The Voting News Daily: WA email fax voting bill opposition, Ill election probs, NJ voting machine ruling half right
Opposition to emailing and faxing ballots builds – See Jason Osgood’s letter to Washington state representatives in opposition to email and fax voting that would be made legal by the Overseas and Service Voters bill (HB 2483 / SB 6238)…
Lots of news about the Illinois primary, with some reports of machine malfunction and some voter registration issues and voters confused by the undervote warning on voting machines. Too much caffeine? A coffee break kills voting machine….
All this and more in today’s voting news below…
AZ: 9th Circuit Keeps Arizona Public Funding Alive At Least Through April 2010
http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/02/03/9th-circuit-keeps-arizona-public-funding-alive-at-least-through-april-2010/
CA: The Future of Voting in California: The People, the Equipment, the Costs
(watch the proceedings live)
http://www.sos.ca.gov/voting-systems/hearings/
Secretary of State’s Office, First Floor Auditorium, February 8, 2010, 10:00 a.m
CO: Marks v. Koch – Ballot Image Transparency Litigation – Aspen CO- 2nd conference
http://aspenelectionreview.blogspot.com/2010/02/marks-v-koch-ballot-imagetransparency.html
…During that conference the Judge did not decide on the motion to dismiss. He ruled to allow a deposition of True Ballot Inc. The City of Aspen advised that it would file a motion for a protective order preventing the deposition.
GA: Unscheduled elections cost thousands in taxpayer dollars
http://www.nbcaugusta.com/news/local/83362027.html
IL: Primary election: A few polling problems reported * (video available)
http://bit.ly/c1cjjg
…In Bloomington, a machine was replaced at Precinct 11, Fairway-Knolls Church of the Nazarene. Ballots were put into an auxiliary slot to be read and tabulated after the polls close, said Paul Shannon, executive director of the Bloomington Election Commission.
The procedure is the same for precincts covered by the McLean County clerk’s office. In Precinct 3 in Normal, for instance, early voters manually inserted their ballots into a machine whose automated function was on the fritz.
IL: County clerk to look into voter registration problems *
http://www.sj-r.com/breaking/x562895298/County-clerk-to-look-into-voter-registration-problems
Posted Feb 02, 2010 Sangamon County Clerk Joe Aiello said his office will look into why some voters showed up to the polls Tuesday, but their registrations weren’t reflected in the usual paperwork.
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Earlier Tuesday, Aiello said tabulating machines at five polling places in the county had to be replaced by backups. One of the machines had printing that wasn’t dark enough on a test tape that printed Tuesday morning, Aiello said. Others had problems with the electronic display part of the machine.
IL: Voters Confused By Software*
http://visitpontiac.com/components/news/community/article.php?a=3cef3e8f52fd537e050fde5578979cfb
Feb 03, 2010 A minor software issue with electronic voting machines caused some voter confusion during Tuesday’s primary.
When a voter used the electronic voting machine, the computer would display a summary of the voter’s selections. However, there was a red box in the summary, which indicated the voter did not vote for one of the questions.
IL: Campus voting slowed by issues of residency, identification *
http://www.dailyillini.com/news/campus/2010/02/03/campus-voting-slowed-by-issues-of-residency-identification
IL: Oops! Coffee spill breaks $5000 voting machine *
http://www.bnd.com/breaking_news/story/1114862.html
IL: Some counties don’t use mandated computer chips in voting machines
http://www.tribstar.com/local/local_story_033235746.html
IL: Snow hits primary: How bad weather changes elections
http://bit.ly/d8SefU
IL: Voters have mixed reactions to law alerting them to undervotes *
http://bit.ly/be3fWv
IL: Absentee Return Possibility
http://blog.champaigncountyclerk.com/2010/02/03/absentee-return-possibility/