Call to Action Improve nations balloting but leave control to locals Author Unknown SUMMARY: A Call to Action is an article from the Houston Chronicle on Thursday, February 20, 2001 informing the nation on the controversial issue of the nations ballots system. The article begins with the announcement of next month’s Census Bureau release of the population’s data. This means that all the voting boundaries are going to be redrawn and reconfigured. It continues to …showed first 75 words of 1048 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1048 total…embrace new technology, such as Internet voting systems, until we have evaluated it sufficiently and determined that it meets governmental requirements. The technology development and evaluation necessary to satisfy all of these goals will be expensive. But by spending the money up front, we are more likely to avoid costly law suits and recounts, as well as to continue public confidence in the electoral process, something that is very difficult to put a price on.