Article: 'Daily Voting News' For April 05, 2009

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org There are election recounts in Minnesota and New York that have the media's eyes and ears but we should not forget that there is also a recount beginning next week in Maricopa Co Arizona. In this case it is not an elections recount to decide who/what won an election. Instead this is a criminal investigation to determine whether there was manipulation of the vote tally on the voting machines in Pima Co. during the 2006 Rural Transit Authority election. Today's "Featured" article has the whole story, including all of the background....

Featured - AZ: Ballots from 'Fixed' Arizona Election Finally to be Counted in Criminal Investigation by State AG LINK

MN: GOP senators tell Coleman to make a federal case out of it; expert nonplussed LINK

NM: Voting machine service contracts canceled LINK

NM: Who will pay for voting machine maintenance? LINK

IL: Write-in candidates hope voters pick up their pens LINK

OK: Voter ID law stirs partisan passions LINK

TX: Heflin crafts kinder, gentler Voter ID bill LINK

WI: Fon Du Lac County - Voters go to polls on Tuesday [NOTE admonition for voters not to put stickers onto ballots or machines may be damaged] LINK

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