Daily Voting News For May 4, 2007
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Voters in Randolph Co Indiana are being asked to vote on a system made by now defunct Voting Technologies International;
the same system that has failed in the last two elections and that failed in pre-election day set-up. Meanwhile an
election this week in Scotland has been a disaster. High-speed ballot scanners failed, hundreds of thousands of ballots
were spoiled, and postal ballot delays all added up to one huge mess. Also a new judge’s ruling in Alameda Co, more from
Florida and a fun deposition taken from Linda Lamone in Maryland....
AR: Carroll County - Baker's lawsuit against Election Commission, prosecutor is dismissed LINK
California: Opinion - Registrars' whining shouldn't stop tests LINK
California: Alameda County - Judge questions registrar's handling of election records LINK
California: Alameda County - California county to share data in e-voting suit Alameda County will share the data from
its e-voting machines as part of a lawsuit brought against the county charging failure to properly disclose the required
data LINK
Colorado: Colo. elections IT mgr. selling "voter data" to GOP candidates LINK
Florida: Florida Acts to Eliminate Touch-Screen Voting System LINK
Florida: Election law changes await governor's signature LINK
Florida: Touch-screen voting on way out, but millions still owed LINK
Florida: Touch-screens are out, paper is in LINK
Florida: Charlotte County - Horton, commission to explore mail voting LINK
Florida: Indian River County - Paper trail coming to Vero Beach voting machines LINK
Florida: Palm Beach County - County elections chief moving on two ballot tracks LINK
Florida: FL-13 - Justice delayed Court's slow process pushes District 13 case into political arena LINK
Indiana: Randolph County - Randolph officials hope votes can be counted LINK
Maryland: Lamone Deposition Made Public Concedes Voting System Does Not Produce Ballots Longstanding Maryland Law
Requires the Use of Ballots for Recounts LINK
Missouri: Ballot fraud furor fades GOP-driven cases largely fall flat in Missouri; critics see a larger plan to sway
election. LINK
New York: ELECTIONS: New voting machines delayed again LINK
New York: New York to Grill Voting Machine Testing Lab LINK
Ohio: Cuyahoga County - Changes at troubled elections board in Cuyahoga County to get first test LINK
Ohio: Licking County - County still seeking poll workers LINK
Pennsylvania: Erie County - Election Problems LINK
Texas: Senator returns, vows to block voter ID bill For now, Senate Democrats have votes needed to block measure LINK
West Virginia: Jefferson County - Commission delays action LINK
Scotland: Poll hit by ballot chaos LINK
Scotland: Elections marred by vote problems LINK
Scotland: High number of spoiled papers puts spotlight on new system LINK
Scotland: Ballot chaos mars Scottish elections LINK
Scotland: Election voting chaos to be probed LINK
Scotland: The Election: What went wrong? LINK
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John Gideon
Executive Director www.votersunite.org and
Member www.votetrustusa.org