Election 2004: Vote Early and OftenShort on sleep already
Wednesday, October 27, 2004, 12:34 AM
And there's still 6 days to go.
Tomorrow I *should* get up and be on a conference call at 8 am for the EIRS stuff. But I probably will sleep in and do the 6 pm call instead. I'm not even sure if that's my training session or not; it's hard to tell from the email I got.
But I did get a pointer to another spiffy training guide on the Verified Voting site. (Go to their site map and look under resources.) Forty-eight pages chock full of useful information for poll monitoring. I haven't read any of them yet because I was embroiled in legal news from another part of my life.
Today, the Iowa suit finally arrived; the Sixth Circuit overturned the lower court decision in Michigan so that voters there don't get their provisional ballots counted unless they are magically at the right precinct, a New Jersey judge refused to bar the use of electronic voting machines at this late date, a federal judge in FLorida ruled that people who failed to check the citizenship box on their voter registration forms even though they signed an affirmation of it elsewhere on the form are s.o.l.; and the Ohio Republican Party gets ready to sue county elections boards that reject GOP voter challenges because they were not properly filed.
I'm sure I left out some lawsuits. They'll keep til tomorrow.
Side note: if you run into some sites that require registration, do what I did: 1) download and install Firefox. See ww.mozilla.org. 2) Download and install the Bugmenot extension. See www.bugmenot.com for this. Restart your browser. Then, when you see the registration page, right click in the username field, and select "Bugmenot" from the menu. Once you see the fields magically filled in, click submit, if the page doesn't submit automatically. Now you're done!
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