I wanted to call attention to another fine article in the "Freedom to Tinker" blog, this one by Dan Wallach.
Confusion. Why does it seem to always cloud polling places? Kenneth Hoffman, an educated, informed Florida businessman and registered voter relays a story to me through an e-Mail list he and I participate on, that I want to pass along here with his unbridled permission.
Part of the ecosystem of next generation voting technology certainly concerns voter registration. And then along the procees chain comes the "check in" of voters to vote (regardless of where or how they vote ...absentee by mail, in person, or apparently over the Internet for some over-seas, etc.) ...in other words, verifying the person is the person they claim as listed on the Register and entitled to a ballot.
A news article from Denver notes that the city is reversing its experiment from its last election, and going "back
Yesterday, on July 4th, I took some time to reflect on nearly 400 years of elections in North America, in