May 19, 2008
By JGideon
a collection of local, state, national and international articles on electronic voting and election issues
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Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org 41 voters in Atlanta Texas went to the polls to vote for, amongst other items, a candidate for City Council District 1. Little did those voters know that the city had leased the machines from Cass County and Hart Intercivic had done the ballot programming which contained an error. It turns out that the vendor had programmed the DREs used by the city so more than just citizens of District 1 could vote in that particular race. Rather than 41 votes there was a combined total of 198 votes cast. This is an accuracy issue that was not caused by the voter and is another clear violation of HAVA Section 301(a)(5)....
NAtional: Voting Rights advocates say America is unprepared for massive turnout Nov. 4 LINK KS: Sebelius vetoes bill requiring a photo ID to vote LINK MA: Plymouth County - Recount affirms: Abington approves another override LINK MD: Maryland Taxpayers Pay Big Money for Controversial E-Voting System LINK NC: Opinion - A costly way to pick a winner Runoff for state labor commissioner shows there's a better way of voting LINK NY: Nassau County - Nassau tests new voting machines LINK NY: Westchester County - Westchester lawmakers approve funding for new voting machines LINK OR: Opinion - Some things lost when voting by mail LINK OR: Oregon's Post Office Primary LINK PA: Requirement that voters identify themselves each time is a solution in search of a problem LINK TN: Opinion - Providing paper trail for ballots makes sense LINK TX: Texas attorney general's two-year effort fails to unravel large-scale voter-fraud schemes LINK TX: Cass County - City discovers error LINK Netherlands - Dutch government bans electronic voting The government of the Netherlands has banned electronic voting machines from future elections because of a risk of eavesdropping. The nation will return to paper voting. LINK **"Daily Voting News" is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in "Daily Voting News" may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or OpEdNews.Com**
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Authors Bio:John is the Executive Director of VotersUnite.Org