Prior
to the 2000 general election thousands of otherwise eligible
voters were scrubbed from the rolls in Florida. In 2002 the
Help America Vote Act was signed into law. One of the
issues that law was to help with was to clear up the voter
registration issues such as what happened in 2000. That law
required centralization of voter registrations at the state
level and not, as previously, at the county. Now, in Florida
again, voters have had to go to court in order to get put
back on the voter rolls. Little things like missing
hyphens, common in Hispanic surnames or Haitian first
names, are enough to have a person’s registration denied.
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NAtional: Voter ID in HAVA and
The Case for Preemption LINK
National:
Republicans Urge Supreme Court to Allow Preemptive Strikes
in Elections LINK
National: Silent
Media, Silent Scream 12 December 2007: Voice of the Voters:
Silent Media, Silent Scream LINK
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California: Los
Angeles County - Figure in vote controversy gets L.A. job
LINK
California:
Solano County - `Wild Finish' in Contested Mayor's Race LINK
Florida: Court
hears suit over voter roll glitches Typos, hyphenated names
and other bureaucratic problems have prompted Florida to
reject thousands of voter registrations. Now some of the
victims are fighting back in court. LINK
Tennessee: Since
2000, more issues than answers arise in e-voting’s short
history LINK
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