Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Officials in Belmont Co Ohio tested the use of paper ballots and optical-scan at one precinct. The test was an attempt to see if elections could be held with less expense using paper ballots than using the county's DREs. The test was a success so the county is now thinking about spreading the experiment to the whole county. One result of the test was that there were no lines because many voters can mark paper ballots all at the same time. Hopefully Belmont will tell their neighboring counties and they will experiment and tell their neighbors and we will suddenly have a paper ballot movement that will spread across the whole country and more and more counties will join in the "Rage against the Machines"....
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CA: Ballot Petition Fraud Occuring in Support of California's Republican Electoral College Initiative? LINK
CA: San Francisco - Supervisors moving ahead on buying new voting machines LINK
CA: Tehama County - County urges absentee vote
Long lines expected at polls LINK
CO: Boulder County - Mail in 2008? LINK
CT: From the Crow's Nest: An election reflection LINK
CT: Secretary of the state launches random audits; EHartford, EWindsor, Somers, WLocks selected LINK
HI: New vote system could be delayed
The next setup's cost might go over budget, an election official says LINK
NH: Candidates go for recounts despite the cost LINK
NJ: Voters still traveling on a paperless trail LINK
NM: San Juan County - County stuck with outdated voting machines LINK
NY: How Two Million Bucks Could Derail Open-Source Voting Machines in New York Elections LINK
NY: Ulster County - Paper ballots next year? State election official says they'd be impractical LINK
OH: Belmont County - More Paper At '08 Polls LINK
OH: Putnam County - Election troubles abound LINK
PA: Lancaster County - Official: Elections office didn't prepare public for vote LINK
TX: Harris County - Why did it take a week for press to learn of eSlate "adjustments?" LINK
Canada: Ontario - Embattled Vaughan clerk fired LINK
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