hello. I'm just passing through. I have some major reading to do tonite, but thought I'd get caught up with today's thread before I start.
Tomorrow night at this hour I will have this nasty project completed (or die of shame!)
I doubt if we'll be reading your eulogy. I bet the project will be finished.
Hi, and welcome back, knew ya were gone but haven't caught back up till now. Hope the trip was good!
On the way home tonight I heard an interview with the Indiana Secretary of State, Todd Rokita. His main discussion was on election reform in Indiana.
Indiana requires a picture ID in the new law which was just passed. If you don't have a drivers' license you can get an ID from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. If you are poor, you can get an ID for free. Without this ID you will not be able to vote.
In addition, the voter roles will be purged of dead people, because Indiana has figured out a way to link voter records with death records. And also, when you move and register in a new precinct, your old precinct will be flagged by computer so that you are purged from the voter rolls of yoour old precinct. Rokita says that he thinks we will lose at least 20% of the registered voters due to the elimination of duplicate registrations and dead people.
He also said that Indiana has been updating their voting machines, and the State has insisted on improving them even in areas where the local officials said they were satisfied with theier current set up (and may I say I bet those were democrat areas!).
Rokita said that he has had federal officials coming to Indiana for briefings, and that he has been to Washington several times to discuss Indiana's plan.
I thought this was very interesting, and seems to indicate an under the radar approach to vote reform.