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Daily Voting News For May 16, 2008
Daily Voting News For May 16, 2008
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Some county election officials in Ohio are pushing to continue using only central-count optical scan. The ACLU withdrew a suit against Cuyahoga Co because the county promised to go to precinct-count optical scan. Now the county wants to renege on that deal.
It appears that Tennessee will join the paper-age. Newly passed legislation requires all voting machines to be paper based, i.e. optical scan, beginning in 2010.
The Missouri legislature was unable to pass any Voter ID legislation today, the end of their legislative session....
Election Defeated incumbent expected to advise election officials of his intentions next week LINK
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John
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