Daily Voting News For April 3, 2008

Monday, 7 April 2008, 12:24 am
Column: John Gideon

Daily Voting News For April 4, 2008

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

A recent study by Missourians for Honest Elections, of St. Louis County call center sheets and maintenance logs filed by election board technicians at the polls last Feb. 5, revealed interesting data. 181 problems were reported and of those reports 89 (essentially 50% of the problems) involved the voting machine voter verified paper audit trail printers. The problems ranged from 36 votes not appearing at all on the paper trail to failure to print, loose cables, jammed paper and “printer error”. We want to save DREs by installing a vvpat printer; Why?

Mesa Co Colorado election officials were prepared to defy any orders from the state to not use their iVotronic voting machines in Nov. In fact, while the machines were decertified by the state the county purchased 130 more of the DREs. Now the county is hat-in-hand in front of the county commission asking for a whopping $5,759 per month for storage for those 130 new machines. If they were using optical-scan they would not need the extra storage and could probably cut down on the amount of storage they were using. It takes far less room to store one optical scan machine per polling place than it does all of the DREs needed to serve the county’s polling places....

NAtional: "Emergency" Bill Tries to Make Electronic Voting More Accurate, But Will It? LINK

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National: Internet Voting is Too Risky for Public Elections LINK

National: Helpless, Helpless, Helpless LINK

California: California review of the ES&S AutoMARK and M100 LINK

Colorado: Storage cost jumps for voting machines LINK

Connecticut: Procedures Alone Insufficient For Effective Election Audits LINK

Connecticut: Connecticut: Coalition Releases 2nd Post-Election Audit Report LINK

Iowa: Editorial - A more uniform system LINK

Iowa: E-Vote: Iowa Governor Signs Voter Machine Legislation LINK

Iowa: Lee County - New voting machines in county's future LINK

Indiana: Rokita wants voting machine vendor to pay up LINK

Kansas: Strictness a sticking point in voter ID bill Democrats urge a softer stance to avoid veto from gov. LINK

Louisiana: Voting-sites change passes committee LINK

Massachusetts: More democracy now Why Beacon Hill should allow same-day voter registration LINK

Missouri: Opinion - Is Missouri's voting technology headed for a crash? LINK

Mississippi: Voter ID: Up for the Final Count LINK

Ohio: Cuyahoga Co. review leaves few unscanned primary votes uncounted LINK

Pennsylvania: Election systems could face problems, official says LINK

Pennsylvania: Mercer County - County, UniLect asking judge to settle question LINK

Pennsylvania: Wayne County Democrats up 11 percent LINK

Texas: Comal County - Nathan Macias Suing Over Vote Count 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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