Efforts to Reform Voting in the Aftermath of the Florida

question 79

Multiple Choice

Efforts to reform voting in the aftermath of the Florida vote-count controversy of 2000 might find particular fault with Congress because it

• A)did not require states to develop systems for counting disputed votes.
• B)did not provide funds for upgrading voting equipment.
• C)stopped short of creating a uniform national voting system.
• D)did not provide funds for training election officials.
• E)did not investigate names that were not on official registration lists.

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