Daily Voting News For May 19-23, 2007
Friday, 25 May 2007, 10:57 am
Opinion: John Gideon
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 LINKNational: Ensure
fair elections LINKCalifornia:
San Diego County - Voting Groups Want Former Diebold
Saleswoman Ousted from San Diego Elections Job LINKCalifornia: San
Diego County - Protesters criticize county elections hirings
LINKCalifornia: San
Diego County - Protesters cry foul over election hires LINKCalifornia:
Siskiyou County - Clerk’s Column LINKFlorida: Optical
Scan Vote Machines To Be Budgeted By Pasco County LINKIndiana: St.
Joseph County - Can Democracy Be Downsized? LINKKentucky:
Jefferson County - Precinct has trouble transmitting
results LINKPennsylvania:
Luzerne County - Candidates asked to seek credit for
write-in votes LINKTexas: Op-Ed -
Why right to vote, without an ID, is worth fighting for This
lawmaker counts his grandmother among reasons LINKTexas: Senate
rules stall bills for voter ID, primary's new date LINKTexas: Texas
lawmaker risks health for voter-ID bill LINKTexas: Voter ID,
early primaries likely doomed LINKUtah:
Voting-machine bill worries Utahns LINKUtah: Voting
machines: Already junk? LINKUtah: County
officials stand behind voting machines LINKIreland: 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.**
************* 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. LINKNational:
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'... LINKNational: The
Real Threat from the Holt Bill as Written LINKArizona: Guest
Opinion: Election 'reform' bill would be a disservice to our
disabled voters LINKCalifornia: San
Diego County - Questionable Background LINKCalifornia: San
Diego County - FOX tv Expose of E-Voting Official
Corruption!! LINKCalifornia: Santa
Cruz County - County election leaders on edge about new
voting standards LINKFlorida:
Florida’s Primary Penalty LINKFlorida:
Paperless votes scrapped; state's '08 primary to be one of
earliest LINKFlorida: Opinion
– Carl Hiaasen: Why Not Hold Primary Next Week? LINKFlorida: Florida
goes back to paper in rejection of electronic vote LINKFlorida: Florida
Gov. signs bill banning touch-screen voting machines
Provides $27.8 million to buy optical scan systems LINKFlorida: Palm
Beach County - End of a ballot era: New law changes the way
we vote LINKIllinois: Kane
County - Kane may get more eSlates LINKIllinois: Kane
County - Purchase of eSlates OK'd by committee LINKIndiana: Madison
County - Election investigation shows no criminal activity
LINKMississippi:
Harrison County will go back to paper balloting LINKNew Jersey:
Holt’s paper trail bill will finally see light of day LINKNew York: Testing
complications delay launch of electronic voting machines LINKOhio: Ohio
Secretary of State Issues Regulation for Minor Party Ballot
Access LINKTexas: Ill
senator settles in for voter ID fight Gallegos legislating
from bed near Senate despite warnings from his transplant
doctors. LINKTexas: Bandera -
City Council election results recounted LINKTexas: Bexar
County - Helotes mayor, beaten for re-election by 21 votes,
files for recount LINKTexas: Port
Arthur - Recount Process Begins In Port Arthur Mayor's
Election LINKUtah: Will Utah
junk vote machines? LINKUtah: Davis, Utah
commissions say no to election overhaul LINKWashington: Some
briefs filed in U.S. Supreme Court in “Top-Two”
Washington State Case LINKWashington: 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.**
************* 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. LINKNational: Efforts
to stop `voter fraud' may have curbed legitimate voting LINKNational:
E-Voting Video of the Moment: NBC's HEROES Hacks an
Election LINKNational:
Ultimate Nightmare for Democracy: High Confidence Yet Total
Fraud LINKNational: Dump
touch-screen voting machines? LINKCalifornia: UC
Pivotal in State Voting System Review LINKCalifornia:
Riverside County - 2 Ballots, 1 Gorilla LINKCalifornia: San
Diego County - Going from bad to worse LINKCalifornia: San
Diego County - Voter Oppression Moves to San Diego! LINKFlorida: Florida
Presidential Primary Moved Up LINKFlorida: Crist
signs bill requiring voting paper trail LINKIowa: Three
counties band together to buy voting machines LINKMississippi:
Harrison County - Harrison supervisors to buy more optical
scan voting machines LINKPennsylvania:
Lackawanna County - E-voting ‘work in progress’ LINKPennsylvania:
Lackawanna County - Better odds for write-in candidates LINKPennsylvania:
Philadelphia - Urban Warrior | A post-election look at poll
problems LINKTexas: 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.**
************* 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 LINKMassachusetts:
Plympton [hand] counts on its elections LINKNew Jersey:
Voting activists win concession: State agrees to test
machines LINKNew Jersey: NJIT
to test paper record system LINKPennsylvania:
Carbon County - Some precincts in Carbon may be divided to
ease lines in 2008 LINKPennsylvania:
Lackawanna County - Officials wading through write-ins LINKPennsylvania:
Lycoming County - The official vote count is off and
running LINKTexas: 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.**
************* John
Gideon
Executive Director www.votersunite.org and
Member www.votetrustusa.org
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