'Daily Voting News' For September 28, 2008

 

In our featured article today we again get information about the shut-down of the Social Security Administration’s databases for maintenance. As related in the article by Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center for Justice this shut-down is important because “A 2002 federal law, the Help America Vote Act, requires all states to "coordinate" their voter registration databases with the Social Security database (and state motor vehicle databases) for the purpose of processing new voter registration forms. For the millions of voters who do not have current driver's licenses and register using the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, state election officials are required to try to match their voter registration information against Social Security records. But if the Social Security database is down—as it will be for four days—they won't be able to do that. Across the country, the processing of these voter registration forms will grind to a halt for four days”. Why has the SSA scheduled this shut-down within three weeks of the Nov. election? Now Sen. Diane Feinstein has asked the same question. That letter can be found with the featured article.

 

Featured - National: Voter Registration Shut Down?

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2958&Itemid=26

 

National: What does the future hold for elections?

http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20080928/ARTICLES/809280338/1011/NEWS?Title=What_does_the_future_hold_for_elections_

 

National: The most important open source system: Voting

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=277

 

National: Will Your Vote Be Counted?

http://www.parade.com/hot-topics/intelligence-report/archive/will-your-vote-be-counted

 

CA: Counting Every Vote

California's Sec. of State Says Open-Source Software Is Needed to Safeguard Electronic Voting Systems

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5893946&page=1

 

FL: Recently Registered Voters May Experience Problems

http://cbs4.com/campaign08/vote.campaign.08.2.827322.html

 

FL: State's new paper trail leads to new problems

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2008/09/28/a14a_leadedit_recount_0928.html

 

FL: Opinion - Paper ballots won't be the panacea Broward County hoped for

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/columnists/sfl-flbmayocol0928sbsep28,0,2075631.column

 

FL: Broward County - New ballot system as iffy as the last

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/704798.html

 

FL: Miami-Dade County - Register by Oct. 6 deadline

http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/703153.html

 

FL: Palm Beach County - Acting chief of elections embraces sudden role

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/09/27/a1a_merriman_0928.html

 

FL: Pinellas County - League Says Pinellas Has Too Few Early Voting Sites

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/sep/27/me-league-says-pinellas-has-too-few-early-voting-s/

 

GA: Handel in eye of vote storm

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/092808/geo_337669280.shtml

 

GA: Election workers reassure security of votes

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/09/27/early_voting_security.html

 

IA: Warren County’s new voting machines to leave paper trail

http://www.indianolarecordherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080928/INDIANOLA01/80924026/1137/INDIANOLA

 

OH: Ohio gets jump on voting

150,000 regional voters expected to beat lines, decide now

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080928/NEWS0106/809280345

 

PA: Pennsylvania vows to avoid messes Fla., Ohio stepped in

http://www.ldnews.com/news/ci_10579046

 

PA: Area counties brace for record turnout

http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1222557907227030.xml&coll=1

 

PA: Montgomery County - Director says Election Night will be a late one

http://www.timesherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20141073&BRD=1672&PAG=461&dept_id=33380&rfi=6

 

PA: Union County - Dems lead area battle to register new voters

http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_271233043.html

 

PA: York County - County ditches dress code at polls

http://www.eveningsun.com/ci_10578970

 

TN: Opinion - Suggestions to make voting in presidential election simpler

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080928/OPINION03/809280403/1008/OPINION01

 

UT: Salt Lake County - County clerk works to make voting easier

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700261723,00.html

 

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