Article: 'Daily Voting News' For September 03, 2008

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org Just as an example of how screwed-up are Florida election laws yesterday Indian River Co.'s Canvassing Board approved the primary election results. Hopefully the reader will recall that Indian River had over 5000 ballots that were counted twice because someone decided to do a test in the middle of a real election and then failed to properly remove the results in that test. The result was ballots from 40 polling sites that were counted twice. Luckily an observant poll worker realized the totals for her site were double what they should have been. She pointed out the mistake and the county found their error. Tomorrow the board must do a state mandated audit to ensure their voting machines were correctly counting the votes. If the poll worker hadn't been observant and if this audit were to find the problem, or any other problem that might exist with the vote count, NOTHING can/could be done because the results have already been approved by the Canvassing Board. One has to wonder what some officials in Florida are thinking when they make stupid rules. This audit is newly mandated. Why didn't they mandate it to happen before canvassing the election? Post election audits are great. We need them everywhere and following every election but they have to be timed in such a way as to mean something if problems are found. If they don't have a purpose (to ensure the votes were properly counted) then they are a waste of tax money....

National: America Wants YOU to be a Poll Worker Research shows how poll workers on the front lines of elections affect voter confidence. LINK

AZ: 11,500 votes in Pima County not counted; final results released Thursday Maricopa County has 43,000 still to be counted LINK

AZ: Still 43,000 ballots uncounted in Maricopa County LINK

AZ: Pima County vote count slowed by hand-delivery LINK

CA: CA Appeals Court Strikes Down Ten Percent Ballot Audit LINK

FL: Florida Loses Votes, Again; Fall Election Process in Question LINK

FL: Local activist candidate for Broward Election Supervisor denied access to ballot recount LINK

FL: Despite problems with vote totals, Indian River County Canvassing Board approves primary election results LINK

FL: Palm Beach County - Editorial - The ballots are missing, so start finding answers LINK

FL: Palm Beach County - Recount end: Tallying totals by hand on legal pad LINK

FL: Palm Beach County - Election count errors under review LINK

FL: Palm Beach County - 3,400 Ballots Missing in Florida Election: Recount Flips Race LINK

FL: Palm Beach County - Losing Candidate Vows Legal Fight Over Vote Discrepancy LINK

FL: Palm Beach County - State may give Palm Beach County more time to solve mystery of 3,400 missing ballots LINK

FL: St. Lucie's canvassing board to audit voting equipment LINK

KS: Sedgwick County - Advance voting key to short waits at the polls LINK

NC: Craven County - Additional one-stop voting sites not intended to be permanent, official says LINK

NY: Niagara County - Changing the vote LINK

OH: Licking County - Voter registration system to change County BOE: Switch won't affect November election LINK

OH: Summit County - Secretary of state to break tie on absentee voting hours LINK

TN: Opinion - Right to vote too important to trust electronic voting machines LINK

UT: Eat My Vote: Election officials have no fear about the latest voting machine glitch. Others aren't so sure. LINK

VA: Warning for College Student Voters LINK

Guam: Voting machines still an option, if they comply with provisions LINK

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