MI: Did your voting machine in Lansing (MI) work today?*
http://thelansingblog.com/2010/08/03/did-your-voting-machine-in-lansing-mi-work-today/... After we voted, we took our ballot to the machine where the voter inserts the paper with his choices to be counted. It would not pull the ballot into the machine. It wouldn't function at all.
Voters behind us left their ballots on a nearby table to be inserted by workers later. There was maybe five or six when we finally left. The poll worker took our ballots and inserted them in an auxiliary bin behind the machine. And she said it would be scanned later as its watched by workers who are from both political workers.
MI: Election Day: August 2010*
http://annarborchronicle.com/2010/08/03/election-day-august-2010/
Ann Arbor. 9:30 a.m. Ward 1, Precinct 3: Community High School (401 N. Division):
...
The clerk staff reports several humidity-related issues citywide with voting machines. The humidity makes the paper ballots "puff up."
MI: Modem problems in voting machines to delay WashtenawCounty results *
http://www.annarbor.com/news/modem-problems-in-voting-machines-to-delay-results/
The modems used for Washtenaw County's voting machines aren't working, county election officials said just after 9 p.m.
That means clerks in the county's various townships, cities and villages will have to physically drive the results in. That occurs anyway, but the county is normally able to get the results faster from the modem and put them up on its website.
MI: More Michigan polling places use electronic pollbooks
http://www.freep.com/article/20100803/NEWS15/100803067/More-Michigan-polling-places-use-electronic-pollbooks
NY: New York Passes Two Landmark Democracy Reforms
http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/archives/new_york_passes_two_landmark_democracy_reforms/...requiring
that people in prison be allocated to their home communities for redistricting purposes; and requiring criminal justice agencies to provide voting rights information to people who are again eligible to vote after a felony conviction.
VA: Va. registrars study mobile voter unit
http://www2.newsvirginian.com/wnv/news/state_regional/article/va._registrars_study_mobile_voter_unit/58532/
WA: R-71 petition challenge heading back to court
http://blogs.sos.wa.gov/FromOurCorner/index.php/2010/08/r-71-petition-challenge-heading-back-to-court/ Protect Marriage Washington, gay-marriage opponents who forced a public vote on the state's new domestic partnership law last November, are heading back to court to try to ban public release of the 138,000 names of people who signed Referendum 71 petitions.
Internet Vote Watch
Aug 9-10 in DC: EVT/WOTE '10
http://digest.electionguide.org/2010/08/03/aug-9-10-in-dc-evtwote-10/
The Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections conference (EVT/WOTE '10), will be held in Washington, DC from August 9-10. Topics will range from optical scan technology to potential vulnerabilities in internet-based voting systems.
MD: State of Maryland Will Deliver Absentee Ballots to Voters by Internet
http://media-newswire.com/release_1123583.html(blank ballots to overseas voters)
Beginning with the upcoming gubernatorial primary election in September, voters in Maryland will have a new convenient method of voting available to them.
The On Demand Ballot System, developed by the Center for American Politics and Citizenship( CAPC ) in partnership with the Maryland State Board of Elections, is a revolutionary system that will allow voters to print their official absentee ballot and mailing label from the internet.
National
Obama admin pushes back hard on right's charge that it's not protecting military votershttp://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/08/obama_admin_pushes_back_hard_o.html
Now DOJ has responded to Cornyn with a letter of its own. And it lays out the reasons why this latest attack is bogus:
* The DOJ letter points out that the waiver process is built into the MOVE law. It notes that states have the right to request a waiver if they are unable for whatever reason to meet the requirement, and that it's the responsibility of the Department of Defense, in consultation with DOJ, to determine whether to grant those waivers.
Adams: I Never Said Holder Is Disenfranchising Troops On Purpose
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/adams_i_never_said_admin_is_disenfranchising_troop.php
Moss versus machines(Bob Fitrakis)
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6184.shtml
It is fitting on the fifth anniversary of the death of Bill Moss, lead plaintiff in the legendary Moss v. Bush 2004 lawsuit in Ohio, that the Associated Press is admitting the easy hackability of Diebold machines.
http://thelansingblog.com/2010/08/03/did-your-voting-machine-in-lansing-mi-work-today/... After we voted, we took our ballot to the machine where the voter inserts the paper with his choices to be counted. It would not pull the ballot into the machine. It wouldn't function at all.
