Article: 'Daily Voting News' For May 4, 2007

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org Voters in Randolph Co Indiana are being asked to vote on a system made by now defunct Voting Technologies International; the same system that has failed in the last two elections and that failed in pre-election day set-up. Meanwhile an election this week in Scotland has been a disaster. High-speed ballot scanners failed, hundreds of thousands of ballots were spoiled, and postal ballot delays all added up to one huge mess. Also a new judge's ruling in Alameda Co, more from Florida and a fun deposition taken from Linda Lamone in Maryland....

AR: Carroll County - Baker's lawsuit against Election Commission, prosecutor is dismissed LINK

CA: Opinion - Registrars' whining shouldn't stop tests LINK

CA: Alameda County - Judge questions registrar's handling of election records LINK

CA: Alameda County - California county to share data in e-voting suit Alameda County will share the data from its e-voting machines as part of a lawsuit brought against the county charging failure to properly disclose the required data LINK

CO: Colo. elections IT mgr. selling "voter data" to GOP candidates LINK

FL: Florida Acts to Eliminate Touch-Screen Voting System LINK

FL: Election law changes await governor's signature LINK

FL: Touch-screen voting on way out, but millions still owed LINK

FL: Touch-screens are out, paper is in LINK

FL: Charlotte County - Horton, commission to explore mail voting LINK

FL: Indian River County - Paper trail coming to Vero Beach voting machines LINK

FL: Palm Beach County - County elections chief moving on two ballot tracks LINK

FL: FL-13 - Justice delayed Court's slow process pushes District 13 case into political arena LINK

IN: Randolph County - Randolph officials hope votes can be counted LINK

MD: Lamone Deposition Made Public Concedes Voting System Does Not Produce Ballots Longstanding Maryland Law Requires the Use of Ballots for Recounts LINK

MO: Ballot fraud furor fades GOP-driven cases largely fall flat in Missouri; critics see a larger plan to sway election. LINK

NY: ELECTIONS: New voting machines delayed again LINK

NY: New York to Grill Voting Machine Testing Lab LINK

OH: Cuyahoga County - Changes at troubled elections board in Cuyahoga County to get first test LINK

OH: Licking County - County still seeking poll workers LINK

PA: Erie County - Election Problems LINK

TX: Senator returns, vows to block voter ID bill For now, Senate Democrats have votes needed to block measure LINK

WV: Jefferson County - Commission delays action LINK

Scotland: Poll hit by ballot chaos LINK

Scotland: Elections marred by vote problems LINK

Scotland: High number of spoiled papers puts spotlight on new system LINK

Scotland: Ballot chaos mars Scottish elections LINK

Scotland: Election voting chaos to be probed LINK

Scotland: The Election: What went wrong? LINK

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