'Daily Voting News' For September 03, 2008

Just as an example of how screwed-up are Florida election laws yesterday Indian River Co.’s Canvassing Board approved the primary election results. Hopefully the reader will recall that Indian River had over 5000 ballots that were counted twice because someone decided to do a test in the middle of a real election and then failed to properly remove the results in that test. The result was ballots from 40 polling sites that were counted twice. Luckily an observant poll worker realized the totals for her site were double what they should have been. She pointed out the mistake and the county found their error. Tomorrow the board must do a state mandated audit to ensure their voting machines were correctly counting the votes. If the poll worker hadn’t been observant and if this audit were to find the problem, or any other problem that might exist with the vote count, NOTHING can/could be done because the results have already been approved by the Canvassing Board. One has to wonder what some officials in Florida are thinking when they make stupid rules. This audit is newly mandated. Why didn’t they mandate it to happen before canvassing the election? Post election audits are great. We need them everywhere and following every election but they have to be timed in such a way as to mean something if problems are found. If they don’t have a purpose (to ensure the votes were properly counted) then they are a waste of tax money.

National: America Wants YOU to be a Poll Worker

Research shows how poll workers on the front lines of elections affect voter confidence.

http://www.miller-mccune.com/article/635

AZ: 11,500 votes in Pima County not counted; final results released Thursday

Maricopa County has 43,000 still to be counted

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/95690.php

AZ: Still 43,000 ballots uncounted in Maricopa County

http://www.kswt.com/Global/story.asp?S=8947822&nav=menu613_2_6

AZ: Pima County vote count slowed by hand-delivery

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/sep/03/pima-county-vote-count-slowed-by-hand-delivery/

CA: CA Appeals Court Strikes Down Ten Percent Ballot Audit

http://www.opednews.com/articles/CA-Appeals-Court-Bans-10-P-by-Rady-Ananda-080902-141.html

FL: Florida Loses Votes, Again; Fall Election Process in Question

http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/03/612/florida-loses-votes-again-fall-election-process-in-question/

FL: Local activist candidate for Broward Election Supervisor denied access to ballot recount

http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2008/09/11679.php

FL: Despite problems with vote totals, Indian River County Canvassing Board approves primary election results

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/sep/03/canvassing-board-approves-primary-results/

FL: Palm Beach County – Editorial - The ballots are missing, so start finding answers

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2008/09/03/a10a_leadedit_recount_0903.html

FL: Palm Beach County - Recount end: Tallying totals by hand on legal pad

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/local_news/epaper/2008/09/02/0903recountscene.html

FL: Palm Beach County - Election count errors under review

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpelection0903pnsep03,0,6149229.story

FL: Palm Beach County - 3,400 Ballots Missing in Florida Election: Recount Flips Race

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/3400-ballots-mi.html

FL: Palm Beach County - Losing Candidate Vows Legal Fight Over Vote Discrepancy

http://www.cbs12.com/news/candidate_4709396___article.html/vote_discrepancy.html

FL: Palm Beach County - State may give Palm Beach County more time to solve mystery of 3,400 missing ballots

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/09/03/0903recount.html

FL: St. Lucie's canvassing board to audit voting equipment

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/sep/03/canvassing-board-to-audit-voting-equipment/

KS: Sedgwick County - Advance voting key to short waits at the polls

http://www.kansas.com/news/local/story/516143.html

NC: Craven County - Additional one-stop voting sites not intended to be permanent, official says

http://www.enctoday.com/news/one_41947_nbsj__article.html/voting_stop.html

NY: Niagara County - Changing the vote

http://www.niagara-gazette.com/local/local_story_246234408.html

OH: Licking County - Voter registration system to change

County BOE: Switch won't affect November election

http://www.newarkadvocate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080903/NEWS01/809030315

OH: Summit County - Secretary of state to break tie on absentee voting hours

http://www.the-news-leader.com/news/article/4328461

TN: Opinion - Right to vote too important to trust electronic voting machines

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080903/OPINION03/809030405/1008/OPINION01

UT: Eat My Vote: Election officials have no fear about the latest voting machine glitch. Others aren’t so sure.

http://www.slweekly.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=294C9D1A-14D1-13A2-9FE79F8AEA4FFA4F

VA: Warning for College Student Voters

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/09/03/voting

Guam: Voting machines still an option, if they comply with provisions

http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080904/NEWS01/809040304/1002

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