by Ellen Theisen, Dave Klein and
John
Washburn
In Pierce County, WA, indications are that Ranked Choice
Voting (RCV) may be a failed experiment. 63% of the voters didn't like it, and the
auditor says scrapping it would save the county $600,000. The County Council
voted to amend the county charter to repeal the mandate for RCV; the voters
will make the final decision in November.
Smartmatic still hasn't
submitted its incorporation papers to the Philippines Comelec, and its local
partner, TIM, has pulled out of the joint venture.
Internet voting is
now being considered in Canada and Nova Scotia. Is there no end to the
wack-a-mole of unobservable ballots? Prove in one place that Internet ballots
are an exercise in unjustified trust, and the idea pops up its head in another.
Today's articles about the Voting Rights Act deal with how to minimize
future challenges....
National:
Can the Voting Rights Act Survive Another Challenge? LINK
National: Fixing the Voting Rights Act LINK
National: Conyers abandons plan to probe ACORN
LINK
National: Editorial: Register Everybody LINK
National: Record Number of People With
Disabilities Voted in 2008 Election LINK
National: Searching for a Reliable Voting System LINK
CA: Secretary of State Debra Bowen Reports Record
Percentage of Votes by Mail in May 19 Special Election LINK
FL: Florida voter law garners praise LINK
GA: New laws start July 1 LINK
GA: Voting Rights Act still relevant to today's
Georgia LINK
IL: Attorneys lay out their arguments in the Rock
Island mayoral recount LINK
MN: Pawlenty 'prepared' to certify Franken LINK
NC: Touch Screens High Rate of Unrecorded Votes
for President in 2008 LINK
NH: Court may finally set N.H. voters free LINK
TN: Voting machines will change again LINK
TX: EDITORIAL: Voter ID bill was bad idea then and
now LINK
VA: New laws hit books Wednesday LINK
WA: Instant Runoff Voting too Costly - Pierce
County WA Says Ditching Would Save $600,000 LINK
Canada: Elections Canada backs online voting LINK
Canada: Online voting could improve dwindling
turnout for federal elections: report LINK
India: EC had known the fundamental flaws of EVMs
since 2000; not remedied LINK
Iran: Iran starts partial recount of disputed vote
LINK
Nova Scotia: Byelection for Dartmouth council seat
likely in September LINK
Philippines: Comelec to winning bidder: No papers,
no deal LINK
Philippines: Smartmatic's local partner withdraws
LINK
Philippines: Automation in peril as poll partners
break up LINK
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Ellen
Theisen, Director and Managing Editor
Dave Klein,
Editor
John
Washburn, Editor
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