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'Daily Voting News' For October 08, 2008

Regular readers will notice that DVN is growing longer and longer as the election gets closer and closer. There will be a time, probably within a week of the election, when DVN will just be too long to be of use in a once-a-day publication. When that happens, as I have done in previous years, I will split DVN into a “Morning Edition” and “Evening Edition”.

One of the issues that bears watching is voter registrations. The news has contained many articles, of late, about the huge influx of voter registrations. Counties are under the gun to get the registrations completed and filed into the data base. The big question is will they be able to do it in the time they have left? How many voters who filed new registrations or changes in their registrations are going to end up being told they have to vote on a provisional ballot? And then either not have that ballot counted because the county has decided not to count provisional ballots because they won’t make any difference in the outcome as we have heard in the past; OR, have their ballot not counted because the county never did get the voters application processed?

Remember please, do NOT use the straight party option if you get that option. Take the extra few minutes and vote each race on the ballot.

National: Feds question new voter checks in 6 states

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5goXdqiHHk8p0cqXGZHuUAqEI205gD93LV1FG0

National: Battles rage over new voters

Legal disputes loom as the political parties spar over voter lists, new registrations

http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/10/07/battles-rage-over-new-voters/

National: Election Protection Wiki Safeguards Voting Rights

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0810/S00165.htm

National: Editorial - Avoid absentee voting trap

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2008/10/08/a18a_absente_edit_1008.html

National: Hack-A-Vote

http://www.motherjones.com/blue_marble_blog/archives/2008/10/10132_hackavote.html

National: Students at Rice learn how vulnerable electronic voting really is

http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/article.php?q=08100837

National: Electronic voting machines software extremely vulnerable to rigging

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/electronic-voting-machines-software-extremely-vulnerable-to-rigging_100104873.html

National: Voter registration speech draws few students

http://media.www.diamondbackonline.com/media/storage/paper873/news/2008/10/08/News/Voter.Registration.Speech.Draws.Few.Students-3476165.shtml

National: Security Expert: Diebold Voting Machines Desigined To Be Hacked

http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=825&Itemid=1

National: Is your vote safe?

Allegations of voter fraud involving the widely used Diebold voting machines continue to surface

http://metrospirit.com/index.php?cat=1211101074307265&ShowArticle_ID=11010710081423224

National: Technology to Fight Voter Suppression

http://www.utne.com/2008-10-08/Science-Technology/Technology-to-Fight-Voter-Suppression.aspx?blogid=36

National: Declare Yourself Launches 'Why Wait?' Campaign Encouraging Young People to Vote Early

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/declare-yourself-launches-why-wait,572128.shtml

AL: Confusion reigns in Alabama over ex-felons' ability to vote

http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/statebriefs.ssf?/base/news/122328095073410.xml&coll=2

AL: Madison County - Voting machine problem doesn't stop the voting

http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/briefs.ssf?/base/news/1223457354217300.xml&coll=1

CA: Riverside County - Former D.A. hired to oversee audit of county's Registrar of Voters office

http://www.mydesert.com/article/20081007/NEWS01/81007040/1263/

CA: Riverside County - Election Probe Begins During Early Voting

http://www.kesq.com/global/story.asp?s=9141827

CA: Riverside County - Former DA to oversee vote audit

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_audit08.3de8db1.html

CA: Riverside County - Supervisors back audit of Registrar of Voters office

http://www.mydesert.com/article/20081008/NEWS0301/810080324

CA: Riverside County - Election Probe Begins During Early Voting

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=9141827&nav=menu191_2

CO: Colorado Not Prepared For Anticipated Turnout

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0810/S00162.htm

CO: Coffman stout before election

http://www.steamboatpilot.com/news/2008/oct/08/coffman_stout_election/

FL: When ballots go bad

http://www.tampabay.com/news/perspective/article837066.ece

FL: Broward County - Tsunami Ahead

Nervous About Voting

http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/news/tsunami-ahead/

FL: Collier County - 1,200 voters rush to meet registration deadline in Collier

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2008/oct/07/collier-sees-rush-1200-voters-final-day-register-g/

