Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Mississippi's election laws are very questionable. During the August 7 state primary some voters who were not able to use Wilkinson Co's DRE machines used paper ballots. These would be absentee, affidavit (provisional) and curb-side (for voters with disabilities). In Mississippi the political parties administer their primaries. When all of the votes were counted three incumbents were re-elected. However, there were allegations of wrong-doing in regards to some Democrat paper ballots so the county Dem. Executive Board disqualified all paper ballots which then caused the three incumbents to lose their elections. How many good ballots were disqualified? No one knows. Next week we can look forward to something being done in regards to HR-811; or nothing at all. Will California finally release the results of their Document Inspection portion of the "Top-To-Bottom Review" and will the media even know about it? Will the state of New Jersey finally provide an alternate plan for when the vvpat printers are not ready for use? And there is supposed to be a follow-up on "Dan Rather Reports" as early as next week....
NAtional: HR811: In Holt's own words, three short videos LINK
NAtional: A Damaging Paper Chase In Voting LINK
NAtional: Hands-on Elections: A complete handbook LINK
NAtional: Computer Security Expert Bruce O'Dell: Testimony to NH Legislature LINK
AZ: Mojave County - Tests make sure election computers are ready to run LINK
CA: Ventura County - County adopting paper ballots seen as 'lucky' LINK
CO: Coffman says vote-machine solution on way LINK
CO: Pueblo County ? Editorial - Mail ballots LINK
CT: Voters may not survive voting crash course LINK
DE: Verifiable voting proposal on hold LINK
MD: Gov. O'Malley Pledges to 'Do Everything in My Power' to Fund Paper Ballots Bill LINK
MD: Officials foresee smooth primary LINK
MS: Wilkinson Co. Democrats throw out paper ballots LINK
NJ: Editorial - N.J. must ensure an accurate vote LINK
NJ: Opinion - Voting - the bedrock of democracy, How accurate? How costly? LINK
OK: State seeks 'miracle machine' to assist blind voters LINK
OK: Election official: Paper trail important
Legislation to be debated would require a paper ballot LINK
PA: Fayette County - Electronic voting unwelcomed LINK
PA: Lackawanna County - State might yank plug on e-voting LINK
UT: Utah's electronic touch-screen voting machines fail the voters LINK
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