Daily Voting News For August 27, 2008

Today Premier/Diebold has again had to accepted the blame for voting machine failures. This time the optical scan machines that had tallied absentee ballots in Sarasota County would not upload the totals to the main server and refused to post elections in Hillsborough County. Election officials in Sarasota ended-up having to count 10,000 ballots by hand. It is a good thing they had the paper ballots to count by hand or those votes would have been lost....

Featured - FL: Hillsborough County - State Will Recount Votes In Carey-Catlin Judicial Election LINK

Featured - FL: Hillsborough County - Hillsborough Election Equipment's Maker To Explain Problems LINK

Featured - FL: Sarasota County - Problems slow counting of 10,000 ballots LINK

National: Dispatch from Denver: Suppressing the Vote, Protecting the Vote LINK

National: Uncounted: The New Math Of American Elections (2008) LINK

National: Candidates Nationwide Called Upon to Challenge Suspicious Elections LINK

California: Napa activists focus on e-voting, 'Hacking Democracy' LINK

Colorado: Editorial – Voting system offers fewer excuses LINK

Connecticut: The Outsourced State LINK

Florida: Diebold Problems Affect Florida Primary Election LINK

Florida: A Smooth Florida Election? Not Quite
As State Moves From Touch-Screen Voting Machines, Delays And Software Problems Still Surface LINK

Florida: Voter turnout worst in 10 years LINK

Florida: Brevard County - Touch-screen machine glitch crops up again, and slows vote count tonight LINK

Florida: Broward County - Paper ballots make generally smooth debut in Broward County LINK

Florida: Broward and Palm Beach Counties - Minor glitches; minor confusion at polls LINK

Florida: Hillsborough Supervisor of elections says they did good job LINK

Florida: Hillsborough County - Johnson on defensive after slow election LINK

Florida: New optical scan machines win approval from Martin County voters LINK

Florida: Miami-Dade and Broward Counties - Minor voting glitches in Broward; Dade's 2-page ballot criticized LINK

Florida: Palm Beach County - Supervisor's name on rulers might violate election laws LINK

Florida: Palm Beach County elections supervisor Arthur Anderson defeated LINK

Florida: Palm Beach County - Circuit Judge Wennet, challenger Abramson watch as provisional ballots are tallied LINK

Florida: Computer glitch delays vote count in Sarasota County LINK

Kansas: Other Voices: Paper backups a must for computerized voting LINK

Montana: 10K ask to vote absentee LINK

Ohio: Politics sully Ohio absentee ballot plans LINK

Ohio: Trumbull County - Trumbull officials adopt polling gear procedure LINK

Pennsylvania: Voters' rights groups seek paper-ballot backup LINK

Texas: Travis County - Travis commissioners urged to end e-voting
Group says machines are too unreliable; county votes to buy more anyway. LINK

Utah: Price the Vote: Federal money for electronic voting runs out, but the meter on voting machines keeps on ticking LINK

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