Wednesday, May 6, 2009

New-age voting idea meets old-time politics in Illinois - STLtoday.com

05/06/2009 - New-age voting idea meets old-time politics in Illinois - STLtoday.com:

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — State lawmakers here are pondering an Internet voting system that could have some Illinoisans casting their 2012 election ballots from their living rooms.

But that high-tech issue was joined Tuesday by some old-school partisan politics, as ruling Democrats moved to pack the panel that would foster the new system.

The state Senate Elections Committee passed a measure to set up a six-member board that will study if and how Illinois could implement Internet voting in the 2012 elections.

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