'Daily Voting News' For February 13, 2009

 

For all of you paraskevidekatriaphobiacs or triskaidekaphobiacs this may not have been a very good day. For all the rest, hope you had a Happy Friday the 13^th.

 

The chances of Norm Coleman taking back his lead over Al Franken in the Minnesota Senatorial race have taken a long step back today with a ruling from the recount trial judge that lowers the number of rejected absentee ballots that can be recounted.  

 

Featured - MN: Senate recount trial judges: No widespread problem

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/39574697.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUac8HEaDiaMDCinchO7DU

 

CA: Riverside County, CA Refusing to Bill E-Voting Vendor for Cost of Manual Tally

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6915

 

CA: Riverside County - State, county election officials differ on reimbursement from machine vendors

http://www.mydesert.com/article/20090213/NEWS0301/902130308/1006/news01

 

CO: Proposal: Ax electronic voting after 2013

http://www.montrosepress.com/articles/2009/02/13/news/doc49950a31c424a256598444.txt

 

CO: Coffman sues ethics panel to get complaint dismissed

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_11693780

 

CO: Coffman asks judge to stop ethics hearing

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/13/coffman-asks-judge-to-stop-ethics-hearing/

 

FL: Hillsborough County - FBI Investigating Former Election Chief Johnson's Spending

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/feb/12/130000/fbi-investigating-former-election-chief-johnsons-s/

 

MN: Sec of St Mark Ritchie on the right track, wants election reform

http://www.examiner.com/x-2927-Minneapolis-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m2d12-Sec-of-St-Mark-Ritchie-on-the-right-track-wants-election-reform

 

MN: Photo ID plan gets rejected

http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/230854/

 

MN: House committee kills voter ID proposal

http://www.twincities.com/politics/ci_11693390?nclick_check=1

 

MN: Opinion - Minnesota Law and Federal Equal Protection

http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/comments/articles.php?ID=4941

 

MN: Minnesota Judges Expected to Rule Monday on Ballot Parameters

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003031086

 

MS: Editorial - Photo ID

http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=285926&pub=1&div=Opinion

 

MS: Compromise voter ID bill passes House, faces uncertain future

http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=255

 

NY: The League of Women Voters’ voting system standards adopted in 2006 were for electronic systems, and never were intended to apply to non-electronic systems such as lever machines.

http://www.wheresthepaper.org/rebut_NYVV_LWVNYS_Feb12_09.htm

 

TN: Voting paper-trail requirement may not occur

http://www.t-g.com/story/1501796.html

 

UT: Bill Requires Identification to Vote

http://kcpw.org/article/7434

 

Ireland - Voting machine contracts 'to last 25 years'

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0213/1233867935296.html

 

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