Article: 'Daily Voting News' For October 30, 2006

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org Voters in Ohio, as well as all other states, will have the 1-866-OUR-VOTE hotline manned and ready to provide assistance. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that involves the private bar in providing legal services to address racial discrimination, and Proskauer Rose LLP, an international law firm with more than 700 lawyers in the United States and Europe, have joined forces with other law firms and voting rights groups as part of Election Protection - a program to protect the right of every eligible Ohio voter to cast a meaningful ballot and have that vote counted in the upcoming November 7 election. / Now Sequoia and Smartmatic say that they voluntarily submitted themselves to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) investigation. Quite frankly what does it matter whether an unreliable voting system is put out by a company owned, in part, by Chavez or another group of Venezuelans? The system is still just as unreliable. / Sequoia also has a problem with a new law suit in Nevada where a citizen activist is suing for the loss of her vote in 2004. / ...

NAtional: Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law & Proskauer Rose Partner to Assist Ohio Voters LINK

NAtional: Teamsters Sponsor Voter Hotline on Election Day to Combat Voting Malfeasance LINK

NAtional: Smartmatic and Sequoia Voting Systems Announce Voluntary CFIUS Filing LINK

NAtional: Voting machines firms confirm fed probe LINK

NAtional: Smartmatic Announces It Is Undergoing CFIUS Review LINK

NAtional: Venezuelan defends ownership of U.S. voting machine firm LINK

NAtional: Rep. Maloney - Smartmatic Announces It Is Undergoing CFIUS Review LINK

NAtional: Opinion - Remember to Vote, Hope It Counts LINK

NAtional: Voting should be effortless, not chaotic LINK

NAtional: Avi Rubin - Voting: Low-Tech Is the Answer LINK

NAtional: John Fund - Absent Without Leave LINK

NAtional: Election Day blunders could escalate LINK

NAtional: Election Officials and Election Activists LINK

NAtional: A way to restore confidence LINK

NAtional: Diebold 3Q earnings show nearly 12 percent improvement LINK

NAtional: A vote of no confidence LINK

NAtional: Electile Dysfunction? It's Time We Face Up To Our Two-Pronged Democracy ED Problem LINK

NAtional: Rage against the machine LINK

NAtional: Former Secretaries of State, Election Experts Available to Comment on What New Voting Laws Mean for Eligible Voters Across the Country LINK

NAtional: New Technology, Human Error Puts Elections Under Microscope LINK

AL: Secretary of State's office owes counties for election machines LINK

AR: Carroll County - Free at last: voting machines get new innards, lease on life LINK

CA: San Diego County Registrar Sends Pre-Programmed, Election-Ready, Hackable Diebold Touch-Screen Voting Machines Home With Pollworkers on 'Sleepovers' More Than Three Weeks Prior to Election! LINK

CO: Denver - Group Anticipates Long Lines On Election Day Former Election Commissioner Concerned About Long Lines LINK

FL: Midterm Elections-Early voting in Florida shows machine problems, votes for Democrats registering Republican instead! LINK

FL: Showdown at the Early Voting Place LINK

FL: Miami - MIAMI HERALD: Touch-Screen Votes Hopping from Democrats to Republicans in South Florida! LINK

FL: Pinellas County - Elections chief not worried about possible ties to Venezuela LINK

GA: Opinion - Wave of the future won't prevent voter manipulation LINK

GA: McIntosh County - McIntosh voting officials see early ballots as a test LINK

IL: Chicago/Cook County - Chicago welcomes voting machine probe LINK

KS: Electronic voting machines may add to election inaccuracies LINK

MA: State lags on voting machines for disabled LINK

MD: Opinion - Voting machinery LINK

NE: Cherry County - In Cherry County, no more election-day thumb twiddling LINK

NH: Nashua - Voting booth offering options LINK

NV: Washoe County - Reno citizen activist sues provider of electronic voting machines LINK

OH: Voter-ID law back in effect LINK

OH: Court revives voter-ID measure Attorney for plaintiffs might take their case to U.S. Supreme Court LINK

OH: OHIO MELTDOWN '06: New Last-Minute Reversal in Buckeye State's Voter ID Laws Plunges State of Elections Into Chaos! LINK

OH: Ohio Voter ID Law Reinstated - For Now LINK

NEtherlands - Dutch government scraps plans to use voting computers in 35 cities including Amsterdam LINK

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