The Voting News Daily: Electronic voting, election problems pour in. MN may see another statewide recount
Why didn’t Bridgeport CT order enough ballots?…Hennepin Co MN reporting error showed 880,000 votes cast instead of 470,470..MN Governor’s Race Likely Headed For A Recount…Nassau County (NY) Suing To Get Old Voting Machines Back..Paper vs. Electronic Voting in Today’s Election in Houston…Google Glitch May Have Sent 700000 People to the Wrong Poll..Colbert Goes ‘Inside’ The U.S. E-Voting Problem…Key Post-Election Disputes in the States..
All this and more in today’s voting news below…
Readers – expect more reports to come in this week and next, its not over on election day.
Hotspots: Key Post-Election Disputes in the States
http://electls.blogs.wm.edu/2010/11/03/hotspots-key-post-election-disputes-in-the-states/
AL: Election officials make sure every vote is counted despite ballot issues*
http://www.waff.com/Global/story.asp?S=13429628
Madison County Probate Judge Tommy Ragland says they’ve had reports of bad ballots in eight of 74 precincts today. Ragland says there are several reasons some of the ballots are not being read. One is printing.
Poll workers say some ballots are being cut off on the very bottom of the page, which means voting machines aren’t counting the votes like they should.
AR: Glitch in Gassville delays ballot counting*
http://www.baxterbulletin.com/article/20101102/UPDATES01/101102028
/1002/NEWS01/Glitch+in+Gassville+delays+ballot+counting http://tinyurl.com/23vraa2
Two precincts in Gassville have not reported in the 2010 election. Officials blame the delay on the voting
AZ: 35,000-plus ballots may still need counting* (absentee ballots)
http://azstarnet.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/article_27034224-27c7-520d-8e5d-99fe78296ecd.html Pima County will be waiting until at least late today – and possibly until Saturday – to find out the winners of some closely contested races because more than 35,000 ballots could remain uncounted as of this morning.
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County Elections Director Brad Nelson said one in four ballots cast Tuesday were early ballots hand-delivered to the polls. Because the Pima County recorder must verify signatures, those votes can’t be counted on Election Day.
The county hopes to have early ballots counted by Friday.
CA: Calif. poll worker arrested for stealing ballots*
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/03/state/n100331D65.DTL&type=newsbayarea
San Francisco police arrested a polling inspector Wednesday on suspicion of stealing up to 75 ballots, a voting roster and other election material in a bizarre Election Day heist.
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Nicholas was in charge of a polling site in the city’s southern most district when he inexplicably made off Tuesday afternoon with the ballots, a memory pack that records information from the ballots, the voter roster and another poll worker’s cell phone, said John Arntz, San Francisco’s director of elections.
CA: Repeat of slow ballot count raises ire*(49,300 absentee ballots)
http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_D_webpoll.a209aa.html
Elections officials finished counting the ballots cast in person on Tuesday at 11:20 a.m. today. There are still about 49,300 vote-by-mail ballots to count. That will be done by Saturday, officials reported on the registrar’s website.
Also, an additional 28,800 provisional ballots must still be counted.
CA: Watchdog: LA voters told to vote after election*
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_16502648
LOS ANGELES—About two dozen Los Angeles residents received Spanish-language robocalls and mailers instructing them to vote a day after Election Day, a polling watchdog group said Tuesday.
Election Protection said the Hispanic voters in central and southern parts of the city received the reminders telling them to vote on Wednesday, Nov.