Daily Voting News For March 11, 2008

Wednesday, 12 March 2008, 3:45 pm
Column: John Gideon

Daily Voting News For March 11, 2008

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Another good reason that a mail-in primary do-over cannot happen in Florida? It is against the law. State law only allows referendums to be on a mail ballots and doesn’t allow for candidates to be named on ballots via stamp and carrier. An executive order or a law change would be needed to allow the presidential primary to be recast.

On top of today’s Mississippi primary we also had a special election for Indiana’s 7th CD and municipal elections in Florida.

Today the Iowa senate approved a bill (47-1) that will change the state to a paper ballot and op-scan state from one that had a mix of optical-scan and DRE counties. The bill now goes to the House where it is expected to pass. ...

CO: Elections 2008: Colorado's Unending Secrecy regarding Voter Registration LINK

Florida: 'Mashed Into Bits': Florida Touch-Screen Voting Machines - 28,000 of them - to be Crushed, Recycled, Repurposed... LINK

Florida: Southwest Florida elections supervisor skeptical of mail-in redo LINK

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Florida: Deadline To Decide On Revote Urgent LINK

Florida: Florida Democrats mull primary vote by mail LINK

Florida: Dems wonder what to do about Florida LINK

Florida: Changing voting machines is an expensive reality LINK

Florida: Host of factors affect possible new primary in Florida LINK

Florida: Hillsborough County - Plug Is Pulled On Touch Voting LINK

Florida: Indian River County might not be ready for do-over LINK

Florida: Palm Beach County - Palm Beach County touch-screen voting machines get final use today in 19 municipal elections LINK

Florida: Palm Beach County - Election going smoothly so far, supervisor says LINK

Iowa: Culver wants a tighter rein on purchase of voting gear LINK

Iowa: Counties: State voting machine plan doesn't measure up LINK

Iowa: Senate approves new statewide voting system LINK

Indiana: Today's election day in the 7th District LINK

Indiana: Polls close for 7th district voting LINK

Louisiana: East Baton Rouge Parish - Computer glitches slow EBR returns LINK

Minnesota: Instant-runoff voting in Minneapolis unlikely in 2009 The election director doubts the city will have the proper equipment in place by then. LINK

Mississippi: Your vote counts LINK

Mississippi: Voting problems reported in Madison Co. LINK

New Jersey: Voting machine errors spur independent analysis LINK

Ohio: Almost 90,000 Ohio votes didn't count LINK

Ohio: Editorial - Brunner should listen to voters LINK

Oklahoma: Oklahoma House passes voter identification bill in party-line vote LINK

Pennsylvania: Opinion - Good staff is key to a smooth election day LINK

Texas: Fight for Texas delegates won't end anytime soon Close count could shift either way before long 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 Co-Director and Information Manager VotersUnite.Org http://www.votersunite.org

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