The Voting News Daily: Double voting in Hoke NC? TX Voter ID again? Elections automation, a lemon?
NC looks into possible double voting in Hoke Co..good thing Bullitt Co KY has paper ballots since 4 memory cards went missing…Some candidates for Avon, Indiana Town Council will be doing a forensic review of election. They are asking to review poll books, voting machine reports, paper ballots and ballot applications for absentee and early voting..CEIMN Dir. MARK HALVORSON has some straight talk about Minnesota Elections..Hefty sum to rig India’s EVM’s?…Philippines Elections automation, a lemon?
All this and more in today’s voting news below…
AL: Some Jefferson County voters will have to vote twice
http://www.myfoxal.com/Global/story.asp?S=12548535
CA: Prop. 15 would test government funding of California state elections
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/21/local/la-me-prop15-20100521
CA: California Puts Vote Overhaul on the Ballot (Proposition 14)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/us/politics/27prop14.html
On June 8, voters will decide the fate of a ballot measure that would replace traditional primaries in state and Congressional elections with, effectively, two rounds of voting.
CA: Ballot flub costs overtime hours (vendor to foot bill)
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/Ballot-flub-costs-overtime-hours-94982514.html
San Francisco. City workers are logging overtime hours in the run-up to the June 8 election to correct a ballot problem where hundreds of absentee voters got the wrong one in the mail.
CA: Vote for whimsy (get ready for June 8 statewide primary election )
http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/article_4a3a3fee-6881-11df-a7cb-001cc4c002e0.html Some spoof political signs have popped up among the crop of real ones at the corner of Jefferson Street and Imola Avenue, supporting free pizza for all Napans and a zombie for political office.
CA: COSTS MORE TO VOTE HERE
http://www.sthelenastar.com/articles/2010/05/27/opinion/
letters_to_the_editor/doc4bfdd05ac4131056493011.txt http://is.gd/csj93
When informed, Tuteur communicated to me that St. Helenans who vote by mail must pay the (unclear) postage themselves. In other areas of Napa, where mail balloting is mandatory and unavoidable, Tuteur’s office pays the postage.
CO: Status of Aspen’s IRV Method—–Up for Potential Repeal in November Election after November 09 Advisory Vote to Discontinue IRV.
http://www.glassballotbox.org/journal/2010/5/10/status-of-aspen-irv-up-for-repeal-in-november.html
FL: Supervisor introduces new voting machines
http://www.historiccity.com/2010/staugustine/news/florida/supervisor-introduces-new-voting-machines-3312 …St. Johns County to attend an Open House on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 to preview St. Johns County’s new DS200 voting equipment
IL: Campus voting bill clears Senate committee; closer to final passage(full sen nxt)
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/news/2010-05-27/campus-voting-bill-clears-senate-committee-closer-final-passage .html the most controversial deals with its requirement that 12 separate counties, including Champaign, Coles and McLean counties in East Central Illinois, establish separate early voting and grace period registration sites on campuses for the Nov. 2 general election only.
IN: Court to review Avon council cote *
After close council races, court will look at possible polling place errors
http://www.indystar.com/article/20100527/LOCAL0502/
5270330/1020/LOCAL05/Court-to-review-Avon-council-cote http://is.gd/csjca
The filing came after his clients heard from voters who live within the town that the Town Council election wasn’t on their ballots..
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Yackey’s petition filed in Hendricks Circuit Court requests that election records, including poll books, voting machine reports, paper ballots and ballot applications for absentee and early voting, be opened for review and inspection.
KY: Election night in Bullitt County goes off without a glitch – almost
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100526/ZONE10/5260307/Election-night-in-Bullitt-County-goes-off-without-a-glitch-almost
the clerk’s office noticed that four out of 100 memory cards with voting data on them were missing, he said.