Voting News: Risk limit audits for CA?
Voting News: Risk limit audits for CA? Judge halts MI voter purge. Benton TN purge contd.
Posted: 26 Apr 2010 07:39 AM PDT
California bill to pilot risk limiting audits has bi partisan support...Should bounty on party registrations be illegal?...Proposal to make voting mandatory riles up tiny Ridgway,CO...Maryland now has $ to run fall elections...Judge's ruling stops voter purge programs that illegally purge about 77K eligible Michigan voters a year... GOP to file suit for N.Y. 29th special election...Almost 1 in 5 of Benton Co. TN voters told their voter registration was invalid...US Chamber vows to fight Corp campaign cash reform...Puerto Rico considers DRE/touchscreens for 2010..Concerned Filipinos push for manual counting...Iraq post election candidate purge may change results...
All this and more in today's voting news below....
AZ: May 18 polling places may be consolidated
http://www.dcourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=80248
Ana Wayman-Trujillo, the Yavapai County recorder, reminds voters that polling places may be consolidated for the May 18 election
CA: California Assembly committee endorses UC
Berkeley statistician's election auditing method (AB 2023
risk limiting election audit pilot hearing in June)
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2010/04/26_canvass.shtml
BERKELEY — One day last November, after the 2009
elections, Philip Stark found himself in the back room of
the Yolo County Administration Building doing something
statisticians seldom do – testing a theory in the real
world.
...
Stark's technique passed the test and five
others, impressing California Secretary of State Debra
Bowen, the state’s chief elections officer, and spurring
her to sponsor a bill, AB 2023, to conduct in 2011 a
statewide experiment of this kind of "risk-limiting
audit."
CO: Proposal to make voting mandatory riles up
tiny Ridgway
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14958536
The Town Council agreed to put the matter on the ballot
for a recent town election as a nonbinding opinion
question
CO: Colorado bill would require business campaign
backers to register
http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2010/04/26/daily10.html
CT: Should Bounty On Party Registrations Be
Illegal?
http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=3121
State House Majority Leader Denise Merrill (D-Mansfield,
Chaplin) said Monday that she would immediately seek
legislation banning bounties or other payments in exchange
for the registration of new voters.
CT: Bill would allow towns to reduce polling places for primaries: cost-cutting vs. potential confusion http://www.ctmirror.org/story/5604/number-polls-coming-primary-elections-may-be-reduced-save-money
FL:
VOTER PROTECTIONS NEWSLETTER VOLUME 5 ISSUE 3
http://www.advancementproject.org/news/newsletters/april-26-2010/florida
Jacksonville - Traci Collier, Director of Education at
the Duval County Supervisor of Elections office, has
requested 3,000 additional copies of Advancement Project’s
“10 Things Duval County Poll Workers Should Know” palm
cards.
HI: Ballots Go Out Next Week (first all mail
election)
http://www.khon2.com/news/local/story/Ballots-Go-Out-Next-Week/dlEkDdivU0uQio3vyK6coQ.cspx
IL:
Too many voter registration cards* (Kaine County)
http://www.kcchronicle.com/blogs/entries/2010/04/26/73223023/index.xml
I just received in the mail another voter registration
card that is only six months older than the last one I
received in October 2009. The new one is dated March
2010.
IN: Snafu puts new St. John voters on island
*
RESIDENTS OF ANNEXED AREAS CAN'T CAST PRIMARY BALLOTS
IN TOWN BECAUSE OF MIX-UP
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/article_be17f3ad-4693-5085-991d-dc383849e4c5.html
KY: Sentences cut for Clay vote-buying
testimony
Prosecutors in Clay case sought reductions for
five who cooperated
http://www.kentucky.com/2010/04/24/1236807/federal-judge-reduces-sentences.html
MD: Money restored, fall elections can go on
http://www.marylandreporter.com/page550410.aspx
A last-minute budget move helped secure enough cash for
Maryland's November election, nearly $10 million of which
had been previously uncertain.
MI: VOTER PROTECTIONS
NEWSLETTER VOLUME 5 ISSUE 3
http://www.advancementproject.org/news/newsletters/april-26-2010/michigan
Detroit - U.S. District Judge Stephen J. Murphy III
recently issued a favorable ruling that prevents Michigan
from restarting two voter purge programs that unlawfully
remove roughly 77,000 eligible voters from the rolls each
year.
MO: NEWSLETTER VOLUME 5 ISSUE 3 (photo ID and early
voting)
http://www.advancementproject.org/news/newsletters/april-26-2010/missouri
The bill now heads to the Missouri State Senate. Because
photo ID has been found to violate the Missouri
Constitution, a constitutional amendment is required to
impose the requirements.
MO: Judge says three Cahokia
trustees can
stay
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf
/illinoisnews/story/D4028E4F19E8A16B8625770E008296A9?OpenDocument
http://bit.ly/dpvL7r BELLEVILLE — A
judges' ruling Friday upheld the election of three Cahokia
village trustees who won office last year in a contest
involving allegations of voter fraud.
