Posted: 03 Oct 2010 09:29 AM PDT
The results of Frank Heindel's FOIA: "Citizen's Audit of South Carolina's Voting System October 2010"...The Aspen Times
has one of best articles I've ever seen on e-voting issues in "Unlocking IRV in Aspen"...Florida Case Puts Focus on
Issue of Absentee Ballot Fraud...Hawaii's eGov website listed wrong date for Nov General Election...2nd-tier parties sue
New York State Election Board...Reminder-Monday is last day for half the states to register, visit Rock the Vote for
help..India EVMs-"Is there a ghost in the machine?"..
All this and more in today's voting news below...
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AL: Autauga Co: convicted felon can't serve, but can't be removed from ballot
http://www.votelaw.com/blog/archives/006446.html The Prattville Progress reports: Former Autauga County Coroner Willie Mack "Billy" Brown III, who was convicted in July
on theft and ethics charges, cannot legally serve as county sheriff. But that doesn't mean he couldn't be elected to the
office.
CA: CalVoter.org Delivers Nonpartisan Election Information to California Voters
CA: A higher standard sought: New law to require elections equipment vendors to report flaws, errors and malfunctions
CO: Unlocking IRV in Aspen (comprehensive report & timeline)
How instant runoff voting turned the May 2009 election into a 15-month fight
1001=1058 http://tinyurl.com/287vdmu ..they discovered that the vote-counting technology is actually a lot more complicated than it appeared at first
glance, that they were deploying a system that few really understood — or seem to understand now
CO: Legal wrangling over Aspen's IRV
ParentProfile=1058 http://tinyurl.com/23l6nfb The arguments are ongoing, as Marks, former Election Commissioner Elizabeth Milias, El Jebel resident Harvie Branscomb
and Aspen attorney Millard Zimet have all maintained that the city's continued effort to convince the public that
nothing went wrong with the election is a cover-up.
FL: Florida Case Puts Focus on Issue of Absentee Ballot Fraud*
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/01/absentee-ballot-fraud-daytona-beach-florida-derrick-henry-vote-fraud/ The Daytona Beach probe started when an elections supervisor noticed that as many as 90 absentee ballots had been
requested from two e-mail addresses, and that they came from a single computer
...
“Electronic requests mean that people don’t have to show up, don’t have to provide phone numbers and are easier to
abuse,” she said.
Perhaps her biggest concern is that voting records in Florida make birth dates publicly available. “It makes requesting
absentee ballots by people other than the voter easy.
HI: State's posting of wrong date for election not a voter concern
for_election_not_a_voter_concern.html http://tinyurl.com/26somfg The state's eGov website mistakenly listed the general election date as Nov. 4 before correcting it to Nov. 2.
IN: Special Prosecutor to Look Into Candidate's Alleged Voter Fraud
http://www.wibc.com/news/Storyaspx?id=1288264 Hamilton County Prosecutor Sonia Leerkamp plans to appoint a special prosecutor to look into alleged voter fraud by the
Republican candidate for Secretary of State, Charlie White. And her chief deputy says that appointment will come soon.
IN: Tully: Should this voter be in charge of state elections?
http://www.indystar.com/article/201009290245/NEWS08/9290315 That essentially sums up the controversy surrounding Charlie White, the Republican candidate for secretary of state.
White, who hopes to be the state's next chief elections officer, now acknowledges he continued to serve on the Fishers
Town Council for months after moving out of the district he represented.
NC: Counting, 1, 2, 3
It's now one month, precisely, to the general election - a general election that also contains what amounts to a primary
election. That's North Carolina's first-ever, cross-your-fingers-and-hope-for-the-best experiment with statewide instant
runoff voting for one of the five available seats on the state Court of Appeals.
ND: North Dakota Libertarian Party Appeals Ballot Access Case to 8th Circuit
ND: VOTE-BY-MAIL: Lack of polling sites scrutinized
http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/177819/ Rep. Jim Kasper, R-Fargo, is asking North Dakota’s Legislative Council to draft a bill that would require polling
places to be open on Election Day in most cities — those with populations of at least 100 or 200. The 2011 Legislature
likely will debate the exact threshold.
NY: Remember to vote twice, at least in the 29th Congressional District election
NY: 2nd-tier parties sue elex board
board_mPiFc7Y1sfBXGU7oPvD1PP http://tinyurl.com/2fvncdh They agree on virtually nothing in politics, but the Conservative Party and the Working Families Party nonetheless
joined forces yesterday -- to sue the state Board of Elections.
NY: Today's NYS Election Law Lesson: Listen To Frank Lombardi (the actual complaint)
As our City Hall Bureau's Frank Lombardi reported right here on the Daily Politics a few weeks ago, two very different
ideological camps have teamed up to sue over "double-voting" problems with the state's new electronic-scanner election
system.
SC: Citizen's Audit of South Carolina's Voting System October 2010
SC: Democracy Under Assault
Frank Heindel is a computer-savvy, tough-minded Charleston commodities trader. When he is not buying and selling corn
and wheat, he makes himself a holy terror to the folks at the South Carolina and Charleston County election commissions.
...
Over the next two months Heindel barraged the Charleston County and state election commissions with dozens of emails and
shelled out more than $300 for staff and copying services, trying to obtain public records which should be easily
accessible. For two months Bowers offered excuses for her failure to deliver. Most alarmingly, she claimed she could not
comply with Heindel’s FOI request without surrendering proprietary information, which belongs to the machines’
manufacturer, Election Systems & Software.
TX: Some ballots reprinted after name problem
SEGUIN — The county will reprint Precinct 2 ballots for the coming Nov. 2 general election because the names of two
candidates were printed smaller than those of their opponents.
TX: As Kaufman retires, 3 running for county clerk
Loss of voting machines in fire inspires debate
US Virgin Isles: Senators look for solution to paper-ballot controversy
VA: Law adds protections for troops voting overseas
Among other things, the new law requires states to provide absentee ballots by e-mail upon request and to set up an
online tracking system so voters can follow the progress of their ballot.
National
CNN Declares BRAD BLOG 'Squeakiest Wheel on Subject of Voting' - So How About Some Grease?! http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8102
Rock the Vote Last call to fix the world! Monday is your last chance to register to vote in almost half the states for the November election. Get registered to
vote by clicking this link: http://bit.ly/c7DyEg
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International
Brazil starts to distribute voting machines
Some 23,000 machines will be distributed from the capital to 2,000 polling stations, and in all 467,000 will be
delivered across the nation.
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In a separate report, Globo said that four of the machines selected at random would be used to test the whole system.
India: Is there a ghost in the machine? Neeta Lal (Issues)
The looming Bihar assembly polls, the controversial arrest and release of a Hyderabad-based researcher who had
demonstrated the alleged “tamperability” of electronic voting machines (EVMs) earlier this year on TV and a raft of
pending petitions in high courts have collectively re-ignited the contentious debate on EVMs in India
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