The Voting News Daily: Internet voting helps WHO? Groups clever strategy forces India to use paper ballots
Much on internet voting today. Internet security expert Eric Riscorla makes the case “Against internet voting pilots.” Technologist Collin Lynch addresses claims that i-voting is convenient: “It bears mentioning that we have to ask, convenient for whom?” and points out that under-served groups are least likely to have easy access to a PC or internet… Vote by Mail, Save $ Lose Democracy? …DO try this at home? Groups who oppose e-voting in India found a way to force the use of paper ballots: run more candidates than the machines can handle…
All this and more in today’s voting news below….
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AL: McAliley: Berry to be prosecuted
http://www.troymessenger.com/news/2010/jul/08/mcaliley-berry-be-prosecuted/
…Berry was removed from office in October 2009 when a Pike County Circuit Court ruling deemed she won the November 2008 illegally.
CA: Court-ordered vote count begins
http://www.inlandnewstoday.com/story.php?s=15048
RIVERSIDE – A 24-hour around-the-clock effort has been mounted to count the 12,500 late vote-by-mail ballots that were quarantined after the June 8th election.
Mrs. Dunmore says she’s will work closer with the Postal Service to circumvent ballot delivery problems in future elections.
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Meantime, county supervisors will consider buying more equipment to speed up future ballot counts
CA: RivPE: Revamp of vote count urged
http://inlandpolitics.com/blog/2010/07/09/rivpe-revamp-of-vote-count-urged/ A probe released Thursday into Riverside County’s June 8 primary calls for $650,000 in additional equipment to speed future vote counting and better communication between elections officials and the public.
Supervisors ordered the examination June 15 amid revelations that 12,563 mail-in ballots missed the legal deadline due to a mix-up with the U.S. Postal Service and criticism that Registrar of Voters Barbara Dunmore took too long to count the more than 240,000 votes cast in the election.
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Still, formal procedures for handling mail on Election Day are needed, the report concluded. Dunmore already is working on a written agreement with the Postal Service, according to the report.
CO: Computer Glitch Causing Online Voter Registration Errors
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/24190432/detail.html Voters Who Have Updated Driver’s License Information Since April, May Find Error Message Online
CT: What Do YOU [still] Want?
http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=3337
I said voters want five things and what Connecticut could do about them in the short run (three steps over two years). The two years have past and little has changed:
CT: Unaffiliated voters need to register with a party to vote in primaries
http://www.thehour.com/story/488673
GA: Voting Rights Watchdogs Cite Ethics Issues, Call on Handel to Withdraw
http://bludgeonandskewer.blogspot.com/2010/07/karen-did-what.html
ATLANTA, GA – Leaders from two of Georgia’s largest voting rights watchdog groups personally appealed today for former Secretary of State (SOS) Karen Handel to withdraw her gubernatorial bid on grounds of unethical conduct during her tenure as Secretary of State.
GA: Minority Groups Join Voting Fight
http://www.gpb.org/news/2010/07/08/minority-groups-join-voting-fight
“The State implemented this matching data base system and we found out that it was having an adverse impact on language and racial minorities,”
NC: The latest on the Citizens United response law in North Carolina
http://politicalactivitylaw.com/2010/07/09/the-latest-on-the-citizens-united-response-law-in-north-carolina/