Last Friday a group of volunteers for a non-partisan veteran’s organization went to a Veterans Administration facility in San Francisco to meet with veterans and to provide them with an opportunity to register to vote. Just a couple weeks ago the Department of Veterans Affairs relented under pressure from state and national election officials, veteran’s advocacy groups, and legislators and agreed to allow non-partisan voter registration drives in their facilities. Contrary to assurances from the DVA the volunteers were stopped and told that for them to meet with residents they would have to go through a back-ground check to ensure they were, in fact, non-partisan and each visitor would have to submit to tuberculosis screening, a process that requires two medical appointments. A federal judge has already found that the DVA cannot impose special limitations on visitors simply based on their message. The DVA, at least in San Francisco, has decided to ignore the court and impose those special limitations. ...

• National: Exclusive: Dept. Of Veterans Affairs Continues To Violate Law, Block Voter Registration Drives for Wounded Warriors
  https://bradblog.com/?p=6389
• National: Will Americans Be Able to Trust the Vote Count in 2008? And, What Can We Do to Protect the Integrity of Elections?
  http://www.opednews.com/...in-Zeese-080915-186.html
• National: Victory in the Voting Rights Battle
  http://www.aei.org/publi...bID.28620/pub_detail.asp
• National: Electronic voter-registration databases put to the test
  http://news.rgj.com/apps...15/NEWS19/809150342/1232
• National: American Statistical Association Endorses Statistical Principles of ElectionAudits.org's Post-Election Audits Document
  http://www.prweb.com/rel...2008/09/prweb1329704.htm
• National: ATMs as voting machines: An idea whose time hasn't come
  As 2000's contentious election fades, so has the call to vote via ATM
  http://www.creditcards.c...voting-machines-1273.php
• National: How To Steal An Election
  http://www.opednews.com/...an-Lynch-080914-382.html
• National: Election Process Made Easier for Military and Overseas Voters With the Launch of New Ballot Tool
  http://www.pewcenteronth...oom_detail.aspx?id=44136
• National: Voting Groups Release Guidelines for E-voting Checks
  http://www.pcworld.com/b..._for_evoting_checks.html
• AZ: It’s The Ballot Count, Stupid! Florida Déjà Vu in Arizona
  http://www.vadimuspost.c...the-ballot-count-stupid/
• AZ: Pima County - Pima primary vote certified, despite activists' complaints
  http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/257363
• AZ: Pima County - Calls for Removal of Election Director After Arrest of Tucson, AZ Election Integrity Advocate
  https://bradblog.com/?p=6388
• CO: Mesa County ballot lengthy; mail-in requests up
  http://www.gjsentinel.co...408_3A_ballot_costs.html
• FL: Haitian Advocate Cries Foul On Voter ID Law
  http://www.caribbeanworl...news_detail.php?mid=1417
• FL: Palm Beach County says it's accounted for all but 12 missing ballots
  http://www.palmbeachpost...8/09/15/0915recount.html
• HI: Tests Ensure Voting System Ready For Primary
  Independent Observers Help Test System
  http://www.kitv.com/news/17469591/detail.html
• IN: Delaware County – Opinion - Ball State might not be best site for satellite voting center
  http://www.thestarpress....080914/OPINION/809140322
• MI: Bad voter applications found
  Clerks see fraudulent, duplicate forms from group
  http://www.freep.com/app...0080914/NEWS03/809140383
• NY: Local elections officials move cautiously toward new voting process
  http://www.democratandch...2/809140346/1039/OPINION
• OH: Franklin County - Vote absentee to avoid long lines, county says
  http://www.columbusdispa..._B1_27BAN57.html?sid=101
• TN: Surge in voter registrations in full swing in Sullivan County
  http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9008126
• WI: McCain's mailer creates controversy
  http://www.madison.com/wsj/topstories/304740
• WI: Editorial - Quest for zero voter fraud threatens legitimate ballots
  http://www.tomahjournal....5/opinion/01edvoting.txt

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