[Winona Online Democracy]
Hello Winona Online Democracy,
I wanted to write and state I strongly agree with Paul Double's points.
This past election has revealed many forms of "rust" in our election process.
Isn't it sad and scary that in the past it's been common and accepted to
have thousands of ballots not counted in counties all across the country?
Someone else made an excellent point, he suggested we should have a machine
that can immediately tell the voter if their ballot was filled out
correctly. If there is some kind of error, the voter could fill out a
clean ballot. We can put people on the moon but we can't count votes?!
Also, Paul's points about the DFL primary is another good point. There is
an organization called, "Minnesota Fair Vote" that has many comments and
suggestions for the DFL primary race and all elections in general.
Minnesota Fair Vote's web page is:
http://www2.bitstream.net/~gabeo/fvhome.html
Myself and a few others are trying to bring a speaker from this
organization to come to Winona and talk about our most recent elections and
election reform ideas.
Would anyone else be interested in helping plan this event?
To me, it's a non-partisan issue that affects all of us and would benefit
all citizens.
Thanks,
Dwayne Voegeli
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>Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:13:56 -0600 (CST)
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>While the nation looks at Florida raising questions of election procedures
>etc. we need to look at outstate Minnesota and the fact that in our primary
>election this year 20-30 percent of our ballots were rejected because they
>were not filled out incorrectly. This is not new but what is new is the
>fact that in the metro area scanners reviewed those ballots for correctness
>(no cross overs) and spit out the bad ballots to be redone until they are
>correct. Would this have changed the US DFL Senate race or any other
>contested Federal or State Constitutional Office race had the number two
>candidate been stronger in the rural area? What if the difference in vote
>count was 1000 votes with 20-30 percent of the thousands of non counted
>votes coming from Greater Minnesota where the number two was the strongest.
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>Do we need to wait until we have a public problem, like Florida?
>Was the DFL Senate Primary Winner the true choice of all of Minnesota?
>Should the Legislature fund the machines so that all of Minnesota is heard
>not just the metro area?
>Will will support technology funding for the Minnesota Secretary of State
>efforts to get it right every time?
>
>Paul Double
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