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Article: Election day and you: 5 things you need to know.(voter education)
- Article from:
- National Voter
- Article date:
- October 1, 2004
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 League of Women Voters. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The period following the 2000 election was a confusing time for our nation. The 37 days that it took to determine the 43rd President of the United States revealed an election system in disarray. The core pillars of our democracy were shaken. Voter confidence plummeted.
Images of a broken election process have remained in voters' minds. Many reformers put their hopes in the passage of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002. The intent of HAVA was to modernize and improve federal elections and restore faith in the election system by ensuring that eligible voters are able to cast a vote and have that vote counted.
Only time, and subsequent elections, will ...