Article: 'Daily Voting News' For September 28, 2008

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org In our featured article today we again get information about the shut-down of the Social Security Administration's databases for maintenance. As related in the article by Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center for Justice this shut-down is important because "A 2002 federal law, the Help America Vote Act, requires all states to "coordinate" their voter registration databases with the Social Security database (and state motor vehicle databases) for the purpose of processing new voter registration forms. For the millions of voters who do not have current driver's licenses and register using the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, state election officials are required to try to match their voter registration information against Social Security records. But if the Social Security database is down-as it will be for four days-they won't be able to do that. Across the country, the processing of these voter registration forms will grind to a halt for four days". Why has the SSA scheduled this shut-down within three weeks of the Nov. election? Now Sen. Diane Feinstein has asked the same question. That letter can be found with the featured article....

Featured - National: Voter Registration Shut Down? LINK

National: What does the future hold for elections? LINK

National: The most important open source system: Voting LINK

National: Will Your Vote Be Counted? LINK

CA: Counting Every Vote California's Sec. of State Says Open-Source Software Is Needed to Safeguard Electronic Voting Systems LINK

FL: Recently Registered Voters May Experience Problems LINK

FL: State's new paper trail leads to new problems LINK

FL: Opinion - Paper ballots won't be the panacea Broward County hoped for LINK

FL: Broward County - New ballot system as iffy as the last LINK

FL: Miami-Dade County - Register by Oct. 6 deadline LINK

FL: Palm Beach County - Acting chief of elections embraces sudden role LINK

FL: Pinellas County - League Says Pinellas Has Too Few Early Voting Sites LINK

GA: Handel in eye of vote storm LINK

GA: Election workers reassure security of votes LINK

IA: Warren County's new voting machines to leave paper trail LINK

OH: Ohio gets jump on voting 150,000 regional voters expected to beat lines, decide now LINK

PA: Pennsylvania vows to avoid messes Fla., Ohio stepped in LINK

PA: Area counties brace for record turnout LINK

PA: Montgomery County - Director says Election Night will be a late one LINK

PA: Union County - Dems lead area battle to register new voters LINK

PA: York County - County ditches dress code at polls LINK

TN: Opinion - Suggestions to make voting in presidential election simpler LINK

UT: Salt Lake County - County clerk works to make voting easier LINK

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