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Mississippi
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By Project Vote
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February 26, 2008 |
Senate Bill 2910 Would Force Nonvoters to Reregister in Violation of Federal Voting Rights Law
A new bill working its way through the Mississippi State
Legislature threatens the hard-won voting rights of elderly, minority, and disabled
voters throughout the state. Senate Bill 2910 was proposed as an election
reform cure-all, but one of its provisions would likely result in thousands of
voters being purged from the voting rolls in violation of federal law.
Filed by State Senator Terry C. Burton and supported by
Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, SB 2910 would cancel the registration of
any voter if he or she did not “appear to vote” in a single
election between Nov. 3, 2008, and Dec. 31, 2009. Purged voters would then have
to reregister before they could vote in subsequent elections. If signed into
law, the bill would take effect in January 2009.
In a
letter to Senator Burton and copied to Secretary of State Hosemann, the
national voting rights organization Project Vote notified Burton that the bill
violates the federal National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). The NVRA
explicitly prohibits states from removing any voter from the rolls as a
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Mississippi
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By Brad Kessie, WLOX
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November 07, 2006 |
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First Few Hours of Voting Called "Chaos" Voting Equipment: Diebold TSx touchscreen voting machines
Many of the mistakes reported at polling places had to do with the new electronic voting machines purchased by the Secretary of State's office. When poll workers struggled setting them up Tuesday morning, and then several of the machines stopped working, the early part of the election became a hassle for everybody.
About 350 electronic voting machines were sent to 66 Harrison County voting precincts. And every time one of the machines broke down, Connie Ladner's cellphone rang. "Do you think you need it?" she asked one caller. When the answer from that precinct was yes, she said, "I'll get somebody to bring it out."
This first general election with the new technology was anything but smooth. Harrison County Election Commissioner dashed from precinct to precinct to deal with the voting problems.
"It's a new program, a new system," she said when asked about the Diebold voting machines. "And we knew we were going to have some problems with it." Read the Entire Article at WIOX
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Mississippi
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By Chris Joyner, Clarion-Ledger
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August 10, 2005 |
This article was originally posted in the Clarion Journal. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is
distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest
in receiving the included information for research and educational
purposes.
New Voting Machines Will Come With Printers, Clark Says
 Mississippi's
new touchscreen voting machines will come equipped with a paper trail,
Secretary of State Eric Clark announced Wednesday.
In a statement, Clark said he had brokered a deal with Diebold Election
Systems to purchase paper printers for each of the 5,164 touchscreen
ballot machines the state plans to buy from the Ohio-based manufacturer.
"All Mississippians must have confidence that their votes are accurately counted," Clark said.
"These printers will give voters an additional level of comfort as they use the new, more accurate touchscreen machines."
Last month, Diebold inked a $22.5 million contract with the state to
provide the machines as part of the state's effort to comply with the
Help America Vote Act, a massive voter reform bill passed in the wake
of the disputed 2000 presidential election. The Diebold machines have
drawn criticism in some quarters for not providing "a paper trail" —
that is, a paper record of a voter's choice to compare with the
electronic version.
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