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Daily Voting News For November 3: Morning Edition

Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 12:31 pm
Column: John Gideon

Daily Voting News For November 3, 2008
Morning Edition

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Election day is tomorrow

Well, here we are. Tomorrow is the day we have been building toward. Today much of the news is articles of reassurance from election officials across the nation. They say they are ready. Tomorrow we will see just how ready they are. Our main reporting tomorrow will be on voting machine problems and long lines due to voting machine and voter registration data base problems. No matter how much officials assure their voters that they are ready machines still fail to work, polls open late, votes are flipped, polls run out of paper ballots, e-poll books fail, machines are allotted unfairly, and lines will be long. Wednesday and the rest of the week we will hear about the tabulation and reporting problems. Lost votes from tabulators that were not designed or built to handle the number of votes they are expected to count; ballot printing and programming errors that result in hundreds of lost votes. These and more have been the stories of the past. Can we expect any better for the rest of this week? I hope so but I’m not holding my breath....

National: Tales from the trenches – More election stories LINK

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National: Why touchscreen voting machines suck LINK

National: Voting Rights Watch: FL and GA leading states nationally for voter complaints LINK

National: Researcher teases out truth of election ballots LINK

National: Opinion - Will your vote count tomorrow? LINK

National: E-Voting's Biggest Test The 2008 presidential election could be shaken by flawed electronic voting technology. LINK

National: Fears of US ballot-box overload trigger citizens' army LINK

National: Voter Integrity Group Urges Preservation of Unadjusted National Exit Poll LINK

National: E-voting Groups Are Watching a Handful of States LINK

National: Ed Felten on E-voting: What Can Go Wrong LINK

National: A Brief History of Ballots In America LINK

National: Editorial - Pitfalls at the polls Congress and the president need to create uniform, national standards for voting procedures and ballots. LINK

National: Hacking the vote LINK

National: Make your vote count It might not, if you're not careful; here's how to avoid many common mistakes on Election Day LINK

National: E-voting worries linger as Election Day nears LINK

National: High Turnout May Add to Problems at Polling Places LINK

National: Protect Your Vote - Avoid Election Machine Errors LINK

National: Escape from voting machine Hell LINK

National: The State Of The Ballot Fight In Battleground States LINK

Arizona: Poll monitors set to play vital role LINK

California: UCSB Put Finishing Touch on State’s Touch-Screen Voting Machine Ban LINK

California: Alameda County - RFID enabling California county to get the vote in quicker LINK

California: Los Angeles County - Advocates demand ballots for all LINK

Colorado: Adams County - Colorado Voting Machine Removed, Quarantined, After Vote Flips Multiple Times to McCain LINK

Colorado: Arapahoe agrees to have paper ballots close by LINK

Connecticut: Voter Registration Sets Record; Record Balloting Predicted LINK

Florida: Early voting crushes records LINK

Florida: Florida Democrats file lawsuit against GOP LINK

Florida: Can Florida Avoid Election Chaos? LINK

Florida: Hundreds of poll watchers to fan out at voting sites LINK

Georgia: Lawyers across state plan to keep their eyes on voting procedures U.S. attorney, FBI will be on lookout for fraud, abuses LINK

Massachusetts: Some towns still swear by hand-counting the ballots LINK

Minnesota: What happens when your vote is challenged in Minnesota? LINK

North Carolina: In N. Carolina, 41 percent of voters have already cast ballots LINK

Nebraska: New ballots aim to avoid butterfly effect LINK

Ohio: Officials confident Ohio voters won't see goofs like in '04 LINK

Ohio: Summit pleased as punch Election officials finally say goodbye to all-nighters, unveil high-tech ballots counted by computers in 1976 LINK

Ohio: Editorial - Voting Challenges LINK

Ohio: Ohio: Suit Filed for Election Observers, "Dial Up" Provisional Ballots, and a Comment LINK

Ohio: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall How is Jennifer Brunner, Ohio's embattled Secretary of State, holding up as the election (and the likely accusations of impropriety) approach? LINK

Pennsylvania: Penn students help protect the vote LINK

Pennsylvania: Voting disputes can be immediately challenged LINK

Texas: Counties dispute bad election rating LINK

Virginia: Federal judge to hear NAACP election lawsuit today LINK

West Virginia: Carper calls for re-evaluation of voting system Several voters say machines switched their selections 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 Co-Executive Director VotersUnite.Org www.votersunite.org

"To encourage citizen ownership of transparent, participatory democracy."
The Creekside Declaration
March 22, 2008

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