Daily Voting News For August 20, 2006

Franklin Co. Ohio is planning on putting the results from each of their voting machines on-line for anyone to see. This will happen after all vote counting takes place and after the final canvass. They are also asking the County BoE for funds to do an independent hand-count of the paper ballots. Is this another attempt to discredit the vvpat and will Election Sciences Institute (ESI) do that hand-count? / ...

• National: Web site compiles nationwide voter resources and information LINK
• National: Election Machine Security LINK
• Arkansas: White County - Leader for elections selected LINK
• Alaska: My turn: Will every vote be counted correctly? LINK
• Florida: On your mark, get set -- vote early LINK
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• Florida: Like it or not, early voting gets going on Monday LINK
• Missouri: Missouri voter ID law latest in national test cases LINK
• New Hampshire: Court’s ballot ruling improves elections LINK
• Ohio: Cuyahoga County – Editorial - Make it electronic, and reliable LINK
• Ohio: Franklin County - Voting details to go online. Tallies from machines in Franklin County will be on Internet, allowing skeptics to tabulate own results LINK
• Texas: Editorial - Ballot backstop. Texas should join the states mandating a paper trail to verify the accuracy of electronic voting machines LINK
• Texas: Harris County - Paper trails and tribulations. Electronic voting backups no panacea LINK

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