Black Box Voting

One reason many young voters don't vote is because of confusion over where they may vote. To cut through the confusion, the legal experts at the Brennan Center For Justice have created a Legal Guide to Student Voting that "explains the basic residency, registration, identification, and absentee voting requirements for student voters in each of the 50 states and the D.C. You can download your individual state guide here.

The Brennan Center also has an interactive map to help students easily find out what the requirements are in their state.  The Brennan Center also answers some commonly asked questions such as:

Residency and domicile, what do they mean, exactly?

Will voting affect your: Financial Aid?

How about tuition?

Your parent's taxes?

Can it jeopardize insurance?

What about your license or car registration?

A Diebold "software upgrade" is likely to cause problems for voters this fall in up to 34 states.  The "feature" will cause the voting machines to "time out" if a voter takes more than 2 1/2 minutes to make a selection. This causes problems, delays and embarassment for voters (often the elderly or challenged) when it happens, and ties up election workers who have to assist the voter and re-start the the voting process. This "feature" is not new, however, activists believe it was first used in Maryland. 

Johnson County computer voting machines prone to take a 'time out'  By FINN BULLERS The Kansas City Star

Fifty-five days before an election of a lifetime, a tiny bit of computer code is threatening to erode public confidence in Johnson County’s election process.

....In February, Johnson County upgraded touchscreen voting machines with a new software release from Premier Election Solutions Inc., based in Allen, Texas.

Buried in the release notes was a mention of a new time-out feature that makes the voting machine eject a voter card if there has been no activity for 2 minutes and 30 seconds.....

Rebecca Wilson, of the Maryland Group Save Our Votes writes:

This feature has been wreaking havoc in MD since 2006 in our TS machines...