Article: 'Daily Voting News' For April 03, 2008

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org A recent study by Missourians for Honest Elections, of St. Louis County call center sheets and maintenance logs filed by election board technicians at the polls last Feb. 5, revealed interesting data. 181 problems were reported and of those reports 89 (essentially 50% of the problems) involved the voting machine voter verified paper audit trail printers. The problems ranged from 36 votes not appearing at all on the paper trail to failure to print, loose cables, jammed paper and "printer error". We want to save DREs by installing a vvpat printer; Why?

Mesa Co Colorado election officials were prepared to defy any orders from the state to not use their iVotronic voting machines in Nov. In fact, while the machines were decertified by the state the county purchased 130 more of the DREs. Now the county is hat-in-hand in front of the county commission asking for a whopping $5,759 per month for storage for those 130 new machines. If they were using optical-scan they would not need the extra storage and could probably cut down on the amount of storage they were using. It takes far less room to store one optical scan machine per polling place than it does all of the DREs needed to serve the county's polling places....

NAtional: "Emergency" Bill Tries to Make Electronic Voting More Accurate, But Will It? LINK

NAtional: Internet Voting is Too Risky for Public Elections LINK

NAtional: Helpless, Helpless, Helpless LINK

CA: California review of the ES&S AutoMARK and M100 LINK

CO: Storage cost jumps for voting machines LINK

CT: Procedures Alone Insufficient For Effective Election Audits LINK

CT: Connecticut: Coalition Releases 2nd Post-Election Audit Report LINK

IA: Editorial - A more uniform system LINK

IA: E-Vote: Iowa Governor Signs Voter Machine Legislation LINK

IA: Lee County - New voting machines in county's future LINK

IN: Rokita wants voting machine vendor to pay up LINK

KS: Strictness a sticking point in voter ID bill Democrats urge a softer stance to avoid veto from gov. LINK

LA: Voting-sites change passes committee LINK

MA: More democracy now Why Beacon Hill should allow same-day voter registration LINK

MO: Opinion - Is Missouri's voting technology headed for a crash? LINK

MS: Voter ID: Up for the Final Count LINK

OH: Cuyahoga Co. review leaves few unscanned primary votes uncounted LINK

PA: Election systems could face problems, official says LINK

PA: Mercer County - County, UniLect asking judge to settle question LINK

PA: Wayne County Democrats up 11 percent LINK

TX: Comal County - Nathan Macias Suing Over Vote Count LINK

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