'Daily Voting News' For May 21, 2008

 

Is anything but a take-over by Hart Intercivic going to save Sequoia Voting Systems? The Sequoia president, Jack Blaine, seems to have been caught, again, trying to deceive officials. This time he may have been less than truthful when providing testimony and written responses to members of the Chicago Board of Elections and a concerned city alderman.

 

NAtional: Exclusive: Voting Machine Company Chief Lied to Chicago Officials About Ownership, Control of Company

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6005

 

NAtional: Pedometers and Other Black Boxes

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_joan_bru_080521_pedometers_and_other.htm

 

AR: Crawford County Electronic Voting Machines Caused Counting Delay

http://www.4029tv.com/news/16354113/detail.html

 

AR: Izard County - Miller to be new judge

http://www.guardonline.com/?q=node/45448

 

AR: St Francis County - Ark. board sends vote monitors to St. Francis County

http://www.pbcommercial.com/articles/2008/05/21/ap-state-ar/d90pnhm00.txt

 

CA: Tehama County - Voting machines pass test

http://www.redbluffdailynews.com/news/ci_9333302

 

CO: Jefferson County - Jeffco voters can opt for paper ballots

Decision means most in state can make that choice

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/may/20/jeffco-mix-paper-e-voting/

 

FL: Sarasota County - Defending free elections

Sarasota group battling state over accuracy of electronic voting.

http://sarasota.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/defending_free_elections/Content?oid=175012

 

IA: Black Hawk County - County OKs purchase of new voting machines

http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2008/05/21/news/metro/10354715.txt

 

KS: Editorial - Sebelius used veto pen wisely

http://www.kansas.com/611/story/409432.html

 

KS: Crawford County - County to get funding aid for election software

http://www.morningsun.net/news/x101654259/County-to-get-funding-aid-for-election-software

 

NC: Dare County - Frisco voting precinct error prompts protest

http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2008/05/21/politics/pols2251.txt

 

OK: Good reasons to reject voter ID

http://newsok.com/good-reasons-to-reject-voter-id/article/3246381/

 

TN: Instant Runoff Voting Could be in City’s Future

http://www.memphisdailynews.com/editorial/Article.aspx?id=37161

 

WV: Printers slow voting machines

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/homepage/x642013931

 

Netherlands - Netherlands says "nee" to electronic voting

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080521-netherlands-says-nee-to-electronic-voting.html

 

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