'Daily Voting News' For December 28, 2007

 

Election officials in Colorado and Ohio seem to have a different opinion every day. Now Colorado SOS Coffman wants legislation that will say that federal certification is good enough. He doesn’t want the state to do any certification testing of voting systems. Of course, that does nothing for any voting system presently used in the state but it may make a difference sometime next year when there are actually federally certified voting systems. Meanwhile Ohio SOS Brunner has reportedly announced that DREs used in counties other than Cuyahoga are alright and don’t have to go away in favor of central-count optical scan. Do either of these people understand what they are doing? It seems not.

 

NAtional: Holt Takes Another Stab at Election Reform

Simplified Legislation Offers Money to Jurisdictions Who Wish to Move to Paper Ballots, Optional Audits...

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5490

 

NAtional: The Best and Worst of 2007: Voting Rights and Elections by Tova Andrea Wang

http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20071227.103949&time=11%2030%20PST&year=2007&public=0

 

NAtional: Courts reflect partisan split on voter ID laws

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/12/25/1225scotus.html

 

CA: Election Irregularities Exposed: "UNCOUNTED" West Coast Premiere in Sacramento

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/12/28/18469117.php

 

CA: Napa County shutting down 41 little-used polling places

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/28/BAG4U4TGK.DTL

 

CO: Paper trail in sight for November voting

http://www.gjsentinel.com/hp/content/news/stories/2007/12/26/122707_1B_paper_ballots.html

 

CO: Elections chief shifts stance again

http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/12/27/122807_1B_Machines_OK.html

 

CO: Editorial - Look to county clerks to solve state vote problems

http://origin.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_7822965

 

CO: Coffman: Feds should do majority of vote-machine testing

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_7824598

 

CO: Moffat County - Secretary of state looks at recertification

Clerk and recorder: No word from secretary

http://www.craigdailypress.com/news/2007/dec/28/secretary_state_looks_recertification/

 

CO: Montrose County - County will conduct ’08 election on paper ballots

http://www.montrosepress.com/articles/2007/12/28/news/doc47748ec0b6ce1806600932.txt

 

CO: Ouray County - County backs clerks' plan on election snafu

http://www.ouraynews.com/Articles-i-2007-12-28-169480.112113_County_backs_clerks_plan_on_election_snafu.html

 

FL: State's new voter ID law on hold

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/358936.html

 

NY: Complaints from Essex Co. on state voting issues

http://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/news/articles.asp?articleID=9833

 

OH: Good luck resolving problems with voting machines

http://www.advertiser-tribune.com/page/content.detail/id/502399.html

 

OH: Cuyahoga County - Reaction and possible legal action to Cuyahoga County's March election plan

http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=80426&provider=gnews

 

OH: Lorain County voting machines can stay

http://www.chroniclet.com/2007/12/28/lorain-county-voting-machines-can-stay

 

PA: Opinion - Voting machines prompt questions

http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071228/OPINION01/712280367

 

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