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Daily Voting News For February 21, 2008

Friday, 22 February 2008, 2:06 pm
Article: John Gideon

Daily Voting News For February 21, 2008

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Election officials in three Colorado counties claim that they can catch all of the stray marks on ballots. Those stray marks may be read as votes by their Hart Intercivic eScan voting machines. Those claims don’t seem to carry any water when you consider that some of the marks that were read by the machines instead of the actual vote were just dots where a voter may have rested their pen.

On the heels of reports of serious problems with Sequoia Advantage voting machines used in New Jersey the state Attorney General has announced that there is no way they can have voter verified paper audit trail (vvpat) printers for those machines by the November election. Of course, some would have you believe that the inclusion of a vvpat printer would mitigate the problems reported yesterday. No vvpat printer on those machines would have made any difference with the internal memory and voters do not verify their ballot using that printer. The only savior would be to replace the machines with a paper ballot voting system....

NAtional - Analysis: e-voting's success rests on chain-of-custody issue LINK

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National: Electronic Voting and Partial Audits -- Let's do the Math LINK

National: Following the Paper Trail Case study examines five states' efforts to limit paperless voting LINK

Colorado: Key voting machine hearing today LINK

Colorado: 3 county officials dispute state test results on voting equipment LINK

Florida: Broward County – Incredible Turnout - The Phantoms of Oakland Park LINK

Florida: Hillsborough County - Hillsborough approves $5.97 million contract for voting system LINK

Mississippi: Wilkinson County - Judge calls new election LINK

New Hampshire: Statement from the New Hampshire Fair Elections Committee Regarding Activist Recount Investigations in New Hampshire LINK

New Jersey: Sequoia E-Voting Machines Reporting Inaccurate Totals in New Jersey LINK

New Jersey: Minor problems with voting machines LINK

New Jersey: AP NewsBreak: Another delay for N.J. electronic ballot safeguards LINK

New Jersey: Voting Machine Discrepancies Leave Questionable Results LINK

New Jersey: Another delay for N.J. electronic ballot safeguards LINK

New York: New York City - Data entry errors to blame for wrong NY Super Tuesday tallies LINK

New York: New York City Still Tallying Votes LINK

Ohio: Forum addresses voting equipment LINK

Ohio: Will Some Ohio Polling Places Be Inadvertantly Shut Down on Election Day? LINK

Ohio: Licking County to exceed paper ballot requirement Local election officials hope to have enough on hand for March 4 primary LINK

Ohio: Summit County - Ohio SoS Fires Another GOP County Election Official, GOP State Senator Applauds LINK

Ohio: Summit County - GOP chief Arshinkoff loses elections board seat LINK

Oklahoma: House voter identification bill clears committee LINK

Pennsylvania: Bucks County - Bucks voting machine activists will have their say LINK

Pennsylvania: Bucks County - Paper Balloting Advocates Decry Bucks County Voting Machines LINK

Pennsylvania: Bucks County – Columnist - Meeting shows our system at work LINK

Pennsylvania: Bucks County - Voting advocates protest machines LINK

Pennsylvania: Bucks County - Dry Ice and the DRE Dumpster LINK

Pennsylvania: Luzerne County - 3rd-party voters get reminder LINK

Pennsylvania: Wayne County – Editorial - Wayne officials made savvy decision on voting LINK

Tennessee: Film raises issue of vote fraud LINK

Tennessee: Tennessee may change voting machines 93 of 95 counties can't generate paper trail that bill would require LINK

Virginia: Recounting the recount LINK

Virginia: Chesterfield County - Democrats protest Chesterfield vote Complaint claims county mismanaged election and some couldn't cast ballots 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

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