Daily Voting News For March 11, 2008
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Another good reason that a mail-in primary do-over cannot happen in Florida? It is against the law. State law only
allows referendums to be on a mail ballots and doesn’t allow for candidates to be named on ballots via stamp and
carrier. An executive order or a law change would be needed to allow the presidential primary to be recast.
On top of today’s Mississippi primary we also had a special election for Indiana’s 7th CD and municipal elections in
Florida.
Today the Iowa senate approved a bill (47-1) that will change the state to a paper ballot and op-scan state from one
that had a mix of optical-scan and DRE counties. The bill now goes to the House where it is expected to pass. ...
CO: Elections 2008: Colorado's Unending Secrecy regarding Voter Registration LINK
Florida: 'Mashed Into Bits': Florida Touch-Screen Voting Machines - 28,000 of them - to be Crushed, Recycled,
Repurposed... LINK
Florida: Southwest Florida elections supervisor skeptical of mail-in redo LINK
Florida: Deadline To Decide On Revote Urgent LINK
Florida: Florida Democrats mull primary vote by mail LINK
Florida: Dems wonder what to do about Florida LINK
Florida: Changing voting machines is an expensive reality LINK
Florida: Host of factors affect possible new primary in Florida LINK
Florida: Hillsborough County - Plug Is Pulled On Touch Voting LINK
Florida: Indian River County might not be ready for do-over LINK
Florida: Palm Beach County - Palm Beach County touch-screen voting machines get final use today in 19 municipal
elections LINK
Florida: Palm Beach County - Election going smoothly so far, supervisor says LINK
Iowa: Culver wants a tighter rein on purchase of voting gear LINK
Iowa: Counties: State voting machine plan doesn't measure up LINK
Iowa: Senate approves new statewide voting system LINK
Indiana: Today's election day in the 7th District LINK
Indiana: Polls close for 7th district voting LINK
Louisiana: East Baton Rouge Parish - Computer glitches slow EBR returns LINK
Minnesota: Instant-runoff voting in Minneapolis unlikely in 2009 The election director doubts the city will have the
proper equipment in place by then. LINK
Mississippi: Your vote counts LINK
Mississippi: Voting problems reported in Madison Co. LINK
New Jersey: Voting machine errors spur independent analysis LINK
Ohio: Almost 90,000 Ohio votes didn't count LINK
Ohio: Editorial - Brunner should listen to voters LINK
Oklahoma: Oklahoma House passes voter identification bill in party-line vote LINK
Pennsylvania: Opinion - Good staff is key to a smooth election day LINK
Texas: Fight for Texas delegates won't end anytime soon Close count could shift either way before long LINK
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