Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Election officials in three Colorado counties claim that they can catch all of the stray marks on ballots. Those stray marks may be read as votes by their Hart Intercivic eScan voting machines. Those claims don't seem to carry any water when you consider that some of the marks that were read by the machines instead of the actual vote were just dots where a voter may have rested their pen. On the heels of reports of serious problems with Sequoia Advantage voting machines used in New Jersey the state Attorney General has announced that there is no way they can have voter verified paper audit trail (vvpat) printers for those machines by the November election. Of course, some would have you believe that the inclusion of a vvpat printer would mitigate the problems reported yesterday. No vvpat printer on those machines would have made any difference with the internal memory and voters do not verify their ballot using that printer. The only savior would be to replace the machines with a paper ballot voting system....
NAtional - Analysis: e-voting's success rests on chain-of-custody issue LINK
NAtional: Electronic Voting and Partial Audits -- Let's do the Math LINK
NAtional: Following the Paper Trail
Case study examines five states' efforts to limit paperless voting LINK
CO: Key voting machine hearing today LINK
CO: 3 county officials dispute state test results on voting equipment LINK
FL: Broward County - Incredible Turnout - The Phantoms of Oakland Park LINK
FL: Hillsborough County - Hillsborough approves $5.97 million contract for voting system LINK
MS: Wilkinson County - Judge calls new election LINK
NH: Statement from the New Hampshire Fair Elections Committee Regarding Activist Recount Investigations in New Hampshire LINK
NJ: Sequoia E-Voting Machines Reporting Inaccurate Totals in New Jersey LINK
NJ: Minor problems with voting machines LINK
NJ: AP NewsBreak: Another delay for N.J. electronic ballot safeguards LINK
NJ: Voting Machine Discrepancies Leave Questionable Results LINK
NJ: Another delay for N.J. electronic ballot safeguards LINK
NY: New York City - Data entry errors to blame for wrong NY Super Tuesday tallies LINK
NY: New York City Still Tallying Votes LINK
OH: Forum addresses voting equipment LINK
OH: Will Some Ohio Polling Places Be Inadvertantly Shut Down on Election Day? LINK
OH: Licking County to exceed paper ballot requirement
Local election officials hope to have enough on hand for March 4 primary LINK
OH: Summit County - Ohio SoS Fires Another GOP County Election Official, GOP State Senator Applauds LINK
OH: Summit County - GOP chief Arshinkoff loses elections board seat LINK
OK: House voter identification bill clears committee LINK
PA: Bucks County - Bucks voting machine activists will have their say LINK
PA: Bucks County - Paper Balloting Advocates Decry Bucks County Voting Machines LINK
PA: Bucks County - Columnist - Meeting shows our system at work LINK
PA: Bucks County - Voting advocates protest machines LINK
PA: Bucks County - Dry Ice and the DRE Dumpster LINK
PA: Luzerne County - 3rd-party voters get reminder LINK
PA: Wayne County - Editorial - Wayne officials made savvy decision on voting LINK
TN: Film raises issue of vote fraud LINK
TN: Tennessee may change voting machines
93 of 95 counties can't generate paper trail that bill would require LINK
VA: Recounting the recount LINK
VA: Chesterfield County - Democrats protest Chesterfield vote
Complaint claims county mismanaged election and some couldn't cast ballots LINK
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