Article: 'Daily Voting News' For March 23, 2006

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org

Today a federal court told New York state to present a HAVA plan by April 10. The court also found that intervention of LWV, NYVV and others would not be allowed. Essentially the court found in favor of chaos. Meanwhile the disaster in Illinois is continuing with thousands of votes still to be counted. Sequoia has done a good job of deflecting the machine failures into personnel errors and 'glitches'. At the same time election officials are saying that Sequoia should have to pay for the myriad equipment failures. The editorials and articles coming from Maryland are all pointed toward the state changing their voting system now....

NAtional: Andrew Gumbel - Electoral Dysfunction LINK

AR: White County - Polling site changes rile some at quorum court LINK

CA: Editorial - A voting machine test LINK

CA: Electronic voting can't stand burden of suspicion LINK

CA: San Mateo County - County Officials Unsure About Electronic Voting Systems LINK

CA: Santa Clara County - County's Voting Machines in Question (Possible legal action against Sequoia too) LINK

CA: Shasta County - Creating a paper trail LINK

FL: Crist asked to investigate voting-machine companies LINK

IA: House Republicans Confuse Voters LINK

IL: Machine Woes Slow Vote-Counting in Illinois LINK

IL: Chicago/Cook County - Ballot madness LINK

IL: Chicago - Thousands of ballots remain to be counted LINK

IL: Chicago - Election officials say voting machine company should pay for repairs LINK

IL: Chicago - Chi-Town E-Voting Meltdown LINK

IL: Chicago - Poll Workers Concerned About Voting Accuracy LINK

IL: Chicago: Vote snafu: Some blame new equipment LINK

IL: Cook County - Votes still not tallied LINK

IL: Cook County - Poll workers needed voting system training LINK

IL: Cook County - County Board race unsettled; voter fraud charged LINK

IL: Henry County - County spends $260,000 for one voter LINK

MD: Dissing Diebold LINK

MD: Editorial - Common Sense in Maryland LINK

MD: Myers says early vote too costly LINK

MD: Delegate accuses state official LINK

MI: Ottawa County - Stille recall attempt fails as recount upholds election results LINK

MO: Cape Girardeau County - Cape County officials test election equipment LINK

NM: Santa Fe - Council win cut to 2-vote margin LINK

NY: State ordered to produce HAVA plan. Interest groups not allowed to intervene. LINK

PA: Opinion - Don't trust easily manipulated computer voting machines LINK

PA: Adams County - Adams OKs purchase of new voting machines LINK

PA: Carbon County - Carbon scrubs voting machine order. Disenchanted by first supplier[AVS], county goes with second choice[Diebold]. LINK

PA: Fayette County - Fayette OKs e-vote vendor (Hart) LINK

PA: Fayette County - County to buy voting system (Hart eSlate) LINK

PA: Fayette County - Fayette should have new voting machines by mid-April LINK

PA: Luzerne County - Threats bring results in voting machine saga (ES&S iVotronic) LINK

PA: Luzerne County - Each precinct getting 1 new machine. Paper ballots will also be available to those who don't want to wait to use iVotronic. LINK

TX: Texas Supreme Court Judge Cries Foul LINK

TX: Tarrant County - Deadline passes without any recounts requested LINK

TX: Tom Green County - Officials work on ballot puzzle LINK

WI: More-accessible voting machines get state OK LINK

IReland: E-voting machine storage pegged at ��696,000 (For never used Liberty machines) LINK

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