Article: 'Daily Voting News' For May 17, 2008

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org On March 4 election officials in Butler Co Ohio discovered that even though their system said that all memory cards had been read, in fact the system did not read one of the cards. This is an error in accuracy. Last Thursday Diebold issued a report to the county to report the results of their investigation. Diebold will fix the software problem and send it through the federal certification process. It appears that the county will just live with the problem and mitigate it with administrative procedures. First, this is a violation of HAVA Section 301(a)(5) but more importantly why would any county use a voting system that has already proven itself to be inaccurate? This is an outrage....

NAtional: Several Big Voting Rights Victories On Friday! LINK

FL: It shouldn't be so hard to vote in Florida LINK

HI: Bid protest leaves state without election system LINK

HI: State delays contract for voting machines Procurement office won't allow temporary deal with company LINK

IN: Clay bungled handling of vote on election night LINK

MO: Missouri Legislature Ends Session With Voter ID Amendment Still on Agenda LINK

NJ: Judge sets tight security on voting machine tests LINK

OH: Voters Comfortable With Machines LINK

OH: Opinion - Costs of voting have to be considered LINK

OH: Butler County - Report: Voting errors caused by two factors LINK

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