In a letter to Gansler on Monday, Lowery-Bell said local election officials failed to inform voters at two polling places about the procedures for casting a write-in ballot.
MN: Students may face felonies over illegal voter vouching
http://www.mndaily.com/2010/11/08/students-may-face-felonies-over-illegal-voter-vouching
An election judge said students were vouching for people they did not know on Election Day.
...
Saelens said the woman was "in tears " when this election judge was just drilling her, standing over her, yelling at her."
MN: Security and emotion high on the road to recount
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=880659
MT: Local voter turnout tops 63% - Mills explains error in returns*
http://www.belgrade-news.com/news/article_7801d13c-e8a9-11df-89d5-001cc4c03286.html
Gallatin County election administrator Charlotte Mills said she made an error when creating reports at around 11 p.m. Tuesday. The error caused some votes to be counted twice...
...
"We have to take the cards out of the machines and then put them into the software, and it's a little confusing because you have to uncheck two boxes and if you don't get one of them unchecked properly then the numbers fill in wrong," she said. "The 11 o'clock run got uploaded incorrectly. It was a human error, not a machine error. It was my mistake."
ND: Familiarity with voting machines plays a part in smooth election
click here
6a8da4981440444598.txt http://tinyurl.com/26o9wjp
NM: NM implements postelection voting system audit
http://www.newswest9.com/Global/story.asp?S=13464948
The new system replaces a postelection random audit of 2% of voting machines.
Starting with this year's general election, the number of precincts to be audited will vary depending on the closeness of a race. More precincts will be checked in a very tight race
NY: New York should have piloted their new voting system
http://ballotusability.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-york-should-have-piloted-their-new.html
The Ballot Usability project evaluates New York's election problems
NY: State-mandated audit of 3% of Suffolk's voting machines begins
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/state-mandated-audit-of-3-of-suffolk-s-voting-machines-begins-1.2439224 As Suffolk election workers used a random number generator to decide which voting machines to audit, Rep. Tim Bishop's campaign repeated a call for a full hand recount of Tuesday's results.
NY: Monroe County voting machine are audited
http://www.gateschilipost.com/latestnews/x782438816/Monroe-County-voting-machine-are-audited
NY: New voting machines will complicate legal challenges in tight elections
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20101108/NEWS/101108021/New-voting-machines-could-complicate-legal-challenges
OH: Akron student captures voting booth problem on his iPhone (Diebold TSX)
http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/money/consumer/troubleshooter/akron-student-captures-voting-booth-problem-on-his-iphone Stark County Board of Elections takes action
"Everytime I hit the Boccieri button on the touch screen, it activated the button for Boccieri's opponent listed above his name on the ballot," Sanderson said. "I couldn't believe this was happening, so I decided to record the incident on my iPhone."
...
Mullane confirmed the problem was caused by incorrect calibration on the voting machine touch screen, an issue that has now been repaired.
OH: The uncut YouTube video posted by Sanderson on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZON7RjSxTJg&feature=player_embedded
OH: Cuyahoga County's first experience with bilingual ballots is a smooth one
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/11/cuyahoga_countys_first_experie.html
OK: State's next voting system should be like present one
http://newsok.com/states-next-voting-system-should-be-like-present-one/article/3511581
Every time I hear about voting machine difficulties in other states (hanging chads, pregnant chads, touch-screen machines that show votes different from the voter has just selected), I appreciate our system all the more.
MN: Students may face felonies over illegal voter vouching
http://www.mndaily.com/2010/11/08/students-may-face-felonies-over-illegal-voter-vouching
An election judge said students were vouching for people they did not know on Election Day.
...
Saelens said the woman was "in tears " when this election judge was just drilling her, standing over her, yelling at her."
MN: Security and emotion high on the road to recount
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=880659
MT: Local voter turnout tops 63% - Mills explains error in returns*
http://www.belgrade-news.com/news/article_7801d13c-e8a9-11df-89d5-001cc4c03286.html
Gallatin County election administrator Charlotte Mills said she made an error when creating reports at around 11 p.m. Tuesday. The error caused some votes to be counted twice...
...
"We have to take the cards out of the machines and then put them into the software, and it's a little confusing because you have to uncheck two boxes and if you don't get one of them unchecked properly then the numbers fill in wrong," she said. "The 11 o'clock run got uploaded incorrectly. It was a human error, not a machine error. It was my mistake."
click here
6a8da4981440444598.txt http://tinyurl.com/26o9wjp
NM: NM implements postelection voting system audit
http://www.newswest9.com/Global/story.asp?S=13464948
The new system replaces a postelection random audit of 2% of voting machines.
Starting with this year's general election, the number of precincts to be audited will vary depending on the closeness of a race. More precincts will be checked in a very tight race
NY: New York should have piloted their new voting system
http://ballotusability.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-york-should-have-piloted-their-new.html
The Ballot Usability project evaluates New York's election problems
NY: State-mandated audit of 3% of Suffolk's voting machines begins
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/state-mandated-audit-of-3-of-suffolk-s-voting-machines-begins-1.2439224 As Suffolk election workers used a random number generator to decide which voting machines to audit, Rep. Tim Bishop's campaign repeated a call for a full hand recount of Tuesday's results.
NY: Monroe County voting machine are audited
http://www.gateschilipost.com/latestnews/x782438816/Monroe-County-voting-machine-are-audited
NY: New voting machines will complicate legal challenges in tight elections
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20101108/NEWS/101108021/New-voting-machines-could-complicate-legal-challenges
OH: Akron student captures voting booth problem on his iPhone (Diebold TSX)
http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/money/consumer/troubleshooter/akron-student-captures-voting-booth-problem-on-his-iphone Stark County Board of Elections takes action
"Everytime I hit the Boccieri button on the touch screen, it activated the button for Boccieri's opponent listed above his name on the ballot," Sanderson said. "I couldn't believe this was happening, so I decided to record the incident on my iPhone."
...
Mullane confirmed the problem was caused by incorrect calibration on the voting machine touch screen, an issue that has now been repaired.
OH: The uncut YouTube video posted by Sanderson on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZON7RjSxTJg&feature=player_embedded
OH: Cuyahoga County's first experience with bilingual ballots is a smooth one
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/11/cuyahoga_countys_first_experie.html
OK: State's next voting system should be like present one
http://newsok.com/states-next-voting-system-should-be-like-present-one/article/3511581
Every time I hear about voting machine difficulties in other states (hanging chads, pregnant chads, touch-screen machines that show votes different from the voter has just selected), I appreciate our system all the more.
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