Monday, December 27, 2004

The Washington State Gubernatorial Race

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Stefan Sharkansky is blogging like crazy about the Washington state election fiasco over at Sound Politics:

The public really needs to see the list of names of everybody who voted in every county.
The lists should contain for every voter whose ballot was accepted:Name, voter id, precinct, address, year of birth, type of ballot (absentee, polling place, provisional).
We need this information for two reasons. First, to reconcile the precinct vote counts to verify whether the number of each type of ballot that was counted in each precinct matches the number of names of people who cast the ballots. Second, in order to start verifying that the people who cast ballots in our precincts really live there, are eligible to vote and only voted once. Without these lists we have no way of verifying that the numbers add up or that only legitimate ballots were cast.





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