Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
Today is election day for state primaries or local elections in Texas, New Mexico, California, Missouri and probably elsewhere. There have been very little reports of problems so far but those will probably come in late tonight and tomorrow. One county in Nevada announced that they cannot afford to buy voting machines for all precincts so one precinct will have to be all-mail in their August primary. Forcing counties to use voting machines is a good idea?…
NAtional: Diebold revises fourth-quarter earnings down LINK
NAtional: Making Democracy Transparent LINK
AR: Ashley County – May Voters Will Have Option to Use Touch Screen Systems LINK
CA: Alameda County – E-vote pioneer will return to paper ballots (Vote-PAD) LINK
CA: San Francisco – A voting machine company chosen by San Francisco to process ballots for the June primary election still has not received state certification (Sequoia) LINK
CO: Expert: Make vote software public LINK
CO: Boulder County – Hart only bidder LINK
CO: Denver – Council OKs funds for machines LINK
FL: Opinion – For secure elections. Our Opinion: Safeguarding the Ballot Builds Voter Confidence LINK
FL: Opinion – Election official hammered for telling the truth (Ion Sancho) LINK
GA: Georgia Senate Votes 51-0 for ‘Paper Trail’ Plan… LINK
GA: Opinion – Elections may get even more secure LINK
GA: Gwinnett County – Equipment and ballot purchases approved for Gwinnett elections LINK
IN: St. Joseph County – Thousands to get new polling place. St. Joseph County officials deem 28 sites unusable. LINK
MD: Voting system revamp possible LINK
MD: Voting bill may clear House LINK
MD: Ehrlich backs paper ballots LINK
MS: Washington County – New voting machines a hot topic LINK
NV: White Pine County – Ruth voting to be mail-in LINK
NY: Department of Justice Moves for Preliminary Injunction LINK
NY: Local commissioner joins voting-reform suit LINK
NY: Opinion – The vote’s in – Albany failed LINK
NY: Voting machines: Now is the time to break the law LINK
OH: Ross County – New voting measures bring financial burden LINK
OH: Urbana – Paper ballots to be used in recall voting (hand counted) LINK
PA: Paperless Voting is Easy. Democracy is Hard. LINK
TX: Tom DeLay in Primary Battle Today, Election Machine Stolen Over the Weekend LINK
TX: VoteRescue Acts to Save Vanishing Voting Rights with Hand-Counted Paper Ballots in Citizens’s Parallel Election LINK
TX: Kerr County – Primary election is today (In early voting a total of 3,134 votes were cast but only 40 voters chose to use DREs, the rest used paper and op-scans) LINK
TX: Kilgore – Kilgore to get a bloated May ballot LINK
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Today is election day for state primaries or local elections in Texas, New Mexico, California, Missouri and probably elsewhere. There have been very little reports of problems so far but those will probably come in late tonight and tomorrow. One county in Nevada announced that they cannot afford to buy voting machines for all precincts so one precinct will have to be all-mail in their August primary. Forcing counties to use voting machines is a good idea?…
Tom DeLay won the republican primary where only republicans vote for republicans.
He will have more of a problem in the general election in November.
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