Officials in Belmont Co Ohio tested the use of paper ballots and optical-scan at one precinct. The test was an attempt to see if elections could be held with less expense using paper ballots than using the county’s DREs. The test was a success so the county is now thinking about spreading the experiment to the whole county. One result of the test was that there were no lines because many voters can mark paper ballots all at the same time. Hopefully Belmont will tell their neighboring counties and they will experiment and tell their neighbors and we will suddenly have a paper ballot movement that will spread across the whole country and more and more counties will join in the “Rage against the Machines”.

 

NAtional: VOTER ACTION CALLS FOR A FULL CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF VOTING SYSTEMS COMPANIES

http://www.voteraction.org/

 

NAtional: Swarthmore College Political Scientist Calls Voter ID Laws 'Democratic Emergency,' Joins Amicus Brief to Challenge Proposed Legislation

http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20071115.083926&time=08%2057%20PST&year=2007&public=0

 

CA: Ballot Petition Fraud Occuring in Support of California's Republican Electoral College Initiative?

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5306

 

CA: San Francisco - Supervisors moving ahead on buying new voting machines

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/11/15/BAAVTCHS9.DTL&type=politics

 

CA: Tehama County - County urges absentee vote

Long lines expected at polls

http://www.redbluffdailynews.com/ci_7470764

 

CO: Boulder County - Mail in 2008?

http://www.coloradodaily.com/articles/2007/11/14/news/c_u_and_boulder/news1.txt

 

CT: From the Crow's Nest: An election reflection

http://www.acorn-online.com/news/publish/newcanaan-opinion/25262.shtml

 

CT: Secretary of the state launches random audits; EHartford, EWindsor, Somers, WLocks ed

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19027854&BRD=985&PAG=461&dept_id=161556&rfi=6

 

HI: New vote system could be delayed

The next setup’s cost might go over budget, an election official says

http://starbulletin.com/2007/11/15/news/story08.html

 

NH: Candidates go for recounts despite the cost

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071115/NEWS01/71115002/-1/news

 

NJ: Voters still traveling on a paperless trail

http://www.montclairtimes.com/page.php?page=16196

 

NM: San Juan County - County stuck with outdated voting machines

http://kob.com/article/stories/S257362.shtml?cat=519

 

NY: How Two Million Bucks Could Derail Open-Source Voting Machines in New York Elections

http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/runninscared/archives/2007/11/how_two_million.php

 

NY: Ulster County - Paper ballots next year? State election official says they'd be impractical

http://www.dailyfreeman.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19025120&BRD=1769&PAG=461&dept_id=74969&rfi=6

 

OH: Belmont County - More Paper At ’08 Polls

http://www.news-register.net/page/content.detail/id/502221.html?nav=510

 

OH: Putnam County - Election troubles abound

http://putnamsentinel.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=1882&TM=61826.68

 

PA: Lancaster County - Official: Elections office didn't prepare public for vote

http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/212418

 

TX: Harris County - Why did it take a week for press to learn of eSlate "adjustments?"

http://www.bloghouston.net/item/6019

 

Canada: Ontario - Embattled Vaughan clerk fired

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/276674

 

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