This will be on page one of Thursday's
New York Times
It's not online yet:
As dozens of states are enforcing new voter registration laws and switching to paperless electronic voting systems, officials across the country are bracing for a chaotic Election Day with long lines, heightened confusion and an increase in the number of contested results.
The situation in many states will be bad enough. We don't need to spread rumors of massive voter purges in Ohio.
I too, endorse early voting.
More from NY Times:
WASHINGTON -- New electronic voting machines have arrived in Yolo County, Calif., but there is one hitch: The audio program for the visually impaired in some of them works only in Vietnamese.
"Talk about panic," said Freddy Oakley, the county's top election official. "I've got gray-haired ladies as poll workers standing around looking stunned."
In Maryland, Mississippi and Pennsylvania, a shortage of technicians has vendors for new machines soliciting applications for technical support workers on job Web sites like Monster.com.
Arizona, California, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania are among the states considered most likely to experience difficulties, according to voting experts who have been tracking the technology and other election changes.
Litigation over new voter identification laws and computerized registration rolls in states like Indiana, Arizona and Georgia has left many poll workers and voters unclear about the rules, even though the courts have blocked many of the new laws.
Meanwhile, votes in about half of the 45 most competitive congressional races, including contests in Indiana, Georgia and Florida, will be cast on electronic machines that provide no independent means of verification.
I guess we don't need no stinkin' recount.
It is important to check with local election officials and insist on answers about preparedness.
And if said officials are then found unprepared on Election Day, time to raise holy hell.
By the way...
Jonah Goldman of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, said his organization, with the NAACP and the People for the American Way Foundation, will have a national hot line (1-866-OUR-VOTE) about problems and providing information to voters and poll workers.