Daily Voting News For April 20, 2007
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
It is amazing that different media sources can read a report (or not read it) and report on it and those reports are
totally different. The recently released Cuyahoga County, Ohio report told that vote-memory card totals failed to match
electronic voting machine ballot tallies in more than one quarter of the samples checked. The report also found that
hundreds of votes were lost, that others were recorded twice and that software used to count the ballots was vulnerable
to data problems. The New York Times reported the problems. Meanwhile the local Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that the
audit is good news for touch screen and that the audit showed that a tally matched the official record. It makes one
question who read what in the report....
NAtional: Two Compelling Reasons To Resist the Holt Bill LINK
California: Opinion - Vote-by-mail doesn't deliver voters LINK
Florida: Editorial - Get it right Our position: Optical-scan machines are needed for the integrity of the voting system. LINK
Florida: Congressional Challenger Calls for Independent Investigation Into Contested Results From 2006 Election LINK
Kentucky: Secretary of state candidates debate paper trails for e-voting LINK
New York: Delay on voting machines causes concern State hasn't OK'd devices to replace lever system, which can't be used
after August. LINK
Ohio: Cuyahoga County - Audit: Cuyahoga vote results match, some torn reports unreadable LINK
Ohio: Cuyahoga County - Audit Finds Many Faults in Cleveland’s ’06 Voting LINK
Ohio: Cuyahoga County - Audit is good news for touch screens LINK
Ohio: Cuyahoga County - Election audit finds mistakes aplenty 1 in 4 Cleveland memory cards fail to match up to official
totals LINK
Washington DC: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Welcomes House Passage of the D.C. House Voting Rights Act LINK
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John Gideon
Executive Director www.votersunite.org and
Member www.votetrustusa.org