"The court further finds that absentee voter fraud was not so pervasive to strike enough votes to change the election results of April 7, 2009," wrote St. Clair County Judge Randy Kelly
NY: GOP
to file suit for N.Y. special (29th District)
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/36350.html
New York Republicans are preparing to file a lawsuit
this week that would force New York Democratic Gov. David
Paterson to call a special election for the seat vacated by
former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.).
PA: Marseglia objects to
GOP selection of voting machine
inspectors
http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/92/2010
/april/26/marseglia-objects-to-gop-selection-of-voting-machine-inspectors.html
http://bit.ly/bO6Lm1
Puerto Rico:
2012 votes could be electronic (considering touchscreen
voting)
http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1271819897
PR currently has optical scan and vote by phone for
disabled
TN: Voter registration dispute ignites charges of
politics
*
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100426/
NEWS02/100426008/1009/NEWS02
http://bit.ly/9SjOr7 Almost one in five
of Benton County’s voters got a letter in February saying
their voter registration was invalid, triggering events that
led last week to a call for a TBI investigation and a battle
in the legislature.
...
The brewing legislative battle
is over a Democrat-sponsored bill, awaiting floor votes in
the House and Senate this week, that declares that when a
voter registration form is accepted by election officials,
it cannot be declared invalid for some minor omission —
unless fraud was involved or the omission was the voter’s
signature.
TN: Voter purges sparking debate
GOP leaders
defend reviews of records; Democrats call actions
politically motivated
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/apr/26/voter-purges-sparking-debate/
TN: EDITORIAL: Election turnout sign of problem
http://www.dnj.com/article/20100425/OPINION01/4250303
That's the best way to describe the voter turnout in
Murfreesboro's municipal election last Tuesday.
WA:
Supreme Court takes up Wash. case involving disclosure of
petition signatures
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011695584_scotus25m.html
The case could decide whether signing a petition for a
ballot measure is private or whether the names of signers
can be made public.
WI: Wisconsin and the Voter Fraud
Agenda (John
Fund)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870467
1904575193930226978178.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion
http://bit.ly/bf0GfQ Democrats are
pushing to weaken ballot security at the state and national
level. Have they forgotten the 2000 election?
WI:
Modernizing Voter Registration, the Wisconsin Way (Justin
Levitt)
http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/archives/modernizing_voter_
registration_the_wisconsin_way/
http://bit.ly/9TB9Kr
It is, perhaps,
unusually appropriate that the voter registration reform of
the cycle should be introduced in a state claiming
“Forward” as its official motto
WV: Registered
Democrat given Republican primary election ballot *
http://www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=244123&format=html
Citizens United
Are corporations people, too? (video
also)
http://amfix.blogs.cnncom/2010/04/26/are-corporations-people-too/
Can you imagine a world in which your next congressman
is “sponsored” by Pepsi? Or Walmart? Or any corporation
for that matter? Well, it may not be so
far-fetched.
"CHAMBER VOWS TO BATTLE NEW LEGISLATION
ADDRESSING COURT'S CAMPAIGN FINANCE RULING"
http://electionlawblog.org/archives/015795.html
We Need A Government That Isn't Funded By Wall Street
(Robert Reich opinion)
http://www.businessinsider.com/we-need-a-government-that-isnt-funded-by-wall-street-2010-4
Schumer, Van Hollen Walking A Tightrope
http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/lb_20100423_6969.php
Their Efforts To Roll Back The Citizens United Ruling Are
Likely To Face Attack From Both Sides
National
"FEC
LEAVES REDISTRICTING QUESTION OPEN"
http://electionlawblogorg/archives/015808.html
International
Cuba: Cubans hold municipal elections;
belie criticism
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/25/AR2010042501193.html
Iraq: Barring of candidates may change Iraq vote
outcome
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6976140.html
BAGHDAD — An Iraqi court disqualified 52 candidates
Monday from the country's parliamentary elections, including
two who won seats, and threw out their votes in a decision
that could potentially change the outcome of the March 7
vote.
Nigeria: Preparing for election with armoured
vehicles
http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201004263271667
Philippines: How to show that a PCOS voting machine is
accurate enough
http://rverzola.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/how-to-show-that-a-pcos-voting-machine-is-accurate-enough/
...Even in banks that have automated their operations, to
the extent of using a bill counter that counts bills
automatically, tellers still count the bills manually before
handing out withdrawals to clients
Philippines: Concerned
Filipinos push for manual counting
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/04/24/10/concerned-filipinos-push-manual-counting
Philippines: Countercheck poll results
http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/letterstotheeditor/view/20100425-266402/Countercheck-poll-results
Philippines: Poll watchers reminded to ‘watch that
memory chip’
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/cebudailynews/news/view/20100425-266321/Poll-watchers-reminded-to-watch-that-memory-chip
If the chip is switched, wholesale cheating may occur
for that precinct.
Sri Lanka: THE LOW-DOWN: Did they
really rob preferential votes?
http://digitallife.lk/oopadoopainfo/wordpress/?p=8810
The low voter turnout at the April 08th General Election
has shown that the people’s faith in the electoral system
has reached an all time low.
...
“If the idea is to
rebuild the faith in elections, I think there are easy
methods. For example if the commissioner allowed us to be
present at counting centres there would have been no room
for these allegations."
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