The Voting News Daily: WV troops as internet voting guinea pigs, NY 23 election updates, Un-rigging FL districts

A chance for Floridians to redraw rigged districts…Husband of NJ state Sen. Teresa Ruiz indicted for absentee ballot fraud…Some Muscogee County GA voters given provisional ballots because of e-poll book problems…
Madison County KY Judge-Executive Kent Clark on switch to paper ballots: “It’s quicker, it’s easier and it’s honest,”…“If there are any questions (about voting results for certain precincts), the boxes are unlocked and the paper ballots are counted. There are no computer glitches.”

…Group that supported IRV in St. Paul fined for deceptive endorsements
New York group ETC to file lawsuit to keep lever machines…Brad Friedman writes “NY-23, Sequoia and the Private Corporate Takeover of Your Once-Public Democracy”…
Vote Recount in Nassau (NY) Executive Race Ends, judge to rule on 700 to 800 contested ballots…
Monongalia County WV plans to use military as internet voting guinea pigs. This is part of the trojan horse put in the MOVE act. They should read – Internet Voting Too Dangerous -ESPECIALLY for Our Military…Yesterday evening, Sequoia Voting Systems released the first portion of source code…A writer in Ghana warns against e-voting, cites US problems…

CA: Maywood activists seek probe into alleged voter fraud
December 1, 2009 Community activists from Maywood plan to file a complaint with the L.A. County district attorney’s office today, seeking an investigation into voting discrepancies during last month’s city elections.

Members of the group, Maywood for Better Community, said some residents were unable to vote in the Nov. 3 election because someone had already voted for them. The group also alleges that some voters lived in other cities, such as Southgate and El Monte, and that other Maywood residents were allowed to vote more than once.
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The group said it has video footage, photographs and signed affidavits by several witnesses. Marlene Mortley, 42, who served as a poll watcher, said she observed at least two people vote twice.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/12/maywood-elections.html

CO: The cost of botched elections
LTE…I believe that the expensive November 5A lodging tax election snafu could have been prevented if city management had taken election-quality issues seriously in early summer.
http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20091201/LETTER/
912019998/1020&ParentProfile=1058
http://twi.cc/bdmP

FL: A chance for Floridians to redraw rigged districts
November 28, 2009 …The good news is, Florida voters will likely have the opportunity to inject some competition back into legislative races next November. Fair Districts Florida, a nonpartisan issue committee, is sponsoring two ballot measures that will establish fair and impartial standards for redrawing state and congressional district boundaries every decade.
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/article1054593.ece

FL: Much ado about nothing? Debate over early voting hours in Florida neglects most empirical research
There is a heated debate going on in the Florida state legislature over a permanent extension to early voting hours.
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My friend and colleague Bob Stein of Rice University has been studying the relationship between early in person voting and partisanship for more than a decade, and he has consistently shown that early voting conveys no partisan advantage. It only benefits the party or candidate with more money and more organizational resources.
http://electionupdates.caltech.edu/?p=3008

GA: Minor voting problems arise in Georgia House 129 race *
A small number of voters casting ballots early this morning in the runoff race for the vacant Georgia House District 129 seat encountered delays at several Columbus precincts, Muscogee County Elections Director Nancy Boren said.