Article: 'Daily Voting News' For October 27, 2006

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org The West Virginia SoS is recommending to Kanawha Co. that they run all paper ballots twice to ensure the machines are counting accurately. The county is refusing to take that step which will ensure accuracy of the vote count. / Georgia will be using ExpressPoll (e-poll books) at the polls this year. Are they the same as those that failed in Maryland or do they have the modifications that were required in Maryland but never federally certified? / "The equipment has been tested by independent agencies and federal agencies," said Mark Radke, the director of marketing for Diebold, the company that makes the machines. [Independent = we pay them to do the testing and test what we tell them to test.][No federal agency does any testing] / ES&S machines are failing in early voting in Garland and Sebastian Co.s Arkansas ...

NAtional: Election Protection launches national voter assistance hotline LINK

NAtional: Election cliffhanger: Will it all work? LINK

NAtional: More voters aren't waiting for Election Day LINK

NAtional: Elections pushed, pressed, pulled into 21st century LINK

NAtional: Opinion - Free, fair elections? Doubts still linger LINK

NAtional: NIST to Certify Voting Machine Security, Standards LINK

NAtional: Pull the Plug on E-Voting, Part 2 LINK

NAtional: Manufacturers Defend Electronic Voting Machines LINK

NAtional: CNN's Lou Dobbs: 'It's a Case of Special Interest Over The National Interest' LINK

NAtional: Michael Shamos - EAC Testimony on Voting System Testing and Certification LINK

NAtional: Despite Laws, Disabled Voters Face Barriers at Polls LINK

NAtional: Bush's U.S. Elections Assistance Commission is Hopelessly Compromised, Misleading America and Has Utterly Failed in Their Job of Overseeing U.S. Elections LINK

NAtional: Testing Election Software Effectively LINK

NAtional: "Open Source Voting Considered Harmful" LINK

NAtional: E-Voting Still Stirring Controversy as Mid-Term Elections Approach LINK

AL: DeKalb County - County wants [SoS]Worley to pay up LINK

AR: Garland County - The marvels of electricity LINK

CA: Orange County - About A Dozen Arrested In Voter Registration Fraud LINK

CA: Orange County charges 11 with phony voter registration LINK

CA: Ventura County - More wrong ballots mailed Conejo, Ojai valleys both report mix-ups LINK

CA: Santa Clara County - Electronic Voting Reliability in Question LINK

CO: Denver - Up to 30,000 ballots will be hand-recopied Groups blast "potential for human error" LINK

FL: Opinion - I prefer paper, especially when I vote LINK

FL: Miami-Dade and Broward Counties - Only minor glitches reported in early voting LINK

FL: Pinellas County - More accurate voter counts promised Elections chief Clark says fatigue led to errors at some precincts Sept. 5. LINK

GA: State hopes ballot system will help avoid confusion LINK

KS: Butler County - Voting machine pains pay off for county LINK

MD: Governor: Absentee Ballot Shortage Nearing Crisis Level LINK

MD: Ehrlich warns of voting 'crisis' Backup plans urged due to area shortages in absentee ballots LINK

MD: Reports say Diebold fixed voting machines quietly LINK

MD: Governor Warns of Crisis in Wake of Diebold 'Repair' Revelations LINK

MD: Dorchester County - Absentee ballot demand grows LINK

NE: Omaha prints it own ballots as others wait for deliveries LINK

NY: Board Of Elections Tests Next Generation Voting Machines LINK

NY: Krueger Concerned With Lobbyist Influence In HAVA Compliance LINK

OH: Judge blocks Ohio's voter ID law for absentee ballots LINK

OH: Petro to appeal voter-ID ruling over Blackwell's objections LINK

OH: Miami County - Issue 5 worded incorrectly on ballots in Miami County LINK

PA: Philadelphia - Phila. opposes U.S. observers at polls In a suit, the government alleges violation of the rights of Hispanic voters. Local officials warn of too much intrusion. LINK

TX: Travis County Electronic Ballots Have Minor Error LINK

VA: Elections board tells 3 localities to add backup voting equipment LINK

WV: State, county at odds on IDs Chesterfield defends registrar's request for Social Security data LINK

WV: Kanawha County - More Election Day Voting Controvery in Kanawha County LINK

WV: Kanawha County - Kanawha's votes to get one-round count LINK

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