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Justice Department already examining ways to make voting easier

Here’s to hope and change:


The Department of Justice is already exploring ways to “fix” the long lines and confusion voters faced when going to the polls this year…

Tom Perez, the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s civil rights division, said this at the George Washington University Law Review symposium:


“The Justice Department is considering whether we need to propose concrete solutions, such as a national standards for counting provisional ballots for federal elections, to ensure that voters are not disenfranchised by moves close to an election, by appearing at the wrong polling place, or by simple poll workers’ errors.” [...]

Perez also said it was time for the United States to rethink its system of partisan state and local election administration, which often leads both Democrats and Republicans to question officials’ motives behind election decisions.

He also embraced same-day voter registration and a system where individuals are automatically registered to vote by the government.

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http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2012/11/16/justice-department-already-examining-ways-to-make-voting-easier/