Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Iowa appears to be on its way to a statewide paper ballot voting system. The Governor is backing down from his plan to outfit the state's DREs with vvpat printers. Instead he now seems willing to support the plan of the Secretary of State who wants to get rid of the DREs and use optical-scan and paper ballots. New York counties have made their choices for voting systems for voters with disabilities. Those choices were very important because they lead to the choice that the counties will make for next year for all voters. If a county chose a DRE (only one small county did) then chances are excellent that all voters in that county would end-up using those machines. Three counties and New York City chose AutoMark marketed by either Premier or ES&S and the rest chose a paper based system by Sequoia. These decisions are a tribute to the hard work by citizens in New York state....
NAtional: Stop The Presses LINK
CA: San Diego County - County turnout projected at 53 percent LINK
CA: San Mateo County - Election complaints build LINK
CO: Editorial - Clock is ticking on ballot issues LINK
CO: Penry: Revolt over ballots at hand LINK
CO: Garfield County plays election waiting game LINK
FL: CD-13 - Panel Votes to End Fla. Election Probe LINK
FL: CD-13 - Auditor's report inconclusive on Florida undervote mishap LINK
FL: Hillsborough County - Hillsborough chooses new voting system LINK
FL: Sarasota County - The continuing saga of Sarasota's lost votes LINK
FL: Volusia County - Blind voter's poll experience raises red flags, spurs apology LINK
IA: Culver willing to back plan to buy new voting machines LINK
IL: Kane County - Clerk's office cleared in election discrepancies LINK
MD: Scouring the Screens And the Scanners
Election Officials Check and Re-Check Equipment to Try to Head Off Trouble LINK
MS: Jackson County - Democrats want voting machines with printers LINK
NM: N.M. Votes Still Being Tallied LINK
NM: Editorial - It's not rocket science; it's a simple election LINK
NM: N.M. Democrats Get Apologies, No Winner LINK
NM: Privatization of New Mexico Voting Rolls May Have Played Major Role in Super Tuesday's Democratic Caucus Mess LINK
NY: Decision on N.Y. voting machines sent to counties LINK
NY: Choice of Voting Machines in New York, County by County LINK
NY: Albany County's voting future
Officials select optical scan machines to begin replacement of obsolete lever-action machines LINK
NY: Clinton and Essex Counties to purchase similar voting machines
North Country makes deadline for choosing new voting machines LINK
NY: Niagara County - Elections: County commissioners choose new system for disabled voters LINK
OH: Shadows On High: Election Machine Drama; All Damm-ed Up And Nowhere to Go! LINK
OH: Ohio Officials at Odds Over Paper Ballot LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County - Election-bill fix surprises officials
Cuyahoga County might not do midday ballot pickup LINK
OH: Union County - Court hears county's case against paper-ballot plan LINK
PA: Allegheny County - Pittsburgh Evening News: Hackable Allegheny County Voting Systems Left Unguarded, Memory Cartridges Gone, Felons Working as Election Judges LINK
PA: Northampton County - County sells 255 voting machines to scrap yard LINK
PA: Northampton County - Injunction to stop voting machine certification denied LINK
PA: Northampton County - Judge nixes stop on voting machine funds
Northampton County one of three seeking new equipment. LINK
WA: Thousands of WA primary votes invalid because oath not signed LINK
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