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Topic: Voting Plans

	GAO-04-749, Pension Plans: Additional Transparency and Other Actions Needed in Connection with Proxy Voting
		For example, some plans have a rule that, in the event that an attempt is made to influence a proxy vote, the voting responsibility on that issue moves from the proxy voter to a committee.
		For example, the guidelines of one plan fiduciary we examined indicate that, in the case of a conflict of interest, the issue is to be reported to the president and general counsel of the plan sponsor who decide how to proceed and ensure that a record of the conflict and the related vote is maintained.
		If a plan fiduciary can provide his or her rationale for voting a certain way--proving that, in his or her opinion, proxies were voted solely in the interest of plan participants--it is very difficult for DOL or others to prove otherwise.
	www.gao.gov /htext/d04749.html (14167 words)

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		Because the plan had not been approved by referendum, petitioners argued that the court could not give to respondents' proposal the deference due under this Court's cases to remedial plans that are legislatively formulated (id. at 23).
		Under that approach, Leon County's plan was "not a legislative plan as it was not enacted pursuant to the commissioners' authority but rather in derogation of their authority" (827 F.2d at 1444).
		The court emphasized, however, that the school board's voting plans had either three or five seats out of seven elected at-large, and pointed out that those configurations were "contrary" to a state law requiring "no fewer than 70% of the board members to be elected from single-member districts" (id. at 547-548).
	www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1988/sg880365.txt (4606 words)

	Work Plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Work plans for voting operations are likely to be highly influenced by the nature of the electoral management body and the predictability of the election cycle.
		Voting operations work plans should integrate the activities of all key participants, providing a layered structure of task definitions, time frames and task responsibilities for individual staff and each electoral management body office within an overall systemic view.
		Voting operations require the transfer of vast amounts of information, not only from central management through regional and/or local offices, and thence to voting stations, regarding procedures and the environment, and then back up the chain, about conditions and occurrences in the field.
	www.aceproject.org /main/english/po/pob02.htm (1082 words)

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		Modification of the proposed plan to require a plurality vote provision for the at-large seats was, in the court's view, necessary to give fl voters a meaningful opportunity to participate in the political process in the enlarged community.
		Thus, while the at-large system with a majority vote requirement, in the context of racial bloc voting, is not fully responsive to the growth of fl population unless it becomes a majority of the population city-wide, a single-member system reflects changes in residential neighborhoods as they occur along the scale toward city-wide majority.
		Although both residency districts and numbered posts often have a dilutive effect upon minority voting strength because of their tendency to promote head-to-head contests, at least with a residency requirement there is a greater chance that the candidate elected from one district will have interests in common with the 70% fl residents of that district.
	www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1982/sg820188.txt (8938 words)

	LESSON PLANET - 30,000 Lessons and 186 Lesson Plans for Voting
		Voting a Privilege Through Registration One major theme that rings true is that voting is a privilege; however, this privile - Students register to vote as part of their government class lesson.
		Voting: A Privilege Through Registration - Students learn the importance of voter registration and how the privilege of voting is not possible without the responsibility of voter registration.
		Voting Is Elementary - Students conduct a mock election to determine a class mascot in order to understand the voting process.
	www.lessonplanet.com /search/Social_Studies/Civics/Voting (555 words)

	ISSue Atlas \| A Complete Corporate Governance Resource
		Voting plans issue preferred stock with superior voting rights to common shareholders in the event an acquirer surpasses a specific ownership threshold.
		As a spate of rights plans approached their expiration in 1998 and 1999, shareholders challenged companies to either put their pills to a vote or eliminate them altogether.
		Votes have also come about due to sunset provisions, such as those promulgated by SWIB at Vans Inc. and DT Industries Inc., where the pill must be ratified by shareholders every few years.
	www.issueatlas.com /content/menutop/content/subscription/usvmfiles/x6210.html (3851 words)

	What
		Cumulative voting is, as the Illinois Municipal Code makes clear, a lawful election method that may be implemented under circumstances demonstrating suitable deference to the legislative body.
		Several alternative voting plans have been proposed to deal with the shortcomings inevitable with district voting.
		That could be four votes for one candidate, three votes for one and one for another, two votes for one and two for another, or one vote for each of four candidates.
	www.fairvote.org /vra/20000915.htm (1794 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Voting plans provoke opposition fire
		Ministers are also considering plans for voting on Saturday and Sunday, rather than just the traditional Thursdays, in a bid to boost polling turnout.
		Weekend voting would require a change in the law but if approved could be in place by the time of the next General Election.
		Pilot voting schemes, which also included text message votes, were used in the May local elections.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2370089.stm (518 words)

	Defense Department axing Internet voting plans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Federal Voting Assistance Program, which aids Americans serving overseas in the voting process, will not use the SERVE system in November.
		In the 2000 election, counties in South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Florida participated in a proof-of-concept demonstration.
		A total of 84 voters in 21 states and 11 countries voted in those jurisdictions.
	www.af.mil /news/story.asp?storyID=123006931 (410 words)

