The Voting News Daily: Hawaii Elections Uh-O? Court: NO to voter caging, Experts on open source code
Experts David Dill, Jeremy Epstein and Joe Hall weigh in on Sequoia’s source code disclosure….
…LA County has a report on efficacy of eliminating polling places for Vote By Mail…Hawaii election chief resigns, elections dept might not have funds or planning to implement 2010 elections…Scotts Co Iowa studying accuracy and efficiency of e-poll books….IRV poll of Hendersonville NC voters out, apathy? 15% polled would be upset if they didn’t use IRV for council or mayor in future elections, 35% would NOT be upset and 39% didn’t care at all….
New York is in the news for: the pilot program, a new voting method that to help hispanic voters in Port Chester, (as soon as they devise a plan on how to educate voters), on eliminating runoff elections, and a state lawmaker is purged from voter rolls.
False Vote Counts in Four Counties in NY-23…
…ACORN/Ohio lawsuit means that Ohio will now enforce Section 7 of the NVRA, that is, govt agencies will now offer voter registration to their clients…Bad ideas for election reform: Internet voting spreads in Canada as areas gain broadband access…Mexican cartels sinking drug money into political campaigns…
CA: L.A. Clerk says vote-by-mail could bring dramatic boost in turnout — and costs
December 3, 2009 Switching to vote-by-mail citywide elections in Los Angeles — and doing away with traditional polling places — could increase voter participation but be costly and pose a threat to the integrity of elections, a report by the Los Angeles City Clerk concluded today.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/12/la-clerk-says-votebymail-could-bring-dramatic-boost-in-turnout-and-costs.html
Link to the study:
http://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2009/09-1222-S1_rpt_clk_11-18-09.pdf
HI: Resignation intensifies worries about elections
Four county clerks say that planning for 2010 is “significantly behind schedule”
Dec 03, 2009 Voter advocates were outraged by Cronin’s last major decision to close nearly one-third of the state’s voting sites.
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The resignation of Chief Election Officer Kevin Cronin is renewing concerns about whether there is enough money, manpower and time to plan successful elections next year.
http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20091203_Resignation_
intensifies_worries_about_elections.html
or use this url http://twi.cc/VnNQ
IA: Electronic Pollbooks Continue to Show Impressive Results
During the 2009 municipal elections the Auditor’s Office expanded its experiment with the electronic poll book (e-poll book) to a total of five precincts. Our objective is to evaluate how much e-poll books will increase accuracy and efficiency in the polling place, and save costs in after election processing of voter history.
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The cost savings for post-election processing promises to be very significant. In the five precincts using the e-poll books we processed history for 1080 voter records in 26 minutes. A comparable number of records in three precincts processed by hand took 182 minutes.
http://scottcountyauditor.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/electronic-pollbooks-continue-to-show-impressive-results/
NC: New Data Support Use Of Instant Run-Off Voting (data contradicts title)
Cobb also cautions that, while voters support IRV, their support is not strong. When voters were presented with a list of reasons cited by advocates to defend IRV, a majority of voters polled did not personally agree with any of them. “Voters seemed indifferent to these traditional justifications for using IRV and simply liked or disliked the experience of ranking for their own reasons,” Cobb says.