'Daily Voting News' For June 28, 2008

 

Today three featured articles discuss an issue of over 700 votes that just about went uncounted in Palm Beach Co. Florida this past week. But for the fact that the county did an audit and eventually found that election results on from three machines had not been reported in the totals. It is still unknown what happened with these three machines. There is speculation that a card reader may not have worked properly. Another excuse is that the cards may never have been counted at all. The county is investigating. What seems to be incredible is that the when asked by the media early Friday about the discrepancy the Supervisor of Elections, Arthur Anderson, told them that he was not aware of a problem because he was out campaigning for re-election. Typically the Sequoia spokeswoman, Michelle Shafer, ignored the fact that there is an ongoing investigation as she claimed that the public can be confident that the optical scanners worked and votes were properly recorded and tabulated. She ignores the fact that the voters were not properly reported.

 

Featured Articles - FL: Palm Beach County - Problems Reported in County Election System

http://www.cbs12.com/news/election_4708341___article.html/run_trial.html

 

FL: Palm Beach County - Critics rip elections supervisor after miscount in West Palm Beach race

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpsnafu0628pnjun28,0,3240328.story

 

FL: Palm Beach County - Nearly 700 West Palm votes not tallied election night

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/06/27/0627wpbelex.html

 

NAtional: Machining the Vote: A brief history of lever voting machines

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Machining-the-VoteA-brie-by-Rady-Ananda-080628-791.html

 

FL: Florida’s 2008 Election Landscape Looking More Like 2000

http://www.alternet.org/democracy/89760/?ses=aa31c59ca344da065e31de7297131d6a

 

MS: Hosemann pushes voter ID for state

http://www.gulflive.com/news/mississippipress/index.ssf?/base/news/1214648103207120.xml

 

OH: Cuyahoga County - Cuyahoga elections board picks costlier scanning system

http://blog.cleveland.com/pdextra/2008/06/cuyahoga_elections_board_picks.html

 

OH: Cuyahoga County - Voting machine swap means you'll scan paper ballot

http://blog.cleveland.com/pdextra/2008/06/voting_machine_swap_means_youl.html

 

OH: Cuyahoga County - Head of voting machine firm Hart InterCivic questions Cuyahoga County choice

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1214642084125190.xml&coll=2

 

PA: Bucks County - Advocates hope voting machines ruling has domino effect

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-06282008-1555891.html

 

UT: Summit County - Board race still tight

System glitch keeps Brothers in the running, Jason Strykowski

http://www.parkrecord.com/todaysheadlines/ci_9721656

 

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