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'Daily Voting News' For May 22, 2009

 

Yesterday Jessie Jane Duff, Retired Gunnery Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps and spokesperson for Military Voting Rights USA, testified before Congress on the issue of military and overseas voting. Her testimony told what it is like in the field – that the military does more to assist soldiers to pay taxes and give to charity than it does to help them get their ballots cast. She pointed out that the Internet is not readily available in the field (contrary to what many proponents of Internet voting say). She proposed a well-thought out solution and explained the many benefits. The federal government should provide an Express Mail program for the return of ballots, more training for people who assist during the election cycle, and accessible voter registration and absentee ballot request locations. We hope Congress acts on her wise recommendations.

 

The Voter ID bill is scheduled to come to the floor in Texas tomorrow.

 

FEatured: Testimony of Jessie Jane Duff, Gunnery Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.)

http://cha.house.gov/UserFiles/223_testimony.pdf

 

NAtional: EAC Announces $300000 in Grants for Student Mock Elections U.S.

http://www.eac.gov/News/eac-announces-300-000-in-grants-for-student-mock-elections/base_view

 

NAtional: “Military and Overseas Voting: Obstacles and Potential Solutions”. Testimony at the hearing of the Elections Subcommittee Committee on House Administration

http://cha.house.gov/view_hearing.aspx?r=50

 

NAtional: Universal Voter Registration Now

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut/437906/universal_voter_registration_now

 

GA: SCOTUS to hear voter ID law on June 4th

http://www.peachpundit.com/2009/05/21/scotus-to-hear-voter-id-law-on-june-4th/

 

HI: Judge says high-tech voting first needs rules

http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/518759.html

 

IA: Borgman pleads guilty to election misconduct

http://www.clintonherald.com/local/local_story_141103728.html

 

MN: Elections director says instant runoff tallies could take weeks to count

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/05/21/irv_voting/
(They use the ES&S M100 ballot scanners)

 

MN: Pawlenty vetoes Motor Voter registration bill

http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/45841627.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUZ

 

MS: Hewes explains voter ID actions

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20319284&BRD=1377&PAG=461&dept_id=172922&rfi=6

 

NJ: NJ Voting-machine Trial: Defense Witnesses

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/appel/nj-voting-machine-trial-defense-witnesses

 

NY: Tiebreaking Vote Cast by Dead Man; Runoff Required

http://www.1010wins.com/Tiebreaking-Vote-Cast-by-Dead-ManRunoff-Required/4443153

 

TX: Controversial voter ID bill threatens walkout at Texas Capitol

http://www.keyetv.com/content/news/topnews/story/Controversial-voter-ID-bill-threatens-walkout-at/ll2_4o61CkKlD5LmvAxrvg.cspx

 

TX: Democrats using talking stalling tactic

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6437048.html

 

TX: Get ready for the fireworks. Texas House will take the voter ID on Saturday

http://blogs.lubbockonline.com/rangel/2009/05/21/get-ready-for-the-fireworks-texas-house-will-take-the-voter-id-on-saturday/

 

TX: After much speculation, Voter ID showdown set for Saturday

http://newspapertree.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/npt-capitol-after-much-speculation-voter-id-showdown-set-for-saturday/

 

TX: Texas Legislative Study Group Recommends against Voter Photo Identification

http://www.texaslsg.org/reports/LSGVoterID.pdf

 

TX: Texas Legislature Online

http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=81R&Bill=SB317

(Bill to eliminate straight-party voting was removed from the calendar.)

 

Ghana: DI pushes for e-voting:Says India's 700m population managed it, and so can ghana

http://www.modernghana.com/news/217813/1/di-pushes-for-e-votingsays-indias-700m-population-.html

 

Malaysia: EC Studies Feasibility Of Biometric Voter Registration

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=413066

 

Philippines: Philippine Commentary: How To Measure the Accuracy of a Counting Machine

http://philippinecommentary.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-measure-accuracy-of-counting.html

 

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Dave Klein (Klein.David@VotersUnite.org), Editor

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