The Voting News Daily: Georgia Court: E-vote at your own risk, some NY votes up in air, Diebold miscount in Santa Barbara

Internet voting whack-a-mole and its inherent security risks and privacy loss – done on the backs of our troops: National voter groups urge MA Gov Deval Patrick to ask Legislature to remove dangerous e-mail voting provision from veterans bill, a Michigan bill would have military vote by email….Aspen CO seeks dismissal of suit for ballot images of May election…How To NOT Instill Confidence In Election Integrity (in Connecticut)…Georgia Court: E-Vote at Your Own Risk… Coin Toss Decides Whitsett NC Town Council Race…Activist security concerns – “New York counties don’t have the money to secure the ballots or verify the scanners.”…Port Chester NY’s new election system confusing…Ohio Ballot Access Bill Advances…GOP 1, TVCA 0 …Misplaced election reform priorities in Washington?…Verified Voting’s national newsletter is available online now!…

All this and more in today’s voting news below…

AL: Calera finally has six new council members
November 10, 2009. More than a year after voters originally headed to the polls, Calera has six new council members.
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City officials submitted a new voting plan in July that called for six at-large council seats instead of the five districts used in the 2008 election.

Justice Department officials approved the new plan in September. The plan “reflects a good faith effort to effectively remedy the concerns raised in our objection,” according to a letter that Loretta King, acting assistant attorney general, sent to the city’s attorneys.
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/11/calera_finally_has_six_new_cou.html

CA: Recount Called for City Election * Voting Machine Malfunctioned
(Premier/Diebold Accu-Vote ES 2000 and ES&S Automark)
November 11, 2009
Santa Barbara City election officials will be conducting a complete recount of all ballots cast in last week’s election, because one of the vote-counting machines failed to adequately count all the votes cast on the “B” side of the ballot.
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it could affect the final outcomes of the city council races as well as Measures D and E.
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The discrepancy in ballots counted is in the range of five percent to 15 percent. After counting 800 ballots by hand, city election officials concluded there was a problem…
http://www.independent.com/news/2009/nov/11/recount-called-city-election/

CO: City seeks dismissal of Marks suit (city does not want to release ballot images)
November 12, 2009 The city of Aspen has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Marilyn Marks, who is trying to force the city to release ballot images from the May election.
http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/137594

CT: How To NOT Instill Confidence In Election Integrity * (photo copy ballots, “extra ballots”)
Waterbury Republican: Ex-first selectman has lawyer probe Middlebury voting
…St. John, who ran as a write-in candidate, raised concerns immediately following the election after he learned one of the voting machines had broken down Tuesday evening, forcing poll workers to switch to a separate machine to count the remaining ballots. Some of the ballots had been photocopied because election officials believed they had run out of the official ballots. It was later revealed that officials had more than 1,000 unused ballots locked in the registrar of voters’ office.
http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=2587
[Thank you Luther Weeks and here is article Luther linked to
MIDDLEBURY — Former First Selectman Edward B.