The Voting News Daily: Madison Co KY gets paper ballots, Hawaii ponders mail-in special election, IL no secret ballot? Voting News wants to hear from you
Too broke to hold elections? Hawaii considers vote by mail for upcoming special election. New Mexico’s Secretary of State says will have to borrow money to hold upcoming primary…More concern in Illinois about special state law that requires undervote notification- the machines make an audible noise if a voter leaves certain contests blank….Madison KY switches back to paper ballot voting systems…NY approves voting machines, requires vendors to bring them into full compliance….Security Heavyweights predict 2010 threats…..
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CA: Supervisors end contract with voting vendor
12/15/2009 As Los Angeles County seeks to replace a voting system that has been subject to sharp criticism from state officials, the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to terminate a contract with one of the system’s main vendors.
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Logan’s office has been seeking input on what kind of new voting system the public would like in the county. For more information, log onto http://www.lavote.net/Voter/VSAP
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_14003230
FL: Federal Voting Assistance Program News
Florida Voters, Submit Your Ballot Request NOW for the February 2, 2009 Special Primary!
http://www.fvap.gov/global/news/nr21-2009.html
HI: Hawaii Ponders All-Mail Ballot Election in Next Special Congressional Election
http://www.ballot-access.org/2009/12/16/hawaii-ponders-all-mail-ballot-election-in-next-special-congressional-election/
IL: Illinois State Board of Elections “No Right To Secret Ballot”
Champaign County Clerk, IL
http://blog.champaigncountyclerk.com/2009/12/16/illinois-state-board-of-elections-%e2%80%9cno-right-to-secret-ballot%e2%80%9d/
KY: County preparing for paper ballot voting
Madison County…This year, a paper ballot voting system will be used, which is the same process that was used before electronic voting machines became mainstream.
“We’ve gone back to voting the way we did 25 years ago,” said Madison Judge/Executive Kent Clark.
http://www.richmondregister.com/localnews/local_story_350075220.html
NM: Secretary of state: Election funding is lacking
12/16/2009 FARMINGTON — Secretary of State Mary Herrera complained Tuesday of a lack of funding for the primary election, but insisted she and her staff were trying to make progress amid budget cuts from the legislature.
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She also complained that the department has $814,000 to hold the primary election in June, but needs almost $4 million total. She said the state must borrow the rest of the money to hold the primary.
http://www.daily-times.com/ci_14006966
NY: FYI – Bo Lipari writes: “Here’s a paper I did on it some years ago which describes the two specific sections of HAVA which preclude retaining lever machines.”
http://www.nyvv.org/newdoc/2009/LeverMachinesAndHAVA020909.pdf
NYS Certifies Non-Compliant Voting Machines
Commentary Written by Howard Stanislevic
15 December 2009 Editor’s Note: The NYS Board Of Elections certified both the Dominion ImageCast and the ES&S Electronic voting systems at 1:10 p.m. today (Dec. 15th, 2009) .. noting in the process that the machines were still “non-compliant.” The state passed an additional resolution requiring the operations department to work with the two vendors to bring the machines into full compliance.