The Voting News Daily: Democrats ask all 50 states to oppose new voter identification laws, Maine: Push on for same-day voter registration

National: Congressional Democrats seek to curb tough state voter-screening laws | MiamiHerald.com Democrats on Thursday ratcheted up efforts to combat new voting laws adopted by 13 states that Democrats contend are deliberate efforts to keep its core voting blocs from casting ballots next year. “Election legislation and administration appear to be increasingly the product of partisan…

The Voting News Daily: Civil Rights Leader Rep. John Lewis: Voter ID Laws ‘Are A Poll Tax,’ ‘I Know What I Saw During The 60s’, A guide to Egypt’s first post-revolution elections

National: Civil Rights Leader Rep. John Lewis: Voter ID Laws ‘Are A Poll Tax,’ ‘I Know What I Saw During The 60s’ | ThinkProgress Republican lawmakers across the country have been waging an successful campaign to restrict the right to vote. States are cracking down on non-profit organizations’ registration drives, reducing early voting periods, and…

The Voting News Daily: Student IDs deemed unacceptable as voter ID under new Tennessee law, Elderly could run afoul of Tennessee voter ID requirements

Alabama: D.C. Circuit To Hear Voting Rights Act Case In January | The Blog of Legal Times Lawyers for an Alabama county that is challenging a controversial section of the Voting Rights Act have asked a federal appeals court in Washington to strike down a judge’s ruling that upheld the constitutionality of the law. Judge John…

The Voting News Daily: ES&S Attempts to Block Pennsylvania County’s Independent Audit of Failed Touch-Screens, Tunisia rocked by protests after electoral commission invalidates seats

Blogs: ES&S Attempts to Block Pennsylvania County’s Independent Audit of Failed Touch-Screens | BradBlog Despite failing to object for months prior, the nation’s largest electronic voting system vendor, ES&S, is now attempting to stop a landmark independent examination of their e-voting systems in a Pennsylvania county dead in its tracks. An October letter from the…

The Voting News Daily: Online Voting: Just A Dream Until Security Issues Can Be Fully Addressed, Experts Say, FVAP report shows continued trends in military voting Report highlights successes and future challenges

National: Online Voting: Just A Dream Until Security Issues Can Be Fully Addressed, Experts Say | Courant.com Allowing citizens to cast ballots online would increase participation in elections and make democracy more accessible. But don’t expect to vote on your iPhone in Connecticut anytime soon; the technology just isn’t there to ensure secure elections, said several experts who…

The Voting News Daily: Cyber Attacks Hit South Korean Election Commission, Candidate, Tennessee veteran had to pay for voter photo ID

South Korea: Cyber Attacks Hit South Korean Election Commission, Candidate | The Chosun Ilbo The websites of the National Election Commission and the pan-opposition candidate for Seoul mayoral by-election, Park Won-soon, were paralyzed by cyber attacks on Wednesday morning as voters went to the polls. The onslaught was a so-called distributed denial-of-service attack whereby hackers effectively…

The Voting News Daily: Emanuel Cleaver, Artur Davis Spar Over Voter ID Laws, The Internet can’t fix democracy—only citizens can

National: Emanuel Cleaver, Artur Davis Spar Over Voter ID Laws | Roll Call Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) criticized former Rep. Artur Davis today for his recent support of voter ID laws, saying that his changed stance has led to speculation that the Alabama Democrat is considering becoming a Republican. “I don’t know…

The Voting News Daily: How Voting Equipment Varies in the US, Tunisian Islamist party claims election victory, set to dominate writing of new constitution

From the Verified Voting Blog: How Voting Equipment Varies in the U.S. The following article was posted at Digital Communities on October 24 2011. Pamela Smith and the Verified Voting Foundation (VVF) are on a mission — in her words — “to safeguard elections in the digital age.” In an earlier time, she said, ballot boxes were inspected…

The Voting News Daily: The Voting Poor, Voter ID proponents should have to answer for the ugly history of Jim Crow

Editorials: The Voting Poor | State of Elections Initiatives aimed at registering poor Americans to vote is un-American, or at least that is the conjecture Matthew Vadum made early last month in acontroversial article published by American Thinker. Vadum, the author of Subversion, Inc.and Senior Editor for the non-profit watchdog group Capital Research Center, argues that…

The Voting News Daily: Mike Huckabee Makes Hilarious Voter Disenfranchisement Joke, Pitkin County to release a handful of ballots

Blogs: Mike Huckabee Makes Hilarious Voter Disenfranchisement Joke | Comedy Central Former speculated-possible-savior of the Republican Party Mike Huckabee was in Ohio over the weekend, drumming up support for referendum that seeks to strip the collective bargaining rights of public workers while also making them pay at least 15 percent of their health care costs. However,…

