‘Daily Voting News’ For March 16, 2006

John Gideon

March 16, 2006, 5:08pm
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Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org

In yesterday’s DVN I included an article from Arizona regarding photo ID being required for mail-in ballots. The newspaper printed a correction to that story: “This story gave the wrong result for a state legislative proposal to require people who vote by mail to provide identification. The proposal was defeated.” The ES&S memory card problems have spread with the report of 1000 bad cards in North Carolina. Also, there seems to be a growing list of candidates in Texas who are asking for recounts due to problems on election night. In New Hampshire two Diebold OS machines were confiscated by the police due to irregularities in the total vote count. In Maryland today the Gov. asked the state legislature for $21.8M to replace the states DREs but the Senate immediately voted to use it for a poll book to keep voters from voting twice….

NAtional: DRE Reliability: Failure by Design? LINK

NAtional: Voting system’s troubles spread. North Carolina reports issues similar to those in Summit; data read-back failures add to problem of low batteries LINK

NAtional: Columnist – Bet on a Bet but Not on a Ballot LINK

NAtional: Many states struggling with election changes LINK

NAtional: Tribune Media’s Bob Koehler on Democracy’s ‘Trust Us’ Movement… LINK

AL: House delays vote on changing date of party primaries LINK

AZ: Maricopa County – All-mail ballots, bond draw voters (Participation was high in those communities that had vote-by-mail for the first time) LINK

CO: Boulder County – E-voting on display (Hart eSlate) LINK

IL: Lake County – New voting equipment to aid disabled LINK

MD: Ehrlich Seeks Money for Paper Ballot Voting System LINK

MD: State’s Poll Reposition LINK

NC: Chatham County – Precinct merger seen as move to control votes LINK

NC: Person County – County’s new voting machines arrive; training set LINK

NH: Voting machines removed in Grafton (Diebold AccuVote OS) LINK

NY: Advocate: Don’t rush voting machines LINK

OH: Athens County – Dems get write-in candidate for auditor LINK

PA: Beaver County – Country tries to unload voting machines LINK

PA: Bucks County – When the Electronic Voting Buy Comes to MY County LINK

PA: Bucks County – Bucks elects paperless voting machines (Danaher) LINK

PA: Bucks County – Despite protests, Bucks chooses touch-screen voting machines LINK

PA: Clarion County ï¿½ Opinion – Touch screen voting LINK

PA: Monroe County – New electronic voting machines unveiled at expo (Danaher) LINK

TX: Electionline Assists In Covering Up Election Meltdown In Texas LINK

TX: Election boss at fundraiser? Some vote no LINK

TX: Tarrant County – Primary election outcomes challenged (Hart Intercivic) LINK

TX: Tarrant County – No free second count of votes (Hart should pay for the recounts) LINK

TX: Tom Green County – Edwards wants recount of court-at-law results LINK

TX: Webb County – Election uproar; County officials say there were plenty of red flags LINK

WADC: Georgetown University – Can’t touch this LINK

WV: Cabell County – Voting machine accessible to blind LINK

INternational ï¿½ Venezuela – Coincidence raises voter fraud concerns in Venezuela – That nearly 2,000 people with the same birthday and same last name registered to vote in one day in the same place raised accusations that President Hugo Chï¿½vez was committing voter fraud. LINK

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