Daily Voting News For November 6, 2008

Tabulating is still going on around the country and there are a lot of reports of problems with memory cards, software that is slow, over use of provisional ballots, voting system failures that have resulted in voting machines being locked-up, e-poll book errors and other issues. When appropriate I have included the voting system vendor....

National: E-voting machines, registration databases have a mixed Tuesday LINK

Arizona: Pima County - 80,000 Pima ballots may still be uncounted LINK

California: Opinion - Secretary of state's Web site let us down LINK

California: Santa Clara County - More touch-screen machines malfunction [Sequoia Edge DREs] LINK

California: Ventura County - Provisional ballots confuse voters LINK

California: Ventura County - At least 86,000 ballots still not counted; some races left hanging LINK

Colorado: Boulder County’s counting crawls on Explanation for ‘paper dust’ still elusive [Hart eScan] LINK

Florida: Vote software is under fire [Premier/Diebold] LINK

Florida: Hillsborough County – Editorial - Call in federal help LINK

Florida: Hillsborough To Resume Tabulating Votes Today LINK

Georgia: Chambliss, Martin gear up for expected runoff LINK

Iowa: Computer glitch slows Scott County vote reporting [Diebold memory card failures] LINK

Indiana: Early voting might have eased polling place jam at Northside Middle School LINK

Indiana: Wayne County - County's count last in state Glitch delays Wayne election results until after midnight [ES&S] LINK

Kentucky: Hand Counting Ballots In Kenton Co. Complete [Hart eSlate] LINK

Maine: Officials to push for early voting in Maine LINK

Minnesota: Undecided Minnesota Senate Race Used Machines that Flunked Accuracy Tests LINK

Minnesota: E-Voting Machines Used in Disputed Franken, Coleman Race Failed Tests LINK

Mississippi: Editorial - Mississippi Needs ‘Early Voting’ LINK

Mississippi: Voting problems still unresolved Machines switching votes are among issues cited LINK

Nevada: Registrar: No Washoe County votes lost due to malfunction LINK

Ohio: Brunner scolds Franklin County for glitch [voter data base problems caused voters to vote on provisional ballots] LINK

Ohio: Lucas County - Paper ballots hold up Lucas County results Staff spends an all-nighter feeding votes into scanners LINK

Pennsylvania: Northumberland County - Voting machines under lock, key Hardware glitch causes problem [Diebold/Premier TSx] LINK

South Carolina: Election numbers point to problems Spartanburg County: Poll workers’ tallies, machines in question LINK

Texas: Williamson County - Ballot glitch didn't affect outcome, Williamson spokeswoman says LINK

Virginia: Chesapeake's electronic poll books were voting-delay villains [Diebold/Premier E-Poll Book] LINK

Washington: Pierce County - Slow going for local counting County blames ranked-choice voting for lines at polls, delayed results LINK

West Virginia: Marion County - Software problem election issue Officials unhappy about time needed to resolve matter [ES&S] LINK

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