Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Besides the growing number of voting machine problems, none of which would have been helped by adding a vvpat printer to a DRE but most of which would have been helped by banning the DREs outright, we’ve also got the leaking of the GAO report on the Florida CD-13 race from 2006. It seems that the GAO found that the machines were not the cause just the voters. Of course they overlook the fact that the same voting machines in other Florida counties also had a high percentage of undervotes but in different races.

It appears that the good folks who inhabit the Mesa County, CO, Commission seats are about to defy the Secretary of State and, possibly, the courts. They have voted to use their uncertified ES&S voting machines no matter what the state tells them.

This afternoon the New Mexico Democratic Party announced that they were going to go back and recount every vote cast on Tuesday....

• NAtional: Millions Without a Voice
  http://www.truthdig.com/...y_disenfranchisement/?ln
• NAtional: Opinion - After all those revisions, are elections working better?
  http://www.greatfallstri...0207/OPINION01/802070306
• AR: Benton County - Chairman Blames Delay In Election Results On Bad Luck
  http://www.nwaonline.net...020708bzvotecounting.txt
• AZ: Napolitano: Let Independents Vote in Primary
  http://ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=725501
• AZ: Cochise County - Computer glitch causes hiccup in Cochise County tally
  http://www.douglasdispat...ab6bc4d0b70550988123.txt
• AZ: Pima County - Election problems linked to turnout
  High numbers at the polls left officials ill-prepared
  http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/224009
• AZ: Pima County - County: Get used to slow election results
  Effort to protect vote totals from hackers cited
  http://www.tucsoncitizen...om/daily/local/76290.php
• AZ: Pima County – Opinion - Casting ballot shouldn't be a bad experience
  Our view: Some issues could be solved by improving quality of election workers
  http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/223937
• CA: Primary rules trip up some Inland decline-to-state voters
  http://www.pe.com/localn..._D_voting07.391b109.html
• CA: Alameda County - Heavy turnout cited for ballot shortage
  Alameda County officials say that some voters were given sample voting sheets and later converted to real ballots
  http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_8194580
• CA: Alameda County - Despite mishaps, county survived primary
  http://www.insidebayarea...gus/localnews/ci_8194029
• CA: Los Angeles County - LA County supervisors to investigate 'double-bubble' problem
  http://www.sfgate.com/cg...2.DTL&type=politics
• CA: Los Angeles County – Opinion - Bubble trouble on the ballot
  A complicated system and confusing ballot may have spoiled the vote for many independents.
  http://www.latimes.com/n...en7feb07,0,4738134.story
• CA: Los Angeles County - L.A. County registrar to examine independents' ballots; mix-up leaves many presidential votes uncounted
  http://www.latimes.com/n...?ctrack=1&cset=true
• CA: Los Angeles County - Filling in the Ovals on LA County's Super Tuesday 'Double Bubble' Debacle
  https://bradblog.com/?p=5665
• CA: Monterey County - County still counting absentee ballots
  Tally of 28,373 late absentee votes could take two weeks
  http://www.montereyherald.com/news/ci_8193363
• CA: Nevada County - A vote of confidence for our county Elections Office
  http://theunion.com/arti...080207/OPINION/962380723
• CA: Riverside County - Glitches in system slowed vote count
  http://www.mydesert.com/...1/802070313/-1/newsfront
• CA: San Diego County – Editorial - Paper or electronic?
  Our view: Paper ballots work and attract less controversy than their electronic cousins
  http://www.nctimes.com/a...rials/18_54_292_6_08.txt
• CA: San Francisco - Poll Worker Slaps Voting Machine to Bring It to Life
  http://blog.wired.com/27.../02/poll-worker-sla.html
• CA: San Joaquin County - Flood of provisional ballots means final vote tally may be weeks away
  http://www.recordnet.com...WS/802070324/-1/A_NEWS07
• CA: Santa Clara County - Ballot shortages afflict Palo Alto polling places
  Voters forced to improvise with sample ballots, touch screens --- or simply turned away
  http://www.paloaltoonlin...s/show_story.php?id=7085
• CA: Santa Cruz County - Equipment bugs delay local vote count
  http://www.santacruzsent...&storySection=Local
• CO: Chaos, delays feared at polls
