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Daily Voting News For May 19-23, 2007

Daily Voting News For May 23, 2007


Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

In an AP article we learn “Against his doctor's advice, a stooped and feeble Sen. Mario Gallegos arrives at the state Capitol each day, just to make sure the Senate does not take up a bill that would require voters to produce ID at the polls. And when the rigors of the job start to wear on the Houston Democrat, whose body is rejecting a liver transplanted four months ago, he retires to a hospital-style bed — donated by a Republican colleague — in a room next to the Senate chamber. From there, he can be summoned at a moment's notice should his vote be needed. In a life-and-death drama playing out under the Capitol dome, Gallegos is putting his health at risk to block a measure that he and others say could prevent many minorities and the elderly from taking part in elections in Texas.” I’ve mentioned Senator Gallegos here a couple of times now. Texas law requires that two-thirds of the State Senators must agree before a bill can come to the floor for debate. The Democrats have just enough members to block the bill. The bill now appears to be in trouble because the bill must come to the floor by midnight tonight in order to be considered. Senator Gallegos is a true hero....

  • NAtional: Local officials take on voting rights groups LINK
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  • National: E-Voting Threatens Election Integrity LINK
  • National: Ensure fair elections LINK
  • California: San Diego County - Voting Groups Want Former Diebold Saleswoman Ousted from San Diego Elections Job LINK
  • California: San Diego County - Protesters criticize county elections hirings LINK
  • California: San Diego County - Protesters cry foul over election hires LINK
  • California: Siskiyou County - Clerk’s Column LINK
  • Florida: Optical Scan Vote Machines To Be Budgeted By Pasco County LINK
  • Indiana: St. Joseph County - Can Democracy Be Downsized? LINK
  • Kentucky: Jefferson County - Precinct has trouble transmitting results LINK
  • Pennsylvania: Luzerne County - Candidates asked to seek credit for write-in votes LINK
  • Texas: Op-Ed - Why right to vote, without an ID, is worth fighting for This lawmaker counts his grandmother among reasons LINK
  • Texas: Senate rules stall bills for voter ID, primary's new date LINK
  • Texas: Texas lawmaker risks health for voter-ID bill LINK
  • Texas: Voter ID, early primaries likely doomed LINK
  • Utah: Voting-machine bill worries Utahns LINK
  • Utah: Voting machines: Already junk? LINK
  • Utah: County officials stand behind voting machines LINK
  • Ireland: Result may take days as Ireland votes with a ‘stupid old pencil’ LINK
  • **"Daily Voting News" is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in "Daily Voting News" may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or Scoop.**

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    Daily Voting News For May 22, 2007


    Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

    The media is now beginning to question the hiring of Michael Vu as the second in command of elections in San Diego County. Vu, who quit under fire from his job as the elections director for Cuyahoga Co. Ohio, has a poor record. Under his supervision absentee ballots were never sent to thousands of voters, voters were removed for no reason from the voter registration rolls, the county election budget was taken into the red, and two of his senior assistants were convicted of manipulating the recount of ballots in 2006 and received sentences of 18 months in prison. Vu refuses to speak with the media but the county supports his hiring and says that Vu has acted honorable and professionally....

  • NAtional: Editorial - Make every vote count Our position: Congress should follow Florida with optical-scan voting machines. LINK
  • National: McClatchy Posts Von Spakovsky Emails Then-DoJ Appointee in Civil Rights Unit, Now Recess-Appointed FEC Chair, Tried to Influence EAC Reports on 'Voter Fraud'... LINK
  • National: The Real Threat from the Holt Bill as Written LINK
  • Arizona: Guest Opinion: Election 'reform' bill would be a disservice to our disabled voters LINK
  • California: San Diego County - Questionable Background LINK
  • California: San Diego County - FOX tv Expose of E-Voting Official Corruption!! LINK
  • California: Santa Cruz County - County election leaders on edge about new voting standards LINK
  • Florida: Florida’s Primary Penalty LINK
  • Florida: Paperless votes scrapped; state's '08 primary to be one of earliest LINK
  • Florida: Opinion – Carl Hiaasen: Why Not Hold Primary Next Week? LINK
  • Florida: Florida goes back to paper in rejection of electronic vote LINK
  • Florida: Florida Gov. signs bill banning touch-screen voting machines Provides $27.8 million to buy optical scan systems LINK
  • Florida: Palm Beach County - End of a ballot era: New law changes the way we vote LINK
  • Illinois: Kane County - Kane may get more eSlates LINK
  • Illinois: Kane County - Purchase of eSlates OK'd by committee LINK
  • Indiana: Madison County - Election investigation shows no criminal activity LINK
  • Mississippi: Harrison County will go back to paper balloting LINK
  • New Jersey: Holt’s paper trail bill will finally see light of day LINK
  • New York: Testing complications delay launch of electronic voting machines LINK
  • Ohio: Ohio Secretary of State Issues Regulation for Minor Party Ballot Access LINK
  • Texas: Ill senator settles in for voter ID fight Gallegos legislating from bed near Senate despite warnings from his transplant doctors. LINK
  • Texas: Bandera - City Council election results recounted LINK
  • Texas: Bexar County - Helotes mayor, beaten for re-election by 21 votes, files for recount LINK
  • Texas: Port Arthur - Recount Process Begins In Port Arthur Mayor's Election LINK
  • Utah: Will Utah junk vote machines? LINK
  • Utah: Davis, Utah commissions say no to election overhaul LINK
  • Washington: Some briefs filed in U.S. Supreme Court in “Top-Two” Washington State Case LINK
  • Washington: King County - Law proposed to protect secret ballot LINK
  • **"Daily Voting News" is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in "Daily Voting News" may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or Scoop.**

