The Voting News Daily: New York warned of ‘Electoral Chaos’. Sarasota Fl – Recounts belong to the voters
On Sarasota FL: Tom Lyons says “Recounts belong to the voters” and not a tired candidate or election supervisor…New York Warned of ‘Electoral Chaos’ in Transition to Electronic Voting: In the Wednesday hearing..”It seems to me that these new machines are more prone to fraud on a mass scale than a lever machine,”~Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs…Harris County Texas Update on the dueling vote fraud press conferences…
All this and more in today’s voting news below…
CA: Lawsuit over Identity of the Officers of the American Independent Party Moves Ahead http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/09/02/lawsuit-over-identity-of-the-officers-of-the-american-independent-party-moves-ahead/
CA: Berkeley council race draws three out candidates
http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=5040
As San Francisco has seen, the implementation of IRV tends to draw more challengers to a race but has not hurt incumbents. And only rarely does the top vote-getter in the first round lose the election.
CO: Obama, McCain and IRV
http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/letter-editor/142290
DC: Glitch affects 7,500 D.C. voters * (voter reg card)
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/local-breaking-news/dc/glitch-affects-7500-dc-voters.html
The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics – grappling with early voting and new machines – announced that 7,529 voters in four precincts were issued registration cards that listed them as living in the wrong ward,
DE: Delaware prison-based gerrymandering bill signed
http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2010/09/01/de_signed/
FL: LYONS: Election recount belongs to voters
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20100902/COLUMNIST/9021085&tc=email_newsletter
Of course Dent would rather not have to do a recount. Ever. What supervisor of elections would? It is extra work. There is some chance of an embarrassing result.
And Dent, especially, has long expressed too much confidence in her voting systems, including the virtually uncheckable touch-screen machines that voters made her get rid of because the public did not share her confidence.
GA: Former Twiggs sheriff, son being investigated for voter fraud (absentee)
http://www.macon.com/2010/09/02/1249522/former-sheriff-in-vote-probe.html
A former Twiggs County sheriff and his son, who ran unsuccessfully for that office in 2008, are facing allegations of voter fraud.
Former Sheriff Doyle Stone and his son Greg Stone have been investigated for allegedly interfering with absentee ballots from some of the county’s voters, according to state officials.
GA: Election officials probing vote fraud in 4 counties (absentee)
http://www.atlantaunfiltered.com/2010/09/02/election-officials-probing-vote-fraud-in-4-counties/
A dozen people, including a former sheriff, mishandled scores of absentee ballots cast in elections in four Georgia counties in 2008, state elections officials were told this week.
HI: Ninth Circuit Upholds Disparity in Hawaii Ballot Access Petitions
http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/09/02/ninth-circuit-upholds-disparity-in-hawaii-ballot-access-petitions/ On September 1, the 9th circuit upheld the disparity in Hawaii’s petition requirements for the two different ways to get on the ballot for president. Nader v Cronin, 08-16444. Here is the 9-page decision…
NY: NY Warned of ‘Electoral Chaos’ in Transition to Electronic Voting
http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/09/02/30069.htm
MANHATTAN (CN) – In a hearing before the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, Nassau County Attorney John Ciampoli warned that the transition from lever-pull to electronic voting machines will cause “electoral chaos” in the primaries, and that all it will take to “fix” an election is a flash drive that anyone can buy at Staples. Ciampoli said a person with a flash drive would need “approximately 5 minutes of access” to fix an election.
RI: Judge refuses to ban party-line voting option
http://www.projo.com/news/content/HEALEY_HEARING_09-02-10_BVJONE4_v23.21ce431.html