  Big caucus turnout adds to Election Day angst
  http://www.rockymountain.../perfect-election-storm/
• CO: Mesa County - Voting machines may stay in play
  Commissioners might not wait for Coffman's OK
  http://www.rockymountain...chines-may-stay-in-play/
• CT: Primary comes off with few hitches
  http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_8189920
• FL: Sarasota County - GAO Sarasota D-13: Blood on the floor, bullet in the head, where did that smoking gun go?
  http://www.opednews.com/...o_sarasota_d_13_3a_b.htm
• FL: Sarasota County - GAO: Fla. Undervote Not Due to Machines
  http://apnews.myway.com/.../20080207/D8UL6N8O0.html
• FL: Sarasota County - No evidence found of voting machine failure
  http://www.bradenton.com/local/story/383663.html
• FL: Sarasota County - Machines cleared in 2006 vote flap GAO says touch-screens didn't cause undervote
  http://www.heraldtribune...802070373/-1/newssitemap
• FL: Report on Disputed 2006 House Election Finds No Machine Malfunctions
  http://www.cqpolitics.co...;docID=news-000002666787
• GA: Muscogee County - Turnout higher than
  Small problems occurred during Tuesday's primary
  http://www.ledger-enquir...m/news/story/241798.html
• IL: Cook County - Vote miscount in city precinct a result of rare technical glitch
  http://media.www.dailyno...cal.Glitch-3194449.shtml
• IL: Kane County - Little trouble this election in Kane County
  Some problems here and there, but nothing like in the past
  http://www.dailyherald.c.../?id=129970&src=109
• IL: Lake County - Consultant to investigate Lake County malfunction
  http://www.dailyherald.c...ry/?id=130066&src=3
• IN: State's voter ID law is called an effort to defraud Hoosiers
  http://www.pal-item.com/...80207/NEWS0302/802070342
• NJ: Two electronic ballot machines replaced in Montclair during vote
  http://www.montclairtime....com/page.php?page=16698
• NJ: Hudson County - An error at Hudson polls delays official tally of primary ballots
  http://www.nj.com/news/l...16811890.xml&coll=1
• NJ: Warren County - Voting machines stopped working
  Hundreds of warren county voters made their choices on emergency ballots.
  http://www.nj.com/news/e...80241640.xml&coll=2
• NM: Provisional Ballots to Decide NM Winner
  http://ap.google.com/art...FF0LiBuVuSFmLXAD8UL97I00
• NM: Uncounted Rio Arriba County ballots raise eyebrows
  http://haussamen.blogspo...riba-county-ballots.html
• NM: Editorial - If party can't count votes, voters can't count on NM
  http://media.www.dailylo...ount.On.Nm-3194796.shtml
• NM: Say What? - Party Official Kept Uncounted Ballox Boxes at Home Overnight as 200 Vote Margin Currently Seen in New Mexico's Democratic Caucus
  https://bradblog.com/?p=5664
• NM: Provisional ballots still out in San Juan County
  http://www.daily-times.com/news/ci_8190939
• NM: Provisional ballots designed to be counted late
  http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_8187806
• NM: New Mexico to Recount All Democratic Votes
  http://www.npr.org/templ...ory.php?storyId=18785663
• NY: Election officials focus on voting machines
  http://www.watertowndail...0080206/NEWS05/934171291
• NY: County officials have four machines to choose from for disabled voters
  http://www.newsday.com/n...207feb07,0,1180984.story
• NY: Ulster County - Concerns remain about electronic voting
  http://www.dailyfreeman....dept_id=74969&rfi=6
• PA: Allegheny County - Team 4: Is Your Vote Safe With County Voting Machines?
  http://www.thepittsburgh...ews/15245889/detail.html
• PA: Bucks County - Paper ballots beat touch screens, Bucks is told
  Activists say scanned hard copy is better for verifiable vote count.
  http://www.mcall.com/new...419feb07,0,1843063.story
• PA: Bucks County - Voters make plea for new machines
  http://www.phillyburbs.c...11-02072008-1484017.html
• PA: Fayette County - Commissioners approve purchase of voting machines
  http://www.heraldstandar...ept_id=480247&rfi=6
• PA: Fayette County - Fayette officials buy paper-ballot machines
  http://www.pittsburghliv...urier/news/s_551193.html
• WA: King County delays all-mail voting until 2009
  http://seattlepi.nwsourc...l/350326_mailvote07.html
• WA: King County - Countywide vote by mail delayed until 2009
  Goal: maintain security and integrity of ballot counting machines for voters
  http://www.metrokc.gov/e...2008/0206Votebymail.aspx
• WV: Video: Secretary of State Betty Ireland on WV Voting Machines
  http://www.huntingtonnew...elandvotingmachines.html

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