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Daily Voting News For January 16, 2008
Friday, 18 January 2008, 11:09 am
Article: John Gideon
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Daily Voting News For January 16,
2008
Guest Blogged by John
Gideon of VotersUnite.org
An
urgent action alert has been raised in New York. As a result
of the Department of Justice lawsuit regarding New York
State's lever machine replacement, New York State's county
level election commissioners have until February 8, 2008 to
choose whether to use either a paper ballot based ballot
marker and scanner system, or a direct recording electronic
(DRE) voting system for each county.
After reaching a
compromise with the federal court to provide ballot marking
devices for disabled voters in each polling places in 2008,
the New York State Board of Elections has recklessly
redefined ballot marking devices to include DRE voting
machines. Let's be clear - the untested DRE devices which
commissioners are now empowered to purchase are not Ballot
Marking Devices, they are DRE touch screen voting machines.
Because this choice will commit over half of the funding
available for new voting machines, if a county selects a DRE
in February your county will vote on touch screen voting
machines.
Concerned New Yorkers can help by notifying
the county commissioners of the importance of choosing a
paper ballot based system, and putting the media spotlight
on the issue. It is urgent that you contact your local
election commissioners in writing before the end of the
month, and include newspapers and county legislators in that
correspondence.
Please go HERE to learn
how you can take action....
- National: Could post-ballot audits
renew faith in U.S. elections? Supporters say the time is
now to mandate random counts after elections LINK
- National:
Editorial - A Quick Fix for Electronic Voting LINK
- National:
Emergency measure advocates paper ballots and election
audits LINK
- National: Ohio,
Minnesota and Alabama Adopt New Online Solutions to Build
2008 Military and Overseas Absentee Voter Participation
Rates
https://www.overseasvotefoundation.org/files/OVF_SHS_Annoucement_16-Jan-08.pdf
- Arizona:
Pima County - Elections data fight in new phase County
opposes releasing more info to Dems LINK
- Arizona: Pima
County - County OKs paper ballots going online after voting
Dems sought databases from all past elections LINK
- Colorado: Drop-in
option mulled for mail-ballot elections LINK
- Colorado:
Officials lean toward paper ballots after electronic
machines tossed LINK
- Colorado:
Lawmakers favor paper for November election LINK
- Colorado: Bill
would let Coffman retest electronic voting machines LINK
- Illinois: Hancock
County - Ballots still not available for early voting; ES&S
responds to criticism by Asbridge LINK
- Indiana: Lake
County - Voting to go all electronic LINK
- New Hampshire:
Democratic Ballot Recount Under Way In N.H. Kucinich
Questions Accuracy Of Machine-Counted Ballots LINK
- New Hampshire:
What to expect from a NH Recount and Why LINK
- New Jersey: NJ
Governor Signs Landmark Election Protection Legislation LINK
- New Jersey: AG
rejects request for the use of emergency ballots on Feb. 5
LINK
- New Mexico:
Election Shuffle Secretary of State fills positions, but
questions remain LINK
- New York: Urgent
Action Alert for New York State! LINK
- New York: Federal
judge approves NY voting machine plan LINK
- New York: Federal
Judge Rules On Voting Compliance In N.Y. N.Y. To Comply With
'Help America Vote Act' LINK
- New York: Judge
OKs NY State Voting Remedies LINK
- New York: Suffolk
County - FBI subpoenas election records in Huntington race
LINK
- New York:
Sullivan County - Sullivan faces voting reform requirements
LINK
- Ohio: Brunner
makes pitch to election chiefs LINK
- Ohio: Brunner
meeting with county elections officials goes smoothly
Elections officials complain only a bit LINK
- Ohio: Brunner's
election plan outlined in relative calm LINK
- Ohio: Bob &
Harvey's 3-Step "Ohio Plan" for fair and reliable voting and
vote counts LINK
- Ohio: Penn State
researchers help identify weaknesses in Ohio voting machines
LINK
- Ohio: Editorial -
Playing politics with elections LINK
- Pennsylvania:
Companies compete for officials' votes Voting machine
manufacturers make pitches. Commissioners will recommend
choice to council. LINK
- Pennsylvania:
Lackawanna County - County stresses need, not speed, in vote
machines LINK
- Pennsylvania:
Northampton County - County compares 6 replacement voting
machines LINK
- Pennsylvania:
Northampton County officials examine new voting machines LINK
- South Carolina:
NAACP wants eye kept on primary Group cites voting machine
concerns in request to U.S. Justice Department LINK
- South Carolina:
Voting machines in S.C. not big source of worry LINK
- South Carolina:
S.C. Voting Machines Banned in Other States LINK
- Tennessee:
Davidson County - Password on laptop had been changed LINK
- Tennessee: Sevier
County - Sheriff's candidates present for required testing
[Note that this headline is deceptive. According to the
article both candidates expressed concerns that testing was
not completed in public] LINK
- West Virginia:
Kanawha County - Carper critical of touch-screen voting
machines as two states try to ban them LINK
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************* John Gideon
Executive Director www.votersunite.org