Daily Voting News For September 9, 2007

Monday, 10 September 2007, 11:44 pm
Column: John Gideon

Daily Voting News For September 9, 2007

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Mississippi’s election laws are very questionable. During the August 7 state primary some voters who were not able to use Wilkinson Co’s DRE machines used paper ballots. These would be absentee, affidavit (provisional) and curb-side (for voters with disabilities). In Mississippi the political parties administer their primaries. When all of the votes were counted three incumbents were re-elected. However, there were allegations of wrong-doing in regards to some Democrat paper ballots so the county Dem. Executive Board disqualified all paper ballots which then caused the three incumbents to lose their elections. How many good ballots were disqualified? No one knows. Next week we can look forward to something being done in regards to HR-811; or nothing at all. Will California finally release the results of their Document Inspection portion of the “Top-To-Bottom Review” and will the media even know about it? Will the state of New Jersey finally provide an alternate plan for when the vvpat printers are not ready for use? And there is supposed to be a follow-up on “Dan Rather Reports” as early as next week....

NAtional: HR811: In Holt's own words, three short videos LINK

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National: A Damaging Paper Chase In Voting LINK

National: Hands-on Elections: A complete handbook LINK

National: Computer Security Expert Bruce O'Dell: Testimony to NH Legislature LINK

Arizona: Mojave County - Tests make sure election computers are ready to run LINK

California: Ventura County - County adopting paper ballots seen as 'lucky' LINK

Colorado: Coffman says vote-machine solution on way LINK

Colorado: Pueblo County – Editorial - Mail ballots LINK

Connecticut: Voters may not survive voting crash course LINK

Delaware: Verifiable voting proposal on hold LINK

Maryland: Gov. O'Malley Pledges to 'Do Everything in My Power' to Fund Paper Ballots Bill LINK

Maryland: Officials foresee smooth primary LINK

Mississippi: Wilkinson Co. Democrats throw out paper ballots LINK

New Jersey: Editorial - N.J. must ensure an accurate vote LINK

New Jersey: Opinion - Voting - the bedrock of democracy, How accurate? How costly? LINK

Oklahoma: State seeks ‘miracle machine’ to assist blind voters LINK

Oklahoma: Election official: Paper trail important Legislation to be debated would require a paper ballot LINK

Pennsylvania: Fayette County - Electronic voting unwelcomed LINK

Pennsylvania: Lackawanna County - State might yank plug on e-voting LINK

Utah: Utah's electronic touch-screen voting machines fail the voters 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 Co-Director and Information Manager VotersUnite.Org http://www.votersunite.org

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