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'Daily Voting News' For September 04, 2008

 

Readers will recall that as of yesterday Palm Beach Co Florida officials had lost well over 3,000 ballots sometime between the primary election and an election recount. Earlier today there were announcements that over 2700 ballots had been found. Late this afternoon the officials were supposed to meet to announce whether they had found all of the missing ballots and why those ballots went missing in the first place. Were the ballots run through the high-speed optical scan machines during the recount and did the machines pick-up two or more ballots at a time thus not counting all of the ballots? Or, were the ballots in bins that were never counted? The media is not clear on this issue yet so we are going to have to wait to find this out. If the machines were, in fact, grabbing two or more ballots at a time jurisdictions around the country need to be made aware of this possibility. Meanwhile a report from Broward Co of the result of their state-mandated audit is a bit troubling. The county appears to have hand-counted one race on ballots from 16 precincts. The media is reporting that nine of the precincts hand-count matches the machine results. Seven precincts resembled original results by 95 percent or more. . That is a huge number and should raise red flags. Instead one official said, “When you're dealing with people and paper, that's the best you're going to get.” How about agreeing 100% and you keep counting until you are sure that the people and paper are not the problem and then you find out what problem the machines had?

 

AZ: Maricopa County - County still counting your votes

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/124782

 

AZ: Slow Pima County returns delays result for District 30 House race

http://www.svherald.com/articles/2008/09/04/news/doc48bf8a45b5b79895626079.txt

 

AZ: Pima County - Procedural changes are cited in slow county tally

3,000 provisional, 11,000 early ballots uncounted 24 hours after polls close

http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/255989

 

CO: San Miguel County - County Election Equipment Needs More Upgrading

http://www.telluridewatch.com/pages/full_story?page_label=news&id=214745-County-Election-Equipment-Needs-More-Upgrading&widget=push&article-County-Election-Equipment-Needs-More-Upgrading%20=&instance=secondary_stories_left_column&open=&

 

FL: Broward County elections officials audit primary results

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbpoker0904sbsep04,0,1328246.story

 

FL: Leon County - Leon County Audits Election Results

http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/27833644.html

 

FL: Palm Beach County starts counting election ballots by hand

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/09/04/0904ballots.html

 

FL: Opinion - Missing votes spur worries about fall election in Palm Beach County

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpralph0904pnsep04,0,3113837.story

 

FL: Palm Beach County - Another recount to find missing ballots

http://www.wptv.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=b321db75-bf56-4d2b-afed-a6e9e533334b

 

FL: Fourth Round: Who Will Win? Abramson? Wennet?

Palm Beach County Recounts Votes In Close Judge Race For Fourth Time

http://www.wpbf.com/news/17386844/detail.html

 

FL: Palm Beach County - Florida county probes misplaced ballots

Elections officials suspect more than 3,000 paper ballots may have been misplaced during a recount

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9114120&intsrc=hm_list

 

FL: Palm Beach County - Missing Palm Beach Ballots Raise Questions for November

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/04/missing_palm_beach_ballots_rai.html

 

FL: Florida's latest e-voting crisis likely due to human error

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080904-floridas-latest-e-voting-crisis-likely-due-to-human-error.html

 

FL: Opinion - The flaw that links LePore, Anderson

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2008/09/04/a10a_engelhardtcol_0904.html

 

FL: Palm Beach County - Workers spend day counting ballots, not votes

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/09/04/0904recount.html

 

OH: Opinion - Voting machine ruling by Sec. of State long overdue

http://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080904/OPINION02/809040308

 

OH: Brunner predicts better results for presidential election

http://www.ohio.com/news/break_news/27863694.html

 

OH: Ashland County - Poll workers keep election day humming

http://www.times-gazette.com/news/article/4338621

 

TX: Legislators coming to Brownsville to discuss Voter ID law

http://www.themonitor.com/articles/texas_16771___article.html/anchia_vote.html

 

TX: Travis County opening two 'mega sites' for early voting

Location will help cope with expected record turnout, officials say.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/09/04/0904polls.html

 

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