Testing out new technology for future elections
One of my campaign themes was to use “technologies that strengthen the public’s confidence in elections”. I had heard that Sprint is offering high speed broadband internet services over their local network so I picked up one of their Aircards after lunch. As I drive around visiting polls tomorrow, I’m going to test out the internet connection to the online voters database utilized by my staff. I want to determine the feasibility of deploying laptops to the polling places to allow the precinct officials the ability to verify voter registrations at the polling place versus having to call the Auditor’s office. This technology could prove to be a big help when we go to election day voter registration in January 2008. –Joel @ 5:45pm