Help America Vote Act: The Endgame, Part III
For a host of reasons, states will miss the HAVA voting machine mark
electionline Weekly – December 22, 2005
By M. Mindy Moretti
electionline.org
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With reasons ranging from hold-ups in the request for proposal (RFP) process to vendor delays to slow legislative action, states including California, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York and Hawaii are expected to miss the mark.
Many of the 17 states that will miss the voting system deadline – an approximate number from a survey of 43 states conducted by the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) – will do so because as few as one county in the state may not have made the necessary voting system purchases. (See link to survey and Associated Press story below.)
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Just how the U.S. Department of Justice handles late states is up in the air, state officials said.
“States have been in communication with the Department of Justice,” said Reed, who also serves as president of NASS. “They are going to work with us as we make good-faith efforts.”
But he did acknowledge that none of this guarantees that the department won’t sue for noncompliance.
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