Article: 'Daily Voting News' For January 05, 2006

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Today Arizona SoS Jan Brewer, who is buying Diebold for her voters, was shouted down by voting activists as she announced that she was running for another term in office. She called us "anarchists". I'll proudly wear that badge though she miss-used the word unless she used it as Bertrand Russell used it; "He was inclined to anarchism; he hated system and organization and uniformity" ...

NAtional: New Voting Systems List Leaves Many Questions Unanswered LINK

NAtional: The Unseen Hand Will Decide Who Gets Elected LINK

AZ: State secretary defends purchase of voting machines LINK

AZ: Secretary of State braves protestors to announce re-election bid LINK

AZ: Senator tied to 'New Times' inquiry is facing criticism LINK

AZ: Plot thickens in vote probe LINK

CO: Chaffee County - State to help buy new voting machines for Chaffee County LINK

CT: State scraps bid process for new voting machines LINK

CT: State Sticking To Old Voting Machines LINK

CT: Officials Decry Time, Effort Wasted On Voting Machine Debacle LINK

IL: Kane County - Two voting systems one too many for March primary (Hart and Punch cards are both being planned) LINK

LA: New Orleans - Council to consider consolidating polls LINK

MN: HAVA hearing lays out voting plans LINK

MN: New law requires voting machines to leave paper trail LINK

NC: State News: Voting Rights Group Calls for Reinspection of E-Voting Systems in North Carolina LINK

NC: Carteret County - Vote machines are examined in Carteret LINK

NC: Catawba County - Vote how you want LINK

NC: Chatham County - Voting machine meeting turns feisty LINK

NC: Edgecombe County - Edgecombe to purchase new voting machines LINK

NC: Lenoir and Greene Counties - New voting machines needed in Lenoir, Greene LINK

NC: Nash County - Nash to display new voting machines LINK

NC: Pamlico County - Pamlico commissioners ask for more time to select equipment LINK

NC: Robeson County - County must buy voting machines LINK

NM: N.M. delays buying vote machines LINK

OH: Opinion - Sen. Bob Schuler, Ohio - Senate passes reforms to voting more secure LINK

TN: Shelby County - Election chair addresses Shelby County Commissioners on "dead voter" issues LINK

WA: Snohomish County - County OKs all-mail voting LINK

WA: Snohomish County - County switching to mail-in elections LINK

WA: Snohomish County - County is largest in state to adopt all-mail voting LINK

WI: New Wisconsin Election Bill Not as Positive as Originally Reported By Activists and Others LINK

WI: Rep. Pocan: Statement on Electronic Paper Trail Bill Becoming Law LINK

WI: Doyle signs bill requiring voting machines to produce paper trail LINK

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