'Daily Voting News' For February 15, 2008

 

It has been a very slow day today. Secretary of State Bowen has now sent a letter to the Los Angeles Registrar asking him to provide information back to the state with regards to the tens of thousands of uncounted “Double Bubble” ballots. She has also suggested that the county actually count many of those ballots where they know the voter intent. When “Decline To State” voters went to the polls and asked for a ballot to vote either American Independent or Democratic the poll workers were supposed to annotate the party (AI or DEM) in the poll book. If all of the DTS voters at a polling site asked to vote DEM then all of those ballots can be counted because the voter intent is clearly known. Only when an AI voter is thrown into the mix does the count become more difficult.

 

NAtional: The Magic Of America

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_james_st_080215_the_magic_of_america.htm

 

CA: Los Angeles County – Letter From Bowen To Logan Re: Uncounted DTS Ballots

http://electionlawblog.org/archives/Mr%20%20Logan%20021408.pdf

 

CA: Solano County - Backlog of ballots in Solano

http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_8270752

 

CO: Mesa County - Both sides agree to disagree in voting machine debacle

http://kjct8.com/Global/story.asp?S=7875206

 

GA: More than 400 voters lacked photo IDs in Feb. 5 primary

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/251/story/248417.html

 

MA: Gloucester - City clerk ponders ways to hold elections more cheaply, easily

http://www.wickedlocal.com/gloucester/homepage/x230382437

 

MD: Fewer than 10,000 voted in extra 90 minutes

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.ballots15feb15,0,3237763.story

 

NY: NY court adds new voting machine, but counties aren't buying

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-nyvotingmachines0215feb15,0,853302.story

 

OH: Judge Rules Ohio Curbs on Voter Registration Drives Unenforceable

http://thejournal.epluribusmedia.net/index.php/state-news/ohio-news/34-ohio-news/56-ohio-curbs-on-voter-registration-drive-unenforcable

 

OH: Coshocton County - State: Paper ballots must be available

http://www.coshoctontribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080215/NEWS01/802150303

 

OH: Lucas County to reprint, remail 6,500 faulty absentee ballots

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080215/NEWS33/802150322/-1/NEWS

 

OH: Union County - County argues it should not have to provide paper ballots

http://www.wnewsj.com/main.asp?SectionID=49&SubSectionID=156&ArticleID=163051&TM=31152.19

 

OH: Wood County - Weighing the options

State election officials deem new Wood County voting machines vulnerable to tampering, suggest purchasing new optical scanning systems

http://media.www.bgnews.com/media/storage/paper883/news/2008/02/15/Local/Weighing.The.Options-3212782.shtml

 

TN: Tennessee one step closer to voter verifiable voting machines

http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2008/02/tennessee-one-step-closer-to-voter_14.asp

 

TX: Waller County – Opinion - Fighting Voter Suppression in Texas

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080215/cm_thenation/45285748

 

Washington DC: D.C. Council Member Scolds Elections Chief for Primary Voting Problems

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/15/AR2008021501350.html

 

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