2006 ELECTIONS

2006 ELECTIONS
Changes coming
What: Changes brought by the 2002 Help America Vote Act, passed by Congress in response to the election fiasco in Florida two years earlier, must be in place next year.
What's the holdup?: Arguments have popped up around the country between state and county election officials over which machines voters should use, who will compile statewide voter databases, whose provisional ballots will be counted and who has authority to make decisions under the law.
Quote: "Ohio is now where California was last year, where the secretary of state is making directives that the locals think he shouldn't be making or maybe they just don't like," said Dan Seligson, editor of electionline.org, a nonpartisan election issues clearinghouse.