'Daily Voting News' For January 25, 2009

 

Advanced Voting Solutions sold Northampton Co Pennsylvania faulty voting machines. The county took the vendor to court and won a default decision. Later this month the court will decide how much the county will be awarded in the law suit. The problem is that owner Howard Van Pelt and AVS have disappeared. They very quietly went out of business and stuck the county, and others, with a warehouse full of garbage. How much longer are the other voting machines vendors going to be able to stay in business? New Jersey is now rethinking their move to install vvpat printers on the state’s DREs because of the economy. That has to be a blow to Sequoia especially when you consider that the company went into debt in order for the officers to keep the company from being purchased by Hart Intercivic.

 

National: Editorial - Uphold the Voting Rights Act

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/opinion/25sun1.html?_r=1

 

AZ: Phoenix may merge polls, reduce election costs

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2009/01/25/20090125vote0125.html

 

MS: Plan offers unique voter ID process

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20090125/OPINION01/901250335

 

NJ: Paper trail for votes up in air

http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20090125/NEWS01/901250350/1006/news01

 

NY: Greece schools may switch to paid elections staffing

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090125/NEWS01/901250344/1002/NEWS

 

NY: Broome County - Old lever machines may count vote again

Test of new machines is behind schedule

http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20090125/NEWS01/901250341/1001

 

OH: Ohio needs to overhaul weak voting system now

Kilroy-Stivers race exposes flaws in state's current election process

http://www.ohio.com/news/38289469.html

 

PA: Northampton County - County unlikely to collect in voting machine case

Northampton can't reach firm that sold faulty equipment.

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_3machines.6755618jan24,0,1479759.story

 

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