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On November 7th, 2012 at about 01:30 EDT, after Mitt Romney (R) conceded defeat, President Obama, in his re-election victory speech, noted that problems with the election itself needed to be fixed:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kov3nW8T2fk]President Obama Re-Election Victory Speech (November 6, 2012) [1/3] - YouTube[/ame]
(4:40-5:03)
And in his 2013 SOTU:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvK-o6u82tI]Watch President Obama Deliver the 2013 State of the Union Address - YouTube[/ame]
President Obama announced that a NON-partisan commission would be put together to study some of the problems from the 2012 election and fix them.
That Commission was appointed on May 21, 2013:
President Obama Announces His Intent to Appoint Individuals to the Presidential Commission on Election Administration | The White House
Well, today, the President met with the Commission and the Commission released it's findings:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu6AjtUIvJ4]President Obama Meets with the Presidential Commission on Election Administration - YouTube[/ame]
You might be interested to know that President Obama asked his top attorney (Bob Bauer) AND Mitt Romney's top attorney (Ben Ginsberg) to get together on this project as co-chairs.
The Commission has made some recommendations, one of the top of which is:
1.) no citizen should have to wait more than 1/2 hour to vote.
Most of the recommendations go to the state and local jurisdictions.
The report is out, you can download it here:
Support The Voter | Improving the election experience for all voters
.pdf link, direct:
https://www.supportthevoter.gov/files/2014/01/Amer-Voting-Exper-final-draft-01-09-14-508.pdf
I am reading through the entire report and make some additional postings here. But what I have read until now seems pretty common-sense, meaning, "why haven't we been doing this already?" - common sense.
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