Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Up to 100,000 votes may not be counted in Los Angeles Co. New Mexico is still counting ballots from the week-old caucus and probably will be for a couple more days. The Washington state GOP has stopped counting caucus votes, with 13% more to be counted, and has declared a winner. These are not voting machine issues but election administration issues. More voters are affected by these failures than they are by voting machines. When you add in all of the problems with voter registration data bases that have been apparent in CA, AZ, NM, LA, and other states so far this year, there is a pattern that should be of great concern. Tomorrow we have primary voters going to the polls in Maryland and Virginia and the District of Columbia. Let’s hope they do much better. If not, we will be reporting their failures.

Blog Owner's Prerogative: We interrupt this 'Daily Voting News' to offer its dedicated and tireless author our best, albeit one-day belated, Happy Birthday wishes! Happy Birthday John Gideon! Hey, at least we were more timely than the NM Dems, the WA GOP, and the L.A. County Registrar's Office! -BF

And now, please see below, as usual, for links to all of today's notable voting news stories...

• NAtional: Chesapeake Tuesday Snapshot
  http://www.votetrustusa....8;id=2748&Itemid=26
• NAtional: Diebold Admits Overstating '07 Election Revenue by 300%; Announces 5% Workforce Layoff as Feds Continue Investigations and Stock Price Keeps Falling
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5669
• CA: An Estimated 1.5 Million California Presidential Primary Votes Remain to be Counted
  http://www.californiapro.../02/an_estimated_15.html
• CA: Los Angeles County - Criticism of L.A. County's voting system grows
  http://www.latimes.com/n...?ctrack=1&cset=true
• CA: Los Angeles County - Up to 100K Los Angeles voters likely won't have ballots counted
  http://rawstory.com/news...Angeles_voters_0211.html
• CA: Los Angeles County - Apparently, The Only Thing More Difficult Than Building A Subway To The Beach Is Casting A Vote
  http://laist.com/2008/02/11/apparently_the.php
• CO: Colorado will retest electronic voting machines
  http://www.vaildaily.com.../20080211/NEWS/791364700
• CO: Gov. Ritter Signs Bipartisan Voting-Machine Recertification Legislation
  http://www.thecherrycree...com/content/view/2435/2/
• FL: CD-13 - Buchanan slammed for leaking report
  http://www.heraldtribune...11/COLUMNIST89/802110521
• LA: Election Irregularities: Louisiana Democrats Disenfranchised When Party Registration Switched
  http://globalintercept.b...ularities-louisiana.html
• NM: Volunteers qualify 2,800 provisional ballots so far in NM caucus
  http://www.lcsun-news.co...24831?source=most_viewed
• NY: Albany County - Albany’s voting machines
  http://blogs.timesunion....om/localpolitics/?p=1125
• NY: Herkimer County - Legislature approves purchase of 41 ballot marking devices
  http://www.littlefallsti...008/02/11/news/news4.txt
• NY: Tompkins County - Committee requests $41K for voting machines
  http://www.theithacajour...11/NEWS01/802110323/1002
• OH: Give the new voting machines a chance
  http://www.advertiser-tr...nt.detail/id/503533.html
• OH: Ohio Officials at Odds Over Paper Ballot
  http://www.nytimes.com/2.../us/politics/10ohio.html
• OH: Ohio secretary of state says votes will count
  Jennifer Brunner discusses concerns of election
  http://www.ohio.com/news...op_stories/15501041.html
• OH: Judge to decide if secretary of state can order paper ballots in primary
  http://www.lancastereagl...80211/UPDATES01/80211020
• OH: Restraining order thrown out, hearing set for Wednesday
  http://www.thisweeknews....unner.html&tab=tab1
• PA: A risk of mishaps with Pa. voting?
  Report: 'high risk' of malfunctions for Pa. voting machines
  http://media.www.dailype....Pa.Voting-3200602.shtml
• TN: Your Email Action is Needed Now to Ensure Verifiable Voting in 2008 Elections
  http://www.clarksvilleon...oting-in-2008-elections/
• WA: Huckabee 'Not Ready to Concede,' 'Looking at Some Legal Issues' in 'Dubious' Washington State GOP Caucus
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5678
• WV: Kanawha County - Only one state firm makes optical scan ballots
  http://www.dailymail.com...ews/Kanawha/200802110202

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