Subject: Re: voter pamphlets as a source of election information
From: Jeffrey MA Hauser
Date: 12/22/2005, 11:32 AM
To: election-law@majordomo.lls.edu
Reply-to:
jeff_hauser95@post.harvard.edu

How about this -- ask/require voters to provide an e-mail address (if
required, they can sign something saying they don't have one) and zip to
the government, either for general or election purposes (I'm unsure, b/c
I like Ritchie's ideas about universal registration), and....

allow candidates to generate landing pages that would be included in an
omnibus e-mail to voters in a manner similar to either how ballots are
determined and/or current "inform the voters" materials.

e.g., every voter in appropriate zip codes would receive the landing
pages of every candidate for whom that voter could vote.

Essentially, virtual franking facilitated by the government.

----- Original Message -----
From: Larry Levine <larrylevine@earthlink.net>
Date: Thursday, December 22, 2005 1:38 pm
Subject: Re: voter pamphlets as a source of election information


Re: voter pamphlets as a source of election informationThat would 
include not just those who are not registered, but also those who 
are not citizens and addresses of vacant residences. 
Larry Levine
 ----- Original Message ----- 
 From: Levine, Lloyd 
 To: JeffE@atg.wa.gov ; election-law@majordomo.lls.edu 
 Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 10:11 AM
 Subject: Re: voter pamphlets as a source of election information


 To flip it around, I find the Washington practice curious.  While 
I can see a small public policy argument in favor of doing this, I 
wonder how much money the state spends in printing and postage 
costs to send the pamphlets to people who can't vote.  How can the 
secretary of state justify the expense?


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 Subject: RE: voter pamphlets as a source of election information

 I find it interesting that registration even matters for this 
purpose.  In Washington, the state constitution requires that the 
Voters' Pamphlet
 be delivered to every place of residence in the state.  Registration
 lists are not used for this purpose.

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 Subject: Re: voter pamphlets as a source of election information


 The voter pamphlet is always put on the internet by
 the California Secretary of State, so it doesn't
 follow that only people who have been registered to
 vote for a few weeks before the election can see it.
 As a greater and greater share of the population uses
 the web for information, it may be that the need to
 postally mail a voter pamphlet to every household will
 diminish.  What is needed is more publicity for the
 web site that holds the voter pamphlet.



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