'Daily Voting News' For February 28, 2008

 

The Florida Secretary of State has found someone to take the state’s Direct Recording Electronic voting machines and “de-manufacture” them. ES&S iVotronics will be resold, if possible. The state’s Sequoia machines will be scrapped for spare parts and recycle. &&& In a not surprising announcement today Secretary of State Coffman of Colorado announced that he is recertifying the state’s optical scan machines to go with the state’s DREs that he has already recertified. Essentially the state lost a court decision and had to recertify all voting systems used in the various counties. Coffman hired test labs at great expense to the tax payer to test the machines. They found problems with every system they tested. Coffman, after taking many positions, finally decided to recertify the DREs last week, even though they were decertified for good reason. Now, today, he has ignored the test labs, again, and recertified the optical scan machines. This includes the Hart Intercivic eScan that was decertified because it read stray pencil/pen marks on the ballot, even reading the mark and ignoring a correctly made vote. The tax payers in the state of Colorado need to ask, “Why did you waste our tax money to test machines and then ignore the tests and recommendations of the testers?” The state has come no where since the court found that they had not legally certified voting systems in the first place. Now they have the same machines and nothing is better now than it was in the past.

 

NAtional: Provisional Ballots May Be the Hanging Chad of ’08

http://www.tcf.org/list.asp?type=NC&pubid=1817

 

NAtional: Prof. pushes verifiable voting system

http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2008/2/28/profPushesVerifiableVotingSystem

 

CA: Documentary Exposing Election Fraud Slated for Four Screenings In San Francisco

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/27/18482268.php

 

CA: Los Angeles County - Uncounted primary ballots to be tallied

http://www.wavenewspapers.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=71&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=7073&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1019&hn=wavenewspapers&he=.com

 

CA: Los Angeles County - L.A. County Registrar Prepares to NOT Count Thousands of 'Double Bubble' Ballots from Super Tuesday's Democratic Primary

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5746

 

CA: Los Angeles County - LA Supervisors ask for full accounting of double bubble trouble

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

 

CO: Editorial - Paper ballots still are safest

http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_8383424

 

CO: Concerns rising about requiring a paper-ballot election

One senator promises to fight the bill, the result of problems with electronic terminals.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_8387623

 

CO: Coffman recertifies ballot-counting machines

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_8396068

 

CO: Scanners Used In 47 Counties Recertified For Elections

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/15441752/detail.html

 

FL: Fla. secretary of state to discuss switch to optical scan voting

http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/437221.html

 

FL: State to 'de-manufacture' touch-screen voting booths

Reaches deal with recycling firm to sell off parts from 29,000 machines

http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080228/NEWS0107/80228054/1075

 

FL: Touchscreen machines headed for junk heap

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/437705.html

 

FL: Touch-screen voting machines to be recycled or resold

http://www.jacksonville.com/apnews/stories/022808/D8V3JKVO2.shtml

 

FL: Palm Beach County - 4,000 Palm Beach voting machines being sold for parts

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/state/content/state/epaper/2008/02/28/0228touchscreen.html

 

MS: Senate passes watered-down elections bill

http://www.cdispatch.com/articles/2008/02/28/state_news/state03.txt

 

NJ: Opinion - Don't extend ballot deadline

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080228/OPINION01/802280611/1029/OPINION

 

NM: Provisional Ballots to Decide NM Winner

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Feb07/0,4670,NewMexicoCaucus,00.html

 

NY: Board approves voting machines despite objections

http://capitalnews9.com/content/headlines/111359/board-approves-voting-machines-despite-objections/Default.aspx

 

NY: State OKs opposed voting machine

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080228/NEWS01/802280333/1002/NEWS

 

NY: N.Y. approves new voting machines

http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080228/NEWS01/802280355

 

OH: Elections spending called bad deal

Ohio secretary of state says voting-machine purchases poorly done

http://www.ohio.com/news/16065012.html

 

OH: Brunner defends removing elections board dissenters

http://blog.cleveland.com/plaindealer/2008/02/brunner_defends_removing_elect.html

 

OH: Crates not re-appointed to Board of Election by Secretary of State

http://www.adaherald.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=5&ArticleID=100725

 

OH: Cuyahoga County - Will Your Vote Count?

Cuyahoga County Implements A New Electronic Voting System, After Wasting Millions On A Fantasy

http://www.freetimes.com/stories/15/43/will-your-vote-count

 

PA: Lackawanna County - Voting machine talks stumble

http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19340164&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=415898&rfi=6

 

TX: Upshur County has voting hearing

http://www.ketknbc.com/home/ticker/16058727.html

 

TX: Upshur County - Republicans File Suit Over Upshur Voting Machines

http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7936786

 

TX: Upshur County - Judge rejects Upshur request

Republicans will use paper ballots Tuesday instead of voting machines

http://www.news-journal.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/02/28/02282008_Upshur_Republicans.html

 

UT: ACLU, League of Woman Voters oppose voter ID bill

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_8389318

 

UT: Bill would require ID to register for voting

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_8385156

 

VA: Chesterfield County - Handwritten primary votes won't be counted

299 Chesterfield votes not on proper paper forms, says election board

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-02-27-0136.html

 

VA: Prince William County - ACLU Lawsuit Says Officials Unconstitutionally Prevented Man From Voting In Virginia

http://www.aclu.org/votingrights/gen/34244prs20080228.html

 

WI: Editorial - A case not made

Deal with making the actual voting system work better rather than impose unfair or self-defeating measures.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=722821

 

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