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Saturday, February 12, 2005

Election Reform Task Force feedback form

HannaUSA suggested sending written comments to the "Election Reform Task Force" in a comment at this entry.

I had earlier looked for a way to do so, but didn't find any indication that they were accepting written comments.

Trying again, I found this site. In the upper left corner of the web page is a menu that includes a link to their feedback form.

It's unwieldy for anything other than indicating a preference on their ideas for reform ("1" through "5" with "5" expressing the strongest feeling or agreement).

It does provide a couple of places to type in two ideas that they haven't included on the list.

So, I didn't even get down to my third suggestion: restricting absentee voting to people who are actually not able to go to the polling places; and thereby eliminating permanent absentee status and vote by mail ballots, since the voters cannot conceivably prove their identities when mailing ballots in -- signatures being impractical as a means of identification when election workers' eyes glaze over after verifying the first few hundred of them. Photo ID ought to be required of all voters at the polling places, and no one should be allowed to skip that requirement to prove identity by simply choosing to vote by mail.

But, for what it's worth, there is a way to provide limited written comments to the task force.

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