The Voting News Daily: Common Cause sues Tennessee SOS over voting machines, ES&S-Diebold anti-trust court date, internet whack-a-mole cont’d
Common Cause Tennessee filed a suit today to compel the State of Tennessee to comply with the paper ballot law. “Tennessee voters deserve a voting system that they know will accurately record and count their votes” said Dick Williams, Chair of Common Cause Tennessee. “That is why the legislature passed this bill in 2008 and the Governor signed it into law. We are going to court today to see that the will of Tennessee citizens is honored and the law is enforced by 2010.”
Update on ES&S/Diebold monopoly: “Judge Robert Kugler of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey didn’t immediately rule on a request for an injunction that would block the merger of two large voting machine manufacturers, instead setting a hearing for Nov. 12.” ~ Carrie Levine.
The state of Maine will conduct the first ever voter registration drive in a prison. Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, officials will seek to prosecute 195 felons for voting (illegally).
I report: Bo Lipari blogs his observations of New York’s 3rd day of voting system testing.
Good point: “Now, is convenience something that we should be striving for in elections? Yes, but it’s not traded off against integrity but rather against cost and against the rights of others… Integrity involves many items. It should mean only eligible people vote. It should mean that every ballot is counted as intended by the voter. It should mean that the winners of elections actually won.” ~ Mark Sheldon, Champaign County Clerk.
Today’s internet whack-a-mole target is: the city of Vaughn,in the York Region of Ontario, Canada. Internet voting is being recommended by a city task force.
Dominion Voting Systems is the second fastest growing tech company in Canada this year according to an industry ranking
CT. ‘Short and sweet’: Voting results to be audited
Thursday, 01 October 2009. It turns out the town is not quite done with last month’s tax collector primary between Bill Grad and Rick Novakowski.
As part of state law, anytime there is an election, either primary or general, districts from around Connecticut are randomly chosen to have their results audited to make sure that a hand recount matches machine totals from the optical scanning voting machines in use throughout the state.
http://www.acorn-online.com/joomla15/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=37841:short-and-sweet-voting-results-to-be-audited&catid=10:greenwich-local&Itemid=1092
GA. Georgia Supreme Court Rules Unauditable, Unverifiable Elections Are Just Fine
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7445
ME. First In The Nation Prison Voter Drive Held
…Maine and Vermont allow even convicted felons to cast ballots.
Yesterday the NAACP sponsored a voter registration drive throughout Maine’s correctional system. It’s the first of it’s kind in the nation and organizers are hoping it helps prompt change in other state laws
http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=109634&catid=2
MS. Hattiesburg city wards upheld (hat tip to Rick Hasen of ElectionLawBlog ) September 30, 2009 Hattiesburg didn’t hurt minority participation on the city council when it counted university students as city residents while redrawing ward lines, a federal appeals panel ruled Tuesday.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans had been asked to overturn a Mississippi judge’s ruling upholding the city’s decision to include dormitory students in population calculations used to draw the city’s wards.