Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Utah has announced a change in election rules that will require a minimum audit of 1% machines in each county. A 3% audit will be done for congressional races and 5% for smaller elections. These are minimum requirements. This is a good first, baby-step now the state needs to make an adult step to a meaningful audit. / Officials in Chicago and Cook Co Illinois are already predicting a meltdown. While the Freeman, Craft, McGregor Group blamed any mistakes on poll workers (no surprise there) even experienced elections officials had problems with the Sequoia HAAT. / Denver Colorado will be doing a 5% audit of their machines. / Here we go again. Early voting in Arkansas begins next Monday. At least one county has still to receive their PEBs and paper ballots. Maybe Saturday. I wonder if they do any L&A testing at all? …
NAtional: New Laws and Machines May Spell Voting Woes LINK
NAtional: Poll watchers say Nov. may be messy LINK
NAtional: Activists Out to Ensure Every Vote Counts Amid ID Rules and Electronic Machines LINK
NAtional: Poll watchers say Nov. may be messy LINK
NAtional: Elections should be secured LINK
NAtional: Voter education touted LINK
NAtional: A Philosophy of Voter Suppression LINK
AR: St. Francis County – PEBs expected this week; early voting begins Monday LINK
CA: Secretary of State’s Race Not Exactly a Vote Machine LINK
CA: Orange County – AG: Voter warning linked to GOP campaign LINK
CO: Denver Election Commission Tests Voting Machines LINK
CO: San Miguel County – Rock the vote — question the machine LINK
FL: Opinion – VOTING: Creative thinking LINK
ID: Idaho weighs ‘Vote By Mail’ system LINK
IL: Chicago/Cook County – New election judges learning to work through the glitches LINK
IL: Chicago/Cook County – Voting glitches feared on Nov. 7 LINK
IL: Chicago/Cook County – Chicago Tribune Front Page: ‘Voting Glitches Feared on Nov. 7’ LINK
IN: Editorial – IDs and voter confidence. Political parties are bitterly divided on an issue it behooves them to work together on. LINK
IN: Ruling on Indiana voter ID law unlikely before election LINK
MO: Woman ‘star’ of voter ID fight. Suit resulted in court’s rejection of law. LINK
NC: Citizen Press Revolution: A Thorough, Disturbing Follow-Up on Electronic Voting LINK
NC: Polk County – Polk loses 2,098 voters after purge of voter rolls LINK
NM: Some voting machines will speak Navajo this election LINK
NM: Dona Ana County – 1st test for new voting system LINK
OH: Ohio Lawsuit to Reinstate hundreds of thousands of Purged Democratic Voters to be Filed Fri. or Monday LINK
OH: Athens County – OU prof applauds new machines that will let him vote unassisted LINK
PA: Experts warn of foul-ups with new voting machines. U.S. has spent billions to overhaul elections LINK
PA: Bucks County – Do Bucks Votes Count? LINK
PA: Luzerne County – County will pay $180,000 for voting TV ads LINK
TN: Voters advised of incomplete ballot amendment LINK
TN: Shelby County – Problems on first day of early voting in Shelby County LINK
TN: Shelby County – The Watchdog Gets Answers About Shelby Election Glitches LINK
TX: Montgomery County seeks bilingual election interpreters LINK
UT: Audits to ensure all votes are counted LINK
UT: Counties to compare 1 percent of electronic ballots with paper LINK
WA: Snohomish County – Interest in races should help turnout in election LINK
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Utah has announced a change in election rules that will require a minimum audit of 1% machines in each county. A 3% audit will be done for congressional races and 5% for smaller elections. These are minimum requirements. This is a good first, baby-step now the state needs to make an adult step to a meaningful audit. / Officials in Chicago and Cook Co Illinois are already predicting a meltdown. While the Freeman, Craft, McGregor Group blamed any mistakes on poll workers (no surprise there) even experienced elections officials had problems with the Sequoia HAAT. / Denver Colorado will be doing a 5% audit of their machines. / Here we go again. Early voting in Arkansas begins next Monday. At least one county has still to receive their PEBs and paper ballots. Maybe Saturday. I wonder if they do any L&A testing at all? …
Goof up in Florida,.. absentee ballots sent out to voters homes with some pages of the complete ballot missing,..Link to article.
A good site for election info,.. link
Proceedures for those audits in Utah are apparently secret and it seems odd to me that one of the articles doesn’t mention the 3% and 5% audits.
Sorry guys, this isn’t going to cut it!