Doug Chapin
Doug Chapin
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The possibility for error, and the willingness of people to challenge those errors, are both growing every day. And that could have tremendous impact on elections in 2006 and beyond.
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Florida has always been the poster-child for reform, first in a bad way in 2000 but then in a good way in responding to it. Florida is in many ways a bellwether of what might happen with other states around the country.
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Poll workers are a crucial element of the election process. You can buy new machines, you can educate voters, but really the poll workers are the bridge between the polling place and the voter.
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There is a potential for chaos. Can't predict where it'll be, but there is definitely potential.
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There's a lot of evidence that some of those fears are coming to pass. The theory that new technology results in error seems to be borne out early in the process.
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There's a lot of evidence that some of those fears are coming to pass.
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There may be something. But I'm not aware of another race that's still pending out there.
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Any of those races that hinge on a real or alleged error could throw us into the same kind of electoral overtime that we first saw in November 2000.
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In voting technology, the pace of innovation was outpacing the regulation.