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Daily Voting News For August 1, 2006

Published: Thu 3 Aug 2006 03:54 PM
Daily Voting News For August 1, 2006
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
"We are headed for a train wreck on Election Day," said Republican Tom Leatherwood, who is seeking re-election as Shelby Co. Tennessee register and is calling for more machines to be stationed countywide. / Today is Kansas' primary election / A state Senate investigative panel in California queried the Asst. Registrar of Voters in Kern Co. as to why precinct workers were told they didn't need to test their machines before election day, and why volunteers weren't trained in the use of paper ballots should their machines fail and why inexperienced workers were allowed inside the elections secure area that night. / The so-called "Battle of Athens" began Aug. 1, 1946, when veterans opened fire on the local jail to stop corrupt local officials from stealing an election in Athens, Tennessee. / "The root cause of our troubled elections is that, unbelievably, the U.S. provides less security, testing, and oversight of our nation's voting equipment and election administration than it does to slot machines and the gaming industry." Steven Hill in his WaPo column....
National: Will Your Vote Count in 2006? LINK
National: Touch Screens Are Not The Best Choice For Disabled Voters LINK
National: Worst Ever Security Flaw In Diebold Voting Machine (Diebold TS) LINK
National: Major security vulnerability in touch screen voting machines LINK
National: Diebold voting machine hack exposed LINK
Arkansas: Voting machine vendor vows to improve communications with Ark. (ES) LINK
Arkansas: Election firm told its miscues burdened counties (ES) LINK
California: Lawmakers grill officials on voting snafus LINK
California: State examines local voting problems LINK
California: Kern County - CA Senate Panel Rakes Kern Co. Elections Officials and Diebold Over the Coals LINK
California: San Diego County - Guest Editorial: Count the Vote in CA-50 LINK
California: San Diego County - Lawsuit seeks to void Bilbray-Busby results LINK
California: San Diego County - Download the Busby/Bilbray Election Contest Lawsuit… LINK
Florida: Duval County - A paper trail for your vote LINK
Iowa: Pottawattamie County - CNN's Lou Dobbs Looks Into Programming Errors in Iowa LINK
Iowa: Pottawattamie County - CNN's Lou Dobbs: Hand Counts in Iowa Kept Incorrect Op-Scan Counts From Installing the Wrong Candidates! LINK
Kansas: Primaries to demonstrate changes in how Kansans vote LINK
Kansas: Douglas County - Shew reports voting technology working, but some problems at polls. Some names not appearing on voter rolls LINK
Michigan: Oakland County – Editorial - Congress bungles voting machine reforms LINK
Missouri: St. Louis County - County election officials seek more poll workers LINK
Mississippi: Hattiesburg - Voter fraud concerns raised LINK
New York: New York State Voting Machine Certification: Hurry up and Wait LINK
Tennessee: 60 years ago, vets took up arms in Tenn. LINK
Tennessee: Vote Tampering: West Tennessee Woman Arrested LINK
Tennessee: Bedford County - New voting machine put through its paces (MicroVote Infinity) LINK
Tennessee: Rutherford County - Light turnout. Less than 10,000 take advantage of early voting (MicroVote Infinity) LINK
Tennessee: Shelby County - An Inconvenient Truth. New machines + extra races = more than long lines LINK
Tennessee: Shelby County - Tied-up voting machines LINK
West Virginia: Voting machines will be ready LINK
INternational: 2nd International Workshop on Electronic Voting 2006 LINK
**"Daily Voting News" is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in "Daily Voting News" may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or Scoop.**
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John Gideon
Executive Director www.votersunite.org and
Information Manager www.votetrustusa.org

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