The Voting News Daily: Nassau Co NY sues to undo election law, keep levers. Wal-Mart a top political donor. NC Ballot access challenge

Are Colorado Election officials making decisions behind closed doors?…They want to keep the lever machines: Nassau County wants the New York Election Reform and Modernization Act of 2005 declared unconstitutional, and wants the DS200 system decertified in New York State…Wal-Mart, UBS and Other Groups Added to OpenSecrets.org List of Top Political Givers…Too late the CA…

The Voting News Daily: ES&S Trade Secrets Trial. The 1st Corporate Ad. CT audits election. Why ACORN fell.

“Auditing election results isn’t just a good idea, it’s absolutely essential in order to guarantee the integrity of our elections,” said Connecticut Sec. of State Bysiewicz…Letter to editor criticizing Aspen Times: “An independently owned community newspaper should demand government transparency, not defend the government in demonizing the reformers.”…Trial set in Neb. election trade secrets case…

The Voting News Daily: Sarasota Group: investigate Kathy Dent’s no-audit decision. ACORN to end operations. Election integrity v costs

The Sarasota Alliance for Fair Elections wants the state attorney and sheriff to investigate Supervisor of Elections Kathy Dent’s decision not to have a spot-check audit last Tuesday of the school tax referendum results. “We must hold our elected officials accountable,” ~alliance co-founder Kindra Munt….The value of paper ballots demonstrated in Pelham MA after public…

The Voting News Daily: Birther run for CA Sec of State. Irrational Exuberance for Internet Voting. Auto Voter Registration?

An interesting candidate to run for California Secretary of State, Orly Taitz…Oakland, CA debates whether to use funds from campaign finance towards educating voters about instant runoff voting…Wisconsin considers a bill to automatically register drivers…CNN has an “article” advocating for internet voting. (It reads like a vendor issued press release). CNN’s expert? Not a computer…

The Voting News Daily: Sarasota Election Sup silence on issues. NH Town bans e-voting. Ventura on e-voting. Colombia hack contd

“Silence isn’t golden for election issue” writes Tom Lyons, FL Herald Tribune. Kathy Dent failed to announce that she would not conduct the charter mandated pre certification election audits. Other examples of Dent’s silence: when she left an entire Republican’s primary state Senate race off some absentee ballots that had been mailed; and the 2006…

The Voting News Daily: Clay KY vote buying contd. Cost vs Ballot integrity. Fed $ for NM voting system upkeep.

“The integrity of our ballots should supersede other considerations.” ~ Mary C. Eberle, President, Coloradans for Voting Integrity op-ed in favor of keeping precinct voting in Bolder County, Colorado….Voting activist Harvie Branscomb has an OpEd about judges decision to not hear the ballot image case in Aspen…Former Clay KY official jailed for dining with witness…Budget…

The Voting News Daily: Antitrust and Your Vote.Clay KY vote buying by the mighty.Palm Beach paper ballots save day. ACORN funding ban stricken.

The resignation letter of Former New Mexico State Elections Director A.J. Salazar is now available online. The letter outlines allegations against SoS Herrera and Deputy SoS Don Francisco Trujillo: ethics violations, cronyism, political activity at the office, concerns about chain of custody of voting machines, and retaliation….WHO didn’t buy votes in Clay County Kentucky?… Good…

The Voting News Daily: DOJ: Voting Firms Cant Merge. Internet Voting Utopianism. Hawaii finds $1.3 M election funds it forgot

“The nation’s two primary electronic voting machine manufacturers cannot merge their operations, the Justice Department announced on Monday”…How did the merger ever get so far so fast? The NY Post reports that critics believe the DOJ didn’t give this as much attn because of the anti trust head Christine Varney recusing herself. Varney’s former election…

The Voting News Daily: KY $250K vote buy. TX Terrible Tues contd. DOJ may clear monopoly merger. ACORN update

My favorite quote from Texas Terrible Tuesday: “I thought the electronic voting machines were supposed to be more efficient.” ~ John Muns, candidate for county judge…Postcards detailing CT voter’s records spur complaints…FL blind decry bid to stall paper ballot…KY court hears testimony about vote rigging from 2002-2007: Former Clay clerk describes $100,000 worth of vote-buying…

The Voting News Daily: NY DA clears Brooklyn ACORN. Idaho house passes Voter ID. Online voting ‘security stuff’

Nearly 60% of voters in Texas cast ballots on paperless direct record machines…Columbia County Joins With Nassau to Contest ERMA: Counties Want to Keep Their Lever Voting Machines…NY D.A. Clears Brooklyn ACORN: ‘No Criminality Found’… Online Voting in Alberta or Elsewhere – How easy is looking after “all that security stuff”?…Unofficial results – Burlington VT…

The Voting News Daily: Minnesota civic groups refute recount claims, 2 NY counties seek more $ for voting systems. Iraq poor sell votes

There’s ALOT of news today…Project Vote releases new policy paper on “No Match, No Vote”. “…matching voter data with other govt databases is an unreliable, error-laden process, and that conditioning the right to vote on such a flawed system will inevitably disenfranchise eligible citizens.”… …The Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United has a loophole that…

The Voting News Daily: Iowa needs post-election audits. Internet voting spreads in Canada local elections, Closing in on the Google hackers

Maryland might not have enough money to conduct the November election?…..Upshur Co TX will pay $30K to Hart InterCivic program machines, print ballots and tally results for the March 2 primaries. The county clerk would have charged $2K…Wisconsin U state senate rejects internet voting, cites i-vote fiasco in 2008… Sean Flaherty asks fellow Iowans, and…

The Voting News Daily: Responsible tech use for Overseas Vote,VT rejects email voting, Dominion sues over NY ES&S contract

Just in from Verified Voting: “Responsible Use of Technology for Overseas Voting”. From the report- “The security challenges posed by the electronic transmission of voted ballots are too formidable to allow the use of such systems at present. Before experimenting with voted ballots transmitted through cyberspace, we must together create a transparent public process to…