Daily Voting News For July 12, 2006
Salt Lake County has 2 primary races to recount. The recount will be done in a couple hours according to news reports
this morning. That means they will just run the tapes again and come up with the same answers. No real recount. Garbage
in – Garbage out! / This evening the county reported that they had completed the recount. There was no change. Salt Lake
County Clerk Sherrie Swensen says the result is a big boost of confidence in the new electronic voting machines. / The
Arkansas Co., Arkansas Election Commission Chair told a court that she got a bill from ES for programming PEBs in the primary and run-off elections recently and "of course it's wrong". / Avante International
Technology is suing Diebold, ES and Sequoia for patent infringement / Accenture is failing in another state, Wisconsin, to provide a voter registration
database on time and that works....
National: Inventor of Electronic Voting Verification System Takes Industry Giants to Court for Patent Infringement LINK
National: CNN's Lou Dobbs: 'What happens when electronic voting machines fail?' LINK
National: From NASS Convention - Richardson pushes paper ballots LINK
National: From NASS Convention - New Mexico Governor Richardson Exhorts Secretaries of State To Adopt Paper Ballot
Voting Systems LINK
Arkansas: Arkansas County - Election problems vendor’s fault, head of commission says (ES) LINK
California: Riverside County - Temecula-based group asks supervisors to name panel to reduce potential voting abuses LINK
California: Riverside County - Complaints lodged on election process LINK
California: San Diego County - Group says San Diego County ignoring election laws, giving different figures for hand
count LINK
Florida: Collier County - Poll workers trained to avoid another debacle (ES iVotronic) LINK
Georgia: BREAKING: New Lawsuit Seeks Immediate Decertification of Diebold Systems in Georgia! LINK
Georgia: Houston County - Election workers prepare for V-Day LINK
Kansas: Crawford County - Extensive training (AutoMark and ES M-100) LINK
Kansas: Douglas County - Advance voting for primary begins today LINK
North Carolina: Lenoir County - N.C. Elections Board Plans More Hearings In House Primary Dispute LINK
New York: Dutchess County - Dutchess legislature closes in on HAVA LINK
Ohio: Everybody Votes Initiative hopes to registered voters LINK
Tennessee: Hamilton County - Touch-screen voting criticized LINK
Tennessee: Sevier County - Early-bird voters to cast ballots (ES) LINK
Utah: 3 GOP candidates press for a recount LINK
Utah: Salt Lake County - 2 primaries undecided as votes face recount LINK
Utah: Salt Lake County - Recount Confirms Incumbent Loss in House District 42 LINK
Virginia: Fairfax County - Security of county voting machines questioned LINK
Wisconsin: Cities unsure about voter registration software. All say they could handle the election if Accenture system
isn't ready LINK
IReland - E-voting system will never be used: ICTE LINK
Netherlands - Protest against voting machine LINK
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