Article: 'Daily Voting News' For August 11, 2008

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org As Steven Rosenfeld says in his Alternet article, and this evenings "Featured" article, "The first large block of voters to be disenfranchised in 2008 are the wounded warriors from recent wars and homeless veterans living at hundreds of Department of Veterans Affairs facilities across the country, according to veterans and voting rights activists." While the state Department of Veterans Affairs in Connecticut has allowed the Secretary of State to register voters in one facility, the national office has not budged off of their insistence that no voter registration drives can happen on their property. The House and Senate must pass their legislation to instruct the DVA to allow voter registration drives when they return from their August vacation. ...

Featured - National: 2008's First Disenfranchised Voters: Injured and Homeless Veterans LINK

National: Opinion - Help Our Veterans Vote LINK

National: VA should allow voter drives LINK

National: FTC Warns of Voter Registration ID Theft Scams LINK

National: World's Leading Computer Security Expert Slams Diebold LINK

FL: Creative 'solution' eliminates undervotes LINK

FL: Editorial - New paper ballots make early voting even wiser LINK

NC: Editorial - Votes with trails LINK

NJ: Voting machine study raises uncertainty among area election officials LINK

NY: Blake Hulnick '09 Examines Changes in Election Administrative Policy LINK

SC: Councilwoman wants paper trail for e-votes Election officials say Gibson's request isn't feasible LINK

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