'Daily Voting News' For January 07, 2008

 

 

Today is another busy day with news. The “Supremes” are about to hear the Voter-ID case and The New Yorker actually printed an article on the lack of voter fraud ( http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/01/14/080114ta_talk_toobin ).

 

There is also a new report put out by Common Cause that addresses Vote-By-Mail ( http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=3790039 ).

 

Also be sure to read the “The Kudzu Effect: The Voting-Industrial Complex Chokes Our Democracy” from Cleveland Free Press (http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2008/2959). It gives a lot of background about how we got where we are now and who is behind it.

 

And I have to mention that there is an editorial for a state that I think I may have mentioned only once or twice before in the four-year history of “Daily Voting News”; Oklahoma and any previous mention was not due to problems with their machines. You see, in 1992 Oklahoma bought ES&S Optech III-P Eagle optical-scan machines then immediately kicked ES&S out of the state. Since then Oklahoma has done all ballot printing, software s, ballot definitions, and maintenance themselves. They don’t have problems.

 

NAtional: Voter ID case could affect election laws

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-01-06-court_N.htm

 

NAtional: Voter ID Laws Are Set to Face a Crucial Test

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/us/07identity.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=login

 

NAtional: Columnist - Fraud Alert

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/01/14/080114ta_talk_toobin

 

NAtional: Opinion - A Paper Trail for Voting Machines

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/opinion/07poundstone.html

 

NAtional: Response to NY Times Magazine cover story:"Can you count on voting machines?"

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_robert_l_080106_response_to_ny_times.htm

 

NAtional: Getting it Straight for 2008:

What We Know About Vote by Mail Elections, and How to Conduct Them Well

http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=3790039

 

NAtional: The Kudzu Effect: The Voting-Industrial Complex chokes our democracy

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2008/2959

 

NAtional: Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00047.htm

 

NAtional: The Establishment’s Voting Machines

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/01/07/the_establishment_s_voting_machines

 

NAtional: Voter I.D. requirements reduce political participation, study finds

http://www.physorg.com/news118931373.html

 

NAtional: Vote Hope 2008 :3: Mark Ritchie

http://yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=2236

 

CA: Solano County - Cloutier to contest manual recount of Vallejo mayor's race

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7899460?nclick_check=1

 

CO: 54 Colorado Counties Not Prepared For Election

http://www.kktv.com/news/headlines/13489142.html

 

CO: Ouray County - State Decertifies Electronic Voting Machines

http://www.telluridewatch.com/articles/2008/01/07/news/doc47828a2929b1a848573201.txt

 

GA: Cobb County - Kennesaw's election do-over

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/stories/2008/01/06/elect_0107.html

 

IA: The Iowa Un-Caucus

http://www.whytuesday.org/2008/01/07/the-iowa-un-caucus/

 

IN: Voter ID law going before high court

State says it prevents fraud; critics call law an unnecessary burden

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080107/LOCAL19/801070387/1006/LOCAL

 

KY: Legislators likely to debate election changes

http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/story/278518.html

 

MN: One citizen, one vote, one form of ID?

http://www.startribune.com/politics/local/13489471.html

 

ND: Supreme Court voter ID case unlikely to affect N.D. rules

http://www.minotdailynews.com/news/articles.asp?articleID=17562

 

NH: "First in the nation" (with corporate controlled secret vote counting)

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_nancy_to_080107_nh_3a__22first_in_the_na.htm

 

NJ: New Jersey lawmakers consider ballot safeguards

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-njvotingmachinechal0107jan07,0,6104193.story

 

NJ: Giblin Bill Moving Division of Elections to Department of State Signed Into Law

http://www.politickernj.com/giblin-bill-moving-division-elections-department-state-signed-law-15132

 

NJ: NJ Secretary of State taking over elections from AG

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/01/gov_jon_corzine_today_signed.html

 

OH: Editorial - Ohio election 'quick fix' is dicey

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080107/EDIT01/801070302/1090/EDIT

 

OH: Opinion - Wrong message

In the name of fixing things, Ohio’s secretary of state is undermining voter confidence

http://wwwphp.dispatch.com/text/stories/20080106-H4-00.php

 

OH: Opinion - Ohio's system works well for voters

http://www.timesgazette.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=149672

 

OH: Van Wert County - Election ballot will be change of pace

http://www.timesbulletin.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=145204&TM=186.795

 

OK: Editorial - Iron eagle: State voting system keeps on performing

http://newsok.com/article/3189663/1199705668

 

PA: Opinion - Electronic voting

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/archive/s_545968.html

 

TN: Commission guards voters IDs

Election official believes personal information safe

http://dnj.midsouthnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080107/NEWS01/801070321/1002

 

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