1. The Next Voting Debacle?
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Cherry, Steven
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ELECTION law ,DATABASE management ,VOTING machines ,ELECTRONIC voting ,VOTING registers ,ELECTION officials ,PUBLISHED errata ,RECORDS management - Abstract
The article focuses on the database problems of Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) which requires election officials in the U.S. to replace old paper-based voting machines with new electronic equipment. HAVA does not require the state to keep registrants off the rolls if the registration information and data of the voter is different from other data. Also, the study made by the Board of Elections in New York City found that 20 percent of the records failed to match due to typographical errors created by election officials. In March 2006, the Brennan Center for Justice published a study stating that the new HAVA-required databases holds the names of all registrants, however, mismatch problems were found on new voters and those who have changed their name and relocated.
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- 2006
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