Daily Voting News For August 27, 2008
Thursday, 28 August 2008, 11:47 am
Column: John Gideon
Daily Voting News For August 27,
2008
Guest Blogged by John Gideon
of VotersUnite.org
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
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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
**"Daily Voting News" is meant as a comprehensive
listing of 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.**
************* John
Gideon
Co-Executive Director
VotersUnite.Org
www.votersunite.org
"To encourage citizen ownership
of transparent, participatory
democracy." The Creekside
Declaration March 22,
2008
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