Voting machines are delivered and installed, paraplegics are registered to vote, training sessions are conducted for hundreds of poll workers, mountains of paperwork are inspected, and huge amounts of caffeine are consumed.
But he flatly refused to go along with the argument that the flaws would disenfranchise tens of thousands of blacks and that "one of the nation's most significant voting train wrecks was about to happen," as a lawyer for the fund, William P. Quigley, put it.
An independent commission on election changes, created after problems with presidential balloting in Florida, urged at its first meeting today that more money be dedicated to voting equipment, training and education.
Progressive voter protection groups like Common Cause have pointed out errors in the True the Vote training material used in Colorado that Common Cause believes might lead to voter intimidation and erroneous accusations about voter eligibility.
They'll do this by investing in new technology, minority outreach (where they'll send any black guy calling himself a Republican into unfamiliar black communities and expect him to miraculously bring in new black voters to the G.O.P. - you see the party bosses think all black people are the same), as well as "get out the vote" training, and various and sundry other voter contact efforts.
And soon we could be voting, buying train tickets and setting the central heating using our mobiles.
The Devils' captain, Jamie Langenbrunner, a member of the committee, said Wednesday that it would recommend a candidate "in the next week or so," which would allow the players to vote before training camps open in mid-September.
While international officials say they are making good progress at setting up voting sites and training poll workers, reports from the ground suggest that there is still a lot of work to do to ensure that Haitians know where to go and what to expect on election day.
It was honoured for the first time in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland on 19 March, where more than one million men and women attended rallies campaigning for women's rights to work, vote, be trained, to hold public office and end discrimination.
I'm not happy about voting for rotten train service, disintegrating NHS, millions wasted on projects like the Dome, specialist schools, cronyism - the list goes on.
