http://www.news-record.com/content/2010/08/30/article/several_candidates_for_nc_judge_mean_ranked_voting
Voters must use instant runoff voting when so many candidates run for a vacancy close to Election Day. The voters rank their top three candidates in order of preference. Second-place votes are counted if no one gets a majority of first-place votes. (No legal software to tally the election)
N.J. ignores voting integrity issues
http://www.nj.com/gloucester/voices/index.ssf/2010/08/nj_ignores_voting_integrity_is.html
The late Soviet dictator Josef Stalin is often quoted as saying, "The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." New Jersey goes Stalin one better. There is not even a pretense of counting votes, because the votes are invisible.
OR: Lawsuit Filed to Prevent Oregon Election Officials from Using Three-Letter PartyAbbreviations on November Ballot http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/08/30/lawsuit-filed-to-prevent-oregon-election-officials-from-using-three-letter-party-abbreviations-on-november-ballot/
PA: Pennsylvania Breakthrough on Ballot Access Reform?
http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/08/27/pennsylvania-breakthrough-on-ballot-access-reform/
TN: Rutherford County Election Admin Gets Job Back
Election Commission Rescinds Hooper Penuel's Firing
http://www.wsmv.com/politics/24817852/detail.html
http://www.tnca.org/2010/08/30/the-status-of-ballot-box-access-in-tennessee/
My question to Mr. Goins is, why can't the State Election Commission do both clean up the rolls and ensure that every vote is counted fair and accurately? Surely the two are not mutually exclusive?
TX: Williamson County, Texas Awards Hart Ballot Printing Contract
County will save money with Hart printing ES&S Optical Scan Ballots
http://www.hartic.com/pr/100
TX: 'Attack' alleged on local voter rolls
Nonprofit disputes claims made against it by county official
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7170826.html
TX: Back To Paper Ballots For Some Of Harris County
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/08/paper_ballots.php
The paper ballots will be the same as the ones regularly used by mail-in voters, and will be two-pages long for the November 2 election. Kaufman is urging residents to vote by mail and use the early voting period, which begins October 18.
TX: County OKs $13.6M purchase of new voting machines
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/facebook/7178331.html
Commissioners Court approved Kaufman's emergency plan this afternoon to spend $13.6 million to buy 2,325 electronic voting machines and supporting equipment.
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Kaufman's request included 1.4 million paper ballots, which will be distributed to polling stations as a backup in case a shortage of machines leads to long lines.
TX: Harris County commissioners OK emergency voting machines plan after fire destroyed equipment
http://www.texaswatchdog.org/2010/07/harris-county-commissioners-ok-emergency-voting-machines/1280611560\. column The measure was amended to specify that the county would seek eSlate machines like those destroyed Friday in a fire.
VA: Update: Virginia's IT outage continues, 3 agencies still affected
A memory card within a SAN caused the outage *
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9182719/Update_Virginia_s_
IT_outage_continues_3_agencies_still_affected?taxonomyId=147http://tinyurl.com/2apcqlm
Several Virginia state agencies continue to experience problems with data access due to an outage related to problems in a storage-area network (SAN) that began last week in a data center run by outsourcer Northrop Grumman.
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Late today, VITA issued a statement saying that only three of the 27 agencies initially affected by the outage were still without service. Those agencies are the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), the Department of Taxation and the State Board of Elections.
WA: Feds' OK of waiver request will help state's military voters
http://blogs.sos.wa.gov/FromOurCorner/index.php/2010/08/feds-ok-of-waiver-request-will-help-states-military-voters/"Washington's military voters can actually vote on Election Day and still get a ballot back in time to be counted since Washington does not certify the election until 21 days after Election Day. In other states, voters must vote and mail the ballot weeks before Election Day.
WI: Thousands of state voters don't match lists
http://www.leadertelegram.com/news/daily_updates/article_b4e4dd5c-b478-11df-a261-001cc4c002e0.html Wisconsin election officials say more than 66,000 entries in their voter registration system still do not match information contained in other state databases.
Of those, about 18,000 could be made ineligible to vote because letters sent to them were returned as undeliverable. If that happens, the voters could re-register on election day.
WV: Mountain Party Primary Turnout is Better than Primary Turnout for Either Major Party in West Virginia
http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/08/28/mountain-party-primary-turnout-is-better-than-primary-turnout-for-either-major-party-in-west-virginia/
National
Are Election Outcomes Publicly-Verifiably Accurate?
11 Fundamentals of Auditing Vote Tallies
http://kathydopp.com/wordpress/?p=119
*All* of the following post-election auditing (pea) procedures are
necessary to avoid certifying incorrect election outcomes..
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