Lesley Stedman Weidenbener has an article in the Louisville Courier Journal on county election officials fears that Indiana’s new statewide voter registration system will create delays and problems for this Tuesday’s primary.
They say the computerized system is too slow, and they worry it will crash when election officials in all 92 counties are trying to look up registration information for voters who show up at the wrong polling sites or need to find their precinct.
“I think it’s going to be total chaos,” Clark County Deputy Clerk Shirley Bell said last week. “You have to wait five or 10 minutes to get somebody’s record up.
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“The system does work and it has been heralded as doing everything needed to be done,” said AJ Feeney-Ruiz, press secretary for Secretary of State Todd Rokita. “It is slow sometimes because we’re still in the early stage of using it.”He said county officials “need to bear with us.”
In addition Laura Herzog, elections supervisor in Hendricks County said the system stopped working for a couple of hours on Saturday and she is not 100% confident it is putting all of the voters in the right precinct.
I plan on voting for Libertarian Mike Kole in the next Secretary of State race precisely due to reasons like this.
I had to make three trips to my local Election Board to get a Walking List of my School District from the new computer system (I did finally get a good Walking List)!
I called down to Todd Rokita’s Office and talked to them about the problem. His office told me that the new computerized system was working 100% correctly and that they had not had ANY complaints about the system from County officials…
That sure is not what I was hearing from County officials in December, January, February, March, or April…
I wonder why?
Make your vote count, vote for Mike Kole.
Mike Sylvester
Mike Sylvester,
Wouldn’t libertarians be in favor of privatizing the entire election process?
I.e., moving us farther in the direction we’re already headed?
There are a lot of things I think we should privatize… I like the idea of privatizing things…
I am not happy at all with how poorly we transitioned to the new system that is ucrrently in place.
It is hard to belive we have so many counties without certified systems…
Mike Sylvester
I have never understood why libertarians think private control is less threatening to indivual freedom than govt control.In this country now we basically have private control with private advocacy groups buying whatever govt they can afford. And you cant vote out private control.