TX. Harris officials linked to voting lawsuit reassigned
Aug. 1--Two Harris County officials at the center of an ongoing dispute over what the Texas Democratic Party claims was an orchestrated effort to purge thousands of voters for partisan political reasons have been reassigned to duties outside the voter registration office, Tax Assessor-Collector Leo Vasquez said Friday.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6556724.html
US. USPS may close 1,000 post offices
August 03, 2009 That means the Postal Service will have to find new sources of revenue. Rolando ( president of the
National Association of Letter Carriers said the Postal Service should aggressively pursue "vote-by-mail initiatives, which allow citizens to cast their votes via the mail, and business from e-commerce retailers.
http://federaltimes.com/index.php?S=4214918
Afghanistan. Fear, violence in Afghan countryside ahead of vote
Walking to a polling station in rural Afghanistan can be risky -- even for 250 troops armed with a guided missile, whose recent visit was disrupted by rocket attacks and gunfire.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090731/world/afghanistan_vote_security_france_1
How Afghanistan poll is shaping up
Aug 2. 3,000 donkeys are moving ballot papers to outlying areas for Afghanistan's election, while up to 10,000 extra international troops will try to protect 7,000 polling places from attacks by the Taliban.
http://u.tv/News/How-Afghanistan-poll-is-shaping-up/4625f01d-fe9f-4b4b-a008-cfc8b48b058e
India. Orissa to prove EVMs ˜can be tampered 2 AUG: Orissa may create history if a group of NGOs and technocrats (in photograph) can establish before the Election Commission of India that Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) can be tampered with.
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=9&theme=&usrsess=1&id=263288
India. EVMs tamper-proof, says poll panel, invites naysayers to demo
August 1, 2009. ˜So far, no one has been able to demonstrate that EVMs used by the Election Commission can be tampered or manipulated.
While ˜completely rejecting the contention regarding fallibility of the EVMs , the Commission said: ˜It has now decided to go the extra distance by inviting all those who have expressed reservations about the machine to come and demonstrate the points made in their allegations.
http://voiceofsikkim.com/2009/08/01/evms-tamper-proof-says-poll-panel-invites-naysayers-to-demo/
Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyz president inaugurated for 2nd term amid opposition claims of election fraud
August 2nd, 2009 ...Opposition activists accuse the government of rigging last month s vote, which Bakiyev won with 76 percent of the ballots. International monitors also said the election was marred by ballot-box stuffing and widespread irregularities in vote counting.
http://blog.taragana.com/n/kyrgyz-president-inaugurated-for-2nd-term-amid-opposition-claims-of-election-fraud-128296
Aug. 1--Two Harris County officials at the center of an ongoing dispute over what the Texas Democratic Party claims was an orchestrated effort to purge thousands of voters for partisan political reasons have been reassigned to duties outside the voter registration office, Tax Assessor-Collector Leo Vasquez said Friday.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6556724.html
US. USPS may close 1,000 post offices
August 03, 2009 That means the Postal Service will have to find new sources of revenue. Rolando ( president of the
National Association of Letter Carriers said the Postal Service should aggressively pursue "vote-by-mail initiatives, which allow citizens to cast their votes via the mail, and business from e-commerce retailers.
http://federaltimes.com/index.php?S=4214918
Afghanistan. Fear, violence in Afghan countryside ahead of vote
Walking to a polling station in rural Afghanistan can be risky -- even for 250 troops armed with a guided missile, whose recent visit was disrupted by rocket attacks and gunfire.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090731/world/afghanistan_vote_security_france_1
How Afghanistan poll is shaping up
Aug 2. 3,000 donkeys are moving ballot papers to outlying areas for Afghanistan's election, while up to 10,000 extra international troops will try to protect 7,000 polling places from attacks by the Taliban.
http://u.tv/News/How-Afghanistan-poll-is-shaping-up/4625f01d-fe9f-4b4b-a008-cfc8b48b058e
India. Orissa to prove EVMs ˜can be tampered 2 AUG: Orissa may create history if a group of NGOs and technocrats (in photograph) can establish before the Election Commission of India that Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) can be tampered with.
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=9&theme=&usrsess=1&id=263288
India. EVMs tamper-proof, says poll panel, invites naysayers to demo
August 1, 2009. ˜So far, no one has been able to demonstrate that EVMs used by the Election Commission can be tampered or manipulated.
While ˜completely rejecting the contention regarding fallibility of the EVMs , the Commission said: ˜It has now decided to go the extra distance by inviting all those who have expressed reservations about the machine to come and demonstrate the points made in their allegations.
http://voiceofsikkim.com/2009/08/01/evms-tamper-proof-says-poll-panel-invites-naysayers-to-demo/
Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyz president inaugurated for 2nd term amid opposition claims of election fraud
August 2nd, 2009 ...Opposition activists accuse the government of rigging last month s vote, which Bakiyev won with 76 percent of the ballots. International monitors also said the election was marred by ballot-box stuffing and widespread irregularities in vote counting.
http://blog.taragana.com/n/kyrgyz-president-inaugurated-for-2nd-term-amid-opposition-claims-of-election-fraud-128296
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