Daily Voting News For February 07, 2008
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Besides the growing number of voting machine problems, none of which would have been helped by adding a vvpat printer to
a DRE but most of which would have been helped by banning the DREs outright, we’ve also got the leaking of the GAO
report on the Florida CD-13 race from 2006. It seems that the GAO found that the machines were not the cause just the
voters. Of course they overlook the fact that the same voting machines in other Florida counties also had a high
percentage of undervotes but in different races.
It appears that the good folks who inhabit the Mesa County Commission seats are about to defy the Secretary of State
and, possibly, the courts. They have voted to use their uncertified ES voting machines no matter what the state tells them.
This afternoon the New Mexico Democratic Party announced that they were going to go back and recount every vote cast on
Tuesday....
NAtional: Millions Without a Voice LINK
National: Opinion - After all those revisions, are elections working better? LINK
Arkansas: Benton County - Chairman Blames Delay In Election Results On Bad Luck LINK
Arizona: Napolitano: Let Independents Vote in Primary LINK
Arizona: Cochise County - Computer glitch causes hiccup in Cochise County tally LINK
Arizona: Pima County - Election problems linked to turnout High numbers at the polls left officials ill-prepared LINK
Arizona: Pima County - County: Get used to slow election results Effort to protect vote totals from hackers cited LINK
Arizona: Pima County – Opinion - Casting ballot shouldn't be a bad experience Our view: Some issues could be solved by
improving quality of election workers LINK
California: Primary rules trip up some Inland decline-to-state voters LINK
California: Alameda County - Heavy turnout cited for ballot shortage Alameda County officials say that some voters were
given sample voting sheets and later converted to real ballots LINK
California: Alameda County - Despite mishaps, county survived primary LINK
California: Los Angeles County - LA County supervisors to investigate 'double-bubble' problem LINK
California: Los Angeles County – Opinion - Bubble trouble on the ballot A complicated system and confusing ballot may
have spoiled the vote for many independents. LINK
California: Los Angeles County - L.A. County registrar to examine independents' ballots; mix-up leaves many presidential
votes uncounted LINK
California: Los Angeles County - Filling in the Ovals on LA County's Super Tuesday 'Double Bubble' Debacle LINK
California: Monterey County - County still counting absentee ballots Tally of 28,373 late absentee votes could take two
weeks LINK
California: Nevada County - A vote of confidence for our county Elections Office LINK
California: Riverside County - Glitches in system slowed vote count LINK
California: San Diego County – Editorial - Paper or electronic? Our view: Paper ballots work and attract less
controversy than their electronic cousins LINK
California: San Francisco - Poll Worker Slaps Voting Machine to Bring It to Life LINK
California: San Joaquin County - Flood of provisional ballots means final vote tally may be weeks away LINK
California: Santa Clara County - Ballot shortages afflict Palo Alto polling places Voters forced to improvise with
sample ballots, touch screens -- or simply turned away LINK
California: Santa Cruz County - Equipment bugs delay local vote count LINK
Colorado: Chaos, delays feared at polls Big caucus turnout adds to Election Day angst LINK
Colorado: Mesa County - Voting machines may stay in play Commissioners might not wait for Coffman's OK LINK
Connecticut: Primary comes off with few hitches LINK
Florida: Sarasota County - GAO Sarasota D-13: Blood on the floor, bullet in the head, where did that smoking gun go? LINK
Florida: Sarasota County - GAO: Fla. Undervote Not Due to Machines LINK
Florida: Sarasota County - No evidence found of voting machine failure LINK
Florida: Sarasota County - Machines cleared in 2006 vote flap GAO says touch-screens didn't cause undervote LINK
Florida: Report on Disputed 2006 House Election Finds No Machine Malfunctions LINK
Georgia: Muscogee County - Turnout higher than Small problems occurred during Tuesday's primary LINK
Illinois: Cook County - Vote miscount in city precinct a result of rare technical glitch LINK
Illinois: Kane County - Little trouble this election in Kane County Some problems here and there, but nothing like in
the past LINK
Illinois: Lake County - Consultant to investigate Lake County malfunction LINK
Indiana: State's voter ID law is called an effort to defraud Hoosiers LINK
New Jersey: Two electronic ballot machines replaced in Montclair during vote LINK
New Jersey: Hudson County - An error at Hudson polls delays official tally of primary ballots LINK
New Jersey: Warren County - Voting machines stopped working Hundreds of warren county voters made their choices on
emergency ballots. LINK
New Mexico: Provisional Ballots to Decide NM Winner LINK
New Mexico: Uncounted Rio Arriba County ballots raise eyebrows LINK
New Mexico: Editorial - If party can't count votes, voters can't count on NM LINK
New Mexico: Say What? - Party Official Kept Uncounted Ballox Boxes at Home Overnight as 200 Vote Margin Currently Seen
in New Mexico's Democratic Caucus LINK
New Mexico: Provisional ballots still out in San Juan County LINK
New Mexico: Provisional ballots designed to be counted late LINK
New Mexico: New Mexico to Recount All Democratic Votes LINK
New York: Election officials focus on voting machines LINK
New York: County officials have four machines to choose from for disabled voters LINK
New York: Ulster County - Concerns remain about electronic voting LINK
Pennsylvania: Allegheny County - Team 4: Is Your Vote Safe With County Voting Machines? LINK
Pennsylvania: Bucks County - Paper ballots beat touch screens, Bucks is told Activists say scanned hard copy is better
for verifiable vote count. LINK
Pennsylvania: Bucks County - Voters make plea for new machines LINK
Pennsylvania: Fayette County - Commissioners approve purchase of voting machines LINK
Pennsylvania: Fayette County - Fayette officials buy paper-ballot machines LINK
Washington: King County delays all-mail voting until 2009 LINK
Washington: King County - Countywide vote by mail delayed until 2009 Goal: maintain security and integrity of ballot
counting machines for voters LINK
West Virginia: Video: Secretary of State Betty Ireland on WV Voting Machines LINK
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John Gideon
Executive Director www.votersunite.org