[EL] Sandy

[Richard Winger]

I think the polling places have been vulnerable to power outages for over a century, because when the lights go out in most polling places, voters can't see well enough to vote, even if it's just old-fashioned paper and even if it's daytime.

I had a polling place in my garage for many years, and even with the front door open, there aren't enough windows to give enough sunlight to read medium-small print.

Richard Winger

415-922-9779

PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147

--- On Mon, 10/29/12, Paul Lehto <lehto.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Paul Lehto <lehto.paul at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [EL] Sandy
To: "Rick Hasen" <rhasen at law.uci.edu>
Cc: "law-election at UCI.edu" <law-election at uci.edu>
Date: Monday, October 29, 2012, 2:46 PM


One of the effects of subsidizing (via HAVA grants) the purchase of more computerized voting systems has been to make elections much more vulnerable to disruption from loss of electrical power. This applies not only with a storm like Hurricane Sandy, but at all times and for all of the innnumerable reasons electrical outages can and do occur, even without the presence of a storm.


Paul Lehto, J.D.

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:


  
    
  
  
    
     Hurricane Sandy
        and Election Day
    
    
      Posted on October 29, 2012 1:29 pm
      by Rick Hasen
    
    
      Steve
          Huefner blogs.
      
        

      
    
      Posted
          in election administration  | Comments Off


          

          

         
    On 10/29/12 12:21 PM, Rick Hasen wrote:

    
    
      
       Could the Presidential Election Be
          Postponed Because of Sandy? 
       Posted
          on October 29, 2012 12:17
            pm by Rick Hasen
      
      
        I’m getting this question a lot today and I haven’t spent
          time researching this question.  So let me send people to the
          two best articles on this I know of:
        Jerry Goldfeder, Could

            Terrorists Derail Our Presidential Elections?
        Maya Roy, The

            State of Democracy after Disaster: How to Maintain the Right
            to Vote for Displaced Citizens
        I very much hope for the sake of the people in the Northeast
          that we will not have to delve into these issues over the next
          few days.
        
          

        
      
        Posted

            in election
            administration  | Comments
            Off 
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