RSSUS voting moves online in Democratic global primary
By Jacqueline Emigh | Published January 25, 2008, 6:07 PM
The Internet and the voting process are developing a manifold relationship. In February, US voting will actually move to the Web with the Democratic Party's first ever online global primary.
Meanwhile, increasingly, voters of all persuasions also have a number of Web-based resources available to them. But still, one site is cautioning visitors not to send in a voter registration request form by "regular e-mail," for security's sake.
Although the online global Democratic primary will happen in cyberspace, the primary will be held in conjunction with a series of regional global caucus meetings that will take place in several locations throughout the globe for the purpose of choosing 22 delgates to represent Democrats Abroad at the Democratic National Convention.
To vote in the US Presidential Elections in November, all overseas American voters must register with the local voting authorities in the place where they last lived in the US.
This process, though, has been automated on Democrats Abroad's voter registration Web site, VoteFromAbroad.org.
Many of the other Web-based resources for voters are also geared to people living overseas, who for obvious reasons might find it more difficult to get their voting questions answered by local authorities in person or by phone.
But there's a wealth of information on these sites for stateside voters, too. One of these sites advises people to get non-partison information about candidates, their voting records, and their positions on issues at the FVAP (Federal Voting Assistance) Web Site, as well as to read their hometown newspapers online and search the Internet for articles and information.
The Overseas Vote Foundation runs a particularly comprehensive site for overseas voters. That site does warn voters, though, not to use e-mail as a means of registering to vote, "unless you have some special type of secure e-mail or file transfer mechanism."
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The bad part is a local talk radio host signed up her 12 year old sister up and used the address of a restaurant in Mexico. So much for the integrity of the election.
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Well this shows that it's been longtime and we must riseup off our easy chairs and make policy to ensure that things like this don't happen again in this country. Close all the liquor outlets for three days before and three days after the primaries and the presidential election.
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Crap - the democrats spent how many months trying to find the hanging chads in Florida when they lost the election back in 2004 - I can just hear the cat calling when Obama or Hillary loses the primary over miscounted votes or allegations of stuffing the ballots.
Let's get ready to R-U-M-M-M-B-B-B-L-L-L-E!
Hey - maybe John Edwards can channell another "dead" soul and tells us who the real winner is. (And yes - I do mean the presidential candidate - he was famous for claiming to have channelled the soul of a baby who had died I think due to supposed doctor negligence).
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The chad thing was in 2000.
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chad is a country Africa .....
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Yup....it's right there on the "Internets." Hey, even President Bush can make a "misteak."
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Please, George Bush has made (for a purpose) a trailer truck load (what we call) of misleading mistakes.
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