South Carolina: Department of Justice seeks info on voter ID law | The Post and Courier Read the Department of Justice’s request for more information on SC’s Voter ID law. South Carolina voters will have wait to find out whether the U.S. Department of Justice will authorize the state’s new voter ID law, following an announcement Monday…
Ohio: Ed FitzGerald says Cuyahoga will fight back | WTAM Last week, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted said he is considering banning the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections from processing applications from individuals who wish to vote by mail, if county government moves forward with a plan to mail unsolicited applications to all its…
South Carolina: Senate Democrats formally protest voter ID law | Houston Chronicle South Carolina Senate Democrats said Friday they’ve asked the U.S. Justice Department to reject a new state law requiring voters to show government-issued photo identification before they vote. The protest filed by the Senate Minority Caucus comes just days before a Justice Department could release…
New Jersey: County voting machines get chip upgrades | The Daily Journal | thedailyjournal.com Cumberland County recently replaced computer chips in all its voting machines and completed background checks on five technicians who service them as a safeguard against tampering and inaccuracy. But those upgrades, which are part of a statewide initiative, don’t sufficiently address…
Maine: Voter registration system breached | Bangor Daily News The Maine Secretary of State’s Office said Wednesday it is investigating a potential security breach in the computer system that contains records on Maine’s registered voters. The state was notified Wednesday afternoon by the cybersecurity monitoring arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that Maine’s Central…
Pennsylvania: Pushing for bill requiring voter ID — Corbett aide was out selling the GOP-backed proposal | Philadelphia Inquirer Bartenders won’t be the only people asking for ID if the state Senate agrees to a controversial change in election law that a Corbett administration appointee stumped for Tuesday. The state’s top election official, Commonwealth Secretary…
Wisconsin: Constitutionality Of Voter ID Law Questioned — League Of Women Voters Plans Lawsuit | WISC Madison The recently enacted Voter ID law is coming under fire as one group questions whether it is constitutional. Beginning next year, voters will have to show identification before voting. But the League of Women Voters wants to put…
Wisconsin: Photo ID law for voters to face lawsuit | JSOnline In approving one of the strongest photo ID requirements in the country for voters, GOP lawmakers and Gov. Scott Walker violated a few little-noted paragraphs of the state constitution – so say opponents of the law who are preparing a legal challenge to it.…
Editorials: Canada isn’t ready for online voting | National Post Elections Canada intends to seek approval to implement a system of online voting, according to a report released Wednesday. Let me say first that, on the one hand, it’s positive that an organization that is as culturally-conservative and traditional as Elections Canada is even pondering exploring alternate…
Florida: Secretary Of State Pens Incomplete Defense Of Controversial Voting Law | TPM Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning wrotein an editorial on Thursday that the Justice Department had determined “all 76 provisions” of Florida’s new elections law were not discriminatory, except for the four controversial parts of the law he didn’t want the department to…
Canada: Elections Canada lobbies for test of online voting | CBC News The head of the agency in charge of federal elections says it’s time to modernize Canada’s elections, including testing online voting and ending a ban on publishing early election results. In a report on the May 2 election (pdf), released Wednesday, Chief Electoral Officer…
South Carolina: Department of Justice says Voter ID law can’t be enforced this year | Examiner.com A recently-passed state law requiring voters to present photo IDs could be delayed. Passed in May, the new law directly affects 178,000 registered voters in South Carolina who are without, or with expired, state-issued photo identification cards. The problem with…
South Carolina: Local Governments wants an audit of State’s ES&S iVotronics | The Post and Courier The Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments approved a resolution Monday asking for the state to audit how its voting machines are working. The proper functioning of South Carolina’s machines has drawn increased skepticism following human errors made during last year’s elections.…
Texas: Vet ID holders cannot vote? | San Antonio Express-News Local Democrats are up in arms about a controversial voter ID bill that would exclude veterans’ identification cards from the short list of photo IDs required to cast a vote in Texas. Ann McGeehan, director of the Secretary of State’s elections division, said last week at a…
Colorado: Saguache Co. clerk ordered to turn over ballots | The Denver Post The Saguache County clerk must turn over ballots from the problem-plagued 2010 general election for inspection by the Colorado secretary of state, a district court judge ruled today. “To prevent errors in future elections, the Secretary as a higher authority must be…
