Daily Voting News For September 19, 2006

Today is primary day in Washington and Massachusetts. / The Sebastian Co. Arkansas clerk will be telling the SoS that ES&S iVotronic voting machines are NOT accessible. / Boulder Co. Colorado expects to have long lines in Nov. due in large part to the size of their ballot which for absentee voters will be up to 4 11x17 inch pages. The time to vote a ballot this size on touch screen voting machines will cause a huge back-up and send many people home without voting. ...

• National: Federal Voter ID bill To Be Debated On The House Floor Tomorrow LINK
• National: Blog - A Plan to Fix Our Broken Elections LINK
• National: Worst Machine Ever? LINK
• National: Voting Early and Often LINK
• National: Tragic similarities between bar games and voting LINK
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• National: Michael Winship: Still a Few Bugs in the System LINK
• National: The Let America Vote Act. LINK
• National: Computerworld Blogger Responds to Diebold's Princeton Report Obfuscation LINK
• Arkansas: Sebastian County - Clerk: Voting Machines Not Accessible LINK
• Colorado: Voting machine foes cite Net hacker threat LINK
• Colorado: Boulder County - Election workers expect long lines LINK
• Connecticut: South Windsor approves new voting machines LINK
• Massachusetts: Early voting smooth; US observers monitor some polling places LINK
• Massachusetts: Asian group lodges voting complaint LINK
• Maryland: Voters point out election problems LINK
• Maryland: Officials look to fix blame for vote mess LINK
• Maryland: Don't point fingers; prepare for next election LINK
• Maryland: Baltimore - Provisional ballots getting close attention LINK
• Maryland: Montgomery County - Elections officials in 'blame game' LINK
• Maryland: Prince George's County - Elections Board to count contents of 26 voting machines Wednesday LINK
• Michigan: Dickson County - Clerk in conflict of interest LINK
• New Mexico: Outside auditor proposed to canvass November election returns LINK
• New York: Voting machine details hidden. State tells counties to decide which devices they want before certification process is finished LINK
• New York: State: Buy now and take your chances LINK
• New York: Casting a wary eye at new voting machines LINK
• Tennessee: Sullivan County panel OKs funds for additional voting machines LINK
• Virginia: Call us chad. Problems in the primary in Maryland don't bode well for November's election LINK
• Washington: Machine voting still an option. A voting activist is encouraging people to use one of the four electronic machines set up primarily to help the disabled cast their ballots. LINK
• Wisconsin: Primary Election Plagued By Computer Problems LINK
• Wisconsin: Election chief scolded over inflated turnout. Edman says she knew of problem that led to recount, not of its scope LINK

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