'Daily Voting News' For February 21, 2008

 

Election officials in three Colorado counties claim that they can catch all of the stray marks on ballots. Those stray marks may be read as votes by their Hart Intercivic eScan voting machines. Those claims don’t seem to carry any water when you consider that some of the marks that were read by the machines instead of the actual vote were just dots where a voter may have rested their pen.

 

On the heels of reports of serious problems with Sequoia Advantage voting machines used in New Jersey the state Attorney General has announced that there is no way they can have voter verified paper audit trail (vvpat) printers for those machines by the November election. Of course, some would have you believe that the inclusion of a vvpat printer would mitigate the problems reported yesterday. No vvpat printer on those machines would have made any difference with the internal memory and voters do not verify their ballot using that printer. The only savior would be to replace the machines with a paper ballot voting system.

 

NAtional - Analysis: e-voting's success rests on chain-of-custody issue

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080221-analysis-evotings-success-rests-on-chain-of-custody-issue.html

 

NAtional: Electronic Voting and Partial Audits Let's do the Math

http://www.cnet.com/8301-13554_1-9876062-33.html?tag=more

 

NAtional: Following the Paper Trail

Case study examines five states' efforts to limit paperless voting

http://www.sys-con.com/read/505286.htm

 

CO: Key voting machine hearing today

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/feb/21/key-voting-machine-hearing-today/

 

CO: 3 county officials dispute state test results on voting equipment

http://www.9news.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=86824

 

FL: Broward County – Incredible Turnout - The Phantoms of Oakland Park

http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-02-21/news/incredible-turnout/

 

FL: Hillsborough County - Hillsborough approves $5.97 million contract for voting system

http://tampabay.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2008/02/18/daily39.html

 

MS: Wilkinson County - Judge calls new election

http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/news/2008/feb/21/persons-tosses-paper-ballots/

 

NH: Statement from the New Hampshire Fair Elections Committee Regarding Activist Recount Investigations in New Hampshire

http://www.democracyfornewhampshire.com/node/view/5472

 

NJ: Sequoia E-Voting Machines Reporting Inaccurate Totals in New Jersey

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5718

 

NJ: Minor problems with voting machines

http://www.nj.com/news/gloucester/local/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1203577826286680.xml&coll=8

 

NJ: AP NewsBreak: Another delay for N.J. electronic ballot safeguards

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-njvotingmachines0221feb21,0,5683398.story

 

NJ: Voting Machine Discrepancies Leave Questionable Results

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2757&Itemid=113

 

NJ: Another delay for N.J. electronic ballot safeguards

http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/new_jersey/20080221_ap_anotherdelayfornjelectronicballotsafeguards.html

 

NY: New York City - Data entry errors to blame for wrong NY Super Tuesday tallies

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-nymiscountedvotes0220feb20,0,4200259.story

 

NY: New York City Still Tallying Votes

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/02/20/new_york_city_still_tallying_v.html

 

OH: Forum addresses voting equipment

http://www.thepost.ohiou.edu/Articles/News/2008/02/21/23006/

 

OH: Will Some Ohio Polling Places Be Inadvertantly Shut Down on Election Day?

http://www.josephhall.org/nqb2/index.php/2008/02/21/ohpollshut

 

OH: Licking County to exceed paper ballot requirement

Local election officials hope to have enough on hand for March 4 primary

http://www.newarkadvocate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080221/NEWS01/802210332/1002

 

OH: Summit County - Ohio SoS Fires Another GOP County Election Official, GOP State Senator Applauds

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5724

 

OH: Summit County - GOP chief Arshinkoff loses elections board seat

http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/15822622.html

 

OK: House voter identification bill clears committee

http://www.journalrecord.com/article.cfm?recid=86435

 

PA: Bucks County - Bucks voting machine activists will have their say

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b1_2voting.6281012feb21,0,2798462.story

 

PA: Bucks County - Paper Balloting Advocates Decry Bucks County Voting Machines

http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=19317276&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=618959&rfi=6

 

PA: Bucks County – Columnist - Meeting shows our system at work

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-02212008-1491249.html

 

PA: Bucks County - Voting advocates protest machines

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-02212008-1491317.html

 

PA: Bucks County - Dry Ice and the DRE Dumpster

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_marta_st_080221_dry_ice_and_the_dre_.htm

 

PA: Luzerne County - 3rd-party voters get reminder

http://www.timesleader.com/news/20080221_21elect_jen_ART.html

 

PA: Wayne County – Editorial - Wayne officials made savvy decision on voting

http://www.weeklyalmanac.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=76&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=8803&wpage=&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1020&hn=weeklyalmanac&he=.com

 

TN: Film raises issue of vote fraud

http://media.www.mtsusidelines.com/media/storage/paper202/news/2008/02/21/News/Film-Raises.Issue.Of.Vote.Fraud-3223785.shtml

 

TN: Tennessee may change voting machines

93 of 95 counties can't generate paper trail that bill would require

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080221/NEWS0201/802210402/1009/NEWS01

 

VA: Recounting the recount

http://www.nelsoncountytimes.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=NCO/MGArticle/NCO_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173354695272

 

VA: Chesterfield County - Democrats protest Chesterfield vote

Complaint claims county mismanaged election and some couldn't cast ballots

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news/politics.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-02-21-0098.html

 

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