Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
7 days until Election Day. The NAACP and Advancement Project have sued the VA Governor and the state's top election officials for failing to provide enough resources to accommodate expected record turnout next week. The suit claims the state is in violation of the US and state constitutions and that a failure to fairly distribute voting machines, poll workers and polling places will result in long-lines in some neighborhoods. The suit asks the state to move voting machines to precincts most like to have long lines; keep polls open longer and to use paper ballots in some cases.
Also this morning is the revelation that some Georgia polling places have had lines with as long as 8 hours waiting time due to their voter registration data base being slow. The state claims that the problem is the turnout but that explanation does not make sense in the real world. The number of poll site computers feeding into the central data base computer dictates how fast that system is; not the number of voters. On election day there will be many, many more poll site computers all feeding into the central computer at the same time. Things will probably get much, much slower and lines will grow longer....
Featured - VA: NAACP Sues Officials Over Vote Preparations
High-Minority Areas Affected, Group Says LINK
Featured - GA: COUNTDOWN 2008: Computer woes slow Georgians at polls LINK
National: Cutting Through E-Voting Debate Semantics LINK
National: Interview: Brad Friedman On The Epic Fail Of 2008 LINK
National: Provisional Ballots Get Uneven Treatment LINK
National: Election Unspun Oct 28 - Vote Switching At Voting Machines LINK
National: E-Voting Complaints Heat Up With Early Voting LINK
National: UCSB's Giovanni Vigna Gives Timely Talk on Why Electronic Voting Is Frighteningly Insecure LINK
National: Update on voting rights cases LINK
National: The Vote Grab: Voter purge could swing result to McCain LINK
National: Thirteen Election Integrity Experts: E-Voting Problems and How to Stop Them LINK
National: Is a "Voting Rights Disaster" in the Offing? LINK
National: Battleground: One Week Out.... LINK
CA: Alameda County - Touch-Screen Ballots Help Disabled Citizens Vote LINK
CA: Solano County - Demand for early ballots cannot be met LINK
CO: Federal judge will hear voter purge case Wednesday LINK
CO: Latest developments on Colorado voting issues LINK
CO: Colorado election snafu roundup: Clerks resort to robocalls to fix bad registrations LINK
CO: Tipping the Scales -- Up to 10,000 Registrations Deemed Incomplete in Colorado LINK
FL: 12,165 now on Florida's 'no match' vote list LINK
FL: Broward County - Early Voting Hours Change, Polls Open Later LINK
FL: Concerns mount about accuracy of Palm Beach County's ballot counting machines LINK
GA: Court: 'Flagged' citizens may vote LINK
IN: Lake County - A divided Lake elections board extends clock on early voting LINK
NC: Watch out for a separation between the straight-party vote and the presidential vote on your ballots! LINK
NC: Guilford County - Democrats May Seek More Voting Time LINK
NC: Rockingham County - 79 Rockingham voters given provisional ballots LINK
NH: Election officials, political operatives wonder about impact of the end of straight-ticket voting LINK
NJ: Princeton Warning on E-Voting Machine Hack Shows Human Touch Can Be a Good Thing LINK
NJ: Corzine says state is ready for Election Day crowds LINK
NY: New York City - Editorial - Voting and the City LINK
OH: One more week to go
Whoever wins Ohio may have to wait LINK
TX: El Paso County - Problems with Voting Machines LINK
UT: Summit County residents show up at polls only to find they've already voted LINK
VA: Group sues Kaine, Va. election officials on behalf of NAACP LINK
VA: Lawsuit: Some Va. precincts lack sufficient voting machines LINK
VA: A Voting Rights Disaster? LINK
WV: Voting machines being checked LINK
WV: Ireland: Testing OKs touch screen voting machines LINK
WV: Touch-screen machines vetted
Ireland invites voters experiencing problems to call her office LINK
WV: Opinion - Jason Williams - Voting machines overseen LINK
WV: Voting machines remain a concern LINK
WV: ES&S VP Given 'Award of Merit' By WV SoS LINK
Germany: Court to Examine Security of Electronic Voting LINK
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