'Daily Voting News' For May 17, 2008

 

On March 4 election officials in Butler Co Ohio discovered that even though their system said that all memory cards had been read, in fact the system did not read one of the cards. This is an error in accuracy. Last Thursday Diebold issued a report to the county to report the results of their investigation. Diebold will fix the software problem and send it through the federal certification process. It appears that the county will just live with the problem and mitigate it with administrative procedures. First, this is a violation of HAVA Section 301(a)(5) but more importantly why would any county use a voting system that has already proven itself to be inaccurate? This is an outrage.

 

NAtional: Several Big Voting Rights Victories On Friday!

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5997

 

FL: It shouldn't be so hard to vote in Florida

http://pelicanpress.org/main.asp?SectionID=131&SubSectionID=226&ArticleID=5097

 

HI: Bid protest leaves state without election system

http://starbulletin.com/2008/05/17/news/story08.html

 

HI: State delays contract for voting machines

Procurement office won't allow temporary deal with company

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080517/NEWS03/805170335/1007/LOCALNEWSFRONT

 

IN: Clay bungled handling of vote on election night

http://www.post-trib.com/news/james/954649,james.article

 

MO: Missouri Legislature Ends Session With Voter ID Amendment Still on Agenda

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/us/politics/17missouri.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=politics&adxnnlx=1211033003-J3wqodfkcX7Yv1sw7sstQg

 

NJ: Judge sets tight security on voting machine tests

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/05/judge_to_rule_on_testing_proce.html

 

OH: Voters Comfortable With Machines

http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/509620.html

 

OH: Opinion - Costs of voting have to be considered

http://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080517/OPINION01/805170306/1014/OPINION

 

OH: Butler County - Report: Voting errors caused by two factors

http://www.middletownjournal.com/hp/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/05/17/hjn051708boe.html

 

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