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Daily Voting News For February 01, 2008
Monday, 4 February 2008, 3:26 pm
Article: John Gideon
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Daily Voting News For February 01,
2008
Guest Blogged by John
Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Next
Tuesday is "Tsunami Tuesday" in which 22 states will
participate and of those 15 states will hold primaries. The
primary states are: AL, AZ, AR, CA, CT, DE, GA, IL, MA, MO,
NJ, NY, OK, TN, and UT. Whether these states will have
successful elections or total meltdowns should be based, in
large part, on their past history in elections using the
same voting systems. Using only data such as whether a state
requires a vvpat or post election audits tells only a small
part of the story. Have the states experienced large numbers
of machine failures, ballot programming errors, tabulating
errors, long lines, and/or disenfranchised voters for
instance? For instance, looking at VotersUnite's "Election
Problem Log - 2004 to Date" there have been no reported
problems from Oklahoma. The risk of any major meltdown in
Oklahoma is small when compared to Georgia with 13 machine
malfunction reports or California with 24 machine
malfunction reports. States that have a real risk of
meltdown based on past record are Arkansas, California,
Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, Tennessee and Utah. Those
will be the states that get our extra attention....
- NAtional: Elderly Voters - Some
Improvements in Voting Accessibility from 2000 to 2004
Elections, but Gaps in Policy and Implementation Remain LINK
- National: Report:
Voting Machines In Some States Could Malfunction On Super
Tuesday LINK
- National: Your
Vote Will Be Thoughtful, But Will It Be Counted? LINK
- National: Super
Tuesday states face hurdles LINK
- National: A
Far-Fetched Fix for E-Voting Woes: Open Source LINK
- National:
Percentage-Based versus Statistical-Power-Based Vote
Tabulation Audits LINK
- California:
California registrars predict a long vote count Use of Paper
Ballots Means Slow Voting Results LINK
- California: Los
Angeles County - L.A. County sees no big delay in local vote
LINK
- California: Napa
County - Switch from e-voting may slow results for weeks LINK
- California: San
Diego County - San Diego's Registrar Urges Absentee Voters
to Get Ballots in Soon LINK
- California: San
Diego County - Registrar: Expect slow vote-counting LINK
- California: San
Francisco County - SF Registrar Expects Smooth Sailing Next
Week LINK
- Colorado: The
politics of paper Rift between clerks, Coffman continues
over next election's voting methods LINK
- Colorado: Boulder
County votes up in the air Clerk waiting on decertification
details LINK
- Colorado: Boulder
County - County clerk shares vote uncertainties LINK
- Colorado:
Broomfield - Election uncertainty not weighing on Broomfield
LINK
- Florida: Palm
Beach County - Urgent to Tallahassee: SOE: Save Our Election
LINK
- Hawaii: State
picks voting machines LINK
- Massachusetts:
Watertown Town Council asks Secretary of State to
investigate election LINK
- New Hampshire:
Republican NH Primary Candidate Demands Secretary of State
Allow All Ballots to be Counted in Ongoing Election Contest
LINK
- New Jersey: N.J.
judge gives voters a do-over LINK
- New York:
Voting-machine firm takes state to court over its
disqualification LINK
- New York:
Advocates Say City Doesn't Have Enough Disabled Voting
Machines LINK
- New York: Chemung
County - New Voting Machines Selected LINK
- New York: Monroe
County - Exit poll on new voting machines: A mixed reaction
LINK
- Ohio: We NEED Our
HAVA Money Back LINK
- Ohio: Brunner
Should Cancel Mandate LINK
- Ohio: Cuyahoga
County will lease voting equipment for $1.5 million Cuyahoga
won't be reimbursed, Jones says LINK
- Ohio: Cuyahoga
County - Vote Approves $1.4 M to be Spent on New Voting
System LINK
- Pennsylvania:
Fayette County - Paper voting ballots possibility in Fayette
LINK
- Pennsylvania:
Fayette County - Fayette commissioners consider new voting
machines LINK
- Pennsylvania:
Wayne County - County Chooses Paper Ballot Alternative LINK
- Tennessee:
Editorial - State should try to achieve paper trail for
November LINK
- Tennessee:
Opinion - Bills would put vote in people's hands LINK
- Tennessee:
Opinion - Rush to new system could create a crisis LINK
- Tennessee: Other
states are going to paper ballots this year; why can't we?
LINK
- Tennessee: Film's
showing to inspire interest in electoral process LINK
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reports each day concerning issues related to election and
voting news around the country regardless of quality or
political slant. Therefore, items listed in "Daily Voting
News" may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or Scoop.
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************* John Gideon
Executive Director www.votersunite.org