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With the mid-term election two weeks away, a comprehensive report on the state of election administration around the country finds cause for concern in a number of states.

An estimated third of all voters will cast ballots on voting systems never before used in a general election, while new procedures and legal battles over voter identification could confuse voters, poll workers or both. Unfinished and just-completed statewide voter registration databases, required as of Jan. 1, 2006 by the Help America Vote Act, have led to some confusion in parts of the country as state agencies combine records and local election officials cede control of their long-held registration rosters.

“The ingredients are there for problems in some parts of the country,” said Doug Chapin, director of electionline.org, the nation’s leading nonpartisan and non-advocacy source for election reform analysis and information.

Ain’t democracy swell?
-MAB