Daily Voting News For December 15, 2008
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
The news has not been written yet but I am hearing from New Jersey that the bill that would have forced the state’s
voters to continue to use Sequoia Advantage DREs with no paper audit trail was defeated in one house of the state
legislature and the bill in the other house never went to the floor for a vote. Now the state needs to decide whether to
wait and hope Sequoia can get a vvpat printer certified or do the right thing and change over to a paper-based voting
system....
National: Toward A Better Registration System
Eliminating A Mountain Of Paperwork Is A Top Priority For Gathering Of Election Administrators LINK
National: Unstuffing the Ballot Box
The right is working to change voting rules. Advocates and ordinary citizens are pushing back. LINK
National: EAC Honors Poll Workers from Election Day 2008 LINK
Georgia: Lee County - Poll workers thanked LINK
Kansas: Riley County Clerk: General election cost $77K LINK
Maryland: Md. election board seeks '09 touch-screen pact LINK
Maryland: Md. election board seeks '09 touch-screen pact LINK
Minnesota: A nasty bug emerges in the state election system LINK
Minnesota: Coleman, Franken joust ahead of critical election board meeting LINK
Minnesota: Editorial: Recount reveals an election weak spot
Changes needed to reduce absentee ballot error rate. LINK
Minnesota: Senate recount update: Coleman camp takes separate objections to Supreme Court and Canvassing Board LINK
New Jersey: Editorial - A vote for optical scan LINK
New York: Good News from Minnesota:
New York State Has Selected the Right Voting System LINK
Pennsylvania: 38,983 voters purged from rolls
York County hadn't tossed deadwood voters in a decade. LINK
Texas: Commentary - Republicans revive voter ID proposal LINK
Texas: Dewhurst trying to work out a deal to get voter ID bill passed LINK
Texas: Johnson County - Editorial: Elections office must be efficient LINK
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John Gideon
Co-Executive Director
VotersUnite.Org
www.votersunite.org
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