Regular readers will notice that DVN is growing longer and longer as the election gets closer and closer. There will be a time, probably within a week of the election, when DVN will just be too long to be of use in a once-a-day publication. When that happens, as I have done in previous years, I will split DVN into a “Morning Edition” and “Evening Edition”.
One of the issues that bears watching is voter registrations. The news has contained many articles, of late, about the huge influx of voter registrations. Counties are under the gun to get the registrations completed and filed into the data base. The big question is will they be able to do it in the time they have left? How many voters who filed new registrations or changes in their registrations are going to end up being told they have to vote on a provisional ballot? And then either not have that ballot counted because the county has decided not to count provisional ballots because they won’t make any difference in the outcome as we have heard in the past; OR, have their ballot not counted because the county never did get the voters application processed?
Remember please, do NOT use the straight party option if you get that option. Take the extra few minutes and vote each race on the ballot. …
- National: Feds question new voter checks in 6 states
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5goXdqiHHk8p0cqXGZHuUAqEI205gD93LV1FG0 - National: Battles rage over new voters
Legal disputes loom as the political parties spar over voter lists, new registrations
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/10/07/battles-rage-over-new-voters/ - National: Election Protection Wiki Safeguards Voting Rights
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0810/S00165.htm - National: Editorial – Avoid absentee voting trap
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2008/10/08/a18a_absente_edit_1008.html - National: Hack-A-Vote
http://www.motherjones.com/blue_marble_blog/archives/2008/10/10132_hackavote.html - National: Students at Rice learn how vulnerable electronic voting really is
http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/article.php?q=08100837 - National: Electronic voting machines software extremely vulnerable to rigging
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/electronic-voting-machines-software-extremely-vulnerable-to-rigging_100104873.html - National: Voter registration speech draws few students
http://media.www.diamondbackonline.com/media/storage/paper873/news/2008/10/08/News/Voter.Registration.Speech.Draws.Few.Students-3476165.shtml - National: Security Expert: Diebold Voting Machines Desigined To Be Hacked
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=825&Itemid=1 - National: Is your vote safe?
Allegations of voter fraud involving the widely used Diebold voting machines continue to surface
http://metrospirit.com/index.php?cat=1211101074307265&ShowArticle_ID=11010710081423224 - National: Technology to Fight Voter Suppression
http://www.utne.com/2008-10-08/Science-Technology/Technology-to-Fight-Voter-Suppression.aspx?blogid=36 - National: Declare Yourself Launches ‘Why Wait?’ Campaign Encouraging Young People to Vote Early
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/declare-yourself-launches-why-wait,572128.shtml - AL: Confusion reigns in Alabama over ex-felons’ ability to vote
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/statebriefs.ssf?/base/news/122328095073410.xml&coll=2 - AL: Madison County – Voting machine problem doesn’t stop the voting
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/briefs.ssf?/base/news/1223457354217300.xml&coll=1 - CA: Riverside County – Former D.A. hired to oversee audit of county’s Registrar of Voters office
http://www.mydesert.com/article/20081007/NEWS01/81007040/1263/update - CA: Riverside County – Election Probe Begins During Early Voting
http://www.kesq.com/global/story.asp?s=9141827 - CA: Riverside County – Former DA to oversee vote audit
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_audit08.3de8db1.html - CA: Riverside County – Supervisors back audit of Registrar of Voters office
http://www.mydesert.com/article/20081008/NEWS0301/810080324 - CA: Riverside County – Election Probe Begins During Early Voting
http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=9141827&nav=menu191_2 - CO: Colorado Not Prepared For Anticipated Turnout
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0810/S00162.htm - CO: Coffman stout before election
http://www.steamboatpilot.com/news/2008/oct/08/coffman_stout_election/ - FL: When ballots go bad
http://www.tampabay.com/news/perspective/article837066.ece - FL: Broward County – Tsunami Ahead
Nervous About Voting
http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/news/tsunami-ahead/ - FL: Collier County – 1,200 voters rush to meet registration deadline in Collier
