Allegations dog Bridgeport tally click here
25/conn_certifies_down_to_the_wire_election/ http://tinyurl.com/2vpqmru
GA: Open Records request for Georgia election data denied
http://valdostadailytimes.com/todays-top-stories/x1455938574/Open-Records-request-for-Georgia-election-data-denied The request sought to preserve two voting machines from the general election along with a copy of a county server and its election results database. The requested items would have allowed a public test of the voting machines to help verify the Election Day counting accuracy of the equipment.
GA: Two McIntosh County women charged with election violations(absentee ballot fraud)
They're suspected of mishandling ballots. http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2010-11-23/story/two-mcintosh-county-women-charged-election-violations
HI: Delivery of overseas absentee ballots explained
http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/543265/Delivery-of-overseas-absentee-ballots-explained.html?nav=18 We urge overseas voters to apply for absentee ballots as soon as the law allows and to remember to supply election officials with sufficient address information to assure delivery of their ballots in the foreign country where they reside.
http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20101123/News01/101129698/1129/News
A five-member recount commission is hand counting ballots cast for county clerk and county assessor in the Nov. 2 election
IN: Election results impounded Wednesday (for manual recount)
http://www.browncountyindiana.com/index.php?id=6206
The bailiff of Brown Circuit Court is impounding election materials this Wednesday afternoon in advance of a recount hearing scheduled for 3 p.m. Monday, Nov. 29.
KY: Lawsuit says dead people, felons voted in Magoffin election(absentee ballots)
http://www.kentucky.com/2010/11/24/1537997/lawsuit-says-dead-people-felons.html
Bribery and votes by felons and dead people contaminated the November general election in Magoffin County, two losing candidates have charged in lawsuits.
Sheriff Randall Bob Jordan and John P. Montgomery, who ran for judge-executive, said in the court actions that a man allied with their opponents paid "numerous voters" at least $100 each to buy their votes.
KY: Lawsuits Claim Vote Buying in Magoffin County
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in_Magoffin_County__110407704.html http://tinyurl.com/39v54gv
MI: Bay County election officials schedule a second recount for Garfield Township road millage http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2010/11/bay_county_election_officials_1.html The Bay County Board of Canvassers met this past Tuesday to conduct the recount, but were unable to do so when it was determined that the number of ballots in hand -- 684 -- did not match the number of ballots certified on election night-- 683.
MN: Minnesota election: Recount ordered
http://www.thestatecolumn.com/blog/2010/11/minnesota-election-recount-ordered/
The state's Canvassing Board says it will begin hand-counting the 2.1 million ballots cast in this month's gubernatorial election.
MN: Minnesota recount, the last one, was relatively inexpensive Pew study finds
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recount_the_last_one_was_relatively_inexpensive_pew_study_finds
http://tinyurl.com/34gx2ph
MN: Election board in recount balancing act
http://www.woodburybulletin.com/event/article/id/36722/group/homepage/
The Minnesota State Canvassing Board ordered a statewide recount in the governor's race Monday while trying to balance campaigns' rights to challenge local election decisions with limiting frivolous challenges.
MN: Minn. justices deny GOP effort to change gov tally
http://topnews360.tmcnet.com/topics/associated-press/articles/2010/11/25/120888-minn-justices-deny-gop-effort-change-gov-tally.htm
MN: Ballot counters hope Minnesotans learned their lesson
http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/184566/ Minnesotans remember all too well the days, weeks, months of squabbling over ballots two years ag
NC: N.C. House candidate concedes contested race (NC House District 45)
http://www.news-record.com/content/2010/11/24/article/nc_house_candidate_concedes_contested_race
GOP hopeful Jackie Warner said in a statement Wednesday that she decided to withdraw her election challenge because the process would be costly to both her campaign and to taxpayers. She still believes that problems with touch-screen voting machines may have cost her the election.
NV: Voting-machine age could be an issue
http://www.rgj.com/article/20101124/NEWS/11240339/1321 Complaints of voting irregularities might be attributed to the age of Nevada's fleet of electronic voting machines, Democratic Secretary of State Ross Miller said Tuesday.
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