'Daily Voting News' For April 03, 2008

 

A recent study by Missourians for Honest Elections, of St. Louis County call center sheets and maintenance logs filed by election board technicians at the polls last Feb. 5, revealed interesting data. 181 problems were reported and of those reports 89 (essentially 50% of the problems) involved the voting machine voter verified paper audit trail printers. The problems ranged from 36 votes not appearing at all on the paper trail to failure to print, loose cables, jammed paper and “printer error”. We want to save DREs by installing a vvpat printer; Why? &&& Mesa Co Colorado election officials were prepared to defy any orders from the state to not use their iVotronic voting machines in Nov. In fact, while the machines were decertified by the state the county purchased 130 more of the DREs. Now the county is hat-in-hand in front of the county commission asking for a whopping $5,759 per month for storage for those 130 new machines. If they were using optical-scan they would not need the extra storage and could probably cut down on the amount of storage they were using. It takes far less room to store one optical scan machine per polling place than it does all of the DREs needed to serve the county’s polling places.

 

NAtional: "Emergency" Bill Tries to Make Electronic Voting More Accurate, But Will It?

http://www.alternet.org/election08/81163/?page=1

 

NAtional: Internet Voting is Too Risky for Public Elections

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2806&Itemid=26

 

NAtional: Helpless, Helpless, Helpless

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_marta_st_080402_helpless_2c_helpless_2c_.htm

 

CA: California review of the ES&S AutoMARK and M100

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1269

 

CO: Storage cost jumps for voting machines

http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/04/02/040308_1B_Vote_warehouse.html

 

CT: Procedures Alone Insufficient For Effective Election Audits

http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=180

 

CT: Connecticut: Coalition Releases 2nd Post-Election Audit Report

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2805&Itemid=113

 

IA: Editorial - A more uniform system

http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2008/04/02/news_opinion/editorial/4d2ff12d4f9d69268625741e00763c08.txt

 

IA: E-Vote: Iowa Governor Signs Voter Machine Legislation

http://www.govtech.com/gt/282120?topic=117673

 

IA: Lee County - New voting machines in county's future

http://www.dailygate.com/articles/2008/04/03/news/03.txt

 

IN: Rokita wants voting machine vendor to pay up

http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2008/04/03/s/breaking_news/doc47f54796e61d9610194790.txt

 

KS: Strictness a sticking point in voter ID bill

Democrats urge a softer stance to avoid veto from gov.

http://www.hutchnews.com/Todaystop/bill2008-04-02T20-59-23

 

LA: Voting-sites change passes committee

http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080403/NEWS01/804030318/1002

 

MA: More democracy now

Why Beacon Hill should allow same-day voter registration

http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid59014.aspx

 

MO: Opinion - Is Missouri's voting technology headed for a crash?

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/editorialcommentary/story/943B3DBC43544A688625741E007EC759?OpenDocument

 

MS: Voter ID: Up for the Final Count

http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/comments.php?id=16716_0_4_0_C

 

OH: Cuyahoga Co. review leaves few unscanned primary votes uncounted

http://www.bucyrustelegraphforum.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080402/UPDATES01/80402015

 

PA: Election systems could face problems, official says

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_560482.html

 

PA: Mercer County - County, UniLect asking judge to settle question

http://www.sharonherald.com/local/local_story_093225625.html

 

PA: Wayne County Democrats up 11 percent

http://www.wayneindependent.com/news/x79621773

 

TX: Comal County - Nathan Macias Suing Over Vote Count

http://www.fredericksburgstandard.com/articles/2008/04/02/news/03news.txt

 

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