'Daily Voting News' For October 26, 2008

 

9 days until Election Day.

 

In a stunning admission Sequoia Voting Systems has admitted to not printing and mailing over 11,000 absentee ballots to Denver, Colorado voters. Their spokeswoman claimed they “made an unfortunate mistake”. In fact, the company had failed to notify the city of this “mistake” and when originally asked they lied and told the city they had delivered all 21,450 ballots they were supposed to print and deliver to the post office on Oct. 16. Sequoia claims they will have ballots printed and delivered to the post office by tomorrow, Monday. Voters have until election day to get those ballots marked and either back in the mail or delivered to any early polling site. Not mentioned by anyone is if any overseas voters or military are affected by this failure.

 

In Jefferson Co Arkansas voters will vote on ballots that don’t have some alderman races on them. The county discovered their error too late and they have now fixed it but all early voting has been done without those races being voted on by the voters. The county will just forget all of those voters and hope that none of the races are close which would open them up for potential lawsuits.

 

National: How to Stop Election Theft and How Not to Stop Election Theft?

http://www.opednews.com/articles/How-to-Stop-Election-Theft-by-Mark-Adams-081023-879.html

 

National: Antidote to Election Theft: "Steal Back Your Vote"

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Antidote-to-Election-Theft-by-Joan-Brunwasser-081026-908.html

 

National: This Election Will Not Be Stolen

http://www.opednews.com/articles/This-Election-Will-Not-Be-by-Jennifer-Hathaway-081024-520.html

 

National: Opinion - Groups work to fend off Nov. 4 poll problems

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081026/COLUMNIST0107/810260401/1008/OPINION01

 

National: Casting its lot with e-voting

Despite critics, Hart Intercivic has made its choice

http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/technology/10/27/1027hart.html

 

National: Obama could still lose election to McCain from GOP voter suppression or vote fraud

http://www.examiner.com/x-775-Political-Issues-Examiner~y2008m10d26-Obama-McCain-election-GOP-voter-suppression-vote-fraud

 

National: Democrats Describe Efforts to Limit Voting Machines Problems

http://www.alternet.org/democracy/104635/democrats_describe_efforts_to_limit_voting_machines_problems/

 

AR: Error On Redfield, Altheimer Ballots Addressed At Emergency Meet

http://www.pbcommercial.com/articles/2008/10/26/news/news4.txt

 

AR: Candidate Reacts to Ballot Error That May Have Cost Votes

http://www.pbcommercial.com/articles/2008/10/26/news/news5.txt

 

CA: Your vote faces challenges like never before

http://www.times-standard.com/othervoices/ci_10820484

 

CA: Polling places are in the mail

http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/963364.html

 

CA: Riverside County registrar braces for record voter turnout

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_W_vote26.47447f2.html

 

CA: Riverside County - JACOBS: Why act like there's something to hide?

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/10/26/opinion/jacobs/zdc14582f5b12f5ab882574eb006141ee.txt

 

CA: San Diego County - Steps taken for smooth Election Day

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20081026-9999-1m26vote.html

 

CO: Coffman sued over voter purge

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_10815894

 

CO: Boulder County - Greenlee: Will our votes count?

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/oct/26/will-our-votes-count/

 

CO: 'Missing' Denver mail ballots were never sent by vendor

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/oct/24/denver-looking-11000-missing-mail-ballots/?partner=RSS

 

CO: Denver - Missing ballots weren't prepared

A vendor didn't mail half the 21,450 needed, but that's been fixed.

http://www.denverpost.com/election/ci_10817170

 

FL: Both parties to guard polls on Election Day

Legal teams for the Barack Obama and John McCain campaigns will deploy thousands of poll watchers to Florida voting sites to keep an eye out for possible irregularities in the presidential election.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/741885.html

 

FL: Florida counties split over voter verification

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/741884.html

 

GA: Gwinnett County - Officials 'confident' in absentee solution

http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/main.asp?SectionID=6&SubSectionID=6&ArticleID=52061&TM=338.932

 

IN: Parties await judge's ruling on Lake County early voting

http://www.chestertontribune.com/Politics%20and%20Elections/parties_await_judges_ruling_on_l.htm

 

MD: Decision Time for Early Voting in Md.

Issue Has Long Divided Lawmakers

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/25/AR2008102501864.html?sub=AR

 

NY: BlackBoxVoting.org Speaks Out for Election Transparency

http://e-voter.blogspot.com/2008/10/ny-blackboxvotingorg-speaks-out-for.html

 

NY: Does the US electoral system HAVA brain?

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Does-the-US-electoral-syst-by-Rady-Ananda-081025-859.html

 

OH: White House Asks for Scrutiny

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/24/AR2008102403659.html

 

OH: Lawmakers Urge DOJ Not to Intervene in Ohio Voter Dispute

http://www.pubrecord.org/nationworld/428-lawmakers-urge-doj-not-to-intervene-in-ohio-voter-dispute.html

 

OH: Is Ohio doomed to ballot battles?

Some laud litigation; others see need for nonpartisan system

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/26/copy/why_elections_explode.ART_ART_10-26-08_A1_8SBMPRH.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

 

PA: Counties add voting machines, poll workers in anticipation of record turnout

http://www.eveningsun.com/ci_10817459

 

PA: Bradford County – Editoral - Integrity of voter lists needs protection

http://www.thedailyreview.com/articles/2008/10/26/editorial/tw_review.20081026.a.pg4.tw26edit_s2.2040293_edi.txt

 

TN: Davidson County - Problems Plague Early Voting System

Elections Commission Says Blames Calibration

http://www.wsmv.com/politics/17803172/detail.html

 

TN: Knox County - Voters confused about presidential vote on TN county's machines

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/26/voters-confused-about-presidential-vote-on-tn-countys-machines/

 

TX: Brazoria County - Clerk says to double-check electronic ballots

http://thefacts.com/story.lasso?ewcd=1e459a0a06766e36

 

WV: ES&S official left company in May

Ireland gave man an award Thursday for voting innovation

http://sundaygazettemail.com/News/200810250560?page=1&build=cache

 

Overseas Voting: My Voting Experience From Afghanistan

http://blog.pennlive.com/blog-runner/2008/10/my_voting_experience_from_afgh.html

 

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