The Voting News Daily: Iowa needs post-election audits. Internet voting spreads in Canada local elections, Closing in on the Google hackers
Maryland might not have enough money to conduct the November election?…..Upshur Co TX will pay $30K to Hart InterCivic program machines, print ballots and tally results for the March 2 primaries. The county clerk would have charged $2K…
Wisconsin U state senate rejects internet voting, cites i-vote fiasco in 2008…
Sean Flaherty asks fellow Iowans, and especially Polk County folks to help protect the 2010 elections by asking lawmakers to pass House Bill 682 to require post election audits…
All this and more in today’s voting news below….
CA: Editorial: Privately run election questionable
http://www.montereyherald.com/opinion/ci_14468312?nclick_check=1
… the idea of a private firm reporting to City Hall, and being assisted by City Hall, in conducting a city election sounds a bit cozy
CO: Plaintiff’s Surreply regarding Defendant’s Motion to protect TrueBallot from deposition – Marks v. Koch (Aspen Election Transparency Suit)
http://bit.ly/bUVbmm
CT: Republicans hire attorney to challenge Bysiewicz’s lawsuit
http://bit.ly/8XeML3
CT: Garcia: Small Fundraisers to Qualify For The Citizens Election Program
http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=2922
FL: Florida Voters, Submit Your Ballot Request NOW for the April 13, 2010 Special Election! http://www.fvap.gov/global/news/nr3-2010.html
IA: Iowa Needs a Post-Election Audit
http://blog.verifiedvoting.org/2010/02/25/410
Iowans, and especially Polk County folks, please take some time out of your busy day to protect the 2010 elections…
KY: Election official says she was told to steal votes
http://www.kentucky.com/2010/02/25/1155312/precinct-worker-clay-election.html
MD: State falls short on paying for fall election
http://www.marylandreporter.com/page5505129.aspx
The state probably doesn’t have enough money in its proposed budget to conduct November’s election…
MO: What’s in the Missouri campaign finance bill?
http://politicalactivitylaw.com/?p=8294
The bill would ban most committee-to-committee transfers of campaign donations, an attempt to reduce the “money laundering” that lawmakers have alleged goes on.
PA: Tell The Inquirer: Election Problems Go Deeper Than One Precinct
http://www.electionreformnetwork.us/node/226
PA: The Point: Indefensible
Chesco’s ’08 polling-place maneuver was a disgrace.
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/currents/20100221_The_Point__Indefensible.html
Some of the 1,440 who voted there that day waited for seven to eight hours in the rain, queuing up close enough to working railroad tracks to reach out and touch passing freight cars.
TX: Communication gaps blamed for Upshur ballot miscue
Contracting with Austin firm delays ballots
http://bit.ly/9rgBdl
TX: Upshur County gets ballots in under the wire
http://bit.ly/8Z4YTq
WA: Suspending initiatives? Controversial but common
http://bit.ly/94FUC3
WA: Initiatives and lawmakers, part deux
http://bit.ly/d54XYQ
For all the talk about big changes for Washington’s much-used, much-maligned initiative process, not a single initiative crackdown is passing this legislative session.
WI: Student Senate nixes online voting
http://bit.ly/c1HYHq
Student Senate voted down a resolution Monday attempting to conduct the 2010 Student Body Elections online instead of paper ballot form.
VA: UBE technical glitch extends voting time (online voting)
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2010/02/23/ube-technical-glitch-extends-voting-time/
University of Virginia. The University Board of Elections experienced technical difficulties during the first hour of student-elections voting at 8 a.m. yesterday …certain offices were missing from the ballot. After first attempting to resolve the issue itself, the UBE consulted Information Technology & Communication, which identified the problem as a wide-spread glitch rather than an isolated incident.
VT: So troops’ votes count – by Deborah Markowitz is Vermont secretary of state and a Democratic candidate for governor http://bit.ly/ahpCEJ