Daily Voting News For September 20, 2007

Sunday, 23 September 2007, 11:26 pm
Column: John Gideon

Daily Voting News For September 20, 2007

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

What is more important; verified accurate elections or results reported on election night? San Francisco election officials would have us believe election night reporting is the most important as they whine about how the decertification of their voting system will cause them to have to spend weeks counting the ballots; a clearly childish and false claim. Why isn’t the verified accurate count of our votes more important than election results being announced on election night or even the next morning? The Secretary of State of Washington and the County Auditor’s Association argue against any audit of the votes counted on optical-scan machines. We are a vote-by-mail state so well over 70% of the ballots are all counted by optical-scan. I find it to be amazing that they would argue against ensuring every vote is counted correctly. The only reason they would make those arguments is cost or early results. Neither of those reasons should take precedence over my vote being counted accurately. ...

NAtional: What Congress Should Be Talking About LINK

National: Response to ITIF Voting Report LINK

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National: Election Technology Council: ITIF Report Echoes Industry Concerns LINK

National: Electronic Voting: If It Is Good Enough For Congress LINK

National: How to Take Action on Holt and Fix Our Elections LINK

National: Black Votes Suppressed Across the Country by Disenfranchising of Prisoners and Former Convicts LINK

California: CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen Conference Call & Transcript LINK

California: Riverside County, CA Board of Supes to Sequoia Voting Systems: 'Drop Dead' LINK

California: San Francisco - S.F. election outcome won't be known for weeks LINK

California: San Francisco - S.F.’s vote tally will come late LINK

California: San Francisco - What's More Important: Accurate Elections Or Fast Results? LINK

Connecticut: Fail-Safe Voting? LINK

Georgia: Voter ID system passes first test, officials say LINK

Kansas: Proposal requiring paper trail of all voting criticized LINK

New Jersey: Columnist - Our voting machines don't work. Who cares? LINK

New Jersey: Will your vote count? LINK

Nevada: Washoe County Reviewing Voting Machines LINK

New York: Glitches Hamper Some Vote Counts LINK

New York: NYS behind in compliance with federal voting law LINK

New York: Groups find fault with state's plan to comply with federal voting law LINK

Ohio: Elections board in Cleveland expands testing ahead of '08 LINK

Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County - Cost of voting rises LINK

Tennessee: Anderson County - New election possible LINK

Tennessee: Shelby County - Two front runners for Memphis Mayor react to Herenton's voting problems LINK

Tennessee: Shelby County - Mayor cites irregularities with early voting machines LINK

Tennessee: Shelby County - MELTDOWN '07: Diebold Touch-Screens Flipping in Memphis Mayoral Election 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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