'Daily Voting News' for June 16, 2009
Ellen Theisen, Dave Klein, and John Washburn
Yesterday's deluge of articles about Iran turned into an avalanche today. To focus strictly on election-integrity related articles, we cut out many excellent articles about the political ramifications of this historic event.
National: Russian Roulette...Without the Certainty
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7229
FL: Candidate left off ballot wants campaign costs repaid
http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/Web_Blog_Stories/2009/June/Campaign_repaid.html
FL: Judicial candidate seeks $65,000 in sanctions against elections supervisor
http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/news.html?news_id=55634
Archived at: http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=8447
KS: Effort to recall KC mayor appears over because of legal fees
http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/1253889.html
NC: Black election glitch shows the pitfalls of split precincts Jim ...
http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/jimblack/story/510891.html
NY: New York's New Plan for Deploying Optical Scanners Is Dependent on Historically Undependable Vendors and Proper Functioning of Their Historically Defective Equipment
http://www.votersunite.org/info/NYSBOE-June4Plan.asp
OH: Proposed election changes could save county money
http://www.mydailysentinel.com/pages/home_top_stories_news/push?article-Proposed+election+changes+could+save+county+money%20&link=push::target_page&id=2728653-Proposed+election+changes+could+save+county+money&instance=home_news_lead
Iran: The speed of Iran's presidential vote count and lack of detailed data fuel fraud suspicions
http://blog.taragana.com/n/the-speed-of-irans-presidential-vote-count-and-lack-of-detailed-data-fuel-fraud-suspicions-82239/
Iran: Recount in Iran?
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/06/recount-in-iran-coming.html
Iran: Four Scenarios for the Vote Recount
http://enduringamerica.com/2009/06/16/iran-four-scenarios-for-the-vote-recount/
Iran: Iran's Lesson: Even in a Tainted Election, Voting Still Matters
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1904876,00.html
Iran: Note on the presidential election in Iran, June 2009
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wmebane/note14jun2009.pdf
(Statistical analysis by Walter R. Mebane, Jr.)
Iran: Twitter Postpones Maintenance as Iran Furor Builds
http://bmr-legroupe.net/twitter-postpones-maintenance-as-iran-furor-builds
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Ellen Theisen (ellen@votersunite.org), Director and Managing Editor
Dave Klein (Klein.David@VotersUnite.org), Editor
John Washburn (Washburn.John@VotersUnite.org), Editor
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