‘Daily Voting News’ For September 08 and 09, 2007

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Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Mississippi’s election laws are very questionable. During the August 7 state primary some voters who were not able to use Wilkinson Co’s DRE machines used paper ballots. These would be absentee, affidavit (provisional) and curb-side (for voters with disabilities). In Mississippi the political parties administer their primaries. When all of the votes were counted three incumbents were re-elected. However, there were allegations of wrong-doing in regards to some Democrat paper ballots so the county Dem. Executive Board disqualified all paper ballots which then caused the three incumbents to lose their elections. How many good ballots were disqualified? No one knows.

Next week we can look forward to something being done in regards to HR-811; or nothing at all.

Will California finally release the results of their Document Inspection portion of the “Top-To-Bottom Review” and will the media even know about it? Will the state of New Jersey finally provide an alternate plan for when the vvpat printers are not ready for use? And there is supposed to be a follow-up on “Dan Rather Reports” as early as next week….

  • NAtional: HR811: In Holt’s own words, three short videos LINK
  • NAtional: A Damaging Paper Chase In Voting LINK
  • NAtional: Hands-on Elections: A complete handbook LINK
  • NAtional: Computer Security Expert Bruce O’Dell: Testimony to NH Legislature LINK
  • AZ: Mojave County – Tests make sure election computers are ready to run LINK
  • CA: Ventura County – County adopting paper ballots seen as ‘lucky’ LINK
  • CO: Coffman says vote-machine solution on way LINK
  • CO: Pueblo County ““ Editorial – Mail ballots LINK
  • CT: Voters may not survive voting crash course LINK
  • DE: Verifiable voting proposal on hold LINK
  • MD: Gov. O’Malley Pledges to ‘Do Everything in My Power’ to Fund Paper Ballots Bill LINK
  • MD: Officials foresee smooth primary LINK
  • MS: Wilkinson Co. Democrats throw out paper ballots LINK
  • NJ: Editorial – N.J. must ensure an accurate vote LINK
  • NJ: Opinion – Voting – the bedrock of democracy, How accurate? How costly? LINK
  • OK: State seeks ‘miracle machine’ to assist blind voters LINK
  • OK: Election official: Paper trail important
    Legislation to be debated would require a paper ballot LINK
  • PA: Fayette County – Electronic voting unwelcomed LINK
  • PA: Lackawanna County – State might yank plug on e-voting LINK
  • UT: Utah’s electronic touch-screen voting machines fail the voters LINK
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    1. 1)
      abacus said on 9/9/2007 @ 8:33pm PT: [Permalink]

      O’Dell’s testimony is great!

      If there were a suitable category, I’d nominate him for a Nobel Prize…

    2. 3)
      Dredd said on 9/10/2007 @ 6:50am PT: [Permalink]

      Meanwhile, the republican party in California, in the words of the Governator, is advancing “a loser’s mentality” because they want to change election laws in the middle of the game.

      He said they should change their ways instead of changing the way elections have been done for decades.

    3. 4)
      Dredd said on 9/10/2007 @ 6:54am PT: [Permalink]

      Another republican agrees with the idea the Governator mentioned in post #3, and says further:

      It is my opinion that the best leaders are those who trust the will of the public, even if that means changing direction or admitting a mistake. This is true leadership and the kind of leadership our nation has always desired.

      (Matthew Dowd).

    4. 5)
      Off the Grid said on 9/10/2007 @ 9:42am PT: [Permalink]

      From the last Link above…

      Call your U.S. Representative now to ask him to vote “YES” on H.R. 811 and “NO” on the unfunded mandate amendment. There is plenty of funding, more than $1.6 billion, to cover the costs of the bill. Utah has $4.1 Million in left-over HAVA funds.

      Uh…isn’t that like totally what I shouldn’t do. I was under the impression that without the amendment, HR 811 was more of the same (DRE’s).

      H.R. 811– a bill that would require states to conduct valid publicly observable independent manual audits comparing voter verifiable paper ballots with unofficial vote counts, and replace Utah’s touch-screen voting machines and give us the opportunity to purchase economical, reliable, auditable paper ballot optical scan systems by 2012

      While I haven’t had any coffee this morning, I think I see a classic Utahrd bait and switch. Ah, good ol Utah, I guess if you’re going to steal candy from babies, this is the promised land.

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