Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
The worst county for elections in the US, Cuyahoga Co. Ohio has taken another step into the realm of the absurd. The county wants to get their votes tabulated as quickly as possible and they apparently aren't worried as much about accuracy so they are using a new add-on device from Diebold that has never been used in an election and is not even complete with the federal inspection process yet. This device reads the data from the voting machine memory cards, six cards at a time in one minute. The county just has to get the totals out quickly; never mind the accuracy of those totals. / Massachusetts has still not settled on accessible voting machines. Three weeks from election day is too late to bring in new machines and train workers. The state, apparently, is also going to ignore HAVA and not require a new machine at each polling place....
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NAtional: New Voter ID Laws Could Cost Millions Their Right To Vote, According to New Briefing Paper LINK
AK: Struggle For 2004 Election Data Continues LINK
CA: California To Pay Back Misspent Election Funds LINK
CA: Note Warns Calif. Hispanics on Voting LINK
CA: Alameda County - Mobile Voting Machine Aims To Increase Participation LINK
CA: Alameda County - Supervisors Accept Voting System Assessment LINK
CA: Humboldt County - Vote-PAD files claim LINK
GA: Election board votes to send new letter to 305,000 misinformed voters LINK
IA: Linn County - Poll Worker Help Wanted LINK
IN: Jasper County - No hanging chads for November's election LINK
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