'Daily Voting News' For December 23, 2007

 

New York City has already decided to purchase one “Ballot Marking Device” for each polling place in the city. That puts them one step ahead of the rest of the state.

 

Meanwhile Pennsylvania has joined other states which have read the Colorado reports and decided that any testing done in Colorado does not apply to their state even though they use the same machines.

 

West Virginia says that even though they use machines that were decertified in Colorado they just don’t know enough to decide wether to get rid of them.

 

Editorials and Op-Eds from Ohio papers are mixed. The opinions of the papers surely echo the opinion of the county election offices rather than an opinion made after research and education.

 

CO: Clerks call for mail-in votes in '08

http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_7789626

 

CO: Opinion - Boucher: Paper ballots something to believe in

http://dailycamera.com/news/2007/dec/22/boucher-paper-ballots-something-believe/

 

CO: Opinion - Pomerance: Making the voting process transparent

http://dailycamera.com/news/2007/dec/23/making-the-voting-process-transparent/

 

CO: Montrose County - Montrose in bind after vote-machine decision

http://www.montrosepress.com/articles/2007/12/22/news/doc476dc160d6ff7459652638.txt

 

FL: Opinion - Will court decide 2008 election, too?

http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071223/OPINION05/712230310/1006/OPINION

 

NY: Tools to Help Disabled Vote Are on Way

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/nyregion/23voting.html?ref=nyregion

 

NY: NYC: Disabled-access voting machines for all poll spots by Sept.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-nyvotingmachines1223dec23,0,656692.story

 

OH: EVEREST a "Light at the End of the Elections Tunnel?"

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=5282

 

OH: Editorial - Flaws in Ohio's voting system demand immediate attention

http://www4.vindy.com/content/opinion/editorial/364641477459578.php

 

OH: Costs keep adding up for elections

Brunner wants to dump touch-screen machines

http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/12783142.html

 

OH: Butler County - Report raises concerns for county officials

As the state considers voting system improvements, Butler officials think it will be difficult to make changes in 2008.

http://www.middletownjournal.com/hp/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/12/23/hjn122307election.html

 

OH: Lake County needs equity for machines

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19139622&BRD=1698&PAG=461&dept_id=220548&rfi=6

 

OH: Loraine County – Opinion - Our View: Call for massive change in Ohio's voting system a waste, lacks real basis

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19139905&BRD=1699&PAG=461&dept_id=46368&rfi=6

 

PA: Touch screens keep state's vote

Despite Colorado ban, electronic ballots to stay here

http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071223/NEWS02/712230424/-1/NEWS

 

WV: UPDATE — W.Va. may keep iffy voting machines, the same kind Colo. booted

http://www.timeswv.com/local/local_story_357164113.html

 

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