The Voting News Weekly: The Voting News Weekly November 26 – December 2 2012
Two bills have been introduced in Congress to address long lines and other problems experienced in the November elections. The security challenges of Internet voting have become an early issue in the 2014 race for California Secretary of State. Former Florida GOP leaders have said that voter suppression was the motivation for changes made to the states election code in 2011. Rutgers Law School has requested information on the processing of email votes in New Jersey. In North Carolina a recount was completed in the last unresolved Congressional election. Democrats have raised concerns about the processing of provisional ballots by the Ohio Secretary of State. Rumors about inflated turnout in Philadelphia precincts are unfounded. In the November Puerto ricans voted in favor of statehood in a non-binding referendum, marking the first time such an initiative garnered a majority. Technical problems interfered with Likud Party primaries in Israel and separatist parties gained a majority of seats in Catalan parliamentary elections.