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		<title>Citizenship Checks Denied</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I pointed out that part of the agenda of the Committee to Modernize Registration was to automatically add people to the voter registration rolls, regardless of whether their citizenship could be demonstrated.  These voters would then remain on the rolls forever.  The only way of preventing them from voting would be to have them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.champaigncountyclerk.com/2010/03/12/citizenship-checks-denied/</link>
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		<title>Getting Stonewalled on Citizenship Questions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote last September about the issue of citizenship as it relates to the radical proposal to automatically add people to voter rolls.  At the time I mentioned that I had written an e-mail to the Committee to Modernize Registration asking what databases that would be used for this automatic registration process included information about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.champaigncountyclerk.com/2010/03/11/getting-stonewalled-on-citizenship-questions/</link>
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		<title>Election Equipment Certification Delivers Poor Results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some people, the stamp of approval from a federal agency is the gold standard for what is good or bad.  For example, in some fashion we trust our federal agencies to approve drugs and vehicles.  On a state level, we trust our government to license a broad range of professions such as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.champaigncountyclerk.com/2010/02/22/election-equipment-certification-delivers-poor-results/</link>
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		<title>Brady Picks Up a Net 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our final canvass is complete.  See the results here.
Bill Brady picked up 12 votes and Kirk Dillard 6 for a net plus 6 for Brady.
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		<link>http://blog.champaigncountyclerk.com/2010/02/16/brady-picks-up-a-net-6/</link>
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		<title>Good Gets Better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After each election, we conduct a retabulation of 5% of our precincts pursuant to state law.  As post election audits go, it&#8217;s not much.  We&#8217;ve beefed ours up a bit by adding a redundant hand count of a race in each of the 6 precincts retabulated in Champaign County.
Each time we do this, we find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.champaigncountyclerk.com/2010/02/12/good-gets-better/</link>
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		<title>State Board Memo On Undervotes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Mossman from the State Board of Elections has a memo regarding the Primary Election in the packet of information for next week&#8217;s SBE meeting in Chicago.  It points out a number of problems with the undervote law that I and other Clerks had predicted.
Most of these complaints about the under-vote process centered on how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.champaigncountyclerk.com/2010/02/12/state-board-memo-on-undervotes/</link>
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		<title>Election Code Growing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just received my new annotated election code from Westlaw.  It&#8217;s now grown to three volumes from two.  It was a single volume back in 1997 when I started.   It should would be nice for all involved if we could scale it back to a less complicated and more reasonable size.
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		<link>http://blog.champaigncountyclerk.com/2010/02/09/election-code-growing/</link>
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		<title>0 Republican Ballots Yesterday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We picked up the mail yesterday, and found no Republican ballots.   7 Democratic ballots were returned.  As it stands now, we have 8 Republican provisional ballots to count and 21 Republican absentees.  We&#8217;ll check the mail next Tuesday prior to the final tabulation of votes.  I don&#8217;t expect many more ballots to be returned.
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		<link>http://blog.champaigncountyclerk.com/2010/02/09/0-republican-ballots-yesterday/</link>
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		<title>Judges&#8217; Initials in the OpScan Age</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With a razor thin margin in the Republican Governor&#8217;s race I&#8217;m already looking at a potential election contest in light of our new election equipment and new election law.
Currently in Illinois, by my count, there are 4 different voting systems in use, plus a hybrid system that makes 5.  The M-100 system used in Champaign [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.champaigncountyclerk.com/2010/02/08/judges-initials-in-the-opscan-age/</link>
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		<title>Costs of a Discovery Recount</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A number of people have asked about the costs of doing a discovery recount.  The answer for Champaign County, as well as any other county, is well&#8230;it depends.
A petitioner for a discovery recount can ask to examine up to 29 precincts in Champaign County at a cost of $290.  In a Republican contest, that would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.champaigncountyclerk.com/2010/02/08/costs-of-a-discovery-recount/</link>
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