All this and more in today's voting news below...
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AL: Alabama's judicial campaign finance law unenforced for 15 years
http://www.votelaw.com/blog/archives/006418.html The Birmingham News reports: A 15-year-old state law meant to discourage big-dollar donations to judicial campaigns has never been enforced, and each of the three branches of government in Montgomery blames another for the failure.
http://weeklyintercept.blogspot.com/2010/07/more-details-emerge-about-missing-poll.html ...A whistleblower has come forward with a sworn affidavit testifying that Bryan Crane told him privately while at the Boondocks Lounge that he had "fixed" the RTA election under direction from his bosses...
AZ: Atty Bill Risner Motion for Deposition of Iron Mountain Company
http://www.fatallyflawedthemovie.com/media/MotionforDepoIronMountain.pdf
AZ: Missing Poll Tapes
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2010/07/18/missing-poll-tapes
...the Sept. 14, 2008 discovery that despite a court order for release of unaltered election data to the Pima County Democratic Party, the designated Democratic Party's database containing the hard drive had gone missing from the Pima County vault. It was only upon Bill Risner's visit to the County Clerk's office that the box of hard drives reappeared: in the hands of John Moffat, who had only a garbled explanation for why he was illegally in possession of the hard drives.
CA: L.A. County D.A. expands probe into Bell government* (absentee ballot)
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/28/local/la-me-bell-elections-20100728
Investigators are looking into allegations of voter fraud and conflicts of interest, as well as the $100,000 salaries paid to four council members. The D.A. says several elections are targeted.
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Sources with knowledge of the investigation said that among the subjects that prosecutors are looking at is the use of absentee ballots during the March 2009 City Council election...
CO: Kathleen Curry Will Sue Against Discriminatory Campaign Contribution Limits
http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/08/01/kathleen-curry-will-sue-against-discriminatory-campaign-contribution-limits/ Candidates for the State House may receive contributions of $400 if they are running as members of a party. But if they are independent candidates, no one may contribute more than $200.
FL: Sarasota voting machine audit called off
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20100730/BREAKING/100739983/2416/NEWS
But a judge this week ruled that state election laws trump the county charter requirement, the latest turn in a back-and-forth legal battle that went all the way to the Florida Supreme Court.
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The president of Sarasota Alliance for Fair Elections, which has fought for four years to uphold the county charter, urged county officials to appeal the latest decision.
"They should stand up for our charter, they should stand up for the will of the voters," SAFE president Kindra Muntz said.
GA: Rodents force voter office to move
http://www.coastalcourier.com/news/article/23437/
Liberty County Board of Elections and Voter Registration Office
IA: Beware Absentee Ballots
http://iowavoters.org/2010/08/01/beware-absentee-ballots/
The Iowa Democratic Party lives and dies by its absentee ballot campaign. Iowans had best take notice of the latest absentee ballot investigation in New York.'
MO: Man Pleads Guilty Of Voting Twice In 2008 Presidential Election
Faces 5 Years in prison and or $10,000 in Fines
http://www.kplr11.com/news/ktvi-st-louis-man-votes-twice-election-073010,0,7142459.story St. Louis, MO (KTVI-FOX2Now.com) - A St. Louis man has pleaded guilty to voting in two different states during the 2008 election.
NC: ONLY ON 3: Bladen County voter fraud accusations investigated
http://www.wwaytv3.com/only_3_6_bladen_county_being_investigated_voter_fraud/07/2010
Randall Corbett is a long haul trucker from Bladen County, but he spends most of his time on the road. Corbett says a detective with the Sheriff's Office contacted his family because there was a problem with his absentee ballot.
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The problem is Corbett says he never voted at all. "I didn't apply for or request an absentee ballot," he said.
Corbett says he told Sheriff's Capt. Herman Dunn about the situation, and that Dunn said not to do anything because he would take care of the problem.
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