The Voting News Weekly: The Voting News Weekly June 4-10 2012

Ion Sancho Joins with Florida Election Officials in Opposing Voter Purge

Reuters considered the challenge presented to the Voting Rights Act by Shelby County v. Holder. Colorado Governor Hickenlooper chose not to veto a bill that establishes limitations on public access to ballots. While Florida Governor Scott has publicly defied the Justice Department, county elections supervisors have refused to continue a controversial purge of the State’s voter rolls. With more voters voting absentee, election officials in California struggled to process the  large numbers of ballots arriving in the mail in Tuesday’s primary election. The Washington Post attempted to explain the sharp discrepancy between exit polls release immediately after the polls closed and those those that were later adjusted to conform with the reported results. France’s online voting portal requires the use of an insecure Java plugin and Egypt and Greece head into sharply divided and consequential elections.