Daily Voting News For October 30, 2006
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Voters in Ohio, as well as all other states, will have the 1-866-OUR-VOTE hotline manned and ready to provide
assistance. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that involves the
private bar in providing legal services to address racial discrimination, and Proskauer Rose LLP, an international law
firm with more than 700 lawyers in the United States and Europe, have joined forces with other law firms and voting
rights groups as part of Election Protection - a program to protect the right of every eligible Ohio voter to cast a
meaningful ballot and have that vote counted in the upcoming November 7 election. / Now Sequoia and Smartmatic say that
they voluntarily submitted themselves to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) investigation.
Quite frankly what does it matter whether an unreliable voting system is put out by a company owned, in part, by Chavez
or another group of Venezuelans? The system is still just as unreliable. / Sequoia also has a problem with a new law
suit in Nevada where a citizen activist is suing for the loss of her vote in 2004. / ...
National: Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law & Proskauer Rose Partner to Assist Ohio Voters LINK
National: Teamsters Sponsor Voter Hotline on Election Day to Combat Voting Malfeasance LINK
National: Smartmatic and Sequoia Voting Systems Announce Voluntary CFIUS Filing LINK
National: Voting machines firms confirm fed probe LINK
National: Smartmatic Announces It Is Undergoing CFIUS Review LINK
National: Venezuelan defends ownership of U.S. voting machine firm LINK
National: Rep. Maloney - Smartmatic Announces It Is Undergoing CFIUS Review LINK
National: Opinion - Remember to Vote, Hope It Counts LINK
National: Voting should be effortless, not chaotic LINK
National: Avi Rubin - Voting: Low-Tech Is the Answer LINK
National: John Fund - Absent Without Leave LINK
National: Election Day blunders could escalate LINK
National: Election Officials and Election Activists LINK
National: A way to restore confidence LINK
National: Diebold 3Q earnings show nearly 12 percent improvement LINK
National: A vote of no confidence LINK
National: Electile Dysfunction? It's Time We Face Up To Our Two-Pronged Democracy ED Problem LINK
National: Rage against the machine LINK
National: Former Secretaries of State, Election Experts Available to Comment on What New Voting Laws Mean for Eligible
Voters Across the Country LINK
National: New Technology, Human Error Puts Elections Under Microscope LINK
Alabama: Secretary of State's office owes counties for election machines LINK
Arkansas: Carroll County - Free at last: voting machines get new innards, lease on life LINK
California: San Diego County Registrar Sends Pre-Programmed, Election-Ready, Hackable Diebold Touch-Screen Voting
Machines Home With Pollworkers on 'Sleepovers' More Than Three Weeks Prior to Election! LINK
Colorado: Denver - Group Anticipates Long Lines On Election Day
Former Election Commissioner Concerned About Long Lines LINK
Florida: Midterm Elections-Early voting in Florida shows machine problems, votes for Democrats registering Republican
instead! LINK
Florida: Showdown at the Early Voting Place LINK
Florida: Miami - MIAMI HERALD: Touch-Screen Votes Hopping from Democrats to Republicans in South Florida! LINK
Florida: Pinellas County - Elections chief not worried about possible ties to Venezuela LINK
Georgia: Opinion - Wave of the future won't prevent voter manipulation LINK
Georgia: McIntosh County - McIntosh voting officials see early ballots as a test LINK
Illinois: Chicago/Cook County - Chicago welcomes voting machine probe LINK
Kansas: Electronic voting machines may add to election inaccuracies LINK
Massachusetts: State lags on voting machines for disabled LINK
Maryland: Opinion - Voting machinery LINK
Nebraska: Cherry County - In Cherry County, no more election-day thumb twiddling LINK
New Hampshire: Nashua - Voting booth offering options LINK
Nevada: Washoe County - Reno citizen activist sues provider of electronic voting machines LINK
Ohio: Voter-ID law back in effect LINK
Ohio: Court revives voter-ID measure
Attorney for plaintiffs might take their case to U.S. Supreme Court LINK
Ohio: OHIO MELTDOWN '06: New Last-Minute Reversal in Buckeye State's Voter ID Laws Plunges State of Elections Into
Chaos! LINK
Ohio: Ohio Voter ID Law Reinstated - For Now LINK
NEtherlands - Dutch government scraps plans to use voting computers in 35 cities including Amsterdam 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
Member www.votetrustusa.org