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Edited on Fri Nov-19-04 10:59 PM by Heath.Hunnicutt
Oh, I didn't mean any offense. I didn't really mean to address you, directly, but really just add to your true message. I sort of figured that many people who post on DU are walkers, callers, bloggers, or otherwise fighters. :)
OTOH, I am so bummed that we were so short of votes, when I now know for sure that quite a few of our side's votes didn't get counted.
I told a Republican that I thought it was lame his side didn't make the same effort. He replied that it was revealing that I saw it as some sort of competition to round up votes. I actually saw it as amazing that they let down their constituents who were affected. I was equally amazed at the way the County elections office handled these matters. I have a feeling that the handling of mismatched signatures is a part of the process that was never so critical-path before, and this time, the government oepration had the usual effectiveness and urgency. The difference this time was, this process mattered toward the outcome. Thus, the dems did what they could to make an effective, urgent, bidirectional (to and from the voter and the Records & Elections office) messaging system.
Of course, in WA state, we ought to consider changing any number of aspects of our voting system. We ought to be able to account, at all times, for the status of every voter registration, ballot, vote, etc. If a CD store can have mostly effective loss-prevention year-round, let's try to take it to the same level in our voting process.
I also heard people talk about "Precinct Committee Officers." Interesting historical idea. I guess each party has these people, per-precinct, who are tasked with getting to know the voters of that precinct, especially constituents. It was asked why they had not been involved more directly, and my take on the response is that there had been a lack of expansive logistics due to complete utilization of human resources up to that point.
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