The Voting News Weekly: TVN Weekly December 5-11 2011
A week after the US House voted to eliminate the Election Assistance Commissioners the remaining two Commissioners resigned and the acting Executive Director and Counsel were reassigned leaving what Rep. Gregg Harper calls a “Zombie Agency.” The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case related to Texas redistricting. Widespread accounts of election fraud led to protests and violonce in the Congo and in Russia. The Colorado Secretary of State wants to weaken voting system security. Errors on Sequoia Edge electronic voting machines have forced a recount in New Jersey. A aide to former MAryland Governor Robert Ehrlich was convicted of election fraud and a community leader in Wisconsin won’t be able to vote for the first time in 60 years because of the state’s new id requirements.