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Will Your Vote Count?
WISH-TV took a look into voting technology changes since the closely contested presidential race of 2000. In 2002, Congress passed and President Bush signed the Help America Vote Act, which, among other things, mandates updating voting equipment by 2006. The federally-funded mandate puts billions of taxpayer dollars into the pockets of a handful of companies that manufacture complicatd technology that few state and local election officials understand. Local election officials today are not so happy with the equipment or their vendors. And they're concerned about the integrity of future elections.
Tags: butterfly ballot; hanging chad; voting technology; Help America Vote Act; electronic voting systems
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Miscount: An Investigative Series
This series was an outgrowth of the problems that plagued Florida during the 2000 presidential election. "Scripps Howard News Service spent a year examining voting records from the 1996, 2000, 2002 and 2004 general elections, looking for and finding significant discrepancies between the number of ballots cast and the number of votes counted for major offices." This investigation helped to uncover failures in election procedures, bad ballot designs, misleading voting instructions, as well as a number of mechanical failures in ballot-counting devices.
Tags: punch - card voting; American Journalism Review; hanging chads; voting; secretary of state; presidential elections; Florida; ballots
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A Separate Peace
Daily Eastern News reports that "What we discovered in this 11-part series reflects a reality (at Eastern Illinois University) that also is prevalent in the general population. Diversity, as a concept is easy to speak of but difficult to grasp or apply. Many of our problems with race aren't tangible, but instead stem from social hang-ups that have endured for centuries.... It analyzes our hidden prejudices and our subtle disdain for those who are different.... In all, the series takes historic myths and counters them with facts; it makes us look at where we've failed in diversity and confronts us with the contemporary issues that we have yet to address..."