Reply #20: Federal Standards Needed to Reduce Voter Fraud

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Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - 05:30 PM

Federal Standards Needed to Reduce Voter Fraud
By Makebra M. Anderson, NNPA


WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The patchwork of local and state voting laws should be replaced with a single federal standard that would make it easier to detect and reduce voter fraud, community leaders say.

“It has been almost impossible to monitor the voting process the way the system is set up. People were turned away from polls, electronic machines didn’t carry the vote as people wanted it to be carried and numbers didn’t meet the reality of the number of voters that came out,” said Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX.). “This is not about Kerry or Bush. It’s about the birthright of Americans to vote – a constitutional right.

Lee’s remarks were made at a hearing on Capitol Hill called by Congressman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.). The hearing was held last week to look to allegations of voter fraud in Ohio, a battleground state that determined the eventual winner.

“We have to find out where the fraud and misconduct has taken place and who did it, so we know how to repair it. We’re in phase one. Finding out what went wrong and where our laws need to be built up,” said Conyers. “One of the things that have come up is the need for one piece of equipment for every state.”

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