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I. In Focus This Week
The List
What’s out and what’s in for 2012
You’ve waited all year for it, so without further ado, here is electionlineWeekly’s annual list of what’s in and what’s out in election administration for 2012.
And as always, a hat-tip to The Washington Post that began their version of the In and Out List in 1978 and inspired us to start ours.
Happy New Year!
Out: Charlie White (maybe)
In: Vop Osili (maybe not)
Out: Statewide voter ID in North Carolina
In: County by county voter ID in North Carolina
Out: Doug Chapin as director of Election Initiatives at Pew
In: David Becker as director of Election Initiatives at Pew
Out: Same-day voter registration in Maine
In: Same-day voter registration in Maine
Out: Sweater vests
In: Pocket squares
Out: State funding for anything
In: Budget deficits and major cuts
Out: Recounts
In: Recalls
Out: Rokey Suleman
In/Out: Paul Stenbjorn
In: Cliff Tatum
Out: Kentucky SoS Trey Grayson
In/Out: Kentucky SoS Elaine Walker
In: Kentucky SoS Alison Lundergan Grimes
Out: Louisiana SoS Jay Dardenne
In: Louisiana SoS Tom Schedler
Out: Appreciation for Wisconsin’s non-partisan Government Accountability Board
In: Local criticism of “partisan” GAB
Out: Texas’ Ann McGeehan and Kentucky’s Sarah Ball Johnson
In: Someone with really big boots to fill
Out: Voter photo ID in South Carolina
In: Legal challenges
Out: New York’s lever voting machines (finally!)
In: Confusion and thousands miscast ballots on New York’s optical scan ballots
Out: High school teachers as voter registration leaders
In: High school teachers as voter registration defendants
Out: Governors’ vetoes as last line of defense against voter ID
In: DOJ preclearance as last hope of opponents of voter ID
Out: Fighting voter ID
In: Getting voter ID
Out: Touchscreen voting machines as enemy #1 of technologists
In: Internet voting as enemy #1 of technologists
Out: Worrying about election funding
In: Worrying A LOT about election funding
Out: EAC Commissioners Donetta Davidson and Gineen Bresso, EAC Executive Director Tom Wilkey
In: Bueller? (and @EACGov)
Out: Old precinct lines and election dates
In: Who knows?
Out: Waiting in line at the polls to cast a ballot
In: Waiting in line at the DMV to get a photo ID
Out: Paul Stenbjorn, DC Board of Elections and Ethics
In: Paul Stenbjorn, Scytl
Out: Paul Miller, Washington State
In: Paul Miller, Scytl
Out: Wondering what Scytl’s going to do with all those Pauls
In: Scytl unveils secure voting on tablet computers
Special thanks to Doug Chapin, Sam Derheimer and Stacie Temple for their contributions to this year’s In and Out list.
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