The Voting News Daily: Rick Scott’s misdirection on voting rights, Portland’s Instant-Runoff Mayoral Election: Innovative Voting, Constitutional Questions

Editorials: Rick Scott’s misdirection on voting rights | St. Petersburg Times Gov. Rick Scott’s administration has a novel strategy to preserve state election changes that would disproportionately hurt minority voters: Get the courts to end the federal process in Florida that could prevent the changes from taking effect in Hillsborough and four other counties. A…

The Voting News Daily: House Dems denounce GOP’s proposed dissolution of Election Assistance Commission, Vets press Gessler to drop voter ballot case

National: House Dems denounce GOP’s proposed dissolution of Election Assistance Commission | TheHill.com Democrats on the Committee on House Administration have unanimously denounced a Republican recommendation to reduce spending within the legislative branch. This week lawmakers proposed cost-saving initiatives to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. In a letter Thursday to the joint committee co-chairmen,…

The Voting News Daily: New census data trigger federal requirements for bilingual voting ballots in 25 states, Mississippi voting machines under scrutiny

National: New census data trigger federal requirements for bilingual voting ballots in 25 states | The Washington Post In the run-up to the 2012 elections, the federal government is ordering that 248 counties and other political jurisdictions provide bilingual ballots to Hispanics and other minorities who speak little or no English. That number is down from…

The Voting News Daily: Bayh calls White’s vote fraud allegations ‘baseless’, Questionable Claims Regarding Early Voting by FL Secretary State in Amended VRA Complaint

  Indiana: Bayh calls White’s vote fraud allegations ‘baseless’ | The Indianapolis Star   Former U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh is calling voter-fraud allegations against him and his wife, Susan, “baseless.” But whether the allegations, made in a criminal complaint filed by Secretary of State Charlie White on Tuesday, will lead to charges is difficult to say.…

The Voting News Daily: Fairness questioned as 9 mostly Democratic Colorado counties to mail inactive voters ballots, Data show voters could be barred under new ID law

Colorado: Fairness questioned as 9 mostly Democratic Colorado counties to mail inactive voters ballots | The Denver Post Officials in at least nine counties plan to mail ballots to inactive voters for the Nov. 1 election — a decision some believe could give a boost to a statewide ballot measure to raise taxes for education. The…

The Voting News Daily: What it takes to make every vote count, Electoral Regulations at Stake in 13 Secretary of State Races

National: What it takes to make every vote count | MIT News Eleven years after the disputed 2000 presidential election thrust the subject of electoral integrity into the spotlight, many of the challenges that jeopardized that election remain unresolved, voting experts said at an MIT-hosted conference held Saturday. The conference, “Election Integrity: Past, Present, and…

The Voting News Daily: Shocked, shocked to find “non-cyber” attacks on voting systems, The Myth of Voter Fraud

Blogs: Shocked, shocked to find “non-cyber” attacks on voting systems | Educated Guesswork Argonne Labs’s demonstration attack on a Diebold voting machine is getting a lot of press. The article above has the details, but briefly, what the Argonne team did was to insert some malicious “alien” electronics between the CPU and the touch screen. Unsurprisingly, that…

The Voting News Daily: Republicans Eye Electoral Vote Changes, Student Voting: An Opportunity, Not a Problem

National: Republicans Eye Electoral Vote Changes | Time Magazine Republicans in Pennsylvania and Nebraska want to change the way their states award Electoral College votes, moves that could hinder President Barack Obama’s re-election chances. Lawmakers in the Democratic-leaning battleground of Pennsylvania are weighing whether to give the presidential nominees one electoral vote for each congressional…

The Voting News Daily: Aspen to appeal ruling over ballot images, Pennsylvania, Nebraska Republicans want opposite electoral vote changes

California: Los Angeles County Voting System Overhaul To Include Options | AM 1220 The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC) has embarked on the most significant overhaul of the voting system since 1968. Although the system has been upgraded and adapted to keep up with changes in technology and in the regulatory environment, this project has…

The Voting News Daily: Voter ID Law Proponent Spakovsky Acknowledges There’s No “Massive Fraud In American Elections”, Colorado Court to hear case this week over Denver’s mail-in ballots

National: Voter ID Law Proponent Spakovsky Acknowledges There’s No “Massive Fraud In American Elections” | Media Matters for America Among his other specialties, right-wing commentator Hans von Spakovsky is a strong proponent of laws requiring citizens to present photo identification in order to vote. Conservatives often justify their call for photo ID laws by raising the specter of voter fraud even…