'Daily Voting News' For April 14, 2006

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April 14, 2006

 

 

Most people agree that elections are successful when the losing

candidates can be certain that they lost the election. Losing

candidates and the Republican party in Cook County, Illinois have

joined together in a request for re-vote or re-counts of all races due

to the poor performance of the voting system and elections officials

in last month's primary. ES & S continues to get a lot of deserved heat

in Indiana where they seem to have failed to uphold contractual

agreements. And the county council in Allegheny County Pennsylvania

has have issued a resolution to stop the use of new voting machines in

this years primary. They are asking for a moratorium on any changes

until November.

 

IL: Cook County/Chicago – Train Wreck - Election called a mess. Losing

candidates, GOP say tallies still aren't accurate

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-0604140270apr14,1,1410675.s\

tory?coll=chi-newslocalchicago-hed

 

IN: Train Wreck - Indiana to Investigate ES & S and MicroVote

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content & task=view & id=1184 & Itemi\

d=113

 

IN: Train Wreck - Voting system under fire (ES & S)

http://www.courierpress.com/ecp/news/article/0,1626,ECP_734_4620168,00.html

 

IN: Gibson County – Train Wreck - Clerk hopes Gibson isn't bitten by

voting woes dogging other counties (ES & S)

http://www.tristate-media.com/articles/2006/04/14/pdclarion/news/news1.txt

 

IN: Marion County – Train Wreck - Election Board: Software glitches

sideline some voting machines (ES & S iVotronic)

http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=4769605 & nav=9Tai

 

IN: Marion County – Train Wreck - Voting machines pulled (ES & S iVotronic)

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060414/NEWS02/604140479/-1/\

ZONES04

 

IN: Marion County – Train Wreck - County won't use touch-screen voting

machines

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/14343250.htm

 

IN: Marion County – Train Wreck - Voting-system vendor could face fines

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/news/local/14339237.htm

 

PA: Allegheny County – Train Wreck - Council Members Draft Resolution

To Delay Use Of New Voting Machines

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/8698282/detail.html

 

NAtional: VerifiedVoting Recommendations for EAC Commissioner

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content & task=view & id=1189 & Itemi\

d=26

 

NAtional: HR 550 and the Superiority of Voter Verified Paper Records

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content & task=view & id=1188 & Itemi\

d=26

 

NAtional: Hand counted paper ballots in 2008

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2006/1923

 

NAtional: Editorial - Election officials must get act together

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060414/EDIT01/604140330/10\

20/EDIT

 

AR: Hempstead County - Arrival of voting machines changes elections

http://www.hopestar.com/articles/2006/04/14/news/news1.txt

 

CT: Officials air voting machine concerns

http://www.rep-am.com/story.php?id=5472

 

FL: Leon County - Diebold agrees to supply voting machines to Leon County

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/breaking_news/14343708.htm

 

IL: Mock Election Could Work Out Voting Kinks

http://www.wbbm780.com/pages/25267.php?

 

IN: Allen County - Voting hurdle removed. New machines boost access,

especially for visually impaired (MicroVote)

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/local/14343139.htm

 

IN: Union County - New voting equipment passes test (Diebold)

http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060414/NEWS01/604140310/100\

8

 

MS: Feds are asked to help with elections

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/14340083.htm

 

NC: Chatham County - Chatham will get 3rd one-stop site

http://www.herald-sun.com/chatham/13-724156.html

 

NC: Wayne County - No problems on first day of early voting

http://www.newsargus.com/news/archives/2006/04/14/no_problems_on_first_day_of_ea\

rly_voting/index.shtml

 

NJ: Hudson County - Absentee ballot requests boom

http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1145006767125480.xml & coll\

=3

 

PA: Counties reassured on vote-machine funding

http://www.scrantontimes.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16479627 & BRD=2185 & PAG=461 & dept\

_id=415898 & rfi=6

 

PA: Allegheny County - UPDATE: A Closer Look at the E-Voting Lawsuit

Filed against a PA County and the U.S. Dept. of Justice

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002691.htm

 

PA: Allegheny County - Democrats want to delay voting machine switch

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06104/682240-85.stm

 

PA: Carbon County - Carbon urges proper voting. Don't avoid machines

by misusing absentee ballots, official says.

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/lehighton/all-b1_1carbonapr14,0,6356180.story?co\

ll=all-newslocallehighton-hed

 

PA: Montgomery County - It's back to school for Montgomery County poll

workers.

http://www.timesherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16478640 & BRD=1672 & PAG=461 & dept_i\

d=33380 & rfi=6

 

TN: Shelby County - County Continues Preparations For Unusually Long

Ballot This Fall

http://www.memphisdailynews.com/Editorial/StoryFocus.aspx? & id=92443

 

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