Voters behind us left their ballots on a nearby table to be inserted by workers later. There was maybe five or six when we finally left. The poll worker took our ballots and inserted them in an auxiliary bin behind the machine. And she said it would be scanned later as its watched by workers who are from both political workers.
MI: Election Day: August 2010*
http://annarborchronicle.com/2010/08/03/election-day-august-2010/
Ann Arbor. 9:30 a.m. Ward 1, Precinct 3: Community High School (401 N. Division):
...
The clerk staff reports several humidity-related issues citywide with voting machines. The humidity makes the paper ballots "puff up."
MI: Modem problems in voting machines to delay WashtenawCounty results *
http://www.annarbor.com/news/modem-problems-in-voting-machines-to-delay-results/
The modems used for Washtenaw County's voting machines aren't working, county election officials said just after 9 p.m.
That means clerks in the county's various townships, cities and villages will have to physically drive the results in. That occurs anyway, but the county is normally able to get the results faster from the modem and put them up on its website.
http://www.freep.com/article/20100803/NEWS15/100803067/More-Michigan-polling-places-use-electronic-pollbooks
NY: New York Passes Two Landmark Democracy Reforms
http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/archives/new_york_passes_two_landmark_democracy_reforms/...requiring
that people in prison be allocated to their home communities for redistricting purposes; and requiring criminal justice agencies to provide voting rights information to people who are again eligible to vote after a felony conviction.
VA: Va. registrars study mobile voter unit
http://www2.newsvirginian.com/wnv/news/state_regional/article/va._registrars_study_mobile_voter_unit/58532/
WA: R-71 petition challenge heading back to court
http://blogs.sos.wa.gov/FromOurCorner/index.php/2010/08/r-71-petition-challenge-heading-back-to-court/ Protect Marriage Washington, gay-marriage opponents who forced a public vote on the state's new domestic partnership law last November, are heading back to court to try to ban public release of the 138,000 names of people who signed Referendum 71 petitions.
Internet Vote Watch
Aug 9-10 in DC: EVT/WOTE '10
http://digest.electionguide.org/2010/08/03/aug-9-10-in-dc-evtwote-10/
The Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections conference (EVT/WOTE '10), will be held in Washington, DC from August 9-10. Topics will range from optical scan technology to potential vulnerabilities in internet-based voting systems.
MD: State of Maryland Will Deliver Absentee Ballots to Voters by Internet
http://media-newswire.com/release_1123583.html(blank ballots to overseas voters)
Beginning with the upcoming gubernatorial primary election in September, voters in Maryland will have a new convenient method of voting available to them.
The On Demand Ballot System, developed by the Center for American Politics and Citizenship( CAPC ) in partnership with the Maryland State Board of Elections, is a revolutionary system that will allow voters to print their official absentee ballot and mailing label from the internet.
National
Obama admin pushes back hard on right's charge that it's not protecting military votershttp://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/08/obama_admin_pushes_back_hard_o.html
Now DOJ has responded to Cornyn with a letter of its own. And it lays out the reasons why this latest attack is bogus:
* The DOJ letter points out that the waiver process is built into the MOVE law. It notes that states have the right to request a waiver if they are unable for whatever reason to meet the requirement, and that it's the responsibility of the Department of Defense, in consultation with DOJ, to determine whether to grant those waivers.
Adams: I Never Said Holder Is Disenfranchising Troops On Purpose
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/adams_i_never_said_admin_is_disenfranchising_troop.php
Moss versus machines(Bob Fitrakis)
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6184.shtml
It is fitting on the fifth anniversary of the death of Bill Moss, lead plaintiff in the legendary Moss v. Bush 2004 lawsuit in Ohio, that the Associated Press is admitting the easy hackability of Diebold machines.
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