Article: 'Daily Voting News' For January 19, 2007

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org "In the Cuyahoga case, the poll workers are charged with circumventing state recount laws that require a random sampling of at least three percent of the votes cast in a given precinct, to be recounted by hand and by machine. The prosecution charges that the workers instead hand picked sample precincts to recount that they knew did not have questionable results. Once they were able to match those recounts with official results, they could then do the rest of the recount by machine, in effect rendering the entire process meaningless. "This was a very hush operation," said prosecutor Baxter. Similar allegations have been made in other counties. Indeed, such illegal non-random recounting procedures appear to have been common throughout the state, carried out by board of election employees with the tacit consent of Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell", according to an article in "The Free Press"...

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NAtional: Charles Reed, guest column: Taking America back from corporations LINK

NAtional: Two e-voting test labs get thumbs up LINK

NAtional: First labs receive initial OK for voting system testing program LINK

NAtional: Congress Lights Fire Under Vote Systems Agency LINK

CA: Opinion - Secretary of state very skeptical of voting machines LINK

CA: Riverside County - Jeff Stone: The Coward of Riverside County? LINK

CT: Bethel - Town gets new voting equipment LINK

FL: FL-13 - U.S. House race in Sarasota was the most expensive in history LINK

NY: Paper ballots vs. touch screens LINK

OH: Cuyahoga County - Do new Ohio recount prosecutions indicate unraveling of 2004 election theft cover-up? LINK

OH: Cuyahoga County - Prosecutor says presidential recount rigged in Ohio county LINK

OK: Voting machines go through testing process before every election LINK

DIstrict of Columbia: Norton and Davis Introduce DC Voting Rights Act LINK

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