of Battle Creek, which used some, um, interesting legal arguments to try to justify charging me a fee before it will release the information I asked for. I'm also posting correspondence since 9/17/2012 with the Bureau of Elections about voter ID.  I did much the same four years ago -- and it seems they still don't have any documented reasons why they found ID card X but not ID card Y to be "generally accepted" and eligible to serve as voter ID.  More news on this story, too, as it develops. 10/4 -- Survey responses & analysis both updated as of today -- since today was the due date for a FOIA response.  You can still use the same links below to see how many more local clerks have responded -- and which responded by trying to charge a fee.  This weekend if no sooner, I'll see if I can't make some noise about this -- or maybe even some news. . . . 9/30 -- I can't tour the polling places November 6, so I'm surveying all the local clerks now. Here (PDF) is what I asked them about voting conditions in their areas for the consolidated school-boards-and-all general election. Here (PDF) are all the answers I've gotten back so far, and here ( Excel or PDF scan ) you can see some beginnings of analysis of what the numbers mean for how busy our polling places may get on Election Day.  More to come. 9/17 -- It's Constitution