Daily Voting News For November 15, 2006

Officials in Denver Colorado estimate that as many as 18,000 voters walked away from the polls without voting in the Nov. 7 general election. These are disenfranchised voters just the same as those voters who have been removed from voting registers for no reason or those who were intimidated, in the past, when poll sites had police officers stationed just outside the doors. We cannot continue to use voting systems (in this case it was an untested, kludgey Sequoia poll book that was the cause) that keep people from the polls and cause long lines. When DREs fail no one can use them. When precinct-based optical-scan machines fail, ballots can be put into a ballot box....

• National: Observations of a Poll Worker: A Critique Of The eSlate LINK
• National: Democrats may give voting machines more scrutiny LINK
• National: With Some Electronic Voting Systems, Not All Votes Count LINK
• National: ES&S – the Midas Touch in Reverse LINK
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• National: HR 550 vs HR 6200 LINK
• National: Counting votes that don't count LINK
• National: Sarasota Vote Snafu Figure Involved In Bribe Scandal LINK
• National: For Trustworthy Elections; Dump ALL the Machines, Require Paper LINK
• National: House member wants e-voting paper trail LINK
• National: Holt renews call for e-voting law LINK
• National: The Vote Protectors LINK
• Alabama: Baldwin County - Voting glitch didn't affect election LINK
• Arkansas: Benton County - Democrats Want Recount In Justice Of The Peace Race
  At Stake Is 'Confidence in the Voting System,' Chairwoman Says LINK
• Arkansas: Waldenburg - A touch screen, a missing vote, a mystery in Arkansas LINK
• Arizona: Pima County - Fun With Vote Machines
  Pima County Dems claim election procedures were violated when an elections worker broke a server seal LINK
• California: Tuteur calls for changes to avoid ‘disaster’ LINK
• California: Napa County – Opinion - Election reflections, from Baltimore to Napa LINK
• California: Riverside County - In Riverside County, 31 percent of ballots remain uncounted LINK
• Colorado: Coffman gets election primer LINK
• Colorado: Denver - Cost hole for nightmarish balloting may get deeper LINK
• Colorado: Denver's turnout total falls short of forecasts LINK
• Colorado: Denver – Editorial - Elections: A wreck in very slow motion LINK
• Colorado: Denver - Key city election official resigns LINK
• Colorado: Denver - Officials vow '06 vote woes won't recur LINK
• Colorado: Denver still counts ballots LINK
• Connecticut: Recount gives Courtney win in 2nd District LINK
• Florida: Revote of Florida's 13th Congressional District Election Called For by National Voting Rights Groups LINK
• Florida: Broward County - Broward seeks election storage facility LINK
• Florida: Manatee County - Manatee recounts its ballots calmly LINK
• Florida: Sarasota County - Buchanan lead grows as manual recount looms LINK
• Florida: Sarasota County - Few changes in first recount in contested congressional race LINK
• Florida: Sarasota County - Cluttered Sarasota ballot may be at fault, expert says
  Sarasota County's ballot was poorly designed, an expert said, one possible factor in voters skipping over the 13th Congressional District race. LINK
• Florida: Sarasota County - Experts: 15% undervote in 2000 isn't comparable LINK
• Florida: Sarasota County - Analysis suggests undervote caused by ballot design LINK
• Florida: Sarasota County - Touch-screen voting tossed in Sarasota
  County voters mandated 'verified paper ballots.' Meanwhile, a recount continues. LINK
• Florida: Sarasota County - Voting Problems Were Widespread In Sarasota County House Race LINK
• Florida: Sarasota County - PFAW Foundation Calls For Public Hearing on Sarasota Undervotes LINK
• Idaho: Vote Counting Complications LINK
• Indiana: Delaware County - Officials working to account for missing ballots, miscounts
  Some precincts showed different vote counts for unchallenged provisional ballots. LINK
• Indiana: Lake County - Final vote count still out
  ELECTION: Machines that don't 'talk,' provisional ballots hold up tally LINK
• Minnesota: Results from Minnesota’s First Post-Election Review Confirms Accuracy of State’s Voting Machines LINK
• North Carolina: Craven County - Vote recount shows reliable results LINK
• New Jersey: Essex County - Problems found on 24 voting machines LINK
• New York: New Voting Systems for New York - Long Lines and High Cost LINK
• New York: Bloomberg blasts state board over voting machine delays LINK
• New York: Board of Elections Response to Mayor Bloomberg LINK
• New York: NYS could lose $50M in voting machine delay LINK
• New York: Voting Machines To Cost $40-$100 M LINK
• Ohio: Does Anyone Know What's Going On? LINK
• Ohio: Agreement reached on Ohio's provisional ballots LINK
• Oregon: Ashland - Voting machine problems in Ashland, Oregon LINK
• Pennsylvania: No decision today on request to dismiss electronic voting machines suit LINK
• Texas: More voting problems in Williamson County
  Officials blame computer software for voting overcount. LINK
• Wisconsin: Frie says he is seeking recount LINK

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John Gideon
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Member www.votetrustusa.org

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