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September 24, 2007

"Polling purgatory"

From the SF Chronicle:

"WITH four elections over the next 13 months, San Francisco will need a quick, road-tested vote counting system. Instead, the city will be saddled with condition-laden machinery that promises weeks-long wait for results. It's a joke, a serious clog in a functioning democracy.

San Francisco has vastly improved from the ill-starred 2000 election when ballot boxes were found floating in the bay and sheriff's deputies dried rain-soaked tally sheets in microwave ovens. But if the present impasse remains, get ready for a return to Flake City where voting is a random act."

Posted by Randy Riddle at September 24, 2007 07:24 AM