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Voting News: John Gideon remembered. New Voting Rights Act challenge. Internet Voting update

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PA: Appeals court sets Unilect argument
http://sharonherald.com/local/x563633118/Appeals-court-sets-Unilect-argument
MERCER COUNTY -- U.S. Court of Appeal for the Third Circuit has set argument for May 19 in Pittsburgh in the case of Mercer County suing the company that provided a former voting machine system.

PA: Bucks Commissioners spar over Primary Election inspectors
http://www.buckslocalnews.com/articles/2010/04/27/
bucks_news/doc4bd745f8be112911723953.txt http://bit.ly/9wZpaP

TN: Purge voters with care
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/apr/27/purge-voters-with-care/
Contrary to popular belief, voter turnout among the dead is quite low in Tennessee. Voting fraud of any kind, in fact, is so rare it's not worth worrying about

TN: Tennessee's "deficient" voter registration problem
http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/archives/tennessees_voter_purging/
Another benefit of modernizing the voter registration system is that it would remove politics from what should be a purely administrative function

TX: Plastic Ballot Box Debacle in Rio Hondo
http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=448929...there was a problem with one of the locks on the steel ballot box and therefore he was instructed by the Cameron County Elections Administrator to use a plastic bin as a

TX: Dodson requests recount(Hale County, recount by Hart machines)
click here
news/doc4bd622c526365396427279.txt http://bit.ly/cQY8ld

VT: Instant run-off voting experiment ends in Burlington
http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20100427/
NEWS03/4270339/1004/NEWS03http://bit.ly/dhJpdo

WI: FEW meeting this Wednesday6:30 - Agenda Fair Elections Wisconsin Wednesday April 28http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fairelectionswisconsin/message/2347

Citizens United

Lyle Denniston's Must-Read Preview of *Doe v. Reed*
http://electionlawblog.org/archives/015818.html

Hushed Money
Could Karl Rove's new 527 avoid campaign-finance disclosure requirements?
http://www.slate.com/id/2249952/
We may soon be going retro, back to the pre-Watergate era of secret campaign cash.

National

American Statistical Association Endorses Risk-limiting Audits of Election Results
http://blog.verifiedvoting.org/2010/04/27/444

"Voter Fraud Agenda," Indeed
http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/archives/john_
funds_voter_fraud_agenda_indeed/http://bit.ly/9Qso5F
... critiquing the fraud that absentee ballots may foster, Mr. Fund repeats his support for requiring strict voter ID at the polls. Which, of course, does nothing to address the absentee problem he's just mentioned

Election Legislation Hearings of the WeekProject Vote Blog (for CA & TN)
http://www.projectvote.org/blog/?p=414

Internet voting watch

Canada: Council to look at "electronic' voting
April 27, 2010 By John McPhee
http://www.walkerton.com/news/article/88396 Brockton council is considering switching to Internet and telephone voting for the next municipal election.

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