There is just no excuse for this!
Millions of dollars have been spent nationwide for new voting machines, voter databases and ID systems, but lawmakers and elections observers say voters headed to the polls are in danger of finding themselves with familiar problems and outdated election equipment.
“Every single vote should count. Unfortunately, as we have seen in the last two presidential elections, this still is not the case,” Sen. Barack Obama , D-Ill., said at a recent election reform panel at the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C., think tank. “We still can’t guarantee our own citizens that their voice will be heard on Election Day.”
Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in response to the contested 2000 presidential election. The legislation, signed by President Bush in October 2002, set a January 2006 deadline for upgrades to be made to the election process.
Paul DeGregorio, who was charged with overseeing the legislation as chairman of the Election Assistance Commission , said states are making strides in implementing new equipment and other aspects of the legislation.
But with the January deadline come and gone and nine months left until the midterm congressional election, some states are grasping to finish up reforms. A report recently released by Electionline.org, a nonpartisan project that reviews election reform, said states have fallen behind in living up to the HAVA requirements to update voting equipment and create voter registration databases and ID systems.
“The lack of progress in nearly half of the states throws into doubt whether HAVA goals can be achieved in time for the November 2006 election,” said the project’s president, Doug Chapin.
I am tired of the excuses! Money is the issue? I don’t think so!
Anyone read about Ed Rendell vetoing a voter ID law?
I just added it Rock! Thanks for the heads up:smile:
I saw it a few days ago. Kilo’s going to blow a gasket.
we have no laws and no standards at all.
Ed Rendell is the stupid jackass who said that HE DID,NT BELEIVE IN SELF DEFENSE BECUASE HE NEVER HEARD OF A SINGLE CASE OF SELF DEFENSE what a jerk he just spends too much time reading the liberal rags and birdcage linners and listens to the talking heads what a idiot
Ed Rendell was the mayor of Philadelphia during a time when it had a murder rate greater than one a day. Of course he’s never seen a case of self defense. Seeing as at the time Philadelphia and Pittsburgh were the two municipalities where you had to tell the police you were coming and ask permission to carry even with a PA CCW, there were no legal cases of self defense. Anyone trying to defend themselves either ended up dead or charged for murder. I personally stuck my CCW in my wallet and my handgun in my pocket whenever I went to Philly unless it was for work. I figured I would rather have the gun and not need it than need it and not have it. There were times when I worked in Philly that I wish I had had my 45 with me.
As for the election problems some people seem to be having, I have to say that honestly if you’re too damn dumb to figure out a ballot you’re probably so damn dumb that you shouldn’t be voting anyway.
GASKET BLOWING.
I cannot wait until Lynn Swann trounces that Fat, Phoney Philadelphian, hoagie-eating, birdbrain, Ed Rendell.
Just to add insult to injury…As mayor of Philadelphia, Ed Rendell was Ronald Reagan compared to the nitwit who inhabits city hall these days.
and don’t even get me going on the voter fraud in this F-ing town.
Hey, Mike, comment on my blog once in while. We’ll try to bleed off the excess pressure. You keep this up and your gaskets will have a worse reputation than the head gaskets in a Ford 3.8L V6.
Did you hear about the recent Superbowl victory party in Pittsburgh? The crowd kept chanting for governor Swann and kept blowing off Rendell until Swann commented that he hadn’t won the election yet. Or at least something to that effect. Lynn Swann practically owns western PA and a lot of Eastern PA isn’t very fond of Rendell, so this should be interesting. The Unions will be pushing for Rendell, but the workers will be backing Swann. It should make some interesting politics in the next few months.
I wonder if the workers will ever realize that their union dues are going to support the party that’s trying to make it legal for Illegals to drive and work in this country.