	Security analysts recommend scrapping online voting plans
		The goal is to ease absentee voting procedures for U.S. citizens living or serving overseas.
		A minority report was issued by four members of the group: David Jefferson of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Aviel D. Rubin of Johns Hopkins University, David Wagner of the University of California at Berkley and Barbara Simons, a consultant formerly with IBM Corp.
		Rubin, an outspoken critic of online voting systems, said a successful test this year, when stakes are low because of the relatively low number of voters involved, could result in an expansion in future elections without addressing basic security concerns.
	www.washingtontechnology.com /news/1_1/defense/22547-1.html (689 words)

	Township plans voting precinct changes
		She wanted it to be clear that the three Dundee precincts as she has designed them have not yet been approved by the state, and so are not yet official.
		“The tentative plan is to have two precincts vote at the township hall, and one precinct vote at the fire hall, because it’s accessible and only a short walk across the street,” said Mrs.
		Cowen said the township will have to buy only one more computerized voting machine, and will have to hire a couple of extra election workers, but she doesn’t think the township will need too many more, since the precincts will be smaller.
	www.dundeeonline.com /articles/12.1.2002.html (545 words)

	NAACP plans voting lawsuits - 12/01/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Rev. Jesse Jackson addresses concerns of a crowd in Tallahassee, Fla., that African Americans were prevented from casting their votes in the presidential election.
		Having emerged as a spokeswoman for thousands of Haitian voters, many of whom would have voted for the first time in the Nov. 7 election, Paul was overwhelmed by the unresolved questions of votes Thursday.
		Those were due largely to overvoting or undervoting, meaning the ballot either showed too many votes or none at all for some races.
	www.detnews.com /2000/politics/0012/02/a05-155878.htm (699 words)

	EUROPA - IDABC - Irish Government cancels e-voting plans for June 200
		Accuracy cannot be certified: as the final version of the software proposed for use at the forthcoming elections is as yet unknown, it is impossible for anyone to certify its accuracy.
		Secrecy concerns: the Commission still has a number of concerns about vote secrecy (for example, the voting machine 'beeps' as preferences are being selected, and it could be possible for an insider to overcome the randomness of the method used for the storage of votes in the ballot module).
		Indeed, Minister Cullen said he believes that 'a good framework can be established to progress electronic voting in Ireland' at a future stage in order to increase election turnout and 'support greater democratic involvement by younger voters'.
	europa.eu.int /idabc/en/document/2520/338 (967 words)

	BreakingNews.ie: Government scraps electronic voting plans
		In a report published today, the Electronic Voting Commission said the system was open to potential interference and its accuracy could not be guaranteed.
		Environment Minister Martin Cullen subsequently issued a statement saying that plans to introduce electronic voting in all constituencies for the local and European elections this June were being scrapped.
		He said voting in all constituencies would be carried out using the existing paper ballot method.
	www.breakingnews.ie /2004/04/30/story145318.html (219 words)

	[NeXus-committee] Voting plans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This message is to let you know the plan for the next couple months.
		First we will finish voting on the ammendments for the base classes.
		Then the instrument editors will be instructed to get a draft to be discussed and (hopefully) ratified at the next NIAC meeting in Switzerland during October.
	www.neutron.anl.gov /pipermail/nexus-committee/2004/000080.html (160 words)

	E-voting plans mired in security fears - Security Strategy - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Independent Commission on Alternative Voting Methods - part of the Electoral Reform Society - today released a report calling for a technology taskforce to be established before the local elections go ahead.
		Although the UK government thinks online voting has the potential to increase the number of people who vote, electoral reform lobby groups are concerned about the readiness of the technology.
		Folkes explained that online voting, telephone voting and new technologies for counting votes should be introduced bit by bit, starting with local elections and building up finally to general elections with each pilot being evaluated by a taskforce.
	software.silicon.com /security/0,39024655,11031052,00.htm (593 words)

	NACo \| Commission publishes state voting plans, money to follow
		HAVA was established in the wake of the problems that arose during Election 2000.
		The law calls for the federal government to spend $3.9 billion over three years to help states and counties replace punch-card ballots and pull-lever voting machines with more modern equipment, such as touch-screen voting stations.
		Once the 45-day comment period is over, Soaries promised that the checks would be in the mail to the states with that money subsequently funneling down to the counties.
	www.naco.org /CountyNewsTemplate.cfm?template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=11701 (396 words)

	Hackers Threaten to Short-Circuit E-Voting Plans DAVID ROWAN / London Times (UK) 15nov03
		Ms Harris, who suggests that the vote may have been compromised by a hacker, points out that an alphabetical conversion of 18,181 is "Ahaha".
		Voters could cast unlimited votes without being detected by mechanisms within the voting terminal, they reported, and votes could be overwritten in the system's logs.
		But internet voting is considerably worse, because it could encourage coercion and vote-selling, as it takes place outside of the precincts.
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/2003/Electronic-Voting-Hackers15nov03.htm (754 words)

