'Daily Voting News' For November 24, 2008

 

Thousands of Georgia absentee ballot requests have been denied because the voters did not sign the requests. Many of the requests are via a post-card provided by the RNC and the signature block is supposedly hard to find on the card. Over 7,000 requests have been rejected in Cobb Co and 2,800 in DeKalb Co.

 

Connecticut has submitted their reports done by UConn for the SoS office with regards to their voting systems to the EAC for inclusion in the “clearinghouse”. The state and the university have become good partners and are to be commended for the audits of memory cards that they accomplish before and after elections. Every state and local election official should be aware of these reports and the results of the audits. As well as being a font of good information and warnings they should also serve as a valuable example of what a state can do when they actually want to ensure that voting system problems are found. While the reports the EAC allows to be on their site are only a small portion of the reports that should be in the EACs clearinghouse, what is there is a beginning.

 

Featured - National: Voting System Reports Clearinghouse

Connecticut Reports

http://www.eac.gov/program-areas/research-resources-and-reports/copy_of_docs/state-local-voting-system-reports

 

National: Thinking ahead on electoral reform

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/11/24/thinking_ahead_on_electoral_reform/

 

National: EAC Issues Best Practices for Voter Information Web Sites

http://www.eac.gov/News/press/eac-issues-best-practices-for-voter-info-web-sites/base_view

 

GA: Ballot requests run into a glitch

http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2008/11/22/ballots.html

 

GA: Ohio Attorney Requests Handel Hold E-voting Docs, Equipment

http://www.atlantaprogressiveblog.com/2008/11/ohio-attorney-requests-handel-hold-e-voting-docs-equipment/

 

HI: Hawaii voters decide today on paperless elections for boards

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20081124/NEWS01/811240356/1001/LOCALNEWSFRONT

 

KS: Shawnee County - Ballots were left in election worker's trunk

http://cjonline.com/stories/112408/bre_commission.shtml

 

MN: Panel to Decide Fate of Absentee Ballots in Coleman-Franken Race

http://www.pubrecord.org/politics/517-panel-to-decide-fate-of-absentee-ballots-in-coleman-franken-race.html

 

MN: Ballot counting to resume today

http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/34965084.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUX

 

MN: Sloppy Dems may spell Franken advantage

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15904.html

 

MN: Missing ballots in MN?

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/11/24/1688151.aspx

 

MN: Recount mixup prompts dispute in Ramsey County

http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/34993619.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUs

 

MN: Tension rises as Minn. recount enters 2nd week

http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/ap/index.cfm?page=view&id=D94LK53O0

 

NH: Protect the Count: NH Sec of State: central tally of election results is "private SoS business" conducted in "nonpublic" rooms

http://www.democracyfornewhampshire.com/node/view/6273

 

NY: Blank Ballot, and Flurry of Confusion in New Paltz

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/nyregion/24recount.html?ref=nyregion

 

OH: Franklin County - Several questionable ballots tossed out

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/11/24/copy/eboard.ART_ART_11-24-08_B3_R2C02C9.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

 

PA: Erie County - County to purge voters

Up to 10,000 from Erie County could lose eligibility

http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081124/NEWS02/311249895

 

TX: Dallas County judge to hear arguments in Texas House District 105 recount

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/112508dnmethouse105.1e4882247.html

 

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