The Voting News Daily: Myrtle Beach missing 260 votes, Ohio voter rolls in disarray, Phantom districts
Our apologies if you did not receive a Voting News yesterday, there was a problem with our feedburner delivery… 260 votes lost or uncounted in a Myrtle Beach SC muni runoff election…Lackawanna PA will use a machine to recount its other failed machine count. Which machine count would you trust?….Phantom congressional districts get stimulus money…In Iran 5 Post Election Protesters Sentenced to Death…Congratulations: Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota Celebrates its 5th Anniversary!…Bob Fitrakis reports: On voter registration, the Columbus Dispatch gets it right, almost…
Retail Fraud – A Stitch In Time Could Save Democracy, Luther Weeks writes about absentee ballot fraud and disenfranchisement…Judge orders recount in Rutherford NJ squeaker…
Project Vote Releases New Report on Composition of the 2008 Electorate …We used to look to Canada for accurate and transparent elections, but that is at risk now as more Canadian municipalities adopt internet voting…
All of this and more in today’s voting news below…
Voting News for November 17 (if you missed it)
Public Opinion and Election law shocker, NY 26 absentee ballots, Acorn -Bill of Attainder
http://votingnews.blogspot.com/2009/11/public-opinion-and-election-law-shocker.html
CT: Chain-Of-Custody Education In Haddam
November 18, 2009…Unfortunately, in Connecticut, election laws, regulations, procedures and common sense are often not followed. The Coalition Post-Election Audit Reports have documented many lapses in procedures, including the chain-of-custody. It is quite possible that in this case there was a violation of state law subject to enforcement, as the registrar points out
http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=2603
CT: Retail Fraud – A Stitch In Time Could Save Democracy
November 15, 2009. There is no agreement on the demarcation between retail vote fraud and wholesale vote fraud. In general retail fraud represents fraud that involves individual voters and individual votes, while wholesale fraud would represent fraud an a large scale by insiders or hackers.
http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=2595
MA: Massachusetts Military and Overseas Voters, Submit the Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot (FWAB) NOW for the December 8, 2009 Special Primary
On Tuesday, December 8, 2009, Massachusetts will hold a special primary election to fill the vacancy left as a result of the passing of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. A special State election will follow on Tuesday, January 19, 2010.
Massachusetts jurisdictions are currently express mailing ballots to military and overseas voters.
http://www.fvap.gov/global/news/nr17-2009.html
MA: MassVOTE on Boston’s phantom precinct
…This phantom precinct, made up of Boston’s Harbor Islands, where no ballots have been cast in the last four elections, is a quirk of the city’s intricate electoral landscape, which because of an obscure legal exemption has not been redrawn in almost a century.
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“This one little voting place is so out of whack that it is an indication that all the precincts in Boston are in need of adjustment,’’ said Avi Green, executive director of MassVOTE
http://nonprofitvote.blogspot.com/2009/11/boston-globe-massvote-on-bostons.html
MN: Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota Celebrates its 5th Anniversary!
http://www.ceimn.org/citizens_election_integrity_minnesota_
celebrates_its_5th_anniversary_0
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NC: Kinston rejects nonpartisan appeal despite pleas from residents
November 17, 2009 KINSTON — Despite a series of passionate pleas from local residents and political activists, the Kinston City Council voted 3-2 Monday against appealing the U.S.