The Voting News Weekly: The Voting News Weekly March 19-25 2012

Internet voting for the leadership on Canada’s New Democratic Party and mock elections Hong Kong’s chief executive fell victim to cyber-attacks. Dominion voting Systems acknowledged that known errors in their tabulation software caused the wrong winners in a city council race in Palm Beach County. In a straight party-line vote, the Minnesota Senate passed an amendment that would require voters to show a photo ID in order to vote. The amendment will appear on the November ballot if it withstands promised court challenges. The Illinois primary was marred by printing errors that left ballots too wide to be processed by optical scanners. Malian soldiers have overthrown the government of President Amadou Toumani Toure just two weeks before scheduled elections. New research from Pew suggests that HAVA’s approach to accommodating voters with disabilities has been unsuccessful and a former IMF chief economist warns of the threat of SuperPACS to US economic stability.