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2008/oct/07/collier-sees-rush-1200-voters-final-day-register-g/ - FL: Palm Beach County – Florida Primary Recount Surfaces Grave Voting Problems One Month Before Presidential Election
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/florida-countys.html - FL: Palm Beach County commissioners worry about legal nightmare on Election Day
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/elections/sfl-1007election-day-fears,0,1634215.story - GA: Column – Liberal group’s fraud shows voter ID need
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2008/10/08/garlocked_1008.html - IN: Vote can be tampered with easily
OIT officer says electronic voting software has minimum security
http://media.www.ndsmcobserver.com/media/storage/paper660/news/2008/10/08/News/Vote-Can.Be.Tampered.With.Easily-3475998.shtml - MD: Election officials expect long lines at local polls
Voters should bring sample ballots so they can finish more quickly
http://www.somdnews.com/stories/10082008/indytop173833_32202.shtml - MT: Montana Republicans ABANDON voter challenges
http://www.kxmb.com/News/283426.asp - MT: GOP Withdraws 6,000 Bogus Voter Challenges in Montana
Faced With a Lawsuit by State Dems, the Republicans Wave White Flag of Surrender…
https://bradblog.com/?p=6482 - NC: Voting Myths Debunked
http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A266397 - NJ: Expand options for early voting
http://www.nj.com/gloucester/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1223451613253280.xml&coll=8 - NJ: Atlantic County – Clerk to allow e-mail ballots for military, overseas voters
http://www.thehammontonnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081008/NEWS01/810080310/1002 - NM: Vote Count Error Caught in New Mexico Machines
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/vote-count-erro.html - NM: Officials find, fix glitch in New Mexico voting machine
http://www.rep-am.com/news/elections/370744.txt - NV: Voter Fraud? Officials Raise Concerns About Thousands of Suspicious Voter Registrations
Group Facing Probe in Nevada Has Had Past Problems
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5984327&page=1 - OH: Voting sign-ups hit record
Ohio adds 665,949, to nearly 8.2 million
http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/08/copy/early_voters.ART_ART_10-08-08_B1_CKBHTPA.html?adsec=politics&sid=101 - OH: Latest GOP Effort To Cancel OH Voter Registrations
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0810/S00152.htm - OH: Q&A: E-voting security results ‘awful,’ says Ohio secretary of state
How bad? ‘I thought I was going to throw up,’ Jennifer Brunner recalls
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Security&articleId=9116465&taxonomyId=17&pageNumber=1 - OH: Despite Widespread Security Problems, Ohio Will Use Electronic Voting Systems This Election
http://www.securitymanagement.com/news/despite-widespread-security-problems-ohio-will-use-electronic-voting-systems-election-004741 - OH: Montgomery County – Board of Elections at stalemate over monitoring of early voting
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/10/08/ddn100808election.html - OH: Putnam County elections board fires chief
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081008/NEWS17/810080449 - OH: Seneca County – Voter says ‘proof’ not in the voting
http://www.advertiser-tribune.com/page/content.detail/id/509484.html?nav=5005 - OH: Trumbull County – Valley boards prepare for voting option
http://www.vindy.com/news/2008/oct/08/valley-boards-prepare-for-voting-option/ - OH: Trumbull County – Paper or Electronic?
http://www.wytv.com/news/crawl/30649509.html - OK: Pottawatomie County – Nation May Learn Who’s President Before Shawnee Has A New Mayor
http://www.shawneesun.com/articles/2008/10/08/news/02election%20mess.txt - SC: Beaufort County – Equipment testing delays absentee voting another day
http://www.beaufortgazette.com/local/story/578457.html - SC: Beaufort County residents taken advantage of absentee voting
http://www.wtoctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9141707&nav=0qq6 - SC: Beaufort County – Ballot machines are now running for early voting at Beaufort office
http://www.islandpacket.com/front/story/632790.html - SC: Official: Florence County received thousands of voter applications
http://www.scnow.com/scp/news/local/pee_dee/article/official_florence_county_received_thousands_of_voter_applications/16299/ - SC: Sumter County – More young people get registered to vote
http://www.theitem.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081008/ITNEWS01/710089964 - WI: Opinion – Electronic voting machines imperfect
http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081008/WDH0101/810080677/1981/WDHopinion - Washington DC: A Pox on Board of Elections and Sequoia
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dc/2008/10/council_member_mary_m_cheh.html
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