This is the view of the National Conference of State Legislatures, which released a report last week calling for states to develop their own guidelines for maintaining and operate voting systems and counting votes.
Volunteers fielded calls about Romney paraphernalia inside a voting booth; a New Jersey poll worker who, while helping a citizen to operate a voting machine, informed her, "Everyone here votes for Obama"; a group of Tea Partiers standing outside an elementary-school polling station doing what Rubino described as "screaming at people and telling them to get I.D.s".
In addition, the fact that these organisations operate democratic voting systems, on a one member one vote basis, allows them to take a long-term view of their members' interests.
But that could change if a few more looming battles end in triumph for management.In Germany, for example, legislation is expected to be proposed this month that would make it easier to deem that activists who co-operate on voting are "acting in concert", and so could require them to launch a takeover bid for a company if their combined shareholdings exceed 30%.
Because courts have interpreted the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to prohibit only intentional discrimination, a court may bail in a jurisdiction only if the plaintiff proves that the jurisdiction enacted or operated a voting practice to purposely discriminate.
In a shameless attempt to corner the People Too Tired to Operate vote, Ed Miliband has proposed doubling the period of paid statutory to four weeks.
The Union's operating procedures the way voting weights are decided, the number of EU commissioners per member, and so on will have to change.
But I would think, 'Now, for heaven's sake, Labour, you have to embrace electoral reform' because we are operating under a voting system that is creaking at the seams, that is not fit for purpose".
And in Iowa, where the new redistricting map shows gains for urban and suburban areas, rural legislators are already strategizing about their handicap of operating with fewer votes.
New York City's hapless Board of Elections finally got new voting machines operating last year, replacing the 60-plus-year-old clunkers with electronic devices that are supposed to register and count votes quickly while retaining a paper trail for any recount.
