High praise for Crist for switching to paper

A 50-state report by national election watchdogs rates Florida in the vast middle in election preparedness. The report by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU, Common Cause and Verified Voting Foundation focused on emergency procedures for faulty touch screens, availability of paper records, and how states tally and audit election results.

The groups do not like Florida's voter verification law, which requires an exact match of numbers on post-Sept. 8 voter registration forms and driver license or Social Security number. Common Cause estimates that 10,000 to 15,000 new voters in Florida could be affected and would have to cast provisional ballots.

But the group praised Gov. Charlie Crist for leading the switch from paperless electronic machines to paper ballots cast on optical scan units. "It's an enormous, tremendous improvement, and we extend appropriate commendations," said Susannah Goodman, head of election reform at Common Cause. (The only reason the state didn't get higher marks from the report is that it continues to use touch screens until 2012 for voters with disabilities, and those units don't include a paper trail.) Read the report here.

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Is that Brennan as in the most liberal Justice the United States Supreme COurt ever had?

[surfdog]

see above comment...

that is whats wrong with USA after repub congress during Clinton and GWB...is that a LIBERAL!!??

oh no boo hoo

GWB spent more money then any PREZ combined ....he must be LIBERAL?????

go eat a moose burger fool

We should all give up paper AND plastic and buy the reusable bags. They're only 99 cents for goodness sake.

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