The Voting News Daily: Hawaii has 3 election bills, Coalition urges WA lawmakers to reject online voting, IL law violating voter secrecy condemned
In Washburn’s World, Election Records Would Be Public…In Palm Beach FL, cartridges for some machines used in Fl District 19 GOP primary special election could not be read and the paper ballots were later counted at a tabulating center….In an Illinois Primary Race, Victory Is Self-Declared…
Hawaii to consider 3 election bills – vote by mail as the only election system, voting systems integrity and security, and election audits….Voting rights groups urge Washington State lawmakers to reject online voting bills HB 1624 and SB 5522.
All this and more in today’s voting news below….
AR: Which type voting machine do you prefer and feel secure casting your vote on?
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TM5SJJQ (poll)
FL: Last Case on Timing of Florida Presidential Primary Dismissed for Mootness
http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/02/04/last-case-on-timing-of-florida-presidential-primary-dismissed-for-mootness/
FL: Morning of rechecking ballot-count proves Lynch the GOP winner in District 19 *
(correction after some ballots double counted)
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/morning-of-rechecking-ballot-count-proves-lynch-the-211948.html
WEST PALM BEACH — After a counting glitch led to a long night and morning of shifting results, Ed Lynch emerged Wednesday as the winner of Tuesday’s special congressional District 19 GOP primary by 0.56 percent — just enough to avoid a recount against runner-up Joe Budd.
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Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Susan Bucher said nine votes for Budd and four votes for Price were properly counted on the electronic cartridges that are retrieved from ballot scanning machines at each precinct. But other cartridges in other scanners at those precincts could not be read, Bucher said. In response, elections staffers took all the ballots from those precincts — including the few ballots that had already been properly counted — and scanned them at the elections tabulating center in Riviera Beach.
After posting the incorrect totals on the elections Web site late Tuesday, Bucher said elections officials realized the mistake when they compared vote totals to the number of “ballot accounting forms” filled out at each precinct to keep track of how many ballots are voted and how many are left over.
HI: Three election-related bills for your review
http://disappearednews.com/2010/02/three-election-related-bills-for-your.html
IL: Daily Herald Condemns Illinois Law That Compromises Secret Ballot
http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/02/04/daily-herald-condemns-illinois-law-that-compromises-secret-ballot/
IL: Local legislators hope to repeal undervote law
http://www3.whig.com/whig/blogs/citybeat/?p=290
IL: Grace: A few notes on election night *
http://www.kcchronicle.com/blogs/entries/2010/02/03/42268637/index.xml
The main issue was the Aurora Election Commission, which was showing different results throughout the night on its Web site and the Kane County Web site’s link to its results.
IL: Few voters, few problems * (attempts to mark ballots, also electioneering)
http://www.southtownstar.com/news/election/2026423,020310elexvoterfeat.article
Election judge in Oak Lawn booted for causing disruption
…In Oak Lawn, Cook County sheriff’s police booted Michael W. Tortorello, 51, from his election judge role mid-afternoon Tuesday after Tortorello shouted racial slurs against President Barack Obama, railed against “Crook County” government and attempted to mark up several ballots.
IL: In an Illinois Primary Race, Victory Is Self-Declared
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/us/04governor.html
IL: Recounts not automatic, must wait a month
http://www.herald-review.com/news/local/article_a03af164-67ed-56f4-a869-e94dbcdde15f.html
Feb 4. DECATUR – With the results of both primary elections for governor still in question, county political leaders spoke about the possible impacts in the near term.