More Election Irregularities–on Both Sides

Two brief excerpts from this New York Times story:

RedState.com, the conservative journal, heralded a “massive meltdown in Pennsylvania” early in the day, citing “widespread reports of an electoral nightmare shaping up in Pennsylvania with certain types of electronic voting machines.”



Among the litany of issues cited at Talking Points: computer problems that caused long lines in Denver; polling stations that stayed open later in Indiana after voting problems and delays; votes for Claire C. McCaskill in the Missouri Senate race that somehow registered for her opponent, Jim Talent; complaints that crashed an Ohio county phone system.

In short, our work is not over even with most of the votes counted.

I think the time has come for a mass movement around electoral fairness. We have the right to now that

Eligible voters are able to vote

Once they've voted, their votes are counted accurately using systems that cannot be hacked

Watch this space. I will be contacting voting rights experts to help draft legislation, and then asking them to help contact mass-advocacy groups such as MoveOn and yes, its conservative counterpart RightMarch to create a massive bipartisan push for fair elections.

The goal: Passed in 2007 and implemented in time for the 2008 elections.