Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Yesterday, in this space, I stated that a problem in Wharton Co Texas had votes switching from a GOP candidate to a Democrat. In fact that information was incorrect. The election was a non-partisan election on constitutional amendments. There clearly was, however, vote swapping taking place. The information regarding the vote switching in Pennsylvania was correct. My apologies for the erroneous information.

The EAC terminated all certification of the Advanced Voting Solutions voting system that was being tested by iBeta. This renders the AVS system used in three Pennsylvania counties useless. Northampton and Lackawanna Counties are now discussing suing the vendor.

Twenty percent of the vvpat tapes from Diebold/Premier DREs used recently in Cuyahoga Co Ohio are damaged beyond use. The SoS has given the county permission to run ballot images from the DREs for recounts. Thus no voter verified paper ballots will be used to recount 20% of the votes. Diebold is looking for a way to blame election officials or the voters, of course.

Those stories, and the rest of today's notable voting news items, are all linked below...

• CA: Humboldt County - Voter Confidence Committee gathers community support for hand-counting paper ballots
  http://www.eurekareporte...lay.aspx?ArticleID=31135
• CA: Los Angeles County - Calif. State Secretary May Re-certify February Voting System
  http://www.kpbs.org/news/local;id=10311
• CA: San Francisco – Editorial - A real public voting system
  With machines, a current deal that thrills no one
  http://www.sfbg.com/entr...num=42&issue_num=09
• FL: CD-13 - Jennings withdraws lawsuit over 2006 congressional race
  http://www.journalgazett...0703&template=apart
• FL: CD-13 - Jennings withdraws lawsuit
  http://www.bradenton.com...ngnews/story/239299.html
• GA: Clayton County - Secretary of State will not investigate election fraud in Riverdale
  http://www.ajc.com/metro.../riverdale_1129_web.html
• NY: Poll access for disabled heats debate
  http://www.thedailystar....cal_story_331073021.html
• OH: Ohio Wins Poll-Worker Training Funds, Voting Problems Persist in Cuyahoga County
  http://scoop.epluribusme...ory/2007/11/28/172042/53
• OH: Clermont County - Official Clermont vote tally prompts recounts in 3 races
  http://news.enquirer.com...S01/711280380/1056/COL02
• OH: Cuyahoga County - Cuyahoga Board of Elections gets secretary of state's OK to reprint paper records for recounts
  http://www.cleveland.com...26399510.xml&coll=2
• OH: Cuyahoga County - 20 percent of election printouts were unreadable
  Officials fear disaster in Cuyahoga County during primary vote
  http://www.cleveland.com...95790400.xml&coll=2
• OH: Lorain County - Close races face recount
  http://www.zwire.com/sit...dept_id=46371&rfi=6
• OH: Summit County - Counting machines requested
  Absentee balloting likely to soar; $368,000 sought
  http://www.ohio.com/news/11880281.html
• PA: Northampton County's voting machines are out
  http://www.pennlive.com/..._voting_machines_in.html
• PA: Northampton County voting machines won't get federal approval
  http://www.mcall.com/new...12807-cn,0,6381105.story
• PA: Philadelphia - Losing candidate alleges fraud
  http://www.philly.com/da...idate_alleges_fraud.html
• TX: 49,000 questionable names found on voter rolls
  Auditors say none of them cast ballots in the May election
  http://www.chron.com/dis...y.mpl/front/5333979.html
• UT: Salt Lake County - Smells like 2000: Voting was supposed to have changed after the 2000 election fiasco. What happened?
  http://www.slweekly.com/...E1-CFF1-5106872DA9483201

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