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'Daily Voting News' For February 01, 2008

 

Next Tuesday is “Tsunami Tuesday” in which 22 states will participate and of those 15 states will hold primaries. The primary states are: AL, AZ, AR, CA, CT, DE, GA, IL, MA, MO, NJ, NY, OK, TN, and UT. Whether these states will have successful elections or total meltdowns should be based, in large part, on their past history in elections using the same voting systems. Using only data such as whether a state requires a vvpat or post election audits tells only a small part of the story. Have the states experienced large numbers of machine failures, ballot programming errors, tabulating errors, long lines, and/or disenfranchised voters for instance? For instance, looking at VotersUnite’s “Election Problem Log – 2004 to Date” (http://www.votersunite.org/electionproblems.asp) there have been no reported problems from Oklahoma. The risk of any major meltdown in Oklahoma is small when compared to Georgia with 13 machine malfunction reports or California with 24 machine malfunction reports. States that have a real risk of meltdown based on past record are Arkansas, California, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, Tennessee and Utah. Those will be the states that get our extra attention.

 

NAtional: Elderly Voters – Some Improvements in Voting Accessibility from 2000 to 2004 Elections, but Gaps in Policy and Implementation Remain

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08442t.pdf

 

NAtional: Report: Voting Machines In Some States Could Malfunction On Super Tuesday

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009906426

 

NAtional: Your Vote Will Be Thoughtful, But Will It Be Counted?

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_david_sw_080131_your_vote_will_be_th.htm

 

NAtional: Super Tuesday states face hurdles

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080201/NEWS07/802010340/1009/NEWS07

 

NAtional: A Far-Fetched Fix for E-Voting Woes: Open Source

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/A-Far-Fetched-Fix-for-E-Voting-Woes-Open-Source-61474.html

 

NAtional: Percentage-Based versus Statistical-Power-Based Vote Tabulation Audits

http://verifiedvoting.org/downloads/TAS_paper.pdf

 

CA: California registrars predict a long vote count

Use of Paper Ballots Means Slow Voting Results

http://www.mercurynews.com/politics/ci_8137237

 

CA: Los Angeles County - L.A. County sees no big delay in local vote

http://www.dailybulletin.com/politics/ci_8134554

 

CA: Napa County - Switch from e-voting may slow results for weeks

http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2008/02/01/news/local/doc47a2c7177b876276071812.txt

 

CA: San Diego County - San Diego's Registrar Urges Absentee Voters to Get Ballots in Soon

http://www.kpbs.org/news/local;id=10801

 

CA: San Diego County - Registrar: Expect slow vote-counting

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/02/01/elections2008/alerts/doc47a1109d90b04714647360.txt

 

CA: San Francisco County - SF Registrar Expects Smooth Sailing Next Week

http://www.kcbs.com/SF-Registrar-Expects-Smooth-Sailing-Next-Week/1575593

 

CO: The politics of paper

Rift between clerks, Coffman continues over next election's voting methods

http://www.aurorasentinel.com/main.asp?SectionID=8&SubSectionID=8&ArticleID=18288

 

CO: Boulder County votes up in the air

Clerk waiting on decertification details

http://dailycamera.com/news/2008/feb/01/boulder-county-votes-up-in-the-air/

 

CO: Boulder County - County clerk shares vote uncertainties

http://www.timescall.com/News_Story.asp?id=6264

 

CO: Broomfield - Election uncertainty not weighing on Broomfield

http://dailycamera.com/news/2008/feb/01/election-uncertainty-not-weighing-on-broomfield/

 

FL: Palm Beach County - Urgent to Tallahassee: SOE: Save Our Election

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2008/02/01/s18a_leadedit_elections_0201.html

 

HI: State picks voting machines

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080201/NEWS05/802010361/1009/NEWS05

 

MA: Watertown Town Council asks Secretary of State to investigate election

http://www.wickedlocal.com/watertown/news/x142941457

 

NH: Republican NH Primary Candidate Demands Secretary of State Allow All Ballots to be Counted in Ongoing Election Contest

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5636

 

NJ: N.J. judge gives voters a do-over

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-12/1201844155300760.xml&coll=1

 

NY: Voting-machine firm takes state to court over its disqualification

http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080201/NEWS01/802010357/1002/NEWS01

 

NY: Advocates Say City Doesn't Have Enough Disabled Voting Machines

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=3&aid=78031

 

NY: Chemung County - New Voting Machines Selected

http://www.wetmtv.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=f4f9243a-226f-4d3c-8822-ec99d988decf

 

NY: Monroe County - Exit poll on new voting machines: A mixed reaction

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080201/NEWS01/802010362/1002/NEWS

 

OH: We NEED Our HAVA Money Back

http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/OEJC/C3pQ

 

OH: Brunner Should Cancel Mandate

http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/505229.html

 

OH: Cuyahoga County will lease voting equipment for $1.5 million

Cuyahoga won't be reimbursed, Jones says

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1201858502166590.xml&coll=2

 

OH: Cuyahoga County - Vote Approves $1.4 M to be Spent on New Voting System

http://www.myfoxcleveland.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=5642802&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1

 

PA: Fayette County - Paper voting ballots possibility in Fayette

http://www.heraldstandard.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19253315&BRD=2280&PAG=461&dept_id=480247&rfi=6

 

PA: Fayette County - Fayette commissioners consider new voting machines

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/dailycourier/news/s_550329.html

 

PA: Wayne County - County Chooses Paper Ballot Alternative

http://www.wayneindependent.com/news/x1151558551

 

TN: Editorial - State should try to achieve paper trail for November

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080201/OPINION01/802010427/1008

 

TN: Opinion - Bills would put vote in people's hands

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080201/OPINION01/802010424/1008

 

TN: Opinion - Rush to new system could create a crisis

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080201/OPINION01/802010429/1008

 

TN: Other states are going to paper ballots this year; why can't we?

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080201/OPINION01/802010426/1008

 

TN: Film's showing to inspire interest in electoral process

http://www.theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080201/COMMUNITY/802010332

 

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