India: ‘Electronic Voting Machines used in last polls not free of all doubts’ | The Assam Tribune Online The controversies surrounding the use of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) refuse to die. A group of seven legal practitioners of the Mangaldai Bar Association have disclosed some sensational information regarding EVMs collected with the help of RTI Act which will make every concerned…
Mississippi: Creating a Spectacle — ballot mess causes mob-like atmosphere | Jackson Free Press At 7:05 a.m. Aug. 2, Republican Executive Committee Chairman Pete Perry received an urgent call from a poll worker at the Wynndale Precinct in Terry. The poll worker told him that candidates’ names for certain races were not appearing on some…
Wisconsin: Democrats Remove Vote Tampering Allegations in Recall Election | Fox Point-Bayside, WI Patch The Democratic Party of Wisconsin has pulled a news release from its website that alleges vote tampering in Waukesha County by the county clerk. The party chairman, Mike Tate, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that they would not“not pursue questions of irregularities” that was…
Wisconsin: Clerks ready for heavy turnout for recall elections | The Oshkosh Northwestern Clerks across the 18th and 14th Senate districts have been gearing up for a heavy turnout in the recall elections pitting two incumbent Republican senators against their Democrat challengers. The stage for the final recall election has been set for today in…
Mississippi: Hinds County Election Results Could Be Headed To Court | WAPT Jackson The contentious Hinds County election could be certified by the Democratic party as official this Tuesday. But, the fight will not end there. This appears to be headed to a courtroom. Campaign workers from several camps were keeping close watch over the ballot…
Wisconsin: State puts brakes on plan to close DMV sites | JSOnline Two weeks after announcing it would potentially close 16 Division of Motor Vehicles centers, the state reversed course Thursday and said it will maintain all of its licensing centers and will open four new locations. The Legislature required the DMV this year to…
Mississippi: Vote tally on Hinds sheriff race may be finished today | The Clarion-Ledger Hinds County Democratic Party officials say they’ll do their best to wrap up absentee and affidavit ballot counts today, giving answers to several candidates whose races are up in the air. “We are trying to conclude this. I’m hoping we can conclude…
Mississippi: Malfunction of machines puzzling | The Clarion-Ledger A day after some electronic voting machines malfunctioned in Hinds County, the mystery remains. “Everyone I’ve talked to is baffled,” Hinds County Democratic Executive Committee Chairman Claude McInnis said Wednesday. At Wynndale Presbyterian Church, the electronic ballot failed to include races for governor or lieutenant governor. The precinct…
National: Governments, IOC and UN hit by massive cyber attack | BBC News IT security firm McAfee claims to have uncovered one of the largest ever series of cyber attacks. It lists 72 different organisations that were targeted over five years, including the International Olympic Committee, the UN and security firms. McAfee will not say who…
Wisconsin: Americans for Prosperity ballot applications have late return date | Politico.com Americans for Prosperity is sending absentee ballots to Democrats in at least two Wisconsin state Senate recall districts with instructions to return the paperwork after the election date. The fliers, obtained by POLITICO, ask solidly Democratic voters to return ballots for the Aug. 9 election to the city clerk “before Aug.…
National: Latest counterfeit IDs are so good they’re dangerous | The Washington Post When the fleeing motorcycle hit the curb, scraped past a utility pole and hurled 20-year-old Craig Eney to his death, a bogus South Carolina driver’s license was in the hip pocket of his jeans. He spent the final hours of his life trading…
Editorials, Maine: Turning away college students | Bangor Daily News Here’s a great economic development strategy for the oldest state in the nation — treat college-educated young people as pariahs. Rather than encourage these people to begin to put down roots and get involved in the local community, ensure that you are as unwelcoming as…
Blogs, Wisconsin: Bank Account Activity New Voting Requirement in Wisconsin? | Rock the Vote Blog Did you know that your constitutional right to vote actually hinges on how often you swipe your debit card at Starbucks? No? Neither did a Wisconsin voter who went to the DMV to get his “free” voter ID card. Since you…
California: Vote-by-mail service under threat in budget cuts | San Jose Mercury News California’s beloved vote-by-mail system will remain largely intact, despite state legislators’ raid on its relatively small pot of dollars. County election clerks say they likely will scrape up the $33 million the state sliced from the budget for elections. Permanent vote-by-mail allows voters to…
North Carolina: House falls short of canceling governor’s veto of photo identification mandate for voters | The Republic Republican lawmakers failed Tuesday to override a veto by Gov. Beverly Perdue that would have required voters to show photo identification before casting an in-person ballot. The House voted 67-52 in favor of the override, five votes short…