Alachua Co Florida elections people have admitted that not all votes in an April 11 city election were considered. They have also admitted that one voting machine had an error and that absentee ballots were not put into "secrecy folders". / Some county election officials across the country seem to be discussing the need for emergency paper ballots at the poll site "just in case" / 'Provisional ballots could again be a leading concern at the polls this year, with new figures showing one in three--more than 650,000 of 2 million cast--were left uncounted or discarded in 2004, according to a new briefing paper by Demos, a national, non-partisan public policy and research center.' / Sadly activist judges have legislated from the Supreme Court and found that Arizona can require Voter ID / Benton Co Arkansas has not received their absentee ballots from ES&S and won't until next week. No change for ES&S. / VoteTech (VTI) machines in Randolph Co Indiana are not working properly during testing.
NAtional: Here's a cartoon to make you smile before you get to the garbage that will make you ill
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/asmussen/ NAtional: Provisional Ballot Problems Loom For November 7, According to New Publication
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=74463 NAtional: Ballot blunders abound as election nears
http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=150518 NAtional: Guardian of the Ballot Box – Ion Sancho
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061106/gumbel NAtional: Latino voter registration skyrockets
http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061020/NEWS01/61020013/1004/LIVING NAtional: The E-voting Blame Game
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=269075 NAtional: Are Voting Machines Reliable? Congress Is Questioning The Security Of New Electronic Voting Machines
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/28/cbsnews_investigates/main2050791.shtml NAtional: E-voting Push Started With HAVA
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=government&articleId=269514&taxonomyId=13&intsrc=kc_top NAtional: PFAW Presses Election Assistance Commission to Release Report Debunking Myth of Voter "Fraud"
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=22874 NAtional: E-voting Technology Faces Critical Test. Challenges to results likely if systems fail during election
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=269273&pageNumber=1 AR: No Ballots Spell Election Concerns In Benton County
http://www.thehometownchannel.com/news/10123175/detail.html AZ: High Court: Arizona Can Require Photo ID To Vote
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/topstories_story_293163434.html AZ: Arizona's New Voter ID Requirement Will Prevent Citizens From Voting. Voting Rights Group Responds to Supreme Court Decision Allowing State to Implement New Voter ID Law
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=74761 CO: Denver judge issues ruling on security for voting machines
http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20061020/NEWS/110200152 FL: ACLU of Florida Issues Voter Empowerment Cards in English, Spanish and Creole to Inform Voters of Their Rights at the Polls
http://www.aclu.org/votingrights/gen/27126prs20061018.html FL: Alachua County - Alachua admits to not considering some election ballots
http://www.highspringsherald.com/articles/2006/10/19/news/news01.txt FL: Broward County - Hundreds of absentee ballots missing pages in Margate and Lauderdale-by-the-Sea
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-cerror19oct19,0,5181116.story?coll=sfla-news-broward FL: Leon County - County gets ready for early voting. Citizens can cast ballots at courthouse starting Monday
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061020/NEWS01/610200348/1010 FL: Sarasota County - Paper-ballot amendment
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061020/OPINION/610200419/1030 IN: Editorial - Does voter ID do enough to stop fraud?
http://www.jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061020/OPINION01/610200308 IN: Randolph County - Voting equipment to be fixed after two failures
http://www.newslinkindiana.com/news/00000010978.html KY: Secretary of state: Voter rolls increase since primary
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/state/15800361.htm MD: Officials Probe Possible Theft of Voting Software in Md.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901818.html MD: WaPo: Diebold Touchscreen Source Code Discovered Stolen In Maryland
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3644 MD: Former delegate gets purported Diebold code. FBI is contacted over anonymous package
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.voting20oct20,0,5237249.story?page=1&coll=bal-newsaol-headlines MD: Voting officials concerned by missing absentee ballots
http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpID=805&NewsID=756686&CategoryID=5768&show=localnews&om=1 MD: Mailed disks raise voting machine fears
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Maryland_Voting_Machines.html MD: Has the Washington Post Missed the Boat...Again?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mary_kir_061020_has_the_washington_p.htm MO: Are there enough voting machines and poll workers for election?
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/politics/15809254.htm MO: Missouri GOP legislators ponder next step with voter ID
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/15809579.htm NC: Paper ballots await voters
http://www.reflector.com/local/content/news/stories/2006/10/19/10_19_06_paper_ballots.html NM: Cibola County - County gets new voting machines
http://www.cibolabeacon.com/articles/2006/10/19/news/news3.txt NY: N.Y. working to keep money for voting gear
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061020/NEWS01/610200316/1006 NY: State may lose $47 million. Scramble is on to save federal aid not spent on voting machines
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061020/NEWS01/610200359/1002/NEWS OH: Summit County - Summit absentee ballots delayed. Errors mean all 22,000 have to be printed again before they can be sent
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/15805029.htm OH: Summit County delays mailing absentee ballots to fix misprint
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/15808318.htm PA: Lawrence County - Making votes count
http://www.timesonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17353444&BRD=2305&PAG=461&dept_id=478569&rfi=6 PA: Mercer County - Proposal seeks ‘adequate’ emergency paper ballots. 50 per precinct is current standard
http://www.sharonherald.com/local/local_story_292222022.html TX: Harris County - County puts electronic voting through paces
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/4274684.html VA: Chesterfield County - Chesterfield, state in voting-law dispute. County's registrar believes Social Security numbers can be used to verify identities
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149191254513&path=!news&s=1045855934842 VA: Chesterfield County - Citing minority voting concerns, ACLU seeks U.S. poll observers
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