FL: Palm Beach County - Florida Primary Recount Surfaces Grave Voting Problems One Month Before Presidential Election

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/florida-countys.html

FL: Palm Beach County commissioners worry about legal nightmare on Election Day

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/elections/sfl-1007election-day-fears,0,1634215.story

GA: Column - Liberal group’s fraud shows voter ID need

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2008/10/08/garlocked_1008.html

IN: Vote can be tampered with easily

OIT officer says electronic voting software has minimum security

http://media.www.ndsmcobserver.com/media/storage/paper660/news/2008/10/08/News/Vote-Can.Be.Tampered.With.Easily-3475998.shtml

MD: Election officials expect long lines at local polls

Voters should bring sample ballots so they can finish more quickly

http://www.somdnews.com/stories/10082008/indytop173833_32202.shtml

MT: Montana Republicans ABANDON voter challenges

http://www.kxmb.com/News/283426.asp

MT: GOP Withdraws 6,000 Bogus Voter Challenges in Montana

Faced With a Lawsuit by State Dems, the Republicans Wave White Flag of Surrender...

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6482

NC: Voting Myths Debunked

http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A266397

NJ: Expand options for early voting

http://www.nj.com/gloucester/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1223451613253280.xml&coll=8

NJ: Atlantic County - Clerk to allow e-mail ballots for military, overseas voters

http://www.thehammontonnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081008/NEWS01/810080310/1002

NM: Vote Count Error Caught in New Mexico Machines

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/vote-count-erro.html

NM: Officials find, fix glitch in New Mexico voting machine

http://www.rep-am.com/news/elections/370744.txt

NV: Voter Fraud? Officials Raise Concerns About Thousands of Suspicious Voter Registrations

Group Facing Probe in Nevada Has Had Past Problems

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5984327&page=1

OH: Voting sign-ups hit record

Ohio adds 665,949, to nearly 8.2 million

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/08/copy/early_voters.ART_ART_10-08-08_B1_CKBHTPA.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

OH: Latest GOP Effort To Cancel OH Voter Registrations

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0810/S00152.htm

OH: Q&A: E-voting security results 'awful,' says Ohio secretary of state

How bad? 'I thought I was going to throw up,' Jennifer Brunner recalls

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Security&articleId=9116465&taxonomyId=17&pageNumber=1

OH: Despite Widespread Security Problems, Ohio Will Use Electronic Voting Systems This Election

http://www.securitymanagement.com/news/despite-widespread-security-problems-ohio-will-use-electronic-voting-systems-election-004741

OH: Montgomery County - Board of Elections at stalemate over monitoring of early voting

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/10/08/ddn100808election.html

OH: Putnam County elections board fires chief

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081008/NEWS17/810080449

OH: Seneca County - Voter says ‘proof’ not in the voting

http://www.advertiser-tribune.com/page/content.detail/id/509484.html?nav=5005

OH: Trumbull County - Valley boards prepare for voting option

http://www.vindy.com/news/2008/oct/08/valley-boards-prepare-for-voting-option/

OH: Trumbull County - Paper or Electronic?

http://www.wytv.com/news/crawl/30649509.html

OK: Pottawatomie County - Nation May Learn Who's President Before Shawnee Has A New Mayor

http://www.shawneesun.com/articles/2008/10/08/news/02election%20mess.txt

SC: Beaufort County - Equipment testing delays absentee voting another day

http://www.beaufortgazette.com/local/story/578457.html

SC: Beaufort County residents taken advantage of absentee voting

http://www.wtoctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9141707&nav=0qq6

SC: Beaufort County - Ballot machines are now running for early voting at Beaufort office

http://www.islandpacket.com/front/story/632790.html

SC: Official: Florence County received thousands of voter applications

http://www.scnow.com/scp/news/local/pee_dee/article/official_florence_county_received_thousands_of_voter_applications/16299/

SC: Sumter County - More young people get registered to vote

http://www.theitem.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081008/ITNEWS01/710089964

WI: Opinion - Electronic voting machines imperfect

http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081008/WDH0101/810080677/1981/WDHopinion

Washington DC: A Pox on Board of Elections and Sequoia

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dc/2008/10/council_member_mary_m_cheh.html

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