Daily Voting News For September 28, 2008
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
In our featured article today we again get information about the shut-down of the Social Security Administration’s
databases for maintenance. As related in the article by Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center for Justice this shut-down is
important because “A 2002 federal law, the Help America Vote Act, requires all states to "coordinate" their voter
registration databases with the Social Security database (and state motor vehicle databases) for the purpose of
processing new voter registration forms. For the millions of voters who do not have current driver's licenses and
register using the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, state election officials are required to try to
match their voter registration information against Social Security records. But if the Social Security database is
down—as it will be for four days—they won't be able to do that. Across the country, the processing of these voter
registration forms will grind to a halt for four days”. Why has the SSA scheduled this shut-down within three weeks of
the Nov. election? Now Sen. Diane Feinstein has asked the same question. That letter can be found with the featured
article....
Featured - National: Voter Registration Shut Down? LINK
National: What does the future hold for elections? LINK
National: The most important open source system: Voting LINK
National: Will Your Vote Be Counted? LINK
California: Counting Every Vote
California's Sec. of State Says Open-Source Software Is Needed to Safeguard Electronic Voting Systems LINK
Florida: Recently Registered Voters May Experience Problems LINK
Florida: State's new paper trail leads to new problems LINK
Florida: Opinion - Paper ballots won't be the panacea Broward County hoped for LINK
Florida: Broward County - New ballot system as iffy as the last LINK
Florida: Miami-Dade County - Register by Oct. 6 deadline LINK
Florida: Palm Beach County - Acting chief of elections embraces sudden role LINK
Florida: Pinellas County - League Says Pinellas Has Too Few Early Voting Sites LINK
Georgia: Handel in eye of vote storm LINK
Georgia: Election workers reassure security of votes LINK
Iowa: Warren County’s new voting machines to leave paper trail LINK
Ohio: Ohio gets jump on voting
150,000 regional voters expected to beat lines, decide now LINK
Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania vows to avoid messes Fla., Ohio stepped in LINK
Pennsylvania: Area counties brace for record turnout LINK
Pennsylvania: Montgomery County - Director says Election Night will be a late one LINK
Pennsylvania: Union County - Dems lead area battle to register new voters LINK
Pennsylvania: York County - County ditches dress code at polls LINK
Tennessee: Opinion - Suggestions to make voting in presidential election simpler LINK
Utah: Salt Lake County - County clerk works to make voting easier LINK
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John Gideon
Co-Executive Director
VotersUnite.Org
www.votersunite.org
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