Daily Voting News For February 21, 2008
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Election officials in three Colorado counties claim that they can catch all of the stray marks on ballots. Those stray
marks may be read as votes by their Hart Intercivic eScan voting machines. Those claims don’t seem to carry any water
when you consider that some of the marks that were read by the machines instead of the actual vote were just dots where
a voter may have rested their pen.
On the heels of reports of serious problems with Sequoia Advantage voting machines used in New Jersey the state
Attorney General has announced that there is no way they can have voter verified paper audit trail (vvpat) printers for
those machines by the November election. Of course, some would have you believe that the inclusion of a vvpat printer
would mitigate the problems reported yesterday. No vvpat printer on those machines would have made any difference with
the internal memory and voters do not verify their ballot using that printer. The only savior would be to replace the
machines with a paper ballot voting system....
NAtional - Analysis: e-voting's success rests on chain-of-custody issue LINK
National: Electronic Voting and Partial Audits -- Let's do the Math LINK
National: Following the Paper Trail Case study examines five states' efforts to limit paperless voting LINK
Colorado: Key voting machine hearing today LINK
Colorado: 3 county officials dispute state test results on voting equipment LINK
Florida: Broward County – Incredible Turnout - The Phantoms of Oakland Park LINK
Florida: Hillsborough County - Hillsborough approves $5.97 million contract for voting system LINK
Mississippi: Wilkinson County - Judge calls new election LINK
New Hampshire: Statement from the New Hampshire Fair Elections Committee Regarding Activist Recount Investigations in
New Hampshire LINK
New Jersey: Sequoia E-Voting Machines Reporting Inaccurate Totals in New Jersey LINK
New Jersey: Minor problems with voting machines LINK
New Jersey: AP NewsBreak: Another delay for N.J. electronic ballot safeguards LINK
New Jersey: Voting Machine Discrepancies Leave Questionable Results LINK
New Jersey: Another delay for N.J. electronic ballot safeguards LINK
New York: New York City - Data entry errors to blame for wrong NY Super Tuesday tallies LINK
New York: New York City Still Tallying Votes LINK
Ohio: Forum addresses voting equipment LINK
Ohio: Will Some Ohio Polling Places Be Inadvertantly Shut Down on Election Day? LINK
Ohio: Licking County to exceed paper ballot requirement Local election officials hope to have enough on hand for March 4
primary LINK
Ohio: Summit County - Ohio SoS Fires Another GOP County Election Official, GOP State Senator Applauds LINK
Ohio: Summit County - GOP chief Arshinkoff loses elections board seat LINK
Oklahoma: House voter identification bill clears committee LINK
Pennsylvania: Bucks County - Bucks voting machine activists will have their say LINK
Pennsylvania: Bucks County - Paper Balloting Advocates Decry Bucks County Voting Machines LINK
Pennsylvania: Bucks County – Columnist - Meeting shows our system at work LINK
Pennsylvania: Bucks County - Voting advocates protest machines LINK
Pennsylvania: Bucks County - Dry Ice and the DRE Dumpster LINK
Pennsylvania: Luzerne County - 3rd-party voters get reminder LINK
Pennsylvania: Wayne County – Editorial - Wayne officials made savvy decision on voting LINK
Tennessee: Film raises issue of vote fraud LINK
Tennessee: Tennessee may change voting machines 93 of 95 counties can't generate paper trail that bill would require LINK
Virginia: Recounting the recount LINK
Virginia: Chesterfield County - Democrats protest Chesterfield vote Complaint claims county mismanaged election and some
couldn't cast ballots LINK
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John Gideon
Executive Director www.votersunite.org