The Voting News Daily: Americans Elect Internet Vote for President? Consider how it worked in DC 2010, Voter ID at the DMV in Wisconsin (and what it could mean in South Carolina)

Blogs: Americans Elect Internet Vote for President? Consider how it worked in DC 2010 | Irregular Times Apart from the various considerations of political ideology, influence and process regarding Americans Elect, there’s the simple matter of technology. Americans Elect plans to use all-internet-voting to nominate a presidential candidate and to broker the selection of the actual president…

The Voting News Daily: Youth Vote Faces Challenges With Voter ID Legislation, Florida Governor Rick Scott wants his name off bad election law

National: Youth Vote Faces Challenges With Voter ID Legislation | The Nation Voter fraud is an “epidemic.” It abounds, stealing elections from rightful candidates and places losers into unearned elected office. Republican dominated statehouses across the country are “combating” this problem through strict voter ID legislation, where a government-issued photo identification is required in order…

The Voting News Daily: Tallinn Calls in Expert to Denounce E-Voting, Cherokee Nation Supreme Court throws out election for chief

Estonia: Tallinn Calls in Expert to Denounce E-Voting | ERR Yesterday, July 20, the City of Tallinn bolstered its drive to bar the nation’s much-touted e-voting system from local elections, holding a press conference where prominent US computer scientist Barbara Simons said that such systems are inherently vulnerable. The University of California, Berkeley PhD and…

The Voting News Daily: States Dispute Criticism of New Voter Laws, California says it won’t pay, and counties don’t have to distribute mail-in ballots

Editorials, National: States Dispute Criticism of New Voter Laws, Move to Offer Photo ID Free of Charge | FoxNews.com Election officers in states with newly approved voter ID laws are trying to make sure voters can meet the new requirements without much hassle, pushing back on complaints that the laws are tantamount to a “poll…

The Voting News Daily: House Dems say state voter-ID laws a GOP plan to suppress minority votes, Cherokee challenger asks for ballots to be thrown out or new election

National: House Dems say state voter-ID laws a GOP plan to suppress minority votes | The Hill Several House Democrats argued on the floor Tuesday morning that the rise of voter-identification laws across many states is a coordinated attempt by Republicans to suppress minority and elderly votes. “These new policies are a clear attempt to…

The Voting News Daily: Payment to ES&S delayed over New Jersey vote count bug, Egypt hit by new wave of protests as military postpones election

New Jersey: Payment to ES&S delayed over vote count bug | New Jersey Herald Sussex County freeholders are withholding payment to the company that provides and services the county’s election computers until the board can get a face-to-face meeting with company representatives. “Just like there’s no crying in baseball, there’s no bugs in election software,”…

The Voting News Daily: Congressional Leaders Speak Out Against Voter ID Laws, Flaws seen in absentee ballot program for military voters

National: Congressional Leaders Speak Out Against Voter ID Laws at Press Conference on the Hill | Campus Progress Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (D-OH) held a press conference on Capitol Hill today in opposition to the voter ID laws sweeping states across the country. The event featured statements from Reverend Jesse Jackson, the ACLU, the National Action…

The Voting News Daily: 6 fake Democrats fall, setting stage for GOP recalls in Wisconsin, Cherokee Nation Orders Second Recount In Chief Election

Wisconsin: 6 fake Democrats fall, setting stage for GOP recalls | JSOnline Six fake Democratic candidates put up by the Republican Party to buy time for Republican state senators subject to recalls accomplished that job Tuesday, but none of them did the unexpected and knocked off a real Democrat. Candidates backed by the Democratic Party…

The Voting News Daily: Wisconsin recall primaries: Real vs. ‘fake’ Democrats will cost taxpayers more than $475,000, New Jersey judge wants expert witness, voting machine docs in Fairfield case

Wisconsin: Wisconsin recall votes: Real vs. ‘fake’ Dems — will cost taxpayers more than $475,000 | UPI.com Wisconsin’s divisive law ending most public-sector collective bargaining set in motion the biggest lawmaker-recall vote in state history, officials said. Nine recall elections — beginning Tuesday with primaries in six state Senate districts — is “nothing like anyone…

The Voting News Daily: ‘Madness Abounds’ as Fake Candidates Confuse Wisconsin Recalls, New Jersey vote count bug found; county blames software – ES&S iVotronic

