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Daily Voting News For November 3: Morning Edition

Published: Wed 5 Nov 2008 12:31 PM
Daily Voting News For November 3, 2008
Morning Edition
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Election day is tomorrow
Well, here we are. Tomorrow is the day we have been building toward. Today much of the news is articles of reassurance from election officials across the nation. They say they are ready. Tomorrow we will see just how ready they are. Our main reporting tomorrow will be on voting machine problems and long lines due to voting machine and voter registration data base problems. No matter how much officials assure their voters that they are ready machines still fail to work, polls open late, votes are flipped, polls run out of paper ballots, e-poll books fail, machines are allotted unfairly, and lines will be long. Wednesday and the rest of the week we will hear about the tabulation and reporting problems. Lost votes from tabulators that were not designed or built to handle the number of votes they are expected to count; ballot printing and programming errors that result in hundreds of lost votes. These and more have been the stories of the past. Can we expect any better for the rest of this week? I hope so but I’m not holding my breath....
National: Tales from the trenches – More election stories LINK
National: Why touchscreen voting machines suck LINK
National: Voting Rights Watch: FL and GA leading states nationally for voter complaints LINK
National: Researcher teases out truth of election ballots LINK
National: Opinion - Will your vote count tomorrow? LINK
National: E-Voting's Biggest Test The 2008 presidential election could be shaken by flawed electronic voting technology. LINK
National: Fears of US ballot-box overload trigger citizens' army LINK
National: Voter Integrity Group Urges Preservation of Unadjusted National Exit Poll LINK
National: E-voting Groups Are Watching a Handful of States LINK
National: Ed Felten on E-voting: What Can Go Wrong LINK
National: A Brief History of Ballots In America LINK
National: Editorial - Pitfalls at the polls Congress and the president need to create uniform, national standards for voting procedures and ballots. LINK
National: Hacking the vote LINK
National: Make your vote count It might not, if you're not careful; here's how to avoid many common mistakes on Election Day LINK
National: E-voting worries linger as Election Day nears LINK
National: High Turnout May Add to Problems at Polling Places LINK
National: Protect Your Vote - Avoid Election Machine Errors LINK
National: Escape from voting machine Hell LINK
National: The State Of The Ballot Fight In Battleground States LINK
Arizona: Poll monitors set to play vital role LINK
California: UCSB Put Finishing Touch on State’s Touch-Screen Voting Machine Ban LINK
California: Alameda County - RFID enabling California county to get the vote in quicker LINK
California: Los Angeles County - Advocates demand ballots for all LINK
Colorado: Adams County - Colorado Voting Machine Removed, Quarantined, After Vote Flips Multiple Times to McCain LINK
Colorado: Arapahoe agrees to have paper ballots close by LINK
Connecticut: Voter Registration Sets Record; Record Balloting Predicted LINK
Florida: Early voting crushes records LINK
Florida: Florida Democrats file lawsuit against GOP LINK
Florida: Can Florida Avoid Election Chaos? LINK
Florida: Hundreds of poll watchers to fan out at voting sites LINK
Georgia: Lawyers across state plan to keep their eyes on voting procedures U.S. attorney, FBI will be on lookout for fraud, abuses LINK
Massachusetts: Some towns still swear by hand-counting the ballots LINK
Minnesota: What happens when your vote is challenged in Minnesota? LINK
North Carolina: In N. Carolina, 41 percent of voters have already cast ballots LINK
Nebraska: New ballots aim to avoid butterfly effect LINK
Ohio: Officials confident Ohio voters won't see goofs like in '04 LINK
Ohio: Summit pleased as punch Election officials finally say goodbye to all-nighters, unveil high-tech ballots counted by computers in 1976 LINK
Ohio: Editorial - Voting Challenges LINK
Ohio: Ohio: Suit Filed for Election Observers, "Dial Up" Provisional Ballots, and a Comment LINK
Ohio: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall How is Jennifer Brunner, Ohio's embattled Secretary of State, holding up as the election (and the likely accusations of impropriety) approach? LINK
Pennsylvania: Penn students help protect the vote LINK
Pennsylvania: Voting disputes can be immediately challenged LINK
Texas: Counties dispute bad election rating LINK
Virginia: Federal judge to hear NAACP election lawsuit today LINK
West Virginia: Carper calls for re-evaluation of voting system Several voters say machines switched their selections 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.**
-- John Gideon Co-Executive Director VotersUnite.Org www.votersunite.org
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