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Daily Voting News For November 8, 2007

Published: Fri 9 Nov 2007 10:06 AM
Daily Voting News For November 8, 2007
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Sequoia has now been sold, yet again. This time the new owners are the present management team. Who is really behind the purchase and what was the final purchase price? Smartmatic paid $16M for the company which represented a $7M loss for its previous owner. Also, now that the Venezuelans are not involved who is going to do all of the ballot programming?
Is Cuyahoga Co Ohio too big for Diebold/Premier? That’s a question being asked by the media and probably some members of the county Board of Elections.
Poll workers failed to remove the results cartridges from seven Sequoia Advantage machines in Camden Co New Jersey. If the votes on those cartridges won’t affect any races the votes won’t be considered in the final tally, according to state law. Election officials wonder why voter turn-out is so low. That’s one reason.
Counting of ballots in Lackawanna Co Pennsylvania was much slower than expected either with or because of Premier/Diebold employees running the optical-scan machines. Was the hold-up a ploy to make optical-scan systems look bad and to sell the county DREs?
Lawrence Co Ohio reports that votes have been flipped due to a software error by ES
This is it for today. DVN will be on hiatus until Monday....
NAtional: U.S. Voting Technology Leader Sequoia Voting Systems Announces New Corporate Ownership LINK
National: Getting in Touch with the Inner VVSG LINK
National: Just a Few 'Glitches'? LINK
California: Counting paper ballots means long wait LINK
California: Riverside County - Supervisors' e-mails violated law, DA says www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20071108_Camden_County_errors_trap_votes_in_a_few_machines.html
California: San Bernardino County - Next election results may take days LINK
California: San Francisco - SF Charges Voting Company With Breach Of Contract LINK
California: San Francisco seeks reimbursement for election problems LINK
California: San Francisco - S.F. prepares to sue voting machine company LINK
California: San Francisco - Voting machine vendor under fire LINK
California: San Mateo County - Election picture still shaping up LINK
Colorado: Uncertainty looms for 2008 election in Denver LINK
Colorado: Denver election woes bode ill for 2008 LINK
Colorado: Denver – Columnist - LITTWIN: What's wrong here? LINK
Colorado: Denver clerk: Much to do by '08 LINK
Connecticut: Rage for (and against) the machine: New voting technology draws mixed reviews LINK
Connecticut: Middlefield recount in motion LINK
Florida: Fla. asked to detail balloting procedures LINK
Florida: Sarasota County – Opinion - Election rules in limbo LINK
Iowa: Voting by mail? LINK
Iowa: Culver wants to explore voting by mail LINK
Iowa: Johnson County - Human error, number of early voters lead to counting glitch LINK
Indiana: La Porte County - Some glitches at polls LINK
Montana: Election chief views mail-in balloting as success LINK
New Jersey: Atlantic County - Software blamed for delay of Atlantic County vote counts LINK
New Jersey: Camden County errors trap votes in a few machines LINK
New Jersey: Essex County - Seven voting machines replaced in Essex County LINK
New Jersey: Mercer County - Judge orders county to open machines to tally leftover votes Poll workers did not turn over cartridges when the polls closed LINK
New York: US to NY: You Gotta HAVA Faulty Voting Machine LINK
New York: Civic Groups Blast Department of Justice Proposal to Gut Standards LINK
New York: State elections board discusses U.S. lawsuit in closed session LINK
New York: Election activists call for return to paper ballots LINK
Ohio: Ohio Election Justice Campaign, Justified LINK
Ohio: State will review voting trouble in northwestern Ohio county LINK
Ohio: Glitches delay vote count for Seneca, Putnam LINK
Ohio: Stealing Ohio 2004 – The Case Heats Up LINK
Ohio: Cuyahoga County's rocky election night leaves a lot of questions LINK
Ohio: Lawrence County - Township race result flipped because of error LINK
Pennsylvania: Fayette County - Official blames election Web site errors on database 'glitch' LINK
Pennsylvania: Lackawanna County - Vote-Counting Woes in Northeast Pennsylvania LINK
Pennsylvania: Lackawanna County - Voting system ‘just totally antiquated’ LINK
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