Wisconsin: ‘Madness Abounds’ as Fake Candidates Confuse Wisconsin Recalls | Bloomberg Wisconsin voters will choose among real and fake Democrats this week to challenge six Republican senators in recall elections that may derail the agenda of Governor Scott Walker. The primaries are the opening skirmish in a state at political war. The six districts in tomorrow’s…

The Voting News Daily: An election that isn’t about the candidates, primary signals strange times, Cherokee Election Commissioners testify that recount is wrong

Wisconsin: An election that isn’t about the candidates, primary signals strange times | LaCrosse Tribune James Smith thinks Wisconsin law makes it too easy to recall a sitting legislator. And he’s willing to spend taxpayer dollars to protest it. Smith, a self-described libertarian Republican and former officer of the La Crosse County GOP, will be…

The Voting News Daily: Hacker allegedly breaches Florida voting database, 37 million ‘bogus votes’ removed from voter lists in Pakistan

Florida: Hacker allegedly breaches Florida voting database | The Raw Story Voters concerned about the reliability of electronic voting may now have another reason to worry. A hacker known as Abhaxas claimed Saturday to have released data from one of Florida’s internal voting databases. “Who believes voting isn’t tampered with?” Abhaxas asked Twitter followers. Data in…

The Voting News Daily: Happy 26th Amendment Day!, Egypt looking at e-voting

Editorials, National: Happy 26th Amendment Day! Enjoy It While It Lasts | Campus Progress July 1, 1971 saw the 26th amendment, which reduced the minimum voting age from 21 to 18, and millions of college-age Americans were given the right to vote. 40 years later, lawmakers are attacking this Constitutional right by introducing so-called voter…

The Voting News Daily: US Senators concerned by photo ID requirement to vote, In conservative New England state, voter ID vetoed

National: Senators concerned by photo ID requirement to vote | ajc.com Sixteen Democratic senators want the Justice Department to look into whether voting rights are being jeopardized in states that require photo identification in order for people to vote. The lawmakers wrote Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday to express concern that millions of voters do…

The Voting News Daily: Indiana Secretary of State White can stay in office, Bill passes requiring ID at Pennsylvania voting booths

Indiana: Secretary of State White can stay in office, recount panel rules | The Indianapolis Star The Indiana Recount Commission voted 3-0 this morning that Secretary of State Charlie White can remain in office. The panel of two Republicans and one Democrat turned down Democrats’ complaint that White was illegally registered to vote when he declared…

The Voting News Daily: Ohio Secretary of State Husted draws line against party over photo IDs at voting booths, Elections Officials Prepare For Work, Costs Of Wisconsin Recalls

Ohio: Husted draws line against party over photo IDs at voting booths | The Columbus Dispatch Secretary of State Jon Husted, a dyed-in-the-wool Republican, was front and center this week in a dispute over photo IDs at voting booths – and his tiff was not with Democrats. Husted drew a line in the sand against his…

The Voting News Daily: Voter ID bill is praised, panned in Pennsylvania, In work on recalls, elections chief Kevin Kennedy battles charges of partisanship

Pennsylvania: Voter ID bill is praised, panned in Pennsylvania | The Times Leader On a near-party line vote, the state House of Representatives approved a Republican-backed bill late Thursday night that would require voters to show photo identification at the polls. The bill now moves to the Republican-controlled state Senate for consideration. The 108-88 vote…

The Voting News Daily: House rejects GOP bill to terminate Election Assistance Commission, Recall elections surge in state and local governments

National: House rejects GOP bill to terminate Election Assistance Commission | The Hill Members of the House on Wednesday rejected a bill to end the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), which Republicans said would save $33 million over five years by eliminating a commission who’s primary purpose has been achieved. Members voted 235-187 in favor of…

The Voting News Daily: Fate of Election Assistance Commission to be decided in Wednesday vote, Email Voting — A National Security Threat in Government Elections

National: Fate of Election Assistance Commission to be decided in Wednesday vote, Email Voting — A National Security Threat in Government Elections to be decided in Wednesday vote | The Hill Tuesday night debate on a bill to eliminate the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) resolved nothing, and if anything made it more clear that the…

The Voting News Daily: House to vote on repealing Election Assistance Commission set up after Bush-Gore, White Again Denied Immunity for Recount Commission Testimony

National: House to vote on repealing election commission set up after Bush-Gore | The Hill The House is scheduled to vote Tuesday on whether to repeal an election commission set up after the controversial 2000 presidential election. Members plan to vote on H.R. 672, which would repeal the Election Assistance Commission. That commission was established in…