Some voters cross party lines while others struggle to find their polling place
http://www.staradvertiser.com/elections/2010/primary/ Some_confusion_reported_as_polls_open_for_voting.html http://tinyurl.com/2a2ed3z
...At least four Oahu voting machines malfunctioned. Some voters tried to cross party lines. And others scrambled just to find the right place to cast their ballots.
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Trisha Shipman-Lameier and her husband went to three polling stations before finding the right place to vote. "It's just been a nightmare," she said.
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Larry Meacham, chairman of the polling station at Prince Jonah Kuhio Elementary School, said the most common problem was voter confusion over the ballot.
...When a voter failed to check a ballot properly, either by not checking the party or voting for more than one party, the machine rejected the ballot.
IN: Lawmakers to push for extension of vote center program in 3 Indiana counties
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/181c631632464963b944570f0b66b216/IN--Vote_Centers/
MD: 10,000 missing votes? Not likely.
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/2010/09/10000_missing_votes_not_likely.html
The problem Tuesday night was that in several cases in Baltimore city and county, election judges failed to bring all of their cards to the board of elections.
MD: How the votes are counted (editorial trusts e-voting)
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-09-16/news/bs-ed-voting-system-20100916_1_election-judges-vote-tally-voting-machines Our view: Election night glitches reignite anxiety over electronic voting, but failsafe mechanisms make missing votes unlikely
http://theoaklandpress.com/articles/2010/09/17/news/
politics/doc4c9420b027c9f830796106.txt http://tinyurl.com/2cug7ed "It is our understanding that there is a new version of the software before the Election Assistance Commission," Chesney said. "It has been with them since 2009. It's our understanding that ES&S has fixed the files and sent them to Oakland County.
MN: Mark Ritchie unveils new online 'peace of mind' tool for absentee ballots
click here unveils_new_online_peace_of_mind_tool_for_absentee_ballots
http://tinyurl.com/2f3avdk Secretary of State Mark Ritchie unveiled an online "Absentee Ballot Lookup" service this morning.
MO: League of Women Voters hosts panel on Supreme Court decision
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2010/09/15/league-women-voters-hosts-panel-supreme-court-decision/ This year's event, the fourth annual, was: "If You Prick Them, Do They Bleed? Corporations as Persons."
NC: Study calls NC best among 10 at protecting voters
http://www.thesunnews.com/2010/09/19/1703256/study-calls-nc-best-among-10-at.html
NY: New York Primary Election Day: Op-Scan Round-up
http://re-mediaetc.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-york-primary-election-day-op-scan.html
NY: Election Watchdogs: Humans, Not Machines, Caused Primary Day Problems *
http://beta.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2010/sep/16/city-board-elections-faces-tight-deadline-fix-voting-problems/ Optical scanning machines definitely broke down, but when that happened, poll workers made mistakes. They told voters to wait for the machines to be fixed, or to come back later. Larry Norden of the Brennan Center for Justice says that defeated the whole purpose of the new system.
"When the machines break down, people can still vote," says Norden. "People can still be given their ballot. They can fill them out, and they can be put in an auxiliary bin, so the fact that poll workers didn't know enough and the people running the polls didn't know enough to take advantage of that benefit is very troubling."
NY: An election the voters lost*
http://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/An-election-the-voters-lost-664779.php
The primary elections across New York were a referendum on the state's new voting machines -- electronic scanners, paper ballots and all. Too often, they didn't work properly.
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Turns out that there was a write-in bubble beneath the name of every candidate on the primary ballot, which appears to have prompted some voters to fill in that oval instead of the correct one. Adding to that likelihood is the fact that the vast majority of those who cast what are being called write-in votes didn't actually write in anyone. They thought, it seems, that they had voted for one of the candidates listed above the write-in bubbles they filled out instead.
NY: The Day: Voting Machine Blues
http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/the-day-voting-machine-blues/
NY: A Voter Critiques the New Machines
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/a-voter-critiques-the-new-machines/
"Since I don't understand how the machine can record the votes regardless of whether the ballot is inserted facing up or down, I did not feel confident this was true."
NY: Voting machine contract gets Justice Dept. review
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/16/AR2010091601936.html
The Justice Department is scrutinizing the actions of the nation's largest voting machine company, according to court records and sources.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating the awarding of a $50 million contract by New York City in January to Election Systems & Software, according to sources familiar with the probe.
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