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Voting News: Fairfax 'should junk electronic voting machines'. NY Election night-mare

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FL: Florida recount 10 years later
http://www.wctv.tv/news/headlines/Florida_Recount-_10_Years_Later_107013878.html

FL: Hernando vote recount heads into second week
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/hernando-vote-recount-heads-into-second-week/1133272 Nicholson and Amore refused to concede, however, triggering a manual recount of ballots that contain so-called over- and undervotes.

FL: Three missing ballots bedevil Palm Beach County school board recount
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/three-missing-ballots-bedevil-palm-beach-county-school-1033905.html Originally, 16 early-voting ballots were missing, Bucher said, but seven were found. Those ballots had been misfiled in the wrong boxes.

IL: Voters say they were handed wrong ballots*
http://forestparkreview.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=38&ArticleID=5312
Residents had cast their votes at Betsy Ross Elementary School before they realized the error

IL: Election hotline handles 60 complaints
http://www.kcchronicle.com/articles/2010/11/08/79953700/index.xml Of the 60 complaints the Kane County State's Attorney's election hotline recorded on Nov. 2, 12 were about an organization and restaurant offering free meals or discounts to voters.

IN: New voting machines expected by May primaries (Monroe County)
http://dailyme.com/story/2010110500004174/voting-machines-expected-primaries.html
The specific machines to be purchased include 65 of the company's DS200(i) model, and 65 handicapped-accessible AutoMARK(i) machines.

MI: Canvass confirms Lenawee election results* (test votes left on machine)
http://www.lenconnect.com/news/x1684095745/Canvass-confirms-Lenawee-election-results
The only significant error found by the board of canvassers was in Medina Township's unofficial vote report, Holloway said. It was due to pulling data from a computer card that contained results from an earlier test vote instead of the real ballots cast on election day, Holloway said.

MI: Appeals court rejects Barrow's redo effort of '09 mayoral election
http://detnews.com/article/20101110/METRO01/11100396/Appeals-court-rejects-Barrow's-redo-effort-of-'09-mayoral-election "The irregularities plaintiff alleges do not tend to show that any unrecountable ballots were not valid as originally cast or that Mayor Bing usurped the office of mayor,"...

MN: Now the felon voter is getting votes ...
click here
_felon_voter_is_getting_votes_ http://tinyurl.com/3yycvl8
(Write in votes for felon voter in contest against Polk Co Atty who prosecuted him).

MO: Missouri poll worker describes Election Day problems
http://watchdog.org/7259/missouri-poll-worker-describes-election-day-problems/
St. Louis County... Due to a computer problem in the state's capital, Keough said she watched as several voters left in frustration.
...
"I convinced one lady to stay and vote," Keough told Missouri Watchdog. "But if you have two to three leaving at each polling place, that starts to add up."

ND: Cass County ballot count may prompt change in law
http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/297893/group/News/ A split decision by Cass County's canvassing board to accept absentee ballots postmarked on Election Day has prompted one legislator to consider introducing a bill to clarify the law.

NM: N.M. reworks voting machine audits
Number of precincts under review will depend on closeness of race http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/N-M--reworks-voting-machine-audits

NY: Election night-mare.
New, slow electronic system delayed results for hours
http://www.liherald.com/stories/Election-night-mare,28746?page=1&content_source=
"The last flash drive arrived at the Board of Elections a little past midnight, because you always have stragglers at the end," said Biamonte. "We had a backup of flash drives -- a considerable backup, because we have 1,170 election districts in this county. [It took] three and a half hours to finish the scanning of these things."

NY: The Issues With the New Voting Machines
http://www.antonnews.com/greatneckrecord/news/11400-the-issues-with-the-new-voting-machines.html

NY: Why there were so many election-night snafus in New York
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/11/why_there_were_so_many_electio.html

NY: The Paper Trail: Optical scan voting system was the right choice
http://blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2010/11/the_paper_trail_optical_scan_v.html

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