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Daily Voting News For February 19, 2009
Daily Voting News For February 19, 2009
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Lots of news today. Ex-New Mexico SoS Rebecca Vigil-Giron has some questions to answer regarding use of funds for elections when she was in office. Colorado is talking more about going to all-paper voting in the future. Utah legislators seem to have a fear of a deluge of aliens coming into the state just to vote in their elections so they are trying to require proof of citizenship. And now the Coleman camp in Minnesota is declaring the ongoing trial as a “legal quagmire”. It doesn’t get any better than this....
The proposal, which allows electronic terminals till then, is criticized as all-or-nothing. LINK
More evidence they may be preparing an appeal strategy to call for a 'do-over' in MN's U.S. Senate Election... LINK
Lawyers for Norm Coleman today abandoned claims involving dozens of absentee ballots rejected during the recount, and accused the three-judge panel hearing the case of creating "a legal quagmire" LINK
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John Gideon
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