Daily Voting News For November 3, 2008
Evening Edition
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Election day is tomorrow
Fulton and Clayton Counties, Georgia have decided that they will have enough time at the polls for all voters who want
to vote to do that. They both decided not to ask the state, before-hand, to allow them to keep the polls open longer
than normally allowed. Wouldn’t it have been better to ask to keep them open longer and have no one waiting on line than
to force people to wait on line so you can close at the normal time? Of course, both counties have said they can handle
the crowds because they have enough machines. They ignore, again, that the bottle-neck has been and will be the voter
check-in procedure and their overly slow computer system. In other states it may be the ballot-on-demand system for
optical-scan ballots.
In another great article from Kim Zetter and the WiredBlog, Threat Level, she reports on ‘vote-flipping’ and the ES voting machines.
Also from Kim is the news that one Michigan election official warned the EAC over a week ago that ES M-100 optical-scan machines used in her county don’t consistently tally ballots. These machines are used all across the
country....
Featured - National: Report: ES Voting Machines Can Be Maliciously Calibrated to Favor Specific Candidates LINK
Featured – MI: Michigan Election Official Reveals ES Machines Don't Tally Votes Consistently LINK
National: On Eve of Election Day, Is the Nation’s Voting System Ready? Reports of Irregularities Pour in from Across US
in Record Early Voting LINK
National: The Pitfalls of Electronic Voting LINK
National: Opinion - Will your vote count tomorrow? LINK
National: My Take: E-Voting Not User-Friendly LINK
National: Would Congressional Democrats Cover Up Election Fraud? Part 2 in the "Democracy" in America Series – No Way,
Right?!?! LINK
National: Touchscreen Voting Machines Cause Long Lines and Disenfranchise Voters LINK
National: Impossibly Long Lines for Elderly, Other Voters in FL, GA, Elsewhere LINK
National: Opinion - Short-Circuiting the Vote Tuesday's election will be the most technologically advanced in American
history. But will it be the most reliable? LINK
National: Nov. 4, 2008: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? LINK
National: Expected High Voter Turnout Has Government Officials, Watchdog Groups on Alert LINK
National: How to Make Reliable Voting Machines LINK
National: Concerns continue to shadow e-voting LINK
National: Could voting meltdown history repeat itself? LINK
National: Combat Vote Suppression LINK
National: Oprah’s Problem With Electronic Voting LINK
Colorado: Purged voters in the dark over Election Day status Thousands potentially could be denied right to cast ballots
over bureaucratic snafus LINK
Florida: Florida tops states in concerns sent to pre-election hot line LINK
Georgia: Fulton and Clayton won’t extend voting hours LINK
Indiana: Marion County - Appeals court likely to rule on challenged ballots LINK
Louisiana: League of Women Voters of Louisiana (LWVLA) calls for the Governor and Secretary of State LINK
Michigan: ES Op-Scans Giving 'Different Results Each Time Same Ballots Run Through Machines' in MI County LINK
New Jersey: New voters could get ballot that's provisional It would not be counted Tuesday LINK
Ohio: Ohio voting machines to be tested Tuesday LINK
Ohio: Election Boards Ordered To Offer Paper Ballots LINK
Ohio: Franklin County - Absentee Voting Winds Down With Long Lines Secretary of State predicts 80% voter turnout. LINK
Pennsylvania: Committee of Seventy Fields Largest Ever Voter Assistance Program for Historic November 4th Election LINK
Texas: Texas rights group cautions against voting straight ticket; El Paso County official says voting machines are fine LINK
Virginia: Federal hearing on election suit Monday LINK
Virginia: Federal Judge to Hear Va. Election Suit Today LINK
Virginia: Judge rejects NAACP request for paper ballots, extended voting hours; McCain sues Va. electoral board over
military ballots LINK
Virginia: Judge Refuses to Order Longer Voting Hours in Va. LINK
Virginia: Voting Groups Target Virginia LINK
Virginia: McCain lawsuit asks federal court to order Va. to count late overseas military ballots LINK
Virginia: McCain sues to force Va. to count military ballots LINK
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voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in "Daily Voting News"
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