'Daily Voting News' For February 06, 2008 – Evening Edition

 

We are not even close to a settled “Tsunami Tuesday”, and we may not be for another week depending on whether the problems with the Los Angeles Co ballots (Double Bubble Trouble) goes to court, but nothing happened to change my mind that DREs need to be banned from our election process. As proven in Arkansas and probably in other states, though news of machine problems was scarce, the addition of a vvpat to a DRE only adds to the possibility of machine malfunction. But we need them for accessible voting, you might say. Anecdotal reports from California are that the single DRE put in each state polling place may not have always actually been set-up to be used. They were just there because federal law and the state say they had to be there. (More on disabilities access very soon)

 

NAtional: Super Tuesday’s Voting Glitches

http://www.alternet.org/democracy/76233/

 

NAtional: Professor's Model Helps Ensure Election Accuracy

http://www.dailycal.org/article/100255/professor_s_model_helps_ensure_election_accuracy

 

NAtional: Editorial - Choosing is a challenge, but voting should be easy

http://media.www.tuftsdaily.com/media/storage/paper856/news/2008/02/06/OpEd/Editorial.Choosing.Is.A.Challenge.But.Voting.Should.Be.Easy-3191153.shtml

 

NAtional: Why Americans are shunning e-voting

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7229028.stm

 

NAtional: Diebold to Cut 5 Percent of Work Force

Diebold Plans to Slash 800 Jobs, Says Revenue Recognition Problems Resolved

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/apwire/6a3999fec307df20d4732ca423a8a0d9.htm

 

NAtional: Myth that Touch-Screen Voting Machines Mean Faster Election Results Debunked

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/myth-that-touch.html

 

NAtional: Few Super Tuesday e-voting problems reported

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9061258&pageNumber=2

 

AR: Haggard notes problems with voting machines

http://www.thecabin.net/stories/020608/loc_0206080006.shtml

 

CA: Novatans’ initiative would ban E-ballots iniative

http://www.novatoadvance.com/articles/2008/02/06/news/doc47aa1c5dde804331823788.txt

 

CA: Los Angeles County - More Details on 'Double Bubble Trouble' in Los Angeles County

Hundreds of Thousands of Non-Partisan Voter Ballots May Not be Counted in California's Open Democratic Primary Election

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5659

 

CA: Los Angeles County - Problems (and Confusion) at L.A. County Polls Today

Independent Voters Have Trouble Voting, and Having Their Vote Counted, in the Open Democratic Primary

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5658

 

CA: San Diego County - Like the Old Days: Ballot Counting Slow But Steady

http://www.kpbs.org/news/local;id=10844

 

CA: Santa Clara County - Local precincts blow through ballots

Unaffiliated voters snap up Dem tickets

http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2008-2-6-02-06-pa-stanford

 

CO: Bi-Partisan Bill On Voting Machines Clears Senate

http://www.thecherrycreeknews.com/content/view/2400/2/

 

GA: Irregularities Reported Early In Georgia Primary Voting

http://www.naacp.org/news/press/2008-02-06/

 

GA: Voter Calls Confirm Election Problems in Georgia (Listen to MP3s)

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/voter-calls-con.html

 

IA: Jefferson County will need new equipment

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19270360&BRD=1142&PAG=461&dept_id=567522&rfi=6

 

IN: Four Counties Out $1M After Voting Machine Company Goes Bust

State seeking federal money to reimburse cost of replacement machines

http://www.wibc.com/News/Story.aspx?ID=84528

 

NJ: Human Not E-Voting Machine Errors Reported In New Jersey

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206105188

 

NJ: Hudson County still sorting out election results

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/02/new_jerseys_presidential_prima.html

 

NM: Dem. Party Chair Apologizes As Ballot Counting Resumes

New Mexico Lone Undecided State

http://www.koat.com/news/15230516/detail.html

 

NM: Provisional ballots to decide New Mexico

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/02/06/provisional_ballots_to_decide_new_mexico/5293/

 

OH: Many Ohio voters want paper ballots

http://www.coshoctontribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080206/NEWS03/802060309/1002/NEWS01

 

OH: Secretary Of State Seeks Big Changes For Voters

Will Your Vote Count?

http://www.wlwt.com/politics/15223124/detail.html

 

OH: Crawford County - Crawford to provide 1,250 optional ballots

http://www.bucyrustelegraphforum.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080206/NEWS01/802060305

 

OH: Union County - Brunner loses restraining order, wins venue change

Court moves case to Franklin County

http://www.thisweeknews.com/?sec=home&story=sites/twn/content/pool/Marysville/february/020608-MVL-News-order.html&tab=tab1

 

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