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Voting News: 1 in 10 AZ voters get wrong info. The Kansas Report and voter purges. Nassau ordered to ditch levers

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http://www.indystar.com/article/20100520/LOCAL05/5200450/1020/LOCAL05/Hendricks-County-board-to-share-election-records
DANVILLE -- The Hendricks County Election Board has agreed to give Avon Town Council candidates in two of the Republican primary races access to May 4 election records.
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election records including poll books, voting machine reports, paper ballots and ballot applications for absentee and early voting be opened for review and inspection.

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Yackey's petition claims that errors may have been made during the election in which some Avon voters may have been given out-of-town ballots in which the Avon Town Council races didn't appear.

NJ: McCormick Calls For Fair Election
http://njtoday.net/2010/05/21/mccormick-calls-for-fair-election/
Voting machine flaws discovered in the February 2008 presidential race have not been corrected, according to a Democratic candidate for County Clerk.


KY: Whitely county voters switch to paper ballots
http://thetimestribune.com/homepage/x1414107929/Whitley-County-voters-switch-to-paper-ballots

MS: Hosemann: Many voters dually registered

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20100520/NEWS01/5200346/1002
More than 27,000 voters on Mississippi's rolls also are registered in other states - which is illegal in the state, according to the Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann
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Hosemann said the state has entered into an agreement with several states to pull together what's been called "The Kansas Report."

NY: Non-Party Nassau County Board of Elections Ordered to Implement Order Related to Replacing Lever Voting Machines http://electionlawblog.org/archives/016030.html
As someone who regularly teaches Remedies, I found this order quite unusual, given what I understand to be the power of a court to order a non-party to comply with an injunction or consent decree

OH: Printer error has Summit recounting absentee ballots by hand * (ballot on demand )

http://www.ohio.com/news/94622934.html
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Summit County elections board employees will be working this weekend to count 8,000 absentee ballots by hand, thanks to a printer error.

The ballots were produced on a ballot-on-demand printer that incorrectly lined up the issues portion of some ballots. This meant the ovals filled in by voters were skewed, making it impossible for the optical-scan machines to read them properly.

Board employees discovered the problem Wednesday when doing remakes on ballots that had been improperly filled out by voters.
OH: Summit elections board reluctant to pay up ($197,000)

http://www.ohio.com/news/94543494.html
The Summit County elections board plans to appeal a decision that said Summit County Children Services was improperly charged to place its 2007 levy on the ballot.
VA: McDonnell trims wait times for felons applying for voting rights

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/05/mcdonnell_trims_waittimes_for.html
Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) announced today that he is reducing the time that must pass, from three years to two, before a nonviolent felon who has completed his sentence can apply to have his voting rights restored.
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Thirty-nine states automatically return voting rights to felons who have completed their sentences. In Virginia, rights are revoked upon conviction and can be restored only by action of the governor.


WV: NEW INFO: Votes to be Recounted, Names of Dead on Absentee Ballots

http://www.wsaz.com/home/headlines/93158104.html
In Lincoln County, some are questioning the validity of those votes after the names of deceased people showed up on absentee ballots.

WV: More Suspicions Surface After Lincoln County Election

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