Daily Voting News For January 6, 2007
Monday, 7 January 2008, 9:59 pm
Article: John Gideon
Daily Voting News For January 6,
2007
Guest Blogged by John Gideon
of VotersUnite.orgToday's
news includes a lot of articles, opinion pieces, and
editorials about the upcoming (January 09) Supreme Court
hearing regarding Indiana's restrictive Voter ID law. This
case could decide whether you and I will be required to get
a voter ID in the future.
A Civil Grand Jury in Monterey
Co California actually interviewed four county election
officials and toured the election office and then they found
that the county should just go ahead and use their Sequoia
Advantage voting machines because they are secure. They did
not interview any computer scientists, members of the
Election Integrity community, or members of the Secretary of
State staff. Whether this Grand Jury has the ability to tell
the county to ignore state directives is an unanswered
question but we will keep an eye on this....
National: High court to consider Indiana
law on voter ID LINKNational: Opinion
- BALLOT BURDEN: Court should rule photo ID requirement
unnecessary LINKNational: Voter
ID issue remains controversial LINK
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National: State's
voter ID law under scrutiny of high court LINKNational: High
Court to consider voter ID law LINKNational: U.S.
Supreme Court To Hear Voter ID Case This Week LINKNational:
Papering over OptiScam Problems LINKNational:
Commentary on NYTimes: Can You Count On These Machines? LINKNational: New
York Times Magazine on E-voting LINKNational: GOP
Already at Work to Keep Obama Voters From the Polls LINKCalifornia: Are
Americans ready for reality-style voting? Not yet LINKCalifornia: Kern
County - Columnist - Henry column: Time to pop bubble, crawl
into the future LINKCalifornia:
Monterey County - Jury backs voting machines County urged to
resume their use LINKCalifornia: Napa
County - Editorial - The move to vote by mail LINKMontana: Ohio
Report Faults Montana Voting Machines LINKNorth Carolina:
Alamance County - Elections director: Count will be accurate
LINKNew Jersey: New
Jersey's Post-Election Audit Bill and Its Importance to Our
Nation LINKOhio: Will Ohio
overhaul its voting systems? Legislators will deal with
secretary of state's bombshell proposal this week. LINKOhio: EVEREST:
The Truth About Electronic Voting Machines LINKSouth Carolina:
SC officials plan to use voting machines banned by other
states LINKGuam: GEC
releases unofficial final results, no changes to races LINKGuam: Was GEC's
tabulation error technical or human? (ES&S) 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
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