Daily Voting News For October 17, 2006

The worst county for elections in the US, Cuyahoga Co. Ohio has taken another step into the realm of the absurd. The county wants to get their votes tabulated as quickly as possible and they apparently aren't worried as much about accuracy so they are using a new add-on device from Diebold that has never been used in an election and is not even complete with the federal inspection process yet. This device reads the data from the voting machine memory cards, six cards at a time in one minute. The county just has to get the totals out quickly; never mind the accuracy of those totals. / Massachusetts has still not settled on accessible voting machines. Three weeks from election day is too late to bring in new machines and train workers. The state, apparently, is also going to ignore HAVA and not require a new machine at each polling place....

• National: First Bush-Appointed Chair of US EAC Says 'No Standards' For E-Voting Devices, System 'Ripe for Stealing Elections'! LINK
• National: Dealing With Failure LINK
• National: Provisional Ballot Problems Loom For November 7, According to New Publication LINK
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• National: Blocking the 2006 Vote LINK
• National: New Voter ID Laws Could Cost Millions Their Right To Vote, According to New Briefing Paper LINK
• Alaska: Struggle For 2004 Election Data Continues LINK
• California: California To Pay Back Misspent Election Funds LINK
• California: Note Warns Calif. Hispanics on Voting LINK
• California: Alameda County - Mobile Voting Machine Aims To Increase Participation LINK
• California: Alameda County - Supervisors Accept Voting System Assessment LINK
• California: Humboldt County - Vote-PAD files claim LINK
• Georgia: Election board votes to send new letter to 305,000 misinformed voters LINK
• Iowa: Linn County - Poll Worker Help Wanted LINK
• Indiana: Jasper County - No hanging chads for November's election LINK
• Illinois: Early voting opens throughout state, will ease process LINK
• Massachusetts: Lynn - Election officials face time quandary LINK
• Maryland: Requests for Absentee Ballots Innundate Election Boards LINK
• Maryland: Interest in absentee ballots grows LINK
• Missouri: Missouri Supreme Court Latest to Strike Down Modern Day Poll Tax LINK
• Missouri: Voter ID: The Missouri Supreme Court Evaluates Legislative "Foresight" LINK
• New Mexico: Voting woes still exist LINK
• Nevada: Clark County - Clark County Voters Will Get Ballot Books On Time LINK
• Ohio: Counting more absentee votes may take some counties longer LINK
• Ohio: Chaos or calm? Voting machines, new ID rule greet voters in Ohio LINK
• Ohio: Cuyahoga County - Out with new, in with newer:Latest vote-counters untried LINK
• Tennessee: Shelby County - Judge says no to electronic voting machine naysayers LINK
• IReland: Ahern makes case for e-voting LINK
• VEnezuela: AP Interview: Venezuela electoral chief guarantees voter secrecy LINK

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