Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
On March 4 election officials in Butler Co Ohio discovered that even though their system said that all memory cards had been read, in fact the system did not read one of the cards. This is an error in accuracy. Last Thursday Diebold issued a report to the county to report the results of their investigation. Diebold will fix the software problem and send it through the federal certification process. It appears that the county will just live with the problem and mitigate it with administrative procedures. First, this is a violation of HAVA Section 301(a)(5) but more importantly why would any county use a voting system that has already proven itself to be inaccurate? This is an outrage....
- NAtional: Several Big Voting Rights Victories On Friday!
https://bradblog.com/?p=5997 - FL: It shouldn't be so hard to vote in Florida
http://pelicanpress.org/...=226&ArticleID=5097 - HI: Bid protest leaves state without election system
http://starbulletin.com/.../05/17/news/story08.html - HI: State delays contract for voting machines
Procurement office won't allow temporary deal with company
http://www.honoluluadver...0335/1007/LOCALNEWSFRONT - IN: Clay bungled handling of vote on election night
http://www.post-trib.com...mes/954649,james.article - MO: Missouri Legislature Ends Session With Voter ID Amendment Still on Agenda
http://www.nytimes.com/2...3-J3wqodfkcX7Yv1sw7sstQg - NJ: Judge sets tight security on voting machine tests
http://www.nj.com/news/i...le_on_testing_proce.html - OH: Voters Comfortable With Machines
http://www.theintelligen...nt.detail/id/509620.html - OH: Opinion - Costs of voting have to be considered
http://www.lancastereagl...1/805170306/1014/OPINION - OH: Butler County - Report: Voting errors caused by two factors
http://www.middletownjou.../05/17/hjn051708boe.html
**"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 BradBlog.Com**