The Voting News Daily: Massachusetts passes flawed vet voting bill, Vote By Mail concerns, Johnson City NY miscount
Unfortunately Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick signed military internet voting bill Wednesday even after National and State Voting Rights Groups urged him not to …Verified Voting has a new blog, you can sign up for updates…. …D.C. takes up same day registration, so should Congress…Brad Friedman on Acorn and “protecting” the taxpayers….Study shows permanent mail voting worsening lack of diversity among California voters….Vote by mail biggest perceived problem in OR and WA -slowness in election results…
…Glitches, snags, snafus and hiccups reported in IL, NC, NY, OH, PA, AND SC…Campaign website spoof results in formal complaint in Cary NC…Half of Johnson City NY election districts machine counts differ from hand counts…Diebold technician “fixes” election results for Miami County Ohio….2 candidates in Lackawanna PA request recounts after voting machines straight ticket error… Former Aiken SC GOP official admits to robo-calls scam….In the Port Hope (Canada) council opts for Internet voting, Mayor Linda Thompson was the only opponent…
All of this and more in today’s voting news below…
CA: Study finds demographic differences between vote-by-mail voters and registered voters
…Kim Alexander, founder of the nonpartisan California Voter Foundation, says permanent mail voting may be exacerbating the lack of diversity among California voters. “Policy-makers need to be mindful of that,” she said.
http://calvoter.org/news/blog/2009_11_01_
blogarchive.html#5954396140451513928
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IL: Prosecutor alleges pair tainted vote in 50th Ward*(absentee ballot fraud charged)
Precinct captain, volunteer said to have manipulated absentee ballots, cast absentee votes for Ald. Bernard Stone
November 10, 2009. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-voter-fraud-trialnov10,0,5858164.story
IL: Ald. Stone ally on trial for vote fraud *
November 10, 2009. Four members of a West Rogers Park family testified Monday that Ald. Bernard Stone’s (50th) ward superintendent Anish Eapen coaxed them to vote absentee, collected their ballots and then mailed them during the heated 2007 aldermanic race
http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/1874511,CST-NWS-eapen10web.article
Mass. voting advocates say veterans bill flawed (email voting inserted at last min)
November 11, 2009 Gov. Deval Patrick signed the bill Wednesday.
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1211192
MA: National and State Voting Rights Groups Urge Massachusetts Governor Not to Sign Internet Voting Bill
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 By Citizens for Election Integrity Massachusetts, Common Cause, ACLU-MA, Oiste, Voter Action, VerifiedVoting
Governor Patrick Must Protect Military Voters’ Right to a Secure, Private Ballot
To exercise their voting rights, Americans in uniform serving overseas must have better access to the process of casting a ballot. Equally important, the process of casting a ballot must be no less secure and verifiable for them than it is for voters at home….
http://blog.verifiedvoting.org/2009/11/11/165#more-165
MA: Last Minute Change in Massachusetts Veterans Bill Puts Soldiers’ Votes at Risk
Nov 10, 2009 Breaking news: It appears that at the last minute Massachusetts lawmakers changed language in a bill designed to benefit military voters – taking a good provision and unfortunately making it dangerous. The bill could have improved the voting process for our service men and women in uniform overseas by allowing them to obtain a ballot online so it could be printed, voted and mailed back in time to be counted.