'Daily Voting News' For May 18 and 19, 2008

 

41 voters in Atlanta Texas went to the polls to vote for, amongst other items, a candidate for City Council District 1. Little did those voters know that the city had leased the machines from Cass County and Hart Intercivic had done the ballot programming which contained an error. It turns out that the vendor had programmed the DREs used by the city so more than just citizens of District 1 could vote in that particular race. Rather than 41 votes there was a combined total of 198 votes cast. This is an accuracy issue that was not caused by the voter and is another clear violation of HAVA Section 301(a)(5).

 

NAtional: Voting Rights advocates say America is unprepared for massive turnout Nov. 4

http://www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20080519c

 

KS: Sebelius vetoes bill requiring a photo ID to vote

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/may/19/sebelius_vetoes_photo_id_vote/

 

MA: Plymouth County - Recount affirms: Abington approves another override

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/05/18/recount_affirms_abington_approves_another_override/

 

MD: Maryland Taxpayers Pay Big Money for Controversial E-Voting System

http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=23255

 

NC: Opinion - A costly way to pick a winner

Runoff for state labor commissioner shows there's a better way of voting

http://www.charlotte.com/409/story/629271.html

 

NY: Nassau County - Nassau tests new voting machines

http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/monday/longisland/ny-lijani195692966may19,0,6640698.story

 

NY: Westchester County - Westchester lawmakers approve funding for new voting machines

http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/May08/19/WC_votingMachines-19May08.htm

 

OR: Opinion - Some things lost when voting by mail

http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.cms.support.viewStory.cls?cid=101846&sid=5&fid=1

 

OR: Oregon's Post Office Primary

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/19/oregons_post_office_primary.html

 

PA: Requirement that voters identify themselves each time is a solution in search of a problem

http://www.pennlive.com/editorials/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1210962310273350.xml&coll=1

 

TN: Opinion - Providing paper trail for ballots makes sense

http://www.jacksonsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080519/OPINION/805190301

 

TX: Texas attorney general's two-year effort fails to unravel large-scale voter-fraud schemes

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/051808dnpolvotefraud.3c75dcb.html

 

TX: Cass County - City discovers error

http://atlantacitizensjournal.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=210&Itemid=2

 

Netherlands - Dutch government bans electronic voting

The government of the Netherlands has banned electronic voting machines from future elections because of a risk of eavesping. The nation will return to paper voting.

http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=003AE63C-17A4-0F78-31DDDC0DCFA62609

 

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