Daily Voting News For July 21, 2006
Today the release of two much awaited reports has been in the media. One report on the Arkansas and ES and the other report is on the failures in the primary election in Cuyahoga Co., OH. / An Arkansas election official
wrote about ES and the recent state primary, "This was the most disorganized bunch ever to run an election in Arkansas. They were
untruthful in their responses. Their performance left the burden of this election on us and greatly increased the cost."
/ A report prepared by InfoSentry for the state of Arkansas said this about vvpat printer failures, "Such an occurrence
could cause a very serious problem in the event of an audit or a recount in which the verified voting paper audit trail
becomes an official ballot," the report said. "There would be some unknown number of ballot transactions that would
print on a single, unreadable, and unverifiable line."...
National: Voting Software. It's an election year, and we're still struggling to get voting machines that people trust. LINK
National: Rep. Boehlert Makes The Case For Voter Verified Paper Ballots And Audits LINK
National: David Wagner's Testimony On Voting System Standards LINK
National: Senate Approves 25 Year Extension Of Voting Rights Act LINK
National: New U.S. Voting Guidelines Improving States' Elections Processes LINK
Alabama: Morgan County - Deadlock deliberations. GOP chair says if next Tuesday's count fails to produce winner, he'll
name one LINK
Arkansas: Arkansas needs to renegotiate with voting machine vendor (ES) LINK
Arkansas: Expert: Revise voting-machines deal LINK
California: Bowen calls for more electronic voting safeguards LINK
California: Alameda County - Electronic voting plan makes sense for county LINK
Colorado: Paper trail pursued. Democratic candidate for secretary of state among petition backers LINK
Colorado: Boulder County - County voting not a hit. Judges find new machines daunting (over 100 of 798 poll workers who
pledged to work in the primary have quit) LINK
Colorado: Denver - Voting system passes test. Mock election on new machines nets accurate results LINK
Georgia: Barrow County - Defeated Barrow BOE candidate plans to contest LINK
Minnesota: Otter Tail County - New machines will make voting easier for disabled LINK
Mississippi: Hattiesburg - Officials rush to set up election ("The election commission voted to use a paper ballot,
which members said was less expensive and would ease confusion at the polls") LINK
Ohio: Appeals court to hear punch-card ballot case LINK
Ohio: Ohio's Coming Electoral Meltdown LINK
Ohio: Cuyahoga County - Early Warning LINK
Ohio: Cuyahoga County - Could fraud happen? LINK
Ohio: Cuyahoga County - Training lax, warnings went ignored, panel says LINK
Ohio: Cuyahoga County - Vote tied on whether to fire election chief after botched primary LINK
Oregon: Rep. Hooley Raises Concerns about Electronic Voting Machine Security LINK
Tennessee: Computer shutdown snarls early voting (Electronic Poll Book) LINK
Texas: HAVA helps provide voting access LINK
West Virginia: Berkeley County - Berkeley Co. needs more up-front money for machines LINK
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