Chris Dodd: “What my colleagues are requesting is that we mandate that in this bill. There is nothing in this legislation that says…”

“What my colleagues are requesting is that we mandate that in this bill. There is nothing in this legislation that says Florida is going to insist--the State of Florida has abandoned their punchcard system, but in the case of Illinois, which is a live example, under a court order, the State has said you must notify voters of an overvote. That is fine. No one here is suggesting in this bill that the State of Illinois should not be able to do that. What is missing, what the Senator from Illinois would like, is that we absolutely require in every jurisdiction where a punchcard system is located that that system notify the voter of that overvote. I do not disagree with him in that sense, but understand in putting this bill together, I was not able to get that far. We had to compromise.”