Video Voting

Many U.S. voters have wondered about how fair voting is since the voting debacles in 2000 (Florida) and 2004 (Ohio). Here are examples of new technology that help both the voting process and the monitoring of the voting process.

Sites like Can I Vote help you find out if you're registered to vote, something you might want to do a few days or weeks before an election. Other sites like Election Line provide resources for election reform. They point out that lots of new election technology being introduced in the 2006 mid-term election may cause new categories of election problems as many voters and election workers learn to use voting machines for the first time.

If you have a video camera, you can take part in election monitoring, too. Check out the Video the Vote project video to find out how.




UPDATE. Well, here's some technology that doesn't help the voting process. Voting machines in some counties in California allow voters to vote more that once:

The notice went out on Monday, just eight days before the election. It tells election officials to keep a close eye on voting machines sold by Oakland-based Sequoia Voting Systems because a yellow button on the back of each machine can be pushed and potentially allow someone to vote more than once.