LITTLE or no analysis has accompanied the ever-increasing phenomenon of absentee voting in California elections (more than 43 percent of all ballots cast last fall were absentee). Rather, politicians of all stripes are more interested in how to exploit the trend than in why it's happening. Reasons like traffic, convenience and flexibility are usually given for the vast upsurge in voting off-site, a practice that has doubled during the last three election cycles.
Californians have the best of both worlds. For 30 years, every single registered voter in this state has had the choice of voting by mail or at a polling place," said Secretary Bowen, the state's chief elections officer. "Voting by mail is inherently more flexible and convenient for many people, and without the ability to cast a vote by mail, thousands of Californians likely could not take part in elections. Others, myself included, enjoy the ritual of democracy in going to the polls running into neighbors, showing the kids how voting works, and even getting the 'I Voted' sticker. To reflect the fact that anyone can vote by mail for any reason, California's absentee voting program was rebranded as "vote by mail" under last year's Assembly Bill 1243 (Chapter 508, Statutes of 2007).
NO voting system will ever be perfect, but we need to look at the reliability of electronic voting systems, the cost of installing a system in which the public may not have confidence, and the voting habits of Californians before requiring polling places to be equipped solely with touch- screen machines (Our View, "Time is now for computer voting,' Nov. 3). Over 30 percent of California's 16.5 million registered voters cast absentee ballots during this last election and that number is going to climb even higher in the coming years. Given that reality, does it really make sense to rush headlong into spending millions of dollars on touch-screen voting machines, which, proportionally speaking, are going to be used by fewer and fewer voters?
... election law (SEA 483) requiring citizens voting in person to present government-issued photo ident...The requirement does not apply to absentee ballots submitted by mail, and the statute contain...] addressed by the law at issue." California Democratic Party v. Jones, 530 U. S. 567, 584 (200...
ISSAQUAH, Wash., Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As the national spotlight turns to Florida's Republican Presidential Primary Election on January 31st, Florida voters living and serving overseas have been voting since December. Thanks to the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act, the first ballots in the 2012 Presidential Primary were delivered through a one-stop web portal that allows overseas voters to access their ballot online. Since voting began, over 1,200 Florida voters from 40 countries have accessed their ballot using LiveBallot, a technology developed by Democracy Live and deployed and hosted on Microsoft's Windows Azure platform. On Friday, January 20, overseas voters and members of the military from Virginia received access to the LiveBallot technology, in accorda...
... overseas voters have not received an absentee ballot in time for it to be voted, returned, and c...
... longtime communities, such as Texas or California, and in jurisdictions where Latino populations wer....) The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), 42 U.S.C. [section][section] ...
Although there is agreement that providing voting machines with easy access for the handicapped community is necessary, getting from here to there presents no such unanimity. The problem with HAVA, says [Michael Smith], is that "the legislation has gotten ahead of the technology." With the state only now certifying voting machines as meeting HAVA requirements (for visual disabilities, among others), it's not unthinkable that states, counties and cities could hold June elections that aren't in compliance with federal election law. Marin, as well as other jurisdictions, could face lawsuits, from voters - and possibly from the feds. (The Justice Department has made noises about suing New York state if it fails to comply with HAVA. [Anne Layzer] says New York is much farther out on the...
... when HAVA kicks in, counties across California are facing a growing concern that local elections ...
... constitutionality of a provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 barring the application of Eng... to 18 and prescribing residency and absentee voting requirements for the conduct of presidentia.... See, e.g., Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 , 819 , n.15 (1975) (a criminal defe...
Los Angeles is the final battleground for Democrats on Nov. 2. Both Attorney General Jerry Brown and U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer need a heavy turnout in this area if they hope to win their respective races.
... 9.6 percent of registered voters in California already have cast their ballots. Professor Michael...Absentee voting is an increasingly important part of California po...
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