Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
41 voters in Atlanta Texas went to the polls to vote for, amongst other items, a candidate for City Council District 1. Little did those voters know that the city had leased the machines from Cass County and Hart Intercivic had done the ballot programming which contained an error. It turns out that the vendor had programmed the DREs used by the city so more than just citizens of District 1 could vote in that particular race. Rather than 41 votes there was a combined total of 198 votes cast. This is an accuracy issue that was not caused by the voter and is another clear violation of HAVA Section 301(a)(5)....
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KS: Sebelius vetoes bill requiring a photo ID to vote LINK
MA: Plymouth County - Recount affirms: Abington approves another override LINK
MD: Maryland Taxpayers Pay Big Money for Controversial E-Voting System LINK
NC: Opinion - A costly way to pick a winner
Runoff for state labor commissioner shows there's a better way of voting LINK
NY: Nassau County - Nassau tests new voting machines LINK
NY: Westchester County - Westchester lawmakers approve funding for new voting machines LINK
OR: Opinion - Some things lost when voting by mail LINK
OR: Oregon's Post Office Primary LINK
PA: Requirement that voters identify themselves each time is a solution in search of a problem LINK
TN: Opinion - Providing paper trail for ballots makes sense LINK
TX: Texas attorney general's two-year effort fails to unravel large-scale voter-fraud schemes LINK
TX: Cass County - City discovers error LINK
Netherlands - Dutch government bans electronic voting
The government of the Netherlands has banned electronic voting machines from future elections because of a risk of eavesdropping. The nation will return to paper voting. LINK
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