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'Daily Voting News' For October 17, 2006

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Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

The worst county for elections in the US, Cuyahoga Co. Ohio has taken another step into the realm of the absurd. The county wants to get their votes tabulated as quickly as possible and they apparently aren't worried as much about accuracy so they are using a new add-on device from Diebold that has never been used in an election and is not even complete with the federal inspection process yet. This device reads the data from the voting machine memory cards, six cards at a time in one minute. The county just has to get the totals out quickly; never mind the accuracy of those totals. / Massachusetts has still not settled on accessible voting machines. Three weeks from election day is too late to bring in new machines and train workers. The state, apparently, is also going to ignore HAVA and not require a new machine at each polling place....

  • NAtional: First Bush-Appointed Chair of US EAC Says 'No Standards' For E-Voting Devices, System 'Ripe for Stealing Elections'! LINK


  • NAtional: Dealing With Failure LINK


  • NAtional: Provisional Ballot Problems Loom For November 7, According to New Publication LINK


  • NAtional: Blocking the 2006 Vote LINK


  • NAtional: New Voter ID Laws Could Cost Millions Their Right To Vote, According to New Briefing Paper LINK


  • AK: Struggle For 2004 Election Data Continues LINK


  • CA: California To Pay Back Misspent Election Funds LINK


  • CA: Note Warns Calif. Hispanics on Voting LINK


  • CA: Alameda County - Mobile Voting Machine Aims To Increase Participation LINK


  • CA: Alameda County - Supervisors Accept Voting System Assessment LINK


  • CA: Humboldt County - Vote-PAD files claim LINK


  • GA: Election board votes to send new letter to 305,000 misinformed voters LINK


  • IA: Linn County - Poll Worker Help Wanted LINK


  • IN: Jasper County - No hanging chads for November's election LINK


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