'Daily Voting News' For January 13, 2009

 

Recently it was revealed that the Humboldt Election Transparency Project had found that the county’s Diebold/Premier voting system had lost 197 ballots. Today Kim Zetter of WiredBlog, in one of our featured articles, revealed that the GEMS audit logs not only don’t answer questions about how the 197 ballots were lost but don’t answer many questions at all. Zetter also reveals that the state of California is investigating the lost ballots and these “Greek” audit logs. One of the featured interviews in Zetter’s article is with Doug Jones of Uof Iowa. His comments are discussed in our second featured article.

 

Featured - CA: Humboldt County - Voting Machine Audit Logs Raise More Questions about Lost Votes in CA Election

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/diebold-audit-l.html

 

Featured - National: UI’s Jones on Diebold: “Totally Nuts”

http://iowavoters.org/2009/01/13/uis-jones-on-diebold-totally-nuts/

 

National: Editorial - The Voting Rights Act in the 21st century

WE SAY The process of requiring preclearance for certain states will eventually become irrelevant.

http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=65354&comview=1

 

CA: Riverside County - Complaint questions election approval

http://www.mydesert.com/article/20090113/NEWS0301/901130324/1008/news03

 

CO: Senate panel backs Buescher

Lawmakers are unanimous for the former legislator to be secretary of state. The full Senate may vote today.

http://www.denverpost.com/statehouse08/ci_11439096

 

CO: Senate committee gives initial OK to Buescher

http://www.aurorasentinel.com/articles/2009/01/13/news/state_and_region/doc496c2d5b57dcb609318708.txt

 

FL: Broward County - Commissioners pay election tab that doubled

http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/broward/blog/2009/01/commissioners_pay_election_tab.html

 

MN: As judges named, Minn. Senate legal fight grows

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/37445384.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUs

 

NJ: State approves paper trail for voting machines

http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20090113/NEWS01/901130352/1006/news01

 

OH: Counties partially reimbursed for cost of paper ballots

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2009/01/13/ddn011309paperballots.html

 

TX: Gregg County - County officials hear from voting machine expert

http://www.news-journal.com/news/content/news/stories/2009/01/13/01132009_voting_machines.html

 

WA: King County - Detectives investigating potential voter fraud on Craigslist

Bid apparently made to sell ballot

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/395749_voterfraud13.html

 

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