'Daily Voting News' For April 23, 2008

 

Two and a half years ago Sangamon Co Illinois (Springfield) purchased 930 new Populex voting machines for $1.7M. The state will not accept them for use to count vote-by-mail (absentee) ballots so the county has been hand-counting those ballots and using a machine to check the hand-count. Now Populex has said that they don’t plan on continuing the federal testing and certification process that they had begun over a year ago. The county will probably have to scrap these new machines and go elsewhere. An expensive mistake. &&& How can election officials in Pennsylvania find problems but not do all they can to ensure every vote is counted? There was more than one report of votes on machines that had problems but officials not being interested unless it is “necessary”.

 

NAtional: Is Talk of Election Day Disaster Nothing But Fearmongering? Hardly

http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.27851/pub_detail.asp

 

NAtional: Voter Suppression and the Major Parties

http://donklephant.com/2008/04/22/voter-suppression-and-the-major-parties/

 

NAtional: Cybercrime and Politics: The Dangers of the Internet in Elections

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1190114

 

NAtional: Vote-count bill's rebuff doesn't add up

http://www.nj.com/njvoices/index.ssf/2008/04/votecount_bills_rebuff_doesnt.html

 

AZ: Pima County – Editorial - Public should be able to see election records

Our view: Technology shouldn't negate the people's right to check voting results

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/235549

 

IL: Sangamon County - Sangamon may need new voting machines

Current system not certified for mail-in

http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/29196.asp

 

NY: LibertyVote Leaves New York

Last of the DREs pull outs of the Empire State

http://www.nyvv.org/boblog/2008/04/23/libertyvote-leaves-new-york/

 

PA: Translation Poses Voting Challenges In Chinatown, Philadelphia PA

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-j-mansfield/translation-poses-voting_b_98081.html

 

PA: Voting in Pennsylvania

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_suzanne__080422_voting_in_pennsylvan.htm

 

PA: Election Protection Coalition Fields Over 1,000 Calls Reporting Scattered Problems Throughout Pennsylvania

http://www.bradblog.com/Docs/CommitteeOf70_PAPrimary_ElectionProtectionUpdateRelease_1030pm.doc

 

PA: Rumors of e-vote Fraud in Pennsylania, but Voters Like Machines

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/upgrade/4260505.html

 

PA: Fayette County - New paper ballots a popular choice among area voters

http://www.heraldstandard.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19508877&BRD=2280&PAG=461&dept_id=480247&rfi=6

 

PA: Lackawanna County - Ballot error confuses voters

http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19509191&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=416046&rfi=6

 

PA: Lackawanna and Wayne Counties - Few problems with new voting machines

http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19509198&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=415898&rfi=6

 

PA: Lawrence and Mercer Counties - Mostly smooth sailing at polls, election officials in 2 counties say

http://www.vindy.com/news/2008/apr/23/mostly-smooth-sailing-at-polls-election-officials/

 

PA: Luzerne County – Election Notes

http://www.timesleader.com/news/20080423_23notes_ART.html

 

PA: Montgomery County - Request to extend voting hours denied

http://www.thetimeschronicle.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19509317&BRD=1306&PAG=461&dept_id=187823&rfi=6

 

PA: Montgomery and Northampton Counties - Region's Democrats crowd into polls

Even some too young to vote gather outside to cheer on favorites.

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1-5crush-5.6375816apr23,0,2986966.story

 

PA: Northampton County - Voters encounter few glitches at polls

http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-16/1208923534128410.xml&coll=2

 

PA: Philadelphia - Compared to Other Primary Contests, Fewer Black Voters Turn Out for Barack Obama

http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/movingamerica08/pennblacks423

 

TN: Davidson County - Davidson wants paper ballots

Officials urge switch now, but state says election too soon

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080423/NEWS0202/804230425/1009/news01

 

Canada: New Brunswick to use provincewide electronic vote tabulation

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iESEU4S7LHF8DEft1hQ1UFF0wl1g

 

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