March 23, 2006
By JGideon
a run-down of the days elections/voting news from across the country and overseas.
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Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
Today a federal court told New York state to present a HAVA plan by April 10. The court also found that intervention of LWV, NYVV and others would not be allowed. Essentially the court found in favor of chaos. Meanwhile the disaster in Illinois is continuing with thousands of votes still to be counted. Sequoia has done a good job of deflecting the machine failures into personnel errors and 'glitches'. At the same time election officials are saying that Sequoia should have to pay for the myriad equipment failures. The editorials and articles coming from Maryland are all pointed toward the state changing their voting system now....
NAtional: Andrew Gumbel - Electoral Dysfunction LINK
AR: White County - Polling site changes rile some at quorum court LINK
CA: Editorial - A voting machine test LINK
CA: Electronic voting can't stand burden of suspicion LINK
CA: San Mateo County – County Officials Unsure About Electronic Voting Systems LINK
CA: Santa Clara County - County's Voting Machines in Question (Possible legal action against Sequoia too) LINK
CA: Shasta County - Creating a paper trail LINK
FL: Crist asked to investigate voting-machine companies LINK
IA: House Republicans Confuse Voters LINK
IL: Machine Woes Slow Vote-Counting in Illinois LINK
IL: Chicago/Cook County - Ballot madness LINK
IL: Chicago - Thousands of ballots remain to be counted LINK
IL: Chicago - Election officials say voting machine company should pay for repairs LINK
IL: Chicago – Chi-Town E-Voting Meltdown LINK
IL: Chicago – Poll Workers Concerned About Voting Accuracy LINK
IL: Chicago: Vote snafu: Some blame new equipment LINK
IL: Cook County - Votes still not tallied LINK
IL: Cook County - Poll workers needed voting system training LINK
IL: Cook County - County Board race unsettled; voter fraud charged LINK
IL: Henry County - County spends $260,000 for one voter LINK
MD: Dissing Diebold LINK
MD: Editorial - Common Sense in Maryland LINK
MD: Myers says early vote too costly LINK
MD: Delegate accuses state official LINK
MI: Ottawa County - Stille recall attempt fails as recount upholds election results LINK
MO: Cape Girardeau County - Cape County officials test election equipment LINK
NM: Santa Fe - Council win cut to 2-vote margin LINK
NY: State ordered to produce HAVA plan. Interest groups not allowed to intervene. LINK
PA: Opinion - Don't trust easily manipulated computer voting machines LINK
PA: Adams County - Adams OKs purchase of new voting machines LINK
PA: Carbon County - Carbon scrubs voting machine order. Disenchanted by first supplier[AVS], county goes with second choice[Diebold]. LINK
PA: Fayette County - Fayette OKs e-vote vendor (Hart) LINK
PA: Fayette County - County to buy voting system (Hart eSlate) LINK
PA: Fayette County - Fayette should have new voting machines by mid-April LINK
PA: Luzerne County - Threats bring results in voting machine saga (ES&S iVotronic) LINK
PA: Luzerne County - Each precinct getting 1 new machine. Paper ballots will also be available to those who don’t want to wait to use iVotronic. LINK
TX: Texas Supreme Court Judge Cries Foul LINK
TX: Tarrant County - Deadline passes without any recounts requested LINK
TX: Tom Green County - Officials work on ballot puzzle LINK
WI: More-accessible voting machines get state OK LINK
IReland: E-voting machine storage pegged at €696,000 (For never used Liberty machines) LINK
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