'Daily Voting News' For March 11, 2008

 

Another good reason that a mail-in primary do-over cannot happen in Florida? It is against the law. State law only allows referendums to be on a mail ballots and doesn’t allow for candidates to be named on ballots via stamp and carrier. An executive order or a law change would be needed to allow the presidential primary to be recast. &&& On top of today’s Mississippi primary we also had a special election for Indiana’s 7^th CD and municipal elections in Florida. &&& Today the Iowa senate approved a bill (47-1) that will change the state to a paper ballot and op-scan state from one that had a mix of optical-scan and DRE counties. The bill now goes to the House where it is expected to pass.

 

CO: Elections 2008: Colorado's Unending Secrecy regarding Voter Registration

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_al_kolwi_080311_elections_2008_3a__col.htm

 

FL: 'Mashed Into Bits': Florida Touch-Screen Voting Machines - 28,000 of them - to be Crushed, Recycled, Repurposed...

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5786

 

FL: Southwest Florida elections supervisor skeptical of mail-in redo

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2008/mar/10/lee-county-supervisor-elections-skeptical-mailre/

 

FL: Deadline To Decide On Revote Urgent

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/mar/11/na-deadline-to-decide-on-revote-urgent/

 

FL: Florida Democrats mull primary vote by mail

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-flfprimary0311sbmar11,0,7389847.story

 

FL: Dems wonder what to do about Florida

http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080311/NEWS01/803110321/1006

 

FL: Changing voting machines is an expensive reality

http://www.thevillagesdailysun.com/articles/2008/03/11/news/news01.txt

 

FL: Host of factors affect possible new primary in Florida

http://www.thevillagesdailysun.com/articles/2008/03/11/news/news02.txt

 

FL: Hillsborough County - Plug Is Pulled On Touch Voting

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/mar/11/me-plug-is-pulled-on-touch-voting/

 

FL: Indian River County might not be ready for do-over

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/mar/10/30gtindian-river-might-not-be-ready-for-do-over/

 

FL: Palm Beach County - Palm Beach County touch-screen voting machines get final use today in 19 municipal elections

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpelection0311pnmar11,0,7136854.story

 

FL: Palm Beach County - Election going smoothly so far, supervisor says

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/03/11/0311elect.html

 

IA: Culver wants a tighter rein on purchase of voting gear

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080311/NEWS10/803110371/-1/LIFE04

 

IA: Counties: State voting machine plan doesn't measure up

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080311/NEWS/80311034/1001

 

IA: Senate approves new statewide voting system

http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2008/03/11/ap-state-ia/d8vbetqg0.txt

 

IN: Today's election day in the 7th District

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080310/LOCAL/80310079/0/CPUB

 

IN: Polls close for 7th district voting

http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=8000752&nav=9Tai

 

LA: East Baton Rouge Parish - Computer glitches slow EBR returns

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/politics/16485286.html

 

MN: Instant-runoff voting in Minneapolis unlikely in 2009

The election director doubts the city will have the proper equipment in place by then.

http://www.startribune.com/politics/local/16405066.html

 

MS: Your vote counts

http://www.gulflive.com/news/mississippipress/index.ssf?/base/news/120523052191910.xml

 

MS: Voting problems reported in Madison Co.

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080311/NEWS/80311030

 

NJ: Voting machine errors spur independent analysis

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/03/voting_machine_errors_spur_ind.html

 

OH: Almost 90,000 Ohio votes didn't count

http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=402918&Category=14&subCategoryID=

 

OH: Editorial - Brunner should listen to voters

http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=402908&Category=3&subCategoryID=

 

OK: Oklahoma House passes voter identification bill in party-line vote

http://www.kjrh.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=0d7bc680-9d58-46d6-b6ff-ef12c44e0190

 

PA: Opinion - Good staff is key to a smooth election day

http://www.mcall.com/news/opinion/all-a.6306245mar11,0,7634182.story

 

TX: Fight for Texas delegates won't end anytime soon

Close count could shift either way before long

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/5608177.html

 

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