National
Overseas Vote Foundation's blog It's Back: Express Your Vote for 94 Countries!
https://www.overseasvotefoundation.org/Express-Your-Vote-2010
...we have teamed up again this year with FedEx Express to offer Express Your Vote in 94 countries. (Four more than in 2008!) The one-of-its-kind Express Your Vote program provides highly discounted rates for express delivery of voted ballots back to local election offices in the United States.
Military and Overseas Voters, Submit your Ballot Request for the General Election!
http://www.fvap.gov/global/news/nr22-2010.html There are only eight weeks until the November 2nd general election! If you have not already requested your absentee ballot, do so immediately. It's simple and it's fast. Go to FVAP.gov and use our online registration and absentee ballot assistant to have your forms completed, printed out, and ready to send back home in less than 10 minutes.
International
Australia: Blind voter loses electoral challenge
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/08/3005771.htm David Rankin took the Electoral Office to the Equal Opportunity Tribunal in South Australia, claiming his only option was to ask someone else to fill out his ballot paper.
He wanted to vote using a computer or braille.
Moldova: Hacker attacks electronic voting counting system in Moldova*
http://focus-fen.net/?id=n229660
Chisinau. A hacker has attacked the electronic system for vote counting in Moldova as the country is holding a referendum, News Moldova reports.
"As a result of the interference, the source of which is being identified by the competent bodies, the data in the system has doubled. But there is parallel vote counting and we keep in contact with all polling stations across the country," said Central Electoral Commission Chairperson Evgeniya Shtirbu
Moldova faces light turnout, hacker attack during referendum- Summary*
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/342827,attack-referendum-summary.html
The poll was the first-ever Moldovan national vote using computerized voter rolls. But CEC officials said a hacker attack led to morning delays in the operation of its website and damaged some digitally stored voter rolls.
The CEC was instead using manual vote counts and relying on paper- based voter roll data, but voting results would "be available only a little later than expected," CEC leader Evgeny Stirbu said.
Communist officials opposing the referendum's passage had alleged that the government was using the computer system to inflate turnout numbers artificially.
"This is why the (CEC) computers are having problems," Communist Party spokesman Yury Muntian had said earlier in the day, according to an Infotag news agency report. "This will allow them to falsify the vote result."
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