Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Today Premier/Diebold has again had to accepted the blame for voting machine failures. This time the optical scan machines that had tallied absentee ballots in Sarasota County would not upload the totals to the main server and refused to post elections in Hillsborough County. Election officials in Sarasota ended-up having to count 10,000 ballots by hand. It is a good thing they had the paper ballots to count by hand or those votes would have been lost....
Featured - FL: Hillsborough County - State Will Recount Votes In Carey-Catlin Judicial Election LINK
Featured - FL: Hillsborough County - Hillsborough Election Equipment's Maker To Explain Problems LINK
Featured - FL: Sarasota County - Problems slow counting of 10,000 ballots LINK
National: Dispatch from Denver: Suppressing the Vote, Protecting the Vote LINK
National: Uncounted: The New Math Of American Elections (2008) LINK
National: Candidates Nationwide Called Upon to Challenge Suspicious Elections LINK
CA: Napa activists focus on e-voting, 'Hacking Democracy' LINK
CO: Editorial ? Voting system offers fewer excuses LINK
CT: The Outsourced State LINK
FL: Diebold Problems Affect Florida Primary Election LINK
FL: A Smooth Florida Election? Not Quite
As State Moves From Touch-Screen Voting Machines, Delays And Software Problems Still Surface LINK
FL: Voter turnout worst in 10 years LINK
FL: Brevard County - Touch-screen machine glitch crops up again, and slows vote count tonight LINK
FL: Broward County - Paper ballots make generally smooth debut in Broward County LINK
FL: Broward and Palm Beach Counties - Minor glitches; minor confusion at polls LINK
FL: Hillsborough Supervisor of elections says they did good job LINK
FL: Hillsborough County - Johnson on defensive after slow election LINK
FL: New optical scan machines win approval from Martin County voters LINK
FL: Miami-Dade and Broward Counties - Minor voting glitches in Broward; Dade's 2-page ballot criticized LINK
FL: Palm Beach County - Supervisor's name on rulers might violate election laws LINK
FL: Palm Beach County elections supervisor Arthur Anderson defeated LINK
FL: Palm Beach County - Circuit Judge Wennet, challenger Abramson watch as provisional ballots are tallied LINK
FL: Computer glitch delays vote count in Sarasota County LINK
KS: Other Voices: Paper backups a must for computerized voting LINK
MT: 10K ask to vote absentee LINK
OH: Politics sully Ohio absentee ballot plans LINK
OH: Trumbull County - Trumbull officials adopt polling gear procedure LINK
PA: Voters' rights groups seek paper-ballot backup LINK
TX: Travis County - Travis commissioners urged to end e-voting
Group says machines are too unreliable; county votes to buy more anyway. LINK
UT: Price the Vote: Federal money for electronic voting runs out, but the meter on voting machines keeps on ticking LINK
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