Washington State: working on election reform
AP reports: As Washington's endless gubernatorial election moves into the courts, Secretary of State Sam Reed and state lawmakers on Monday pledged speedy action on election reform legislation.
Ideas range from shifting the state primary, possibly to June, to better training of local election workers. Some counties may switch to all vote-by-mail and most of the rest will be using a single system — a fill-in-the-oval ballot called optical scan.
Reed, auditors and lawmakers conducted a fairly gentle post-mortem on the recent election, and generally agreed that while the system is basically sound, some obvious problems must be fixed. They plowed through a dozen or more ideas, but reached no decisions. -- OregonLive.com: NewsFlash - `Full-steam ahead' for election reform legislation