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Daily Voting News For August 27, 2008

Published: Thu 28 Aug 2008 11:47 AM
Daily Voting News For August 27, 2008
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Today Premier/Diebold has again had to accepted the blame for voting machine failures. This time the optical scan machines that had tallied absentee ballots in Sarasota County would not upload the totals to the main server and refused to post elections in Hillsborough County. Election officials in Sarasota ended-up having to count 10,000 ballots by hand. It is a good thing they had the paper ballots to count by hand or those votes would have been lost....
Featured - FL: Hillsborough County - State Will Recount Votes In Carey-Catlin Judicial Election LINK
Featured - FL: Hillsborough County - Hillsborough Election Equipment's Maker To Explain Problems LINK
Featured - FL: Sarasota County - Problems slow counting of 10,000 ballots LINK
National: Dispatch from Denver: Suppressing the Vote, Protecting the Vote LINK
National: Uncounted: The New Math Of American Elections (2008) LINK
National: Candidates Nationwide Called Upon to Challenge Suspicious Elections LINK
California: Napa activists focus on e-voting, 'Hacking Democracy' LINK
Colorado: Editorial – Voting system offers fewer excuses LINK
Connecticut: The Outsourced State LINK
Florida: Diebold Problems Affect Florida Primary Election LINK
Florida: A Smooth Florida Election? Not Quite
As State Moves From Touch-Screen Voting Machines, Delays And Software Problems Still Surface LINK
Florida: Voter turnout worst in 10 years LINK
Florida: Brevard County - Touch-screen machine glitch crops up again, and slows vote count tonight LINK
Florida: Broward County - Paper ballots make generally smooth debut in Broward County LINK
Florida: Broward and Palm Beach Counties - Minor glitches; minor confusion at polls LINK
Florida: Hillsborough Supervisor of elections says they did good job LINK
Florida: Hillsborough County - Johnson on defensive after slow election LINK
Florida: New optical scan machines win approval from Martin County voters LINK
Florida: Miami-Dade and Broward Counties - Minor voting glitches in Broward; Dade's 2-page ballot criticized LINK
Florida: Palm Beach County - Supervisor's name on rulers might violate election laws LINK
Florida: Palm Beach County elections supervisor Arthur Anderson defeated LINK
Florida: Palm Beach County - Circuit Judge Wennet, challenger Abramson watch as provisional ballots are tallied LINK
Florida: Computer glitch delays vote count in Sarasota County LINK
Kansas: Other Voices: Paper backups a must for computerized voting LINK
Montana: 10K ask to vote absentee LINK
Ohio: Politics sully Ohio absentee ballot plans LINK
Ohio: Trumbull County - Trumbull officials adopt polling gear procedure LINK
Pennsylvania: Voters' rights groups seek paper-ballot backup LINK
Texas: Travis County - Travis commissioners urged to end e-voting
Group says machines are too unreliable; county votes to buy more anyway. LINK
Utah: Price the Vote: Federal money for electronic voting runs out, but the meter on voting machines keeps on ticking 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-Executive Director
VotersUnite.Org
www.votersunite.org
"To encourage citizen ownership of transparent, participatory
democracy." The Creekside Declaration March 22, 2008

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