voters.
Misused and malfunctioning voting machines, including the infamous punch-card machines.
Inaccurate counting of ballots cast by voters who may be voting in the wrong precincts.

These problems disenfranchised between 4 to 6 million voters in the 2000 presidential election, according to a Caltech-MIT study released in 2001.

The League of Women Voters and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, an alliance of civil rights organizations and labor groups, are joining forces with other voter advocacy groups to push for solutions to as many voting problems as possible before November's election.
Significantly absent from their list of voting ills, though, are problems created by electronic voting machines, a widely debated concern.
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http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/special_packages/election2004/8767171.htm

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1. We need to get the congress to JUMP on this thing....

It needs to come down from the federal government to STOP vote counting without an auditable paper trail...a real BALLOT that can be hand counted.

If they don't stop this, and if this election turns nasty as well, they're looking at a friggin' civil war.

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2. My letter got a #$%! response:

"Well, I voted for HAVA." I wanted to scream.

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3. kick

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