'Daily Voting News' For June 13, 2008

 

Yes, for all of you paraskavedekatriaphobiacs (fear of Friday the 13^th) or triskaidekaphobiacs (fear of the number 13) today is Friday the 13th. But it’s nearly over so all will be well soon. &&& The Curry Co (New Mexico) Canvass Board approved the final election canvass from the June 4 election today. As a reminder, some memory cards used to transfer tallies from the ES&S op-scan machines to the central-tabulator were corrupted. The county election staff ran tapes from the machines and tallied those to get the final results. When a losing candidate, at the meeting, asked why the county did not rerun the paper ballots she was handed a schedule of how much it would cost her to request a recount. If state law does not allow New Mexico counties to recount ballots when there is an equipment failure then New Mexico law needs to be changed.

 

NAtional: V.A. Ban on Voter Drives Is Criticized

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/washington/13vote.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=us&adxnnlx=1213365610-hJhPwu+KY8VniSvB4LRVGw

 

NAtional: Richard Hayes Phillips,Author of "Witness to a Crime: A Citizens' Audit of an American Election"

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Exclusive-with-Richard-Hay-by-Joan-Brunwasser-080612-229.html

 

NAtional: SAVE [Student Association for Voter Empowerment] Urges All States to Allow Teenagers to Pre-Register to Vote

http://www.savevoting.org/preregistration_press_release.html

 

NAtional: Poll workers wanted — lots of them

States, counties look at new ways to fill positions

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20080609/1a_bottomstrip09.art.htm

 

AR: Faulkner County - Local election-integrity activist: toss electronic machines

http://www.thecabin.net/stories/061308/loc_0613080002.shtml

 

CA: Los Angeles County - 'Human Error' to Blame for My Votes Being Flipped in L.A. County, According to Registrar's Initial Investigation

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6070

 

IL: Kane County Clerk to push for early voting

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=207007

 

NM: Election officials order too many ballots

http://kob.com/article/stories/S475848.shtml?cat=504

 

NM: Curry County - County vote canvass approved

http://www.cnjonline.com/news/county_28628___article.html/canvass_election.html

 

NY: Poll Results

http://www.syracuse.com/opinion/index.ssf?/base/opinion-2/1213347316237941.xml&coll=1

 

PA: Indiana county set to receive election money

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/blairsvilledispatch/s_572458.html

 

PA: Northampton County names Howard Erney acting chief registrar

http://blog.pennlive.com/lvbreakingnews/2008/06/northampton_county_names_howar.html

 

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