94% Voter Turnout! Where?!

Jacob Soboroff visits with the Larimer County, Colorado Clerk & Recorder to talk about Vote Centers. Vote Centers have been credited with the 94% voter turnout in Larimer county in the 2004 presidential election. Please excuse the funny sunglasses.

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[hyrcan]

94% Holy crap for crap! Vote Centers sound awesome, but we need paper trails. Common sense? That's a 4letter word in US politics.

oh and...sorry...can't resist... the 80's called and want their sunglasses back ;D heehee

[WhyTuesday]

:) they were $7 on venice beach. i had to buy them. -jacob

[Dahbaker]

I'm an election Judge in Texas. Here everyone has to register about a month in advance. I've had a lot of problems throughout the years with voters going to the wrong place to vote. This sounds like a better idea. It's important to remain consistent on the locations but in order to save money on elections when they anticipate low turnout, governments often consolidate the precincts and voters get confused.

I like electronic voting but I am concerned about the potential for abuse.

[erosromantic]

3. We can vote away from our own location - we can vote absentee anywhere in the country provided we can identify ourselves.

4. IF we cannot vote on the day because of work or travel, we can VOTE ahead of time! Our vote is sealed in an anonynmous envelope. We also can register for mail voting. Our federal election took place this year and I knew I was going on holidays. I went to an electoral office, voted

[focoboi]

Larimer County does such a great job! Fort Collins!!

[erosromantic]

Thanks for the finer points - agreed

[ghotifisher]

I'm australian, I like our system, but you're wrong. We have Preferential Voting; and list candidates by preference numbering all candidates for House of representatives Elections and with the option of doing so in the senate. We have roughly 95% turnout, our elections are run by the Australian Electoral Commission, most poll workers are temporary employees, all parties can scrutinize, and most importantly, voting isn't compulsory, *registration* is-people have the choice not to vote for anyone.

[tukkajumala]

erosromantic: The participation percentages aren't that great here in Finland, but the system is similiar. We can vote before the actual election day and the election day is on weekend, usually sunday. Only difference is that you have to vote in your homecity.

[erosromantic]

10. We are talking about computer technology - but whatever may end up being used MUST be able to be used by the most illiterate person in the country, multiple languages (eg: Spanish), blind people, etc etc. So we are not rushing into that- the paper system works quite well - No CHITS folks. Nobody here argues about an election being fixed

Hope you folks get a result with your reform proposal - as a great nation it is vital you exercise your responsibility to vote.

Good luck

[erosromantic]

9. Because eligibility laws are uniform across our country, there is no discussion about corrupt or improper state laws excluding people

[erosromantic]

8. Votes are counted by federal employees and overseen by scrutineers from the major parties to make sure they are correctly counted. Disputed returns can be recounted - in our last election a protest resulted in a recount and incorrectly counted votes resulted in the correct decision being made.

[erosromantic]

6. Electoral officers are Federal and state employees - trained to do the job.

7. yes - we use paper and we mark with an X. We are allowed to write next to the vote provided we dont write OVER the vote - this gives people the freedom to write what they feel without invalidating their vote - NO we dont get massive queues - because we are able to vote at so many locations (Schools, government buildings, public halls etc)

[erosromantic]

5. We have a central Federal Electoral Agency where we register to vote. This applies whether you vote for your local county, state or Federal government. Eleigibility is a nationally managed system run by the federal government with the power ALLOWED by our States to let the Federal Government apply fair and appropriate criteria for who is eligible