tncorgi
August 27th, 2004, 7:13pm
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BAY AREA
Lawmakers ask U.N. to monitor elections
Florida's contested vote prompts call for oversight in U.S
- Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, July 9, 2004
Thirteen members of the U.S. House of Representatives asked the United Nations on Thursday to do something in the United States that the international body usually does only in fledgling or war-ravaged countries: monitor its presidential elections.
The House members, who included Oakland Democrat Barbara Lee, are the latest to jump on an onrushing bandwagon to monitor the Nov. 2 election. Dozens of consumer, voter and human rights organizations, including some in the Bay Area, are drawing up plans to camp out at polling places, bird-dog new voting technology, have lawyers on-call for election day questions and scan registration lists to avoid "another Florida 2000," as their collective mantra goes.
They're worried about how new electronic machines will tabulate votes, whether voters in minority-heavy precincts will get their ballots and whether other problems that sent Florida's count in the 2000 presidential election to the Supreme Court will recur this time around.
"It's clear that just leaving it up to election officials just won't work, " said Bev Harris, author of "Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century," and a leader in the monitoring movement.
The Florida debacle pointed out the flaws in the federal election system, where standards can vary from county to county on everything from voting systems to the time polls open. And with 200,000 precincts in the country, there's a lot of room for variance.
FOR THE REST OF THE ARTICLE..
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/09/BAGBC7I14712.DTL
BAY AREA
Lawmakers ask U.N. to monitor elections
Florida's contested vote prompts call for oversight in U.S
- Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, July 9, 2004
Thirteen members of the U.S. House of Representatives asked the United Nations on Thursday to do something in the United States that the international body usually does only in fledgling or war-ravaged countries: monitor its presidential elections.
The House members, who included Oakland Democrat Barbara Lee, are the latest to jump on an onrushing bandwagon to monitor the Nov. 2 election. Dozens of consumer, voter and human rights organizations, including some in the Bay Area, are drawing up plans to camp out at polling places, bird-dog new voting technology, have lawyers on-call for election day questions and scan registration lists to avoid "another Florida 2000," as their collective mantra goes.
They're worried about how new electronic machines will tabulate votes, whether voters in minority-heavy precincts will get their ballots and whether other problems that sent Florida's count in the 2000 presidential election to the Supreme Court will recur this time around.
"It's clear that just leaving it up to election officials just won't work, " said Bev Harris, author of "Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century," and a leader in the monitoring movement.
The Florida debacle pointed out the flaws in the federal election system, where standards can vary from county to county on everything from voting systems to the time polls open. And with 200,000 precincts in the country, there's a lot of room for variance.
FOR THE REST OF THE ARTICLE..
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/09/BAGBC7I14712.DTL