'Daily Voting News' For October 28, 2008 – Morning Edition
7 days until Election Day.
The NAACP and Advancement Project have sued the VA Governor and the state’s top election officials for failing to provide enough resources to accommodate expected record turnout next week. The suit claims the state is in violation of the US and state constitutions and that a failure to fairly distribute voting machines, poll workers and polling places will result in long-lines in some neighborhoods. The suit asks the state to move voting machines to precincts most like to have long lines; keep polls open longer and to use paper ballots in some cases.
Also this morning is the revelation that some Georgia polling places have had lines with as long as 8 hours waiting time due to their voter registration data base being slow. The state claims that the problem is the turnout but that explanation does not make sense in the real world. The number of poll site computers feeding into the central data base computer dictates how fast that system is; not the number of voters. On election day there will be many, many more poll site computers all feeding into the central computer at the same time. Things will probably get much, much slower and lines will grow longer.
Featured - VA: NAACP Sues Officials Over Vote Preparations
High-Minority Areas Affected, Group Says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/27/AR2008102702289.html?hpid=topnews
Featured - GA: COUNTDOWN 2008: Computer woes slow Georgians at polls
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2008/10/28/advancevote.html
National: Cutting Through E-Voting Debate Semantics
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/10/cutting_through.html
National: Interview: Brad Friedman On The Epic Fail Of 2008
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00375.htm
National: Provisional Ballots Get Uneven Treatment
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122515651921374669.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
National: Election Unspun Oct 28 - Vote Switching At Voting Machines
http://www.fsrn.org/content/election-unspun-oct-28-vote-switching-voting-machines/3635
National: E-Voting Complaints Heat Up With Early Voting
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/government/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=211600865
National: UCSB’s Giovanni Vigna Gives Timely Talk on Why Electronic Voting Is Frighteningly Insecure
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00381.htm
National: Update on voting rights cases
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/national/stories/DN-votingbox_28pol.ART.State.Edition1.4a98892.html
National: The Vote Grab: Voter purge could swing result to McCain
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/openhouse/2008/10/the-vote-grab-v.html
National: Thirteen Election Integrity Experts: E-Voting Problems and How to Stop Them
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/thirteen-election-integrity-experts-e-voting-problems-and-how-to-stop-them,597022.shtml
National: Is a “Voting Rights Disaster” in the Offing?
http://themoderatevoice.com/at-tmv/newsweek-blogitics/23825/is-a-voting-rights-disaster-in-the-offing/
National: Battleground: One Week Out….
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/28/1600262.aspx
CA: Alameda County - Touch-Screen Ballots Help Disabled Citizens Vote
http://www.dailycal.org/article/103290/touch-screen_ballots_help_disabled_citizens_vote
CA: Solano County - Demand for early ballots cannot be met
http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_10834810
CO: Federal judge will hear voter purge case Wednesday
http://www.examiner.com/a-1659209~Federal_judge_will_hear_voter_purge_case_Wednesday.html
CO: Latest developments on Colorado voting issues
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/oct/28/latest-developments-on-colorado-voting-issues/
CO: Colorado election snafu roundup: Clerks resort to robocalls to fix bad registrations
http://coloradoindependent.com/12664/colorado-election-snafu-roundup-clerks-resort-to-robocalls-to-fix-bad-registrations
CO: Tipping the Scales Up to 10,000 Registrations Deemed Incomplete in Colorado
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martin-markovits/tipping-the-scalesup_b_138508.html
FL: 12,165 now on Florida's 'no match' vote list
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article877094.ece
FL: Broward County - Early Voting Hours Change, Polls Open Later
http://www.nbc6.net/news/17817738/detail.html
FL: Concerns mount about accuracy of Palm Beach County's ballot counting machines
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpsequoia1028pnoct28,0,6683866.story
GA: Court: ‘Flagged’ citizens may vote
http://www.ajc.com/autoracing/content/metro/stories/2008/10/27/voters_verificiation_ruling.html
IN: Lake County - A divided Lake elections board extends clock on early voting
http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2008/10/28/news/top_news/doced65eb776f6e364f862574f000033c06.txt
NC: Watch out for a separation between the straight-party vote and the presidential vote on your ballots!
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/79161
NC: Guilford County - Democrats May Seek More Voting Time
http://www.wxii12.com/news/17819993/detail.html
NC: Rockingham County - 79 Rockingham voters given provisional ballots
http://www.news-record.com/content/2008/10/28/article/79_rockingham_voters_given_provisional_ballots
NH: Election officials, political operatives wonder about impact of the end of straight-ticket voting
http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081028/GJNEWS02/710281783/-1/CITNEWS
NJ: Princeton Warning on E-Voting Machine Hack Shows Human Touch Can Be a Good Thing
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Princeton-Warning-on-EVoting-Machine-Hack-Shows-Human-Touch-Can-Be-a-Good-Thing/
NJ: Corzine says state is ready for Election Day crowds
http://blog.nj.com/ledgerarchives/2008/10/corzine_said_nj_is_prepared_fo.html
NY: New York City – Editorial - Voting and the City
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/opinion/28tue2.html?bl&ex=1225339200&en=5f15e7dc1d0b8032&ei=5087%0A
OH: One more week to go
Whoever wins Ohio may have to wait
http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/28/copy/paper.ART_ART_10-28-08_A1_SUBNML1.html?adsec=politics&sid=101
TX: El Paso County - Problems with Voting Machines
http://www.ktsm.com/news/local/33423489.html
UT: Summit County residents show up at polls only to find they've already voted
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_10830698
VA: Group sues Kaine, Va. election officials on behalf of NAACP
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-10-27-0207.html
VA: Lawsuit: Some Va. precincts lack sufficient voting machines
http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/lawsuit-some-va-precincts-lack-sufficient-voting-machines
VA: A Voting Rights Disaster?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/27/AR2008102702405.html
WV: Voting machines being checked
http://www.register-herald.com/local/local_story_301231525.html
WV: Ireland: Testing OKs touch screen voting machines
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/x221547827/Ireland-Testing-OKs-touch-screen-voting-machines
WV: Touch-screen machines vetted
Ireland invites voters experiencing problems to call her office
http://wvgazette.com/News/200810270716
WV: Opinion - Jason Williams - Voting machines overseen
http://wvgazette.com/Opinion/Op-EdCommentaries/200810270612
WV: Voting machines remain a concern
http://www.dailymail.com/News/election08/200810280266
WV: ES&S VP Given 'Award of Merit' By WV SoS
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6574
Germany: Court to Examine Security of Electronic Voting
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,587001,00.html
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