'Daily Voting News' For October 28, 2008 – Morning Edition

7 days until Election Day.

The NAACP and Advancement Project have sued the VA Governor and the state’s top election officials for failing to provide enough resources to accommodate expected record turnout next week. The suit claims the state is in violation of the US and state constitutions and that a failure to fairly distribute voting machines, poll workers and polling places will result in long-lines in some neighborhoods. The suit asks the state to move voting machines to precincts most like to have long lines; keep polls open longer and to use paper ballots in some cases.

Also this morning is the revelation that some Georgia polling places have had lines with as long as 8 hours waiting time due to their voter registration data base being slow. The state claims that the problem is the turnout but that explanation does not make sense in the real world. The number of poll site computers feeding into the central data base computer dictates how fast that system is; not the number of voters. On election day there will be many, many more poll site computers all feeding into the central computer at the same time. Things will probably get much, much slower and lines will grow longer.

Featured - VA: NAACP Sues Officials Over Vote Preparations

High-Minority Areas Affected, Group Says

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/27/AR2008102702289.html?hpid=topnews

Featured - GA: COUNTDOWN 2008: Computer woes slow Georgians at polls

http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2008/10/28/advancevote.html

National: Cutting Through E-Voting Debate Semantics

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/10/cutting_through.html

National: Interview: Brad Friedman On The Epic Fail Of 2008

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00375.htm

National: Provisional Ballots Get Uneven Treatment

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122515651921374669.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

National: Election Unspun Oct 28 - Vote Switching At Voting Machines

http://www.fsrn.org/content/election-unspun-oct-28-vote-switching-voting-machines/3635

National: E-Voting Complaints Heat Up With Early Voting

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/government/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=211600865

National: UCSB’s Giovanni Vigna Gives Timely Talk on Why Electronic Voting Is Frighteningly Insecure

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00381.htm

National: Update on voting rights cases

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/national/stories/DN-votingbox_28pol.ART.State.Edition1.4a98892.html

National: The Vote Grab: Voter purge could swing result to McCain

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/openhouse/2008/10/the-vote-grab-v.html

National: Thirteen Election Integrity Experts: E-Voting Problems and How to Stop Them

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/thirteen-election-integrity-experts-e-voting-problems-and-how-to-stop-them,597022.shtml

National: Is a “Voting Rights Disaster” in the Offing?

http://themoderatevoice.com/at-tmv/newsweek-blogitics/23825/is-a-voting-rights-disaster-in-the-offing/

National: Battleground: One Week Out….

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/28/1600262.aspx

CA: Alameda County - Touch-Screen Ballots Help Disabled Citizens Vote

http://www.dailycal.org/article/103290/touch-screen_ballots_help_disabled_citizens_vote

CA: Solano County - Demand for early ballots cannot be met

http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_10834810

CO: Federal judge will hear voter purge case Wednesday

http://www.examiner.com/a-1659209~Federal_judge_will_hear_voter_purge_case_Wednesday.html

CO: Latest developments on Colorado voting issues

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/oct/28/latest-developments-on-colorado-voting-issues/

CO: Colorado election snafu roundup: Clerks resort to robocalls to fix bad registrations

http://coloradoindependent.com/12664/colorado-election-snafu-roundup-clerks-resort-to-robocalls-to-fix-bad-registrations

CO: Tipping the Scales Up to 10,000 Registrations Deemed Incomplete in Colorado

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martin-markovits/tipping-the-scalesup_b_138508.html

FL: 12,165 now on Florida's 'no match' vote list

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article877094.ece

FL: Broward County - Early Voting Hours Change, Polls Open Later

http://www.nbc6.net/news/17817738/detail.html

FL: Concerns mount about accuracy of Palm Beach County's ballot counting machines

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpsequoia1028pnoct28,0,6683866.story

GA: Court: ‘Flagged’ citizens may vote

http://www.ajc.com/autoracing/content/metro/stories/2008/10/27/voters_verificiation_ruling.html

IN: Lake County - A divided Lake elections board extends clock on early voting

http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2008/10/28/news/top_news/doced65eb776f6e364f862574f000033c06.txt

NC: Watch out for a separation between the straight-party vote and the presidential vote on your ballots!

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/79161

NC: Guilford County - Democrats May Seek More Voting Time

http://www.wxii12.com/news/17819993/detail.html

NC: Rockingham County - 79 Rockingham voters given provisional ballots

http://www.news-record.com/content/2008/10/28/article/79_rockingham_voters_given_provisional_ballots

NH: Election officials, political operatives wonder about impact of the end of straight-ticket voting

http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081028/GJNEWS02/710281783/-1/CITNEWS

NJ: Princeton Warning on E-Voting Machine Hack Shows Human Touch Can Be a Good Thing

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Princeton-Warning-on-EVoting-Machine-Hack-Shows-Human-Touch-Can-Be-a-Good-Thing/

NJ: Corzine says state is ready for Election Day crowds

http://blog.nj.com/ledgerarchives/2008/10/corzine_said_nj_is_prepared_fo.html

NY: New York City – Editorial - Voting and the City

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/opinion/28tue2.html?bl&ex=1225339200&en=5f15e7dc1d0b8032&ei=5087%0A

OH: One more week to go

Whoever wins Ohio may have to wait

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/28/copy/paper.ART_ART_10-28-08_A1_SUBNML1.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

TX: El Paso County - Problems with Voting Machines

http://www.ktsm.com/news/local/33423489.html

UT: Summit County residents show up at polls only to find they've already voted

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_10830698

VA: Group sues Kaine, Va. election officials on behalf of NAACP

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-10-27-0207.html

VA: Lawsuit: Some Va. precincts lack sufficient voting machines

http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/lawsuit-some-va-precincts-lack-sufficient-voting-machines

VA: A Voting Rights Disaster?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/27/AR2008102702405.html

WV: Voting machines being checked

http://www.register-herald.com/local/local_story_301231525.html

WV: Ireland: Testing OKs touch screen voting machines

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/x221547827/Ireland-Testing-OKs-touch-screen-voting-machines

WV: Touch-screen machines vetted

Ireland invites voters experiencing problems to call her office

http://wvgazette.com/News/200810270716

WV: Opinion - Jason Williams - Voting machines overseen

http://wvgazette.com/Opinion/Op-EdCommentaries/200810270612

WV: Voting machines remain a concern

http://www.dailymail.com/News/election08/200810280266

WV: ES&S VP Given 'Award of Merit' By WV SoS

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6574

Germany: Court to Examine Security of Electronic Voting

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,587001,00.html

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