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Daily Voting News For November 9, 2008

Monday, 10 November 2008, 6:52 pm
Column: John Gideon

Daily Voting News For November 9, 2008

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

In this space in the Nov. 07 DVN I mentioned that ES&S software was responsible for flipping votes in Crawford Co Kansas. That statement was incorrect. The county did their own ballot programming for the first time. They made a mistake in ballot rotation which caused the votes for candidates to be counted for different candidates in one race. The county also did a poor job of pre-election testing which should have found their programming error.

Meanwhile responsibility for Kenton Co Kentucky’s Hart Intercivic eSlate machines and their failure to record straight-party votes in two legislative races is being revealed. The machines are purchased from and maintained by Harp Industries. Harp also does the ballot programming. Harp has admitted that they failed to properly program Kenton Co’s machines. The county has admitted that they failed to properly do pre-election testing which would have found the problem.

There is a common theme here. Ballot programming can fail and counties must do proper pre-election testing to ensure none of those failures go forward to the election. Even if a contractor or the vendor of the voting system does the programming, counties should always build their own test decks and thoroughly test the machines. ...

National: Please Look Before Leaping Into Vote-by-Mail... LINK

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Arizona: Scores in Valley had to submit provisional vote LINK

Arizona: Opinion - Waiting so long at polls harmful to voting process LINK

Colorado: Boulder County - Improving the count
Oklahoma, others pose solutions for a better election system in Boulder County LINK

Connecticut: Republican Chair Concerned With Election Integrity LINK

Florida: Provisional ballots counted in St. Lucie County LINK

Florida: Wakulla County - Vote recount stokes county's suspicions LINK

Georgia: Handel seeks probe of Fulton elections office
County was slow in counting of absentee ballots LINK

Georgia: Fulton Co. Elections Officials Say Ballot Counting Finally Done LINK

Kansas: Crawford County - County officials fix old glitch, find possible new one LINK

Kentucky: Company: Access codes do not identify voters [Hart Intercivic] LINK

Kentucky: Blame game: It's on
Kenton Co. tries to pin down all that went wrong LINK

Maryland: Electronic voting on its way out in Maryland LINK

New York: Record number of voters file long list of complaints about 'Stone Age' trip to polls LINK

Ohio: Franklin County - Fewer paper votes count
Voters more likely to mess up when they don't use machines LINK

Ohio: Ohio Elections Chief Calls For Voting Summit LINK

Ohio: Marion County - Follow through if you cast a provisional ballot LINK

South Carolina: Election problems; early voting LINK

Virginia: On-demand voting
It's time to join all the states that have moved beyond Election (Tues)Day 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-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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