'Daily Voting News' For September 12, 2008

 

In today’s featured article the Brennan Center for Justice and the Advancement Project have reported that thousands of Florida voters may be disenfranchised by a last minute decision by the Secretary of State, Kurt Browning, to enforce a “no match, no vote” law. “No match, no vote” essentially says that if a voters name or information on their registration does not exactly match their name or information on their ID they cannot vote or they can vote a provisional ballot and take the same ID to the county election office after the election to prove they are who they say they are. &&& "This 11th-hour decision is an ill-advised move to apply a policy the state has never enforced in its current form, at a time when registration activity is at its highest," stated Beverlye Neal, director of the Florida State Conference of the NAACP, a plaintiff in a lawsuit that challenges Florida's matching law. "The Secretary's decision will put thousands of real Florida citizens at risk due to bureaucratic typos that under the 'no-match, no-vote' law will prevent them from voting this November," said Alvaro Fernandez of the Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project, another plaintiff in the case. &&& "Voters who do everything right, who submit forms that are complete, timely, and accurate, will suddenly find themselves unregistered when they go to vote, just because someone somewhere punched the wrong letter on a keyboard," said Myrna Pérez, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice. "The no match, no vote policy is unjust and unnecessary, and Florida voters will pay the price this fall," stated Jean-Robert Lafortune, president of the Haitian-American Grassroots Coalition, another plaintiff in the lawsuit.

 

Featured – FL: Florida Voting Law May Disenfranchise Thousands

http://www.alternet.org/democracy/98609/florida_voting_law_may_disenfranchise_thousands/

 

National: Some States Cast Off New Voting Technology

http://cbs4.com/politics/voting.money.nachine.2.815789.html

 

National: NH, other states, keep old machines

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g4B9HGN8AslL8ATW6wUsCQR2tgkwD93549AO1

 

National: What Can We Do Now To Protect the November Election

http://www.opednews.com/articles/What-Can-We-Do-Now-To-Prot-by-Teresa-Hommel-080912-615.html

 

National: Opinion - Ballot box blues

High turnout threatens turmoil

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/09/ballot-box-blue.html

 

National: Editorial - VA listens - finally - to secretary of the state

http://www.bristolpress.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20117893&BRD=1643&PAG=461&dept_id=665525&rfi=6

 

National: Our Coming Election Nightmare

http://reason.com/blog/show/128760.html

 

FL: Florida gets tough on new voter registrations

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-flfvoter0912sbsep12,0,98099.story

 

FL: Palm Beach County's missing ballots appear to be found

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpballot0912pnsep12,0,7367942.story

 

FL: In Palm Beach County it goes from missing ballots to too many ballots

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-0912missingballots,0,3917707.story

 

FL: St. Johns County - Weighing in on paper ballots is a hefty job

http://www.pontevedrarecorder.com/content/369_1.php

 

MD: "Uncounted" Counts 400 Viewers at Silver Spring Theatre

http://www.opednews.com/articles/-Uncounted-Counts-More-Th-by-Marta-Steele-080910-606.html

 

MO: Trial Continued in Phil Lindsey Voter ID Case

http://www.kctribune.com/article.cfm?articleID=18334

 

MS: Senate ballot position fight continues

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080912/NEWS01/809120344/1002

 

MS: Judge orders Miss. governor to redo ballot

http://www.sunherald.com/newss/story/810007.html

 

MS: Judge Rules Against Mississippi GOP, Orders Special Senate Race Moved Up on Ballot

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-000002949934

 

NY: Voting machines for disabled went unused in primary

http://romesentinel.com/news?newsid=20080912-141502

 

OH: Documentary Investigates 2004 Election Controversy in Ohio

“How Ohio Pulled It Off” Examines Controversy in Buckeye State

http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6595781.html

 

Washington DC: Voting Database Is Fine, Firm Says

User Error Cited As Possibility in D.C. Vote Foul-Up

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/09/12/ST2008091200149.html

 

Washington DC: Electronic Voting Follies Continue

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2008/09/e-voting_follies_continue.html

 

Washington DC: Sequoia E-Voting Equipment Allowed Thousands Of Fake Write-In Votes

from the don't-you-feel-great-about-our-upcoming-election? dept

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080912/1346342255.shtml

 

WI: Editorial - Partisanship at work?

Difficulties in getting the state’s voter list ready have long been known. This lawsuit smells of political mischief.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=793817

 

WI: Wisconsin elections agency says ID lawsuit will cause confusion at polls

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/09/wisconsin-elections-agency-says-id.php

 

**Articles and commentary included in “Daily Voting News” may not all reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or its allied organizations. The articles are all included for the information of the subscribers of “Daily Voting News” though we realize that the subscribers may not agree with the opinions given in all articles or in the commentary**

*******************************************************************
If you receive Daily Voting News directly from John Gideon and VotersUnite and wish to unsubscribe, please send an email to jgideon@votersunite.org requesting that you be removed from circulation. If you get the email forwarded from someone else you must contact them to be unsubscribed.
*******************************************************************