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Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
In our featured article today we again get information about the shut-down of the Social Security Administration's databases for maintenance. As related in the article by Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center for Justice this shut-down is important because "A 2002 federal law, the Help America Vote Act, requires all states to "coordinate" their voter registration databases with the Social Security database (and state motor vehicle databases) for the purpose of processing new voter registration forms. For the millions of voters who do not have current driver's licenses and register using the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, state election officials are required to try to match their voter registration information against Social Security records. But if the Social Security database is down-as it will be for four days-they won't be able to do that. Across the country, the processing of these voter registration forms will grind to a halt for four days". Why has the SSA scheduled this shut-down within three weeks of the Nov. election? Now Sen. Diane Feinstein has asked the same question. That letter can be found with the featured article....
Featured - National: Voter Registration Shut Down? LINK
National: What does the future hold for elections? LINK
National: The most important open source system: Voting LINK
National: Will Your Vote Be Counted? LINK
CA: Counting Every Vote
California's Sec. of State Says Open-Source Software Is Needed to Safeguard Electronic Voting Systems LINK
FL: Recently Registered Voters May Experience Problems LINK
FL: State's new paper trail leads to new problems LINK
FL: Opinion - Paper ballots won't be the panacea Broward County hoped for LINK
FL: Broward County - New ballot system as iffy as the last LINK
FL: Miami-Dade County - Register by Oct. 6 deadline LINK
FL: Palm Beach County - Acting chief of elections embraces sudden role LINK
FL: Pinellas County - League Says Pinellas Has Too Few Early Voting Sites LINK
GA: Handel in eye of vote storm LINK
GA: Election workers reassure security of votes LINK
IA: Warren County's new voting machines to leave paper trail LINK
OH: Ohio gets jump on voting
150,000 regional voters expected to beat lines, decide now LINK
PA: Pennsylvania vows to avoid messes Fla., Ohio stepped in LINK
PA: Area counties brace for record turnout LINK
PA: Montgomery County - Director says Election Night will be a late one LINK
PA: Union County - Dems lead area battle to register new voters LINK
PA: York County - County ditches dress code at polls LINK
TN: Opinion - Suggestions to make voting in presidential election simpler LINK
UT: Salt Lake County - County clerk works to make voting easier LINK
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