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Daily Voting News For February 24 & 25, 2008
Daily Voting News For February 24 And 25, 2008
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
While activist eyes will be watching Ohio next Tuesday I am going to be watching Texas. The March 4 primary is one week from tomorrow and some Texas counties are just now deciding that turn-out is going to be huge and that they are not prepared. El Paso Co. is leasing 100 voting machines to help. Fort Bend Co is leasing 200 machines from Dent Co. to get them through the primary. Readers will recall that Fort Bend is the county that recently accepted the resignation of their election director because he warned that there would be long lines and he wanted to solve the problem with paper ballots. Now the county is leasing paperless voting machines in hopes of keeping the lines short....
- NAtional: Cyberye—commentary: Problems electronic voting systems aren’t all high-tech, and neither are the solutions LINK
- Colorado: Lawmakers to introduce paper ballot election bill Tuesday LINK
- Colorado: Ritter seeks extra cash to cover cost of elections A Senate bill will detail what a paper-ballot system would look like as well as fund it. LINK
- Colorado: San Miguel County – Opinion - From the clerk’s office LINK
- Florida: Sarasota County – Opinion - Analyzing numbers in D-13 revealing LINK
- New Hampshire: Vote Recount Report!! - Optical Scan Machines Violate Federal Law LINK
- New Jersey: Editorial - Vote of no confidence LINK
- Ohio: Ohio leads in providing voting access to nursing home residents LINK
- Ohio: Opinion - Ohio national leader in addressing voting machine concerns LINK
- Pennsylvania: Bucks County & PA - Ground ZERO for 2008 Election & YOUR Vote! LINK
- Texas: El Paso County - More voting machines needed LINK
- Texas: Fort Bend County - County Leases Voting Machines In Anticipation of Heavy Primary Voter Turnout 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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