Election Officials Work on Making Changes

[Rose Siding]

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The three-term Democrat predicts it won't be until the 2008 presidential election that all the improvements Congress demanded are up and running everywhere.
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State and local officials administer elections, not the federal government. But the secretaries worry federal election reforms are chipping away at state control and responsibility.

Their group, the National Association of Secretaries of State, approved a formal resolution that asks Congress to dissolve its oversight organization, the federal Election Assistance Commission, after the 2006 elections.

They also sought assurances from Justice Department officials that states that lag behind the Jan. 1 deadline won't be harshly punished, noting that among other things states still are waiting for federal standards for new voting machines.

But Hans von Spakovsky, a Justice official, told the meeting that after the deadline agency lawyers will pursue civil actions against any state they believe is violating the law.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=479236&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

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1. It's so easy now!

They would need popular pressure, or political pressure, which, we know, amounts to a "get over it". There is a way, simple, used worldwide in normal democracies. Paper ballots, counted by hand and supervised. The only problem of this system is not that it's not "digital" or unpractical or inaccurate. It's that it's accurate and not manipulable.