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Voting News: NC GOP sues over touch-screen problems. Beware bogus online ballots in CT, NH

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NC: Craven County GOP Wants Answers
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Wants_Answers_106192848.html http://tinyurl.com/37v9m6n The Craven County Republican Party continues to express concern over touch-screen voting machines and the action taken against two poll workers who spoke to WITN.

NC: Board of Elections decides how to count instant runoff votes
http://triangle.news14.com/content/top_stories/632050/board-of-elections-decides-how-to-count-instant-runoff-votes

NC: Spreadsheet will tally instant runoff votes
http://www.news-record.com/content/2010/10/28/article/spreadsheet_will_tally_instant_runoff_votes

NY: Flawed New York ballot could baffle voters, expert says
http://www.strausnews.com/articles/2010/10/29/warwick_advertiser/news/25.txt
The instructions tell voters to fill in the oval above the name of the candidate they want to vote for.

"Unfortunately, if they want to vote for a candidate, they should be filling in the oval just below the candidate's name, not above it," said Lawrence Norden, senior counsel at the center.

NH: Voters warned about bogus online ballots
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/newsstatenewengland/893400-227/voters-warned-about-bogus-online-ballots.html it is impossible to vote online in New Hampshire, and officials are investigating the complaints as a potential effort to suppress votes, by tricking people into thinking they have already voted,

NY: Tweet your election day complaints
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/28/tweet-your-election-day-c_n_775670.html
Get on twitter or call 311

NM: Law Enforcement Authorities Investigate Potential Voter Registration Fraud In Dona Ana Countyhttp://www.kfoxtv.com/news/25556179/detail.html

OH: WOULD YOU LIKE FRIES WITH THAT BALLOT?
http://electionlawblog.org/archives/017671.html
McDonald's workers complain about GOP handbills with their paychecks

PA: Bucks election board to hear GOP allegations of absentee-voter fraud by Democrats
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/20101028_Bucks_ election_ board_to_hear_GOP_allegations_of_absentee-voter_ fraud_by_Democrats.html http://tinyurl.com/36656sf Board of Elections Director Deena Dean said her office was inundated last week with more than 100 calls from voters saying they were confused about a Democratic mailing they had received. The mailing, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee, told recipients that their "participation in the forthcoming election may be placed in jeopardy" if they did not return an enclosed application for an absentee ballot.

TX: Fake flier causes confusion among local voters*
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=7749845
The fliers start out by saying "Republicans are trying to trick us" and goes on to urge voters not to vote a straight Democratic ticket. It also says a single vote for Bill White is a vote for the entire Democratic ticket.

TX: Tensions rise between voters and poll watchers in mid-term election (video)
http://www.khou.com/news/Tensions-rise-between-voters-and-poll-watchers-in-mid-term-election-106150849.html The 59 formal complaints prompted the district attorney's office to issue a bulletin urging polling stations to use tape to mark off just how close a poll watcher can get when a voter has asked for assistance.

TN: 25 Prisoners Escorted To Election Office To Vote After Slipup
http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_187279.asp
Sheriff Jim Hammond said normally the election office sends a deputy to the jail and workhouse to vote those who are eligible to vote and who want to cast ballots.

VA: Beer for votes?
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1010/Beer_for_votes.html?showall
A Virginia Democratic organization appears to have violated federal election law by offering free beer to voters

VA: Va. State Board of Elections: Computer problems won't affect voters
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/virginia_state_board_of_electi.html http://tinyurl.com/34gzkqe
The Virginia State Board of Elections is trying to assure voters that recent computer issues that have caused computers to run slowly for local registrars will not affect Tuesday's vote.

WA: WA SENATE RACE: BE READY FOR A SLOW COUNT
http://electionupdates.caltech.edu/?p=3407

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