Daily Voting News For September 4, 2008
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Readers will recall that as of yesterday Palm Beach Co Florida officials had lost well over 3,000 ballots sometime
between the primary election and an election recount. Earlier today there were announcements that over 2700 ballots had
been found. Late this afternoon the officials were supposed to meet to announce whether they had found all of the
missing ballots and why those ballots went missing in the first place. Were the ballots run through the high-speed
optical scan machines during the recount and did the machines pick-up two or more ballots at a time thus not counting
all of the ballots? Or, were the ballots in bins that were never counted? The media is not clear on this issue yet so we
are going to have to wait to find this out. If the machines were, in fact, grabbing two or more ballots at a time
jurisdictions around the country need to be made aware of this possibility. Meanwhile a report from Broward Co of the
result of their state-mandated audit is a bit troubling. The county appears to have hand-counted one race on ballots
from 16 precincts. The media is reporting that nine of the precincts hand-count matches the machine results. Seven
precincts disagreed by as much as 95 percent. That is a huge number and should raise red flags. Instead one official
said, “When you're dealing with people and paper, that's the best you're going to get.” How about agreeing 100% and you
keep counting until you are sure that the people and paper are not the problem and then you find out what problem the
machines had?...
AZ: Maricopa County - County still counting your votes LINK
Arizona: Slow Pima County returns delays result for District 30 House race LINK
Arizona: Pima County - Procedural changes are cited in slow county tally
3,000 provisional, 11,000 early ballots uncounted 24 hours after polls close LINK
Colorado: San Miguel County - County Election Equipment Needs More Upgrading LINK
Florida: Broward County elections officials audit primary results LINK
Florida: Leon County - Leon County Audits Election Results LINK
Florida: Palm Beach County starts counting election ballots by hand LINK
Florida: Opinion - Missing votes spur worries about fall election in Palm Beach County LINK
Florida: Palm Beach County - Another recount to find missing ballots LINK
Florida: Fourth Round: Who Will Win? Abramson? Wennet?
Palm Beach County Recounts Votes In Close Judge Race For Fourth Time LINK
Florida: Palm Beach County - Florida county probes misplaced ballots
Elections officials suspect more than 3,000 paper ballots may have been misplaced during a recount LINK
Florida: Palm Beach County - Missing Palm Beach Ballots Raise Questions for November LINK
Florida: Florida's latest e-voting crisis likely due to human error LINK
Florida: Opinion - The flaw that links LePore, Anderson LINK
Florida: Palm Beach County - Workers spend day counting ballots, not votes LINK
Ohio: Opinion - Voting machine ruling by Sec. of State long overdue LINK
Ohio: Brunner predicts better results for presidential election LINK
Ohio: Ashland County - Poll workers keep election day humming LINK
Texas: Legislators coming to Brownsville to discuss Voter ID law LINK
Texas: Travis County opening two 'mega sites' for early voting
Location will help cope with expected record turnout, officials say. LINK
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John Gideon
Co-Executive Director
VotersUnite.Org
www.votersunite.org
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