Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Besides the growing number of voting machine problems, none of which would have been helped by adding a vvpat printer to a DRE but most of which would have been helped by banning the DREs outright, we've also got the leaking of the GAO report on the Florida CD-13 race from 2006. It seems that the GAO found that the machines were not the cause just the voters. Of course they overlook the fact that the same voting machines in other Florida counties also had a high percentage of undervotes but in different races. It appears that the good folks who inhabit the Mesa County Commission seats are about to defy the Secretary of State and, possibly, the courts. They have voted to use their uncertified ES&S voting machines no matter what the state tells them.
This afternoon the New Mexico Democratic Party announced that they were going to go back and recount every vote cast on Tuesday....
NAtional: Millions Without a Voice LINK
NAtional: Opinion - After all those revisions, are elections working better? LINK
AR: Benton County - Chairman Blames Delay In Election Results On Bad Luck LINK
AZ: Napolitano: Let Independents Vote in Primary LINK
AZ: Cochise County - Computer glitch causes hiccup in Cochise County tally LINK
AZ: Pima County - Election problems linked to turnout
High numbers at the polls left officials ill-prepared LINK
AZ: Pima County - County: Get used to slow election results
Effort to protect vote totals from hackers cited LINK
AZ: Pima County - Opinion - Casting ballot shouldn't be a bad experience
Our view: Some issues could be solved by improving quality of election workers LINK
CA: Primary rules trip up some Inland decline-to-state voters LINK
CA: Alameda County - Heavy turnout cited for ballot shortage
Alameda County officials say that some voters were given sample voting sheets and later converted to real ballots LINK
CA: Alameda County - Despite mishaps, county survived primary LINK
CA: Los Angeles County - LA County supervisors to investigate 'double-bubble' problem LINK
CA: Los Angeles County - Opinion - Bubble trouble on the ballot
A complicated system and confusing ballot may have spoiled the vote for many independents. LINK
CA: Los Angeles County - L.A. County registrar to examine independents' ballots; mix-up leaves many presidential votes uncounted LINK
CA: Los Angeles County - Filling in the Ovals on LA County's Super Tuesday 'Double Bubble' Debacle LINK
CA: Monterey County - County still counting absentee ballots
Tally of 28,373 late absentee votes could take two weeks LINK
CA: Nevada County - A vote of confidence for our county Elections Office LINK
CA: Riverside County - Glitches in system slowed vote count LINK
CA: San Diego County - Editorial - Paper or electronic?
Our view: Paper ballots work and attract less controversy than their electronic cousins LINK
CA: San Francisco - Poll Worker Slaps Voting Machine to Bring It to Life LINK
CA: San Joaquin County - Flood of provisional ballots means final vote tally may be weeks away LINK
CA: Santa Clara County - Ballot shortages afflict Palo Alto polling places
Voters forced to improvise with sample ballots, touch screens -- or simply turned away LINK
CA: Santa Cruz County - Equipment bugs delay local vote count LINK
CO: Chaos, delays feared at polls
Big caucus turnout adds to Election Day angst LINK
CO: Mesa County - Voting machines may stay in play
Commissioners might not wait for Coffman's OK LINK
CT: Primary comes off with few hitches LINK
FL: Sarasota County - GAO Sarasota D-13: Blood on the floor, bullet in the head, where did that smoking gun go? LINK
FL: Sarasota County - GAO: Fla. Undervote Not Due to Machines LINK
FL: Sarasota County - No evidence found of voting machine failure LINK
FL: Sarasota County - Machines cleared in 2006 vote flap GAO says touch-screens didn't cause undervote LINK
FL: Report on Disputed 2006 House Election Finds No Machine Malfunctions LINK
GA: Muscogee County - Turnout higher than
Small problems occurred during Tuesday's primary LINK
IL: Cook County - Vote miscount in city precinct a result of rare technical glitch LINK
IL: Kane County - Little trouble this election in Kane County
Some problems here and there, but nothing like in the past LINK
IL: Lake County - Consultant to investigate Lake County malfunction LINK
IN: State's voter ID law is called an effort to defraud Hoosiers LINK
NJ: Two electronic ballot machines replaced in Montclair during vote LINK
NJ: Hudson County - An error at Hudson polls delays official tally of primary ballots LINK
NJ: Warren County - Voting machines stopped working
Hundreds of warren county voters made their choices on emergency ballots. LINK
NM: Provisional Ballots to Decide NM Winner LINK
NM: Uncounted Rio Arriba County ballots raise eyebrows LINK
NM: Editorial - If party can't count votes, voters can't count on NM LINK
NM: Say What? - Party Official Kept Uncounted Ballox Boxes at Home Overnight as 200 Vote Margin Currently Seen in New Mexico's Democratic Caucus LINK
NM: Provisional ballots still out in San Juan County LINK
NM: Provisional ballots designed to be counted late LINK
NM: New Mexico to Recount All Democratic Votes LINK
NY: Election officials focus on voting machines LINK
NY: County officials have four machines to choose from for disabled voters LINK
NY: Ulster County - Concerns remain about electronic voting LINK
PA: Allegheny County - Team 4: Is Your Vote Safe With County Voting Machines? LINK
PA: Bucks County - Paper ballots beat touch screens, Bucks is told
Activists say scanned hard copy is better for verifiable vote count. LINK
PA: Bucks County - Voters make plea for new machines LINK
PA: Fayette County - Commissioners approve purchase of voting machines LINK
PA: Fayette County - Fayette officials buy paper-ballot machines LINK
WA: King County delays all-mail voting until 2009 LINK
WA: King County - Countywide vote by mail delayed until 2009
Goal: maintain security and integrity of ballot counting machines for voters LINK
WV: Video: Secretary of State Betty Ireland on WV Voting Machines LINK
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