Article: 'Daily Voting News' For December 15, 2008

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org The news has not been written yet but I am hearing from New Jersey that the bill that would have forced the state's voters to continue to use Sequoia Advantage DREs with no paper audit trail was defeated in one house of the state legislature and the bill in the other house never went to the floor for a vote. Now the state needs to decide whether to wait and hope Sequoia can get a vvpat printer certified or do the right thing and change over to a paper-based voting system....

National: Toward A Better Registration System Eliminating A Mountain Of Paperwork Is A Top Priority For Gathering Of Election Administrators LINK

National: Unstuffing the Ballot Box The right is working to change voting rules. Advocates and ordinary citizens are pushing back. LINK

National: EAC Honors Poll Workers from Election Day 2008 LINK

GA: Lee County - Poll workers thanked LINK

KS: Riley County Clerk: General election cost $77K LINK

MD: Md. election board seeks '09 touch-screen pact LINK

MN: A nasty bug emerges in the state election system LINK

MN: Coleman, Franken joust ahead of critical election board meeting LINK

MN: Editorial: Recount reveals an election weak spot Changes needed to reduce absentee ballot error rate. LINK

MN: Senate recount update: Coleman camp takes separate objections to Supreme Court and Canvassing Board LINK

NJ: Editorial - A vote for optical scan LINK

NY: Good News from Minnesota: New York State Has Selected the Right Voting System LINK

PA: 38,983 voters purged from rolls York County hadn't tossed deadwood voters in a decade. LINK

TX: Commentary - Republicans revive voter ID proposal LINK

TX: Dewhurst trying to work out a deal to get voter ID bill passed LINK

TX: Johnson County - Editorial: Elections office must be efficient LINK

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