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To: Joe NYC who wrote (433124)	11/5/2008 2:12:37 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571785

Thanks for the link. PS: What is it about Washington and Oregon that their way of running the elections is somewhere on par with Lesotho? It is more than 12 hours from the time the polls closed and they counted only 56% and 66% of the votes... I don't know what's OR's problem is......I do know that OR votes exclusively by mail so I suspect counting all the votes is a slow process. As for WA state, we are waiting for certification of new, faster voting machines.....the feds are taking their time certifying those machines for whatever reason....maybe because we are a blue state? Consequently, all voting in King County was done with a paper ballot or by mail. "The county had hoped to use new, faster vote-counting machines. But a federal law requires that the U.S. Election Assistance Commission certify the machines before they can be used. That hasn't happened, a frustration that the state and county have been vocal about. "We're being held hostage by their failure to act," Huff said. Elections officials all over the country have complained that the certification system is too slow. In June, the commission's chair, Rosemary Rodriguez, said it takes time to thoroughly review the new vote-counting systems. "Simply put, the EAC will not sacrifice the integrity of the certification process for expediency," she said in a statement." seattletimes.nwsource.com