Ken sent along this article from Wired about Voter Database Glitches Could Disenfranchise Thousands.

It sounds like the voter database is jacked for a variety of reasons. The people putting the data in are screwing it up, the connectivity to the database is sketchy, and the voter entries aren't bring properly and uniquely identified.

The databases were mandated in the 2002 Help America Vote Act, which required all election districts in a state or U.S. territory to consolidate their lists into a single database electronically accessible to every election office in the state or territory.

This year, during primaries in several states, longtime voters phoned a national voter hotline complaining their party affiliation had changed from Democrat or Republican to unaffiliated, preventing some from casting ballots in states without open primaries. Others complained they weren't on the voter roll, though they'd lived and voted at the same location for years. One Maryland woman said the birth date in her voter record was several decades off her real age. Others were listed as "inactive," although they'd voted in the previous federal election. And one woman who said she voted in 2006 was told she wasn't registered and couldn't cast a ballot. Election officials told her the voter ID number she had belonged to a man.

It's a long article, but definitely read it. It's frightening. We are NOT ready to move to electronic voting. Please write to your Representative and write your Senator and tell them this is BAD.