Summary
The 2008 election cycle is over, and by all accounts West Virginia had good balloting in both May and November. Lines were not overly long, no machines blew up, and people were pretty much satisfied with their overall voting experience. But back in 2000, who could have realized what a difference some Florida chads would make?
When I took office in 2005, the use of electronic touch-screen machines, along with optical scanners and paper ballots, was already set in state code and also in West Virginia's State HAVA Plan. Congress had already passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002, and mandated that states get rid of punch-cards and levered voting machines, although we in West Virginia had precious few problems with either.See the full content of this document
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Voters Must Trust Election Process
The state Purchasing Division issued a request for proposals for vendors to provide what state code mandated, and a bipartisan committee (of which I was not a member) reviewed, ...
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