http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/11/05/782263/etheridge-can-ask-for-recount.html
A State Board of Elections review Thursday of vote totals in Sampson County left incumbent U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge close enough to challenger Renee Ellmers to seek a recount in the state's 2nd Congressional District race.
Ellmers, a Republican from Dunn, led by 2,099 votes Tuesday night, but the next day, Sampson County elections officials discovered they hadn't reported totals from three of the county's four early-voting sites, said Johnnie McLean, deputy director of the State Board of Elections.
NC: Judge's race in limbo until Nov. 29
Turns out the instant runoff in this year's state Court of Appeals election isn't so instant. http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/11/05/782133/judges-race-in-limbo-until-nov.html
NJ: Hudson County Board of Elections to make criminal referrals of some 4th Ward mail-in ballots http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2010/11/hudson_county_board_of_electio_1.html
http://www.registerstar.com/articles/2010/11/04/news/doc4cd21ff841fa8107904710.txt
Martin said there are at least 22,614 votes to be counted. "We're bringing back the ballot counters," she said, referring to humans who count ballots. She favors hand-counting over machine counting, she said, because she knows it's more secure.
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There's a chain of custody: Ballot bags, used to transport ballots, and poll bags, used to transport other materials, from the polling places to the county offices...always have to be watched over by one person from each of the two major parties.
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"Some of them had lines 30 or 40 minutes long," Martin said. "People went to vote, saw the lines, came back, the lines were just as long, came back and had to wait a long time."
NY: Glitch holds up Genesee County vote tally*
http://rocnow.com/article/local-news/201011050339
Genesee County hasn't publicly reported a full tally of election results yet, thanks to a data storage card from a new voting machine whose results cannot be read.
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Genesee used a different approach -- gathering data cards from every voting machine on election night and pulling results from them in the central elections office. But the system couldn't read a card from a LeRoy polling place that housed four election districts.
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At midday Thursday, Siebert said officials may have found a way to recover data from the card. If that doesn't work, results will be pulled from the tape, entered in a computer system by hand and posted on the county website in coming days...
NY: Senate race now a recount drama
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/city-hall/article242593.ece
Prospect of tallying votes by hand could mean months of delay
NY: The Issues With the New Voting Machines
http://www.antonnews.com/greatneckrecord/news/11400-the-issues-with-the-new-voting-machines.html
NY: New York's Voting System Doesn't Get Mine
http://www.crn.com/news/client-devices/228200282/new-yorks-voting-system-doesnt-get-mine.htm?itc=refresh
NY: New Voting System Earns a Passing Grade
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704462704575590810462827920.html
Nearly two months after widespread problems plagued New York City's new computerized voting system, voters and observers reported a far smoother process Tuesday with sporadic cases of machine failures and jammed ballots.
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"Over the past six weeks, we retrained poll site coordinators, improved pre election logistics, and increased our voter education efforts," spokeswoman Valerie Vazquez...
NY: New York state must help counties with voting problems
Tallying votes was a slow and laborious process http://rocnow.com/article/editorials/201011050319
SC: Screwy straight-ticket voting
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/nov/05/screwy-straight-ticket-voting/
According to the S.C. Election Commission, about 325,000 of Mr. Greene's voters went the straight-party route.
SC: Human error possible cause of voting machine problems *
http://www.theitem.com/news/article_3db83a1f-0378-5d6a-be6c-b4a837a25231.html
On Tuesday, the program "froze, locked up and shut down" for unknown reasons during vote tallying at the Sumter County Election Commission, said Director Pat Jefferson. The program also produced erroneous results when it was up and running again, but the errors were corrected and the final results, which will be certified today, were made available about 4 a.m. Wednesday.
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In the wake of Tuesday's malfunctions, local officials are questioning whether it is possible to change the state-standardized voting systems and whether there's any way a new system could be implemented before the elections in 2012.
TN: Nashville Scene - "Democratic Underground: Election Integrity? What Election Integrity?"http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2010/11/04/democratic-underground-election-integrity-what-election-integrity
UT: All Diebold Touch-screen Voting Systems Fail on Election Day at 110 Polls Across Utah County, UT
Voters forced to wait up to an hour to vote, others simply left...
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8180 It was also in Utah County were, as we reported a week before Election Day, the easily-manipulated Diebold voting machines had been found left unattended in the lobby of an office building.
VA: Voter problems at the polls?* (Voter registration not updated at DMV)
Board of Elections calls it "minuscule"
http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/politics/voter-problems-at-the-polls Virginia Beach resident Lori Lincoln voted at Pembroke Elementary, and she claimed the poll worker told her she may have to vote on a provisional ballot because her address was wrong.
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