Daily Voting News For September 7, 2006

Late this afternoon a US District Court judge ordered all Ohio counties to preserve all 2004 ballots. / Poll watchers on Guam report that ballot boxes have two doors on them. One has a padlock installed and the other has 'twist-ties'. Poll watchers were kicked out of at least one polling place by Election Commission staff for 30-minutes with no explanation. / Voters who chose to vote on paper ballots in some predominately African-American and Democrat precincts in Duval Co Florida found that the precincts ran out of paper ballots early in the day. The county blames the mistake on human error. / State required vote-sorting software seems to have failed all over Florida on Tuesday night....

• National: How Many Elections Will Congress Seize Before We Stop Them? LINK
• National: Black caucus urges big vote to advance equality LINK
• Arkansas: Daniels proposes state-funded county election coordinators; Lagrone clarifies son's voting status LINK
• Arizona: Maricopa County - Maricopa Community Colleges to Assist Maricopa County Election Boards for Primary and General Elections LINK
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• Arizona: Pinal County - Election poll workers trained; ID now required to vote LINK
• Connecticut: Voting machine switch delayed LINK
• Florida: Paper or Touch Screen? LINK
• Florida: Touch-screen machines cause confusion with voting results LINK
• Florida: Still some snags in voting process LINK
• Florida: New screens spark delays, confusion LINK
• Florida: Voting Booth '06 Is Dark And Deep LINK
• Florida: Alachua County - Supervisor works overtime to smooth election kinks LINK
• Florida: Broward County - Computer glitches delay final vote tally in 17 Broward precincts LINK
• Florida: Duval County - Leaders Discuss Ballot Shortage At Duval Precincts LINK
• Florida: Martin County - Martin battles to tally votes LINK
• Florida: Palm Beach County - Two days after small primary, Palm Beach County one of last in state to report LINK
• Florida: Palm Beach County – Opinion - 'Incomplete' grade kind for Anderson's first test LINK
• Florida: Palm Beach County - Primary: Precinct-by-precinct totals face wait LINK
• Florida: Palm Beach County - PBC election supervisor vows quicker results LINK
• Florida: Sarasota County - Elections chief defends touch-screen system LINK
• Florida: Volusia County - Voting chief sees few glitches -- but some see potential for more LINK
• Georgia: Outgoing congresswoman hints at challenging Georgia voting laws LINK
• Maryland: Anne Arundel County - Arundel seeks poll judges LINK
• Maryland: Baltimore - Touching a screen to vote Diebold machines get mixed review LINK
• Maryland: Montgomery County - Montgomery vows quick turnaround on election results LINK
• North Carolina: Chatham County - Chatham voting turmoil continues LINK
• Ohio: Judge orders 2004 ballots preserved LINK
• Ohio: Mahoning County - Fighting escalates over money for voting machines LINK
• Utah: Salt Lake County - Electronic voting increases demand for poll volunteers LINK
• Vermont: Secretary of State Deb Markowitz responds to security problems found with state's voting system LINK
• Guam: 176 more votes uncounted. Electronic ballots from Yona Precinct 10B left out LINK
• Guam: Complaints filed as residents demand reelection LINK

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