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'Daily Voting News' For June 8, 2006

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

Officials in Bucks Co., Pennsylvania hope to save a 'buck' by purchasing used, reconditioned Danaher 1242 voting machines. Will those machines be brought up to 2002 standards? What about voters with disabilities? / San Joaquin Co., CA's Debra Hench blamed all of the counties problems on absentee poll workers and ignored all voting machine problems but a few "paper jams". / As officials in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa hand-count their paper ballots due to an apparent tabulator failure (ES&S) one county officials said, "I love paper trails."When asked about DREs he said, "If you program them wrong, it would do the same thing (as Tuesday's counting errors)." / "It is unconscionable that in this day and age any American voter would be turned away from a polling place," said Calif. State Senator Ashburn in regards to problems in Kern County. "If there are problems with the system that is in place, then we need to know about it immediately. If yesterday's problems were caused by administrative errors or faulty training, then we need to know that too."...

  • CA: Kern County - Train Wreck - Ghosts in the machines plague local polling places LINK


  • CA: Kern County - Train Wreck - Ashburn Calls for Investigation of Kern Voting Fiasco LINK


  • CA: San Joaquin County - Train Wreck - Tallying the lessons. Elections officials look to avert voting problems in November LINK


  • CA: San Joaquin County - Train Wreck - Absent workers cause delay. Voters office struggled due to lack of election officials LINK


  • IA: Pottawattamie County - Train Wreck - Op-Scan Voting Machines Miscount Ballots in Iowa Republican Primary! Hand Count Reveals Other Candidate Leads By Far! LINK


  • IA: Pottawattamie County - Train Wreck - ELECTION: Hand count prompts differing opinions from candidates LINK


  • IA: Pottawattamie County - Train Wreck - Knauss, Leaders, Williams win in GOP supervisors primary (ES&S) LINK


  • MS: Leflore County - Train Wreck - Machines must be used in runoff LINK


  • MT: Cascade County - Train Wreck - Glitch, absentee votes slow results LINK


  • NJ: Morris County - Train Wreck - Ballot counting delayed by slow computer server LINK


  • NJ: Morris County - Train Wreck - County to probe vote-count delays LINK


  • PA: Allegheny County - Train Wreck - County voting machines under review by state LINK


  • TX: Jefferson County - Train Wreck - 2 Former Elected Officials Ask County Clerk To Resign (ES&S) LINK


  • TX: Jefferson County - Train Wreck - Lindens say Jefferson County Clerk Carolyn Guidry should resign LINK


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