The Voting News Daily: NY Count the ballots – ‘best way to settle disputes.’ Bridgeport Conn to have recount
Indiana voter describes “Voting as a deaf blind person” ..Bridgeport Conn to allow recount…Colorado Sunshine law partly cloudy after Election Day..Palm Beach Election sup changes mind,will consider new modems instead of whole new voting system. Modems are $1,500 each??.Minn. canvas board launches recount, battle over rules…Nevada SoS says time to replace old voting machines…New York: “It’s time to count the paper ballots. That is the best way to settle these disputes and get on with governing.” ~NY Times…
All this and more in today’s voting news below…
Voting as a deaf blind person (the challenges she faced)
http://hearnoevil-seenoevil.blogspot.com/2010/11/voting-as-deaf-blind-person.html
So yeah- for the time being I’ll still vote at the polls, however I reluctantly realize that my time is drawing near, much sooner than I care to admit, where I am probably going to have to retreat to the ranks of others who vote via absentee ballot in order to perform my duty as a citizen to vote.
AK: Miller Brings Alaska Senate Election Lawsuit To State Court
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7020614695?Miller%20Brings%20Alaska%20Senate%20Election%20Lawsuit%20To%20State%20Court
CA: STILL ALMOST 500,000 VOTES LEFT TO COUNT IN CA IN UNDECIDED AG RACE
http://electionlawblog.org/archives/018062.html
CA: San Leandro mayor’s race drawing to a close
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_16683848
Santos has until Wednesday to challenge
CA: Our View: Of instant runoffs and our democracy (Pasadena)
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/opinions/ci_16688670
CO: Sunshine law partly cloudy after Election Day – The Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_16494067#ixzz148ysNuLw
When public records are withheld, they cease to be open public records. And with a trend in Colorado to prevent citizen and media oversight and verification of election results, the electorate should be asking, “Are these our elections?”
CO: SOS-elect Gessler dubbed ‘real activist in support of voter suppression’
http://coloradoindependent.com/68221/sos-elect-gessler-dubbed-real-activist-in-support-of-voter-suppression
CT: City agrees to unseal ballots for recount by Post, citizen groups (Bridgeport)
http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/City-agrees-to-unseal-ballots-for-recount-by-826193.php A recount “will answer the questions that a lot of people are asking,” said Luther Weeks, executive director of CTVotersCount.org and the CT Citizen Election Audit Coalition. “It will resolve those questions.”
FL: Bucher changes mind: Now willing to fix voting system instead of buying new one
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/bucher-changes-mind-now-willing-to-fix-voting-1070029.html
She said she is now telling the company that sold the county its equipment to show her modem options – options she had previously called too unreliable to trust with voting results.
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Bucher said she’s been told each modem would cost about $1,500 plus an install fee. She thinks she might need as many as 450 or 500.
FL: Osceola Complaint attached (Contest-of-Election Lawsuit)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/electionreform/message/14372
This contest-of-election complaint (attached) filed yesterday in Osceola District Court includes absentee ballot fraud (individuals shown as having voted by absentee ballot who never voted; and people who voted for one candidate but are shown as voting for the other candidate); memory card failures; the forceful and extensive shaking of voting machines; the unlawful rejection of Provisional ballots; the failure to count military overseas ballots; the failure of the optical scans to read certain colors and types of ink; and much more.
GA: Fraudsters Target Absentee Ballots (McIntosh County)
http://www.gpb.org/news/2010/11/23/fraudsters-target-absentee-ballots The women were charged with three felony counts of mishandling absentee ballots, after a local postal worker tipped off authorities that one of them mailed a stack of ballots before the November 2nd general election.