'Daily Voting News' For March 03, 2008

 

The voting news today has been dominated, not by tomorrow’s primary news, but by an attempted takeover of Diebold by the military industrial complex in the form of United Technologies which also owns Sikorsky Helicopter and jet-engine maker, Pratt and Whitney. Diebold received the offer for takeover and has rejected it so far. Remember Dwight Eisenhower’s warning: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

 

NAtional: Diebold Receives a Takeover Offer

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/business/03deal.html?hp

 

NAtional: Diebold Rejects Proposal From United Technologies

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120457009147108079.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

 

NAtional: Diebold Stock Soars After $3 Billion Takeover Bid by Defense Contractor Conglomerate United Technologies

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5759

 

NAtional: Diebold Rejects Bid as ‘Opportunistic’

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/diebold-rejects-bid-as-opportunistic/?ref=business

 

NAtional: Editorial - A New Role for Defense Contractors?: Counting Votes

http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/a-new-role-for-defense-contractors-counting-votes/

 

CO: Editorial - Coffman's 'Never mind'

Were those two months of uncertainty really necessary?

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/mar/03/coffmans-never-mind/

 

CO: Lawmakers Consider Plan To Use Paper Ballots

http://www.myfoxcolorado.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=5924249&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1

 

CO: Paper ballot elections get first hearing at Capitol

http://kjct8.com/Global/story.asp?S=7957205

 

CO: San Miguel County - County voting machines recertified

http://www.telluridenews.com/news/x1907847449

 

FL: Think you have the right to vote? Think again

http://www.beacononlinenews.com/dailyitem.php?itemnum=647

 

IN: Voting systems unable to handle high traffic

http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=7958657&nav=9Tai

 

NJ: Editorial - Election integrity at stake

http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2008/03/election_integrity_at_stake.html

 

NY: Steuben County - New Steuben voting machines coming

County polling places will likely offer choice of levers or optical scan in September.

http://www.stargazettenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080303/NEWS01/803030310

 

OH: Ohio 'paper' vote system debuting with flaws, researchers say

http://www.physorg.com/news123779092.html

 

OH: Counties ready for ballots

http://www.tribune-chronicle.com/page/content.detail/id/502367.html?nav=5021

 

OH: State ruling gives county voters a choice of ballot options

http://www.chroniclet.com/2008/03/03/state-ruling-gives-county-voters-a-choice-of-ballot-options

 

OH: Counting votes: It’s no quick task

http://www.vindy.com/news/2008/mar/03/counting-votes-it8217s-no-quick-task/

 

OH: Primary puts Ohio, top election official Jennifer Brunner in spotlight

Most important primary in decades spotlights Brunner

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1204543857294271.xml&coll=2

 

OH: People crowd polling sites to get votes in ahead of bad weather

http://www.ohio.com/news/ap?articleID=419936&c=y

 

OH: More than 50,000 votes cast

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080303/NEWS01/303030069/1056/COL02

 

OH: Cuyahoga County - Election official: Cuyahoga is OK to go

http://www.chroniclet.com/2008/03/03/election-official-cuyahoga-is-ok-to-go

 

OH: Cuyahoga County - Elections Officials Hoping For Smooth Primary

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/15477971/detail.html

 

OH: Franklin County - Board of elections names new director

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/02/boeswitch.html

 

PA: Elections officials getting ready for possible record turnout

http://publicbroadcasting.net/wpsu/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1237304&sectionID=1

 

PA: Fayette County - Fayette ballot change may get boost

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/dailycourier/news/s_555261.html

 

TX: TX Citizen Exit Pollers Display E-Voting "Wheel of Glitches"

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_vickie_k_080303_tx_citizen_exit_poll.htm

 

TX: Confusion Rampant Over Texas 'Primacaucus' Rules

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/confusion-rampant-over-te_b_89548.html

 

WV: Officials stand behind voting machines

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/x112305686

 

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