Prior to election day we, VotersUnite.Org, counseled voters to not use straight-party voting. We put it on our website and I wrote about it in these spaces. Straight-party voting as it is used in Texas is rife for misunderstanding and mistakes by the voters. When someone votes a straight-party ticket but then also selects the name of a candidate within that party in a particular race, electronic machines "deselect" that candidate. If no other candidate is chosen, no vote is counted in that race. The best solution, in our minds, was to NOT use straight-party voting but we got a lot of push back from some party officials in the state. Now Dallas Co. Democrats have been in court in an attempt to get the county to count all deselected or emphasis votes. The Secretary of State and the county both say no. The court, after two days of hearings and the promise of a decision, has, at the last minute, decided that they may have no jurisdiction. There would be no problem at all if straight-party voting had not been pushed by party officials....

• National: Time to Rethink Electoral Politics
  http://www.thehoya.com/node/17205
• CO: Boulder County - Election results get partial sign-off
  http://www.timescall.com/news_story.asp?ID=12381
• FL: Broward County - Rep. Rivera had tough time against 'ringer' - even after she quit
  http://miamiherald.typep...8/11/rep-rivera-has.html
• GA: 'Document Hold' Served by OH Attorney to GA SoS in Advance of State's U.S. Senate Run-off Election
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6696
• IA: Voter Dissatisfaction Over Polling Places Comes Before Supervisors
  http://www.emmetsburgnew.../id/500836.html?nav=5001
• MI: Bay County - Two losing candidates file for vote recounts
  http://www.mlive.com/new...32187380.xml&coll=4
• MN: Ballots Missing in Coleman-Franken Recount, Attorney Says
  http://www.pubrecord.org...ount-attorney-says-.html
• MN: Franken losing ground to Coleman on DFL turf - Minneapolis
  http://www.twincities.co...6069?source=most_emailed
• MN: MN U.S. Senate Hand-Count: A Vote for McCain Must be a Vote for Coleman, Says Coleman Camp
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6694
• MN: Run-up in ballot challenges cloud Coleman-Franken recount
  With 3,000-plus votes disputed, it's hard to know who is really gaining.
  http://www.startribune.c...Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUs
• MN: Opinion - Nick Coleman: Elections with less acrimony? That's the true beauty of IRV
  http://www.startribune.c...Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUs
• MN: Franken Camp's Claim: We're Only Down By 84 Votes
  http://tpmelectioncentra...amps_claim_were_only.php
• MN: The Twin Cities Throwdown
  Weekly Standard: The Coleman-Franken Recount May End Up Like A Replay Of Florida 2000
  http://www.cbsnews.com/s...pinion/main4632740.shtml
• MN: Every Vote Matters in MN's U.S. Senate Hand-Count. Every. Single. One.
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6698
• NC: Cumberland County - Voter fraud appeal delays oath of office
  http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=311331
• NJ: Editorial - New Jersey Still Needs to Fix Its Electronic Voting
  http://theboard.blogs.ny...x-its-electronic-voting/
• NY: Westchester County, White Plains spar over bill for elections
  http://lohud.com/article...2/811250337/-1/newsfront
• OH: Cuyahoga County - Brunner sets Cuyahoga board free
  http://blog.dispatch.com..._cuyahoga_board_fr.shtml
• OH: Cuyahoga vote board rejects 25% of provisional ballots from presidential election
  http://blog.cleveland.co...te_board_rejected_2.html
• OH: Franklin County - Ohio high court to decide 15th District votes
  http://www.usatoday.com/...8-11-25-ohio-votes_N.htm
• OH: Franklin County - Ballot case tossed back to Ohio Supreme Court
  http://blog.dispatch.com...tossed_back_to_ohi.shtml
• OH: Hamilton County - Despite uproar, just 2 votes questioned
  Ballots from out-of-stater, inmate flagged by Hamilton County
  http://news.cincinnati.c...0081125/NEWS01/811250317
• TX: Dallas County - Texas House District 105 battle lands in court
  http://www.dallasnews.co...te.Edition1.4a3d3b9.html
• TX: Dallas County - Democrats go to court over e-votes in Irving race
  http://www.wfaa.com/shar...lj_watson.1e9b5d176.html
• TX: Dallas County - Judge says he has no jurisdiction in Texas House 105 recount
  http://www.dallasnews.co...nmethouse105.9115aa.html

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