'Daily Voting News' For January 23, 2008

 

Today is a mixed bag of articles. Officials in South Carolina have been told to have the proper amount of emergency paper ballots at the polls for the Democratic primary election this Saturday. It seems that Republicans were forced to vote on any scrap of paper available in Horry Co last Saturday. &&& The Registrar of Voters of Sacramento Co California, Jill Lavine, has revealed (http://calvoter.org/news/blog/index.html ) that the counties ES&S M-100 precinct-based optical-scan machines failed “Logic and Accuracy” testing for the Feb 5 primary. “Many of the county's M100 machines, which have been tested and used for several previous elections without incident, had a variety of problems. With some machines, the ballot could not be loaded at all, or only accepted if loaded in backwards. In some cases, Democratic votes were not being recorded by a scanner. With other machines, it would be Republican votes that were not recorded. And with some machines, there were no problems at all. With the election within two weeks, Lavine decided to forego using the scanners altogether, and count the ballots centrally at the county election office.” We applaud Lavine and her staff for doing a thorough L&A test and for making the correct decision. One can only wonder as to whom ES&S will blame for this problem. &&& Meanwhile Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman has changed his mind again and he is now backing the state’s county clerks association which wants vote-by-mail. The governor and legislative leaders today announced legislation that will require all counties to keep poll site voting but do away with the state’s DREs and require paper ballots. It cannot be long before Coffman changes his mind again and announces his support for paper ballots at the polls.

 

NAtional: Editorial - Voters don't need photo identification

http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080123/OPINION01/801230342/-1/OPINION21

 

NAtional: Report: Touch Screen Ballot Design Can Cause Voter Errors

http://www.nbc4.com/news/15115761/detail.html

 

NAtional: Columnist - Servatius: The chads are still hanging

America's democracy is flawed at the most fundamental level

http://media.www.dailyutahchronicle.com/media/storage/paper244/news/2008/01/23/Opinion/Servatius.The.Chads.Are.Still.Hanging-3163003.shtml

 

NAtional: Why We Need Democracy Promotion at Home

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?bid=7&pid=274167

 

AR: Benton County - Democratic poll watchers to be on hand for Feb. 5 vote

http://nwanews.com/bcdr/News/58025/

 

CA: Judge rules against counties in vote count dispute

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_vote23.339ccb2.html

 

CA: Kings County - South Valley Voting Machines Gathering Dust

http://www.kmph.com/Global/story.asp?S=7759741&nav=menu612_2_6

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CA: Monterey County - Panel observes voting process

Elections Department: Group formed to meet state requirement`

http://www.montereyherald.com/local/ci_8052167?nclick_check=1

 

CA: Sacramento County - Long election night likely

Sacramento County machine flaws to delay results

http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/654559.html

 

CA: Sacramento County equipment problems will delay primary election results

http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/653553.html

 

CA: Sacramento County - Voting equipment problems in Sacramento lead to change of plans

http://calvoter.org/news/blog/index.html

 

CA: San Diego County - Judge rejects county's election recount challenge

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/01/23/news/top_stories/1_03_281_22_08.txt

 

CA: San Diego County - Hand counting of ballots can increase, judge rules

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20080123-9999-1m23b2briefs.html

 

CA: San Francisco County - S.F. settles suit with voting machine vendor

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/23/BA4AUJQ2D.DTL&type=politics

 

CA: San Francisco County - City may get $3.5M from e-voting company

http://www.examiner.com/a-1174440~City_may_get__3_5M_from_e_voting_company.html

 

CA: Solano County - Election oversight proposal rejected

http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_8054120

 

CO: Ritter backs paper ballots at polls

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_8055547

 

CO: Ritter proposes paper ballot

http://dailycamera.com/news/2008/jan/23/ritter-proposes-paper-ballot-election-system/

 

CO: Paper Ballots Will Be Used In This Year's Elections

Electronic Voting Equipment Was Disqualified In December

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/15121967/detail.html

 

CO: Ritter: State should use paper, not electronics, to vote

http://www.9news.com/news/top-article.aspx?storyid=85021

 

CO: Federal election official talks about Colorado voting problems

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jan/23/federal-election-official-talks-about-colorado-vot/

 

CO: Garfield County's clerk and recorder says she needs an answer on voting machines

http://www.postindependent.com/article/20080123/VALLEYNEWS/63551398

 

CO: Weld County - Weld clerk calls Ritter's paper ballot proposal "step back"

http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20080123/NEWS/238954928

 

FL: Pinellas County – Editorial - Plan for early voting snubs half the county

http://www.sptimes.com/2008/01/23/Northpinellas/Plan_for_early_voting.shtml

 

FL: Sarasota County - Sarasota backs off mail-in election A special vote this spring will be done traditionally, just to be on the safe side

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080123/NEWS/801230396/-1/newssitemap

 

IA: Mauro: Update all of Iowa's voting machines

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080123/NEWS/80123030/-1/NEWS04

 

MA: Swampscott set to debut new voting machines

http://www.thedailyitemoflynn.com/articles/2008/01/23/news/news17.txt

 

MD: Study Author Pans Scrapping of Maryland's Touch-Screen Voting Machines

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325031,00.html

 

NM: Ballot Busters

Will the state’s election software be reliable?

http://sfreporter.com/articles/publish/outtake-012308-ballot-busters.php

 

NY: Brennan Center to New York State Board of Elections: Don't Even Think About It

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2722&Itemid=113

 

NY: Opinion - Voting machine deadline approaching

County election commissioners face crucial choice by Feb. 8.

http://www.stargazettenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080123/OPINION03/801230325

 

NY: Republican resigns from state elections board

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-nyvotingmachines0123jan23,0,2622783.story

 

NY: Illness might delay state's choice of new voting machines

http://www.uticaod.com/homepage/x254751523

 

OH: Brunner's election plan given rebuff

Secretary of state hoping elections officials will compromise on replacing touch screen machines with paper ballots.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/01/22/ddn012308vote.html

 

OH: Brunner: Security over cost

Most counties want to stick with touch-screen voting

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080123/NEWS01/801230369/-1/CINCI

 

OH: Brunner wants officials to compromise

http://www.newarkadvocate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080123/UPDATES01/80123010/1002/

 

OH: Ohio’s vote machines lacking controls

http://www.irontontribune.com/articles/2008/01/23/news/local05.txt

 

OH: Lake County - Lake officials estimate cost of changing voting equipment

http://www.news-herald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19222425&BRD=1698&PAG=461&dept_id=21849&rfi=6

 

PA: Editorial - Could online voting be far in the future?

http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2008/01/23/editorial/editorial/daily671.txt

 

PA: Lawrence County - County to address voting machine complaints

http://www.ncnewsonline.com/local/local_story_023102553.html

 

PA: Wayne County - Wayne considering leasing machines for April primary

http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19222833&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=416046&rfi=6

 

SC: Legislators call for more paper ballots after Horry Co. primary problems

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7762177

 

SC: Officials working to fix voting machine problems from GOP primary

http://www.thestate.com/scpolitics-wire/story/294599.html

 

SC: Horry County - Staff changes not expected over primary

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/story/324050.html

 

SC: Orangeburg County - School election appeal before Supreme Court

http://www.thetandd.com/articles/2008/01/23/news/12927206.txt

 

UT: Utah's AccuVOTE Proves to be Safe and Successful

http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/67064

 

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