	RTE News - Mugabe urged to publish voting booth plans
		Election observers in Zimbabwe say they are concerned by the failure of the government to finalise details of the presidential election, which will be held at the weekend.
		The main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, claims that Robert Mugabe's regime intends to cut the number of polling stations in urban areas, while increasing them in the countryside, where he draws most of his support.
		Mugabe used presidential powers yesterday to reinstate controversial election rules which had been declared illegal by the Supreme Court last week, and which critics say are meant to favour his re-election bid.
	www.rte.ie /news/2002/0306/zimbabwe.html (155 words)

	Industry rallies around e-voting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Meanwhile, Pentagon officials have postponed a controversial proposal to let Americans overseas cast their absentee ballots via the Internet, a plan critics had said would be an open door for fraud.
		Defense Department officials are re-examining the Internet voting plan, called the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment, according to Pentagon spokesman Glenn Flood.
		The machines first gained attention after Congress passed the Help America Vote Act of 2002, which will give up to $3.6 billion to voting jurisdictions trying to upgrade outdated election machines such as punch card ballots or mechanical lever machines.
	www.fcw.com /fcw/articles/2004/0405/news-evote-04-05-04.asp (579 words)

	Voting and Electronic Voting (e-voting) - UK press archive: User Experience, Design, Usability, Accessibility & Security
		The Greater London Authority apparently has plans to introduce a range of voting channels for the mayoral election in 2008.
		As undervotes are counted in with invalid votes - according to the London Elects press office - in the present statistics gathering exercise (as they were in 2000 also), we cannot know how serious the invalid vote problem is in London.
		Electronic government, democracy and voting - links to many press articles - some of which are dead.
	www.louiseferguson.com /resources/evoting-uk-news.htm (473 words)

	Peers reject Euro voting plans for second time
		Peers voted by 221 to 145, a majority of 76, for a Conservative amendment to the European Parliamentary Elections Bill rejecting the Government's proposed "closed list" system, in which people would vote for a party not a candidate.
		Lord Shore, the former Labour Cabinet minister, voted for the amendment, as did another senior Labour peer, Lord Stoddart of Swindon.
		Viscount Cranborne, Tory leader in the Lords, signalled that the Lords were unlikely to back down, even though resistance is likely to strengthen the Government's determination to abolish the rights of hereditary peers.
	www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/11/05/nvote05.html (296 words)

	Manifest plans interactive voting service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		UK proxy voting agency Manifest has signed two new clients and unveiled plans for interactive shareholder voting service, writes Nick Hasell.
		The Government is studying proposals to allow electronic share holder voting through the use of digital signatures in its long-awaited e-commerce legislation.
		Wilson points out that a company must first change its articles of association to allow its shares to be voted electronically.
	www.manifest.co.uk /news/1999/19990517.htm (220 words)

	Journey Book - FoTF Influence on Your Vote?
		If you're not old enough or are otherwise not eligible to vote, please answer based on how you would have voted if you were eligible before and after reading the book, or how you planned to vote once you become eligible before and after.
		I'm a hard line Conservative...but if someone either locally or nationally had a better "plan" (as long as it was backed factually) i would vote for that person regardless of party.
		You can babble on about voting being a priviledge and pretend like everybody should be the ideal voter who can name the capitol of Kazakhstan, but if people are willing to think and change their vote because of a book that's actually better than most people who only vote how their parents tell them.
	www.terrygoodkind.com /forums/showthread.php?t=15344 (1239 words)

	comScore Study Examines Critical Factors Influencing Women's Presidential Voting Plans
		The central assumption behind the concept of the "security mom" segment is that women with children are more likely to be concerned about terrorism and therefore favor President Bush because of his aggressive stance on the issue.
		For example, Bush is favored by married women, whether aged 18 to 34 or 35 to 54 and regardless of whether they are a member of the low or high income group.
		Nearly three-quarters of female decided voters who are more concerned with terrorism say they will vote for Bush, while more than 60 percent of those who are more concerned with economic issues say they will support Kerry.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-09-2004/0002270543&EDATE= (699 words)

	The DREDF Accessible Voting Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Shelley pulled the plug on Diebold touchscreen voting machines, used in four California counties -- San Diego, San Joaquin, Solano and Kern -- on April 30, claiming they were not certified correctly and that the company had lied about it.
		Wert said the feeling was that the Shelley had overreacted on April 30 when he banned the use of touchscreen voting machines.
		"Electronic voting was under the microscope because it was being used for the first time," Wert said.
	www.dredf.org /voting/middle_path.html (510 words)

	ElectricNews.net:News:London reveals e-voting plans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		plans also include electronic counting systems for manual paper votes.
		But plans are still at an early stage and the GLA note says the nature of any
		voting systems will be required at this point in time as these are the subject of
	www.electricnews.net /send.html?code=9559704 (284 words)

	Pentagon cancels Internet voting test - Making Your Vote Count - MSNBC.com
		The $22 million Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment, or SERVE, was designed to help overseas citizens vote in U.S. elections.
		There is no way to verify that the vote recorded inside the system is the same as the one cast by the voter.
		Michigan Democrats already have begun online voting leading up to Saturday’s caucuses, which are run by the party and are thus not subject to election certification requirements.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/4184803 (723 words)

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