The Voting News Daily: Changes in voting laws designed to boost turnout, Georgia could implement online voter registration

Connecticut: Changes in voting laws designed to boost turnout | Stratford Star Bridgeport’s “ran-out-of-ballots” fiasco got Secretary of the State Denise Merrill’s attention. “People were turned away at the polls and not allowed to vote!” she told a League of Women Voters meeting in Ridgefield recently. “We don’t need one more thing to cause people to…

The Voting News Daily: Super Tuesday brings super PAC spending milestone, I.R.S. Scrutiny of Political Groups Stirs Harassment Claim

National: Super Tuesday brings super PAC spending milestone | iWatch News by The Center for Public Integrity Heading into Super Tuesday, spending by super PACs aligned with presidential candidates has surpassed spending by all super PACs in the 2010 mid-term election. To date, super PACs aligned with one of the 2012 White House hopefuls have spent…

The Voting News Daily: Hacking the Polls: Vulnerability in Electronic Voting Systems, Caucus Confusion: A Recurring Headache For GOP

Blogs: Hacking the Polls: Vulnerability in Electronic Voting Systems | Independent Voter Network Among those who advocate for the “modernization” of our voting systems, internet-based electronic voting and registration platforms are often offered as an ideal solution to the problems inherent in our current registration and voting processes. A newly published paper describes the ease…

The Voting News Daily: Secret donors to ‘C4s’ playing behind-the-scenes politics, In Theory And Practice, Why Internet-Based Voting Is a Bad Idea

National: Secret donors to ‘C4s’ playing behind-the-scenes politics | latimes.com There’s no mystery about why a business or industry group might be shy about how it spends money on election campaigns. Just ask department store chain Target. In 2010, Target, which had been known for its progressive employment policies, faced a customer and shareholder backlash after…

The Voting News Daily: Internet voting systems too insecure, Is Obama letting the civil rights law die before the Supreme Court kills it?

National: Internet voting systems too insecure, researcher warns | Computerworld Internet voting systems are inherently insecure and should not be allowed in the upcoming general elections, a noted security researcher said at the RSA Conference 2012 being held here this week. David Jefferson, a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and chairman of the election…

The Voting News Daily: Super PACs, candidates blur lines ahead of Nov. 6, Undermining State Campaign Laws

National: Super PACs, candidates blur lines ahead of Nov. 6 | USAToday.com Presidential candidates and the super PACs accepting unlimited donations to help their campaigns cannot coordinate their activity, yet they are sharing consultants, donors and even advertising footage, raising new questions about the independence of outside groups. Campaign-finance experts say there’s little federal regulators can…

The Voting News Daily: The Strange Career of Voter Suppression, Oscar voting by computer invites cyber attacks – Academy’s plan to allow voting by computer is an open invitation for cyber attacks and fraudulent outcome

Editorials: The Strange Career of Voter Suppression | NYTimes.com The 2012 general election campaign is likely to be a fight for every last vote, which means that it will also be a fight over who gets to cast one. Partisan skirmishing over election procedures has been going on in state legislatures across the country for several…

The Voting News Daily: Overseas Vote Foundation Launches In-U.S. Voter Registration Service, Foreign donations a risk in US presidential race

National: Overseas Vote Foundation Launches In-U.S. Voter Registration Service | TechPresident The Overseas Vote Foundation is launching a new domestic voter registration and absentee ballot site in this election season that aims to make it easy for voters to fill out and access state-specific election forms. OVF announced the new initiative, the U.S. Vote Foundation, at…

The Voting News Daily: States line up to challenge stringent Section 5 voting rights provision, Data for Democracy Four Years Later: Pew’s Election Administration By The Numbers

National: States line up to challenge stringent Section 5 voting rights provision | The Washington Post Conservative activists and Republican attorneys general have launched a series of lawsuits meant to challenge the most muscular provision of the Voting Rