Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Today is a mixed bag of articles. Officials in South Carolina have been told to have the proper amount of emergency paper ballots at the polls for the Democratic primary election this Saturday. It seems that Republicans were forced to vote on any scrap of paper available in Horry Co last Saturday. The Registrar of Voters of Sacramento Co California, Jill Lavine, has revealed that the counties ES&S M-100 precinct-based optical-scan machines failed "Logic and Accuracy" testing for the Feb 5 primary. "Many of the county's M100 machines, which have been tested and used for several previous elections without incident, had a variety of problems. With some machines, the ballot could not be loaded at all, or only accepted if loaded in backwards. In some cases, Democratic votes were not being recorded by a scanner. With other machines, it would be Republican votes that were not recorded. And with some machines, there were no problems at all. With the election within two weeks, Lavine decided to fore go using the scanners altogether, and count the ballots centrally at the county election office." We applaud Lavine and her staff for doing a thorough L&A test and for making the correct decision. One can only wonder as to whom ES&S will blame for this problem.
Meanwhile Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman has changed his mind again and he is now backing the state's county clerks association which wants vote-by-mail. The governor and legislative leaders today announced legislation that will require all counties to keep poll site voting but do away with the state's DREs and require paper ballots. It cannot be long before Coffman changes his mind again and announces his support for paper ballots at the polls....
NAtional: Editorial - Voters don't need photo identification LINK
NAtional: Report: Touch Screen Ballot Design Can Cause Voter Errors LINK
NAtional: Columnist - Servatius: The chads are still hanging
America's democracy is flawed at the most fundamental level LINK
NAtional: Why We Need Democracy Promotion at Home LINK
AR: Benton County - Democratic poll watchers to be on hand for Feb. 5 vote LINK
CA: Judge rules against counties in vote count dispute LINK
CA: Kings County - South Valley Voting Machines Gathering Dust LINK
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CA: Monterey County - Panel observes voting process
Elections Department: Group formed to meet state requirement' LINK
CA: Sacramento County - Long election night likely
Sacramento County machine flaws to delay results LINK
CA: Sacramento County equipment problems will delay primary election results LINK
CA: Sacramento County - Voting equipment problems in Sacramento lead to change of plans LINK
CA: San Diego County - Judge rejects county's election recount challenge LINK
CA: San Diego County - Hand counting of ballots can increase, judge rules LINK
CA: San Francisco County - S.F. settles suit with voting machine vendor LINK
CA: San Francisco County - City may get $3.5M from e-voting company LINK
CA: Solano County - Election oversight proposal rejected LINK
CO: Ritter backs paper ballots at polls LINK
CO: Ritter proposes paper ballot LINK
CO: Paper Ballots Will Be Used In This Year's Elections
Electronic Voting Equipment Was Disqualified In December LINK
CO: Ritter: State should use paper, not electronics, to vote LINK
CO: Federal election official talks about Colorado voting problems LINK
CO: Garfield County's clerk and recorder says she needs an answer on voting machines LINK
CO: Weld County - Weld clerk calls Ritter's paper ballot proposal "step back" LINK
FL: Pinellas County - Editorial - Plan for early voting snubs half the county LINK
FL: Sarasota County - Sarasota backs off mail-in election A special vote this spring will be done traditionally, just to be on the safe side LINK
IA: Mauro: Update all of Iowa's voting machines LINK
MA: Swampscott set to debut new voting machines LINK
MD: Study Author Pans Scrapping of Maryland's Touch-Screen Voting Machines LINK
NM: Ballot Busters
Will the state's election software be reliable? LINK
NY: Brennan Center to New York State Board of Elections: Don't Even Think About It LINK
NY: Opinion - Voting machine deadline approaching
County election commissioners face crucial choice by Feb. 8. LINK
NY: Republican resigns from state elections board LINK
NY: Illness might delay state's choice of new voting machines LINK
OH: Brunner's election plan given rebuff
Secretary of state hoping elections officials will compromise on replacing touch screen machines with paper ballots. LINK
OH: Brunner: Security over cost
Most counties want to stick with touch-screen voting LINK
OH: Brunner wants officials to compromise LINK
OH: Ohio's vote machines lacking controls LINK
OH: Lake County - Lake officials estimate cost of changing voting equipment LINK
PA: Editorial - Could online voting be far in the future? LINK
PA: Lawrence County - County to address voting machine complaints LINK
PA: Wayne County - Wayne considering leasing machines for April primary LINK
SC: Legislators call for more paper ballots after Horry Co. primary problems LINK
SC: Officials working to fix voting machine problems from GOP primary LINK
SC: Horry County - Staff changes not expected over primary LINK
SC: Orangeburg County - School election appeal before Supreme Court LINK
UT: Utah's AccuVOTE Proves to be Safe and Successful LINK
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