Change election

Rachel Maddow condemns “The New Poll Tax”

I agree — this has to be fixed before 2012.

But that’s only one of many problems our presidential elections have.

Close to home, Wayne Green of the Tulsa World wrote up his ideas on An agenda for election reform. A more expansive analysis and corrective is posted at monkeyinmymind.com: How to Reform the US Electoral System.

But a proposal for a national voter registration and federally-run presidential elections by Richard Hasen, Registering Doubt, is getting a lot of buzz on the blogs. Obviously the discussion has just begun and will be revved up in earnest after Nov. 4.

2 Responses to “Change election”

1. Defend your right to vote | jmbzine.com says:

   November 3, 2008 at 10:55 am

   [...] Tuesday looks to be a crazy day and I expect the powers that be to use all of the dirty tricks in their arsenal to disenfranchise people (see Rachel Maddow’s commentary on the new poll tax (via Peacearena.org)) [...]
2. Paul says:

   November 4, 2008 at 5:44 pm

   Hi –

   I’m the writer of one of the blogs you mention in your post (www.monkeyinmymind.com). Thanks for the mention.

   I voted this morning in Andover, Massachusetts (where GWB attended prep school) and needless to say I waited approximately 1 minute to vote. It was a hugely painless process. Sad to think of all of the people having to wait 6+ hours to vote.

   There is no reason why we shouldn’t all be able to vote early by mail and avoid lines all together! If the mechanism is in place for absentee voting in every state it shouldn’t be beyond the realm of possibility to incorporate this process across the board. Then we wouldn’t need the Federal Holiday on Election Day that I call for in my blog post.

   Cheers..