'Daily Voting News' for July 09-10, 2009

Ellen Theisen, Dave Klein, and John Washburn

Debate rages in Tennessee over the Secretary of State’s ever-growing reasons why the state can’t implement the law requiring voter-marked paper ballots by 2010. The Philippines and Smartmatic finally put pen to paper for automating the 2010 election.

Correction: In our previous DVN, we included an article about Hart InterCivic, which we have since found out was from April 2008. We apologize for any confusion we caused.

National: Schumer, Chambliss & Nelson Announce Bipartisan Bill To Guarantee Military Ballots From Overseas Never Go Uncounted
http://electionlawblog.org/archives/014069.html

National: Time to fix problems for military voters (Sen. Ben Nelson)
http://blog.thehill.com/2009/07/10/time-to-fix-problems-for-military-voters-sen-ben-nelson/

National: House Gets New Voting System
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_4/news/36613-1.html

National: EAC Invites Public to Comment on Disability Access and Voting Technologies
http://www.eac.gov/News/docs/eac-sunshine-notice-7-14-09-meeting.pdf/attachment_download/file

GA: E-vote case headed to Georgia Supreme Court
http://www.atlantaprogressiveblog.com/2009/07/e-vote-case-headed-to-georgia-supreme-court/

GA: Federal Appeals Court Rules Board Member Cannot Sue
http://gpbnews.blogspot.com/2009/07/federl-appeals-court-rules-member.html

IA: Councilman blasts Gill for voting center proposal
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2009/07/07/news/local/66d26bc718ed042e862575ec00145963.txt

IN: Plan would cut number of Allen County poll sites
http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090709/NEWS/907090318

IN, NM: Groups say states violating voter registration law
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090709/ap_on_go_ot/us_voter_lawsuits

TN: Odom Says Hargett "Dragging His Feet" On Voter Confidence Act; Hargett Replies
http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_154570.asp

TN: Costs Affecting Paper Ballots
http://www.wsmv.com/politics/20006981/detail.html
(“Now some lawmakers are speaking out in support of the ballots.”)

TN: Democrats: Voting machine delay is political move
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090710/NEWS0201/907100357/1009/NEWS02

WV: Voting ID system passes first WVa hurdle
http://wvgazette.com/ap/ApTopStories/200907100234

India: Political distrust of voting machines reaches apex court
http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a63876.html

Philippines: Manila signs deal to automate 2010 elections
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-40953720090710

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Ellen Theisen (ellen@votersunite.org), Director and Managing Editor
Dave Klein (Klein.David@VotersUnite.org), Editor
John Washburn (Washburn.John@VotersUnite.org), Editor

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