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    Daily Voting News For May 21, 2007


    Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

    When counties are left to make their own decisions many of them take the right road. Harrison Co. Mississippi is replacing their Diebold TSx DREs with optical-scan machines. Three counties in Iowa have also decided to come together so they can bargain as one with Diebold for optical-scan machines and AutoMark. And when one goes looking for heroes they only need to look at Texas State Sen. Mario Gallegos. Gallegos had a liver transplant earlier this year. The State Senate is deciding whether the voters in the state need to have a Voter ID. The only way to block the legislation is for all of the Democrats to vote alike (they will) and to be available for a vote. Sen. Gallegos had a hospital bed set-up in an office less than a hundred feet from his desk on the floor. The bill has been blocked so far....

  • NAtional: Editorial - Ballot Boxing Congress should proceed cautiously in requiring new voting procedures. LINK
  • National: Efforts to stop `voter fraud' may have curbed legitimate voting LINK
  • National: E-Voting Video of the Moment: NBC's HEROES Hacks an Election LINK
  • National: Ultimate Nightmare for Democracy: High Confidence Yet Total Fraud LINK
  • National: Dump touch-screen voting machines? LINK
  • California: UC Pivotal in State Voting System Review LINK
  • California: Riverside County - 2 Ballots, 1 Gorilla LINK
  • California: San Diego County - Going from bad to worse LINK
  • California: San Diego County - Voter Oppression Moves to San Diego! LINK
  • Florida: Florida Presidential Primary Moved Up LINK
  • Florida: Crist signs bill requiring voting paper trail LINK
  • Iowa: Three counties band together to buy voting machines LINK
  • Mississippi: Harrison County - Harrison supervisors to buy more optical scan voting machines LINK
  • Pennsylvania: Lackawanna County - E-voting ‘work in progress’ LINK
  • Pennsylvania: Lackawanna County - Better odds for write-in candidates LINK
  • Pennsylvania: Philadelphia - Urban Warrior | A post-election look at poll problems LINK
  • Texas: Mario is back LINK
  • **"Daily Voting News" is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in "Daily Voting News" may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or Scoop.**

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    Daily Voting News For May 19, 2007


    Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

    19 May

    New Jersey is taking a small step toward ensuring the voting machines their citizens use are reliable and work as advertised. The state Attorney General has asked New Jersey Institute of Technology scientists and students to test printing systems that will be required on all voting machines used in the state after next January. Activists have pointed out, correctly, that this new development does not go far enough and they turn to California for proof. California has begun a top to bottom inspection and testing of all voting systems used in the state. ...

  • NAtional: Opinion - GOP's unsubstantiated voter fraud claims LINK
  • Massachusetts: Plympton [hand] counts on its elections LINK
  • New Jersey: Voting activists win concession: State agrees to test machines LINK
  • New Jersey: NJIT to test paper record system LINK
  • Pennsylvania: Carbon County - Some precincts in Carbon may be divided to ease lines in 2008 LINK
  • Pennsylvania: Lackawanna County - Officials wading through write-ins LINK
  • Pennsylvania: Lycoming County - The official vote count is off and running LINK
  • Texas: Aurora voting machine fixed LINK
  • **"Daily Voting News" is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in "Daily Voting News" may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or Scoop.**

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    John Gideon
    Executive Director www.votersunite.org and
    Member www.votetrustusa.org


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