'Daily Voting News' For August 11, 2008

 

As Steven Rosenfeld says in his Alternet article, and this evenings “Featured” article, “The first large block of voters to be disenfranchised in 2008 are the wounded warriors from recent wars and homeless veterans living at hundreds of Department of Veterans Affairs facilities across the country, according to veterans and voting rights activists.”

While the state Department of Veterans Affairs in Connecticut has allowed the Secretary of State to register voters in one facility, the national office has not budged off of their insistence that no voter registration drives can happen on their property. The House and Senate must pass their legislation to instruct the DVA to allow voter registration drives when they return from their August vacation.

 

Featured - National: 2008's First Disenfranchised Voters: Injured and Homeless Veterans

http://www.alternet.org/story/94541/

 

National: Opinion - Help Our Veterans Vote

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/opinion/11bysiewicz.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

 

National: VA should allow voter drives

http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19901323&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=635087&rfi=6

 

National: FTC Warns of Voter Registration ID Theft Scams

http://usgovinfo.about.com/b/2008/08/11/ftc-warns-of-voter-registration-id-theft-scams.htm

 

National: World's Leading Computer Security Expert Slams Diebold

http://www.velvetrevolution.us/electionstrikeforce/2008/08/worlds_leading_computer_securi.html

 

FL: Creative 'solution' eliminates undervotes

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080811/COLUMNIST/808110313/2127&title=Creative__solution__eliminates_undervotes

 

FL: Editorial - New paper ballots make early voting even wiser

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2008/aug/10/editorial-new-paper-ballots-make-early-voting-even/

 

NC: Editorial - Votes with trails

http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/editorials/story/1172564.html

 

NJ: Voting machine study raises uncertainty among area election officials

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/109/story/226406.html

 

NY: Blake Hulnick '09 Examines Changes in Election Administrative Policy

http://www.hamilton.edu/news/more_news/display.cfm?ID=14324

 

SC: Councilwoman wants paper trail for e-votes

Election officials say Gibson's request isn't feasible

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080811/NEWS01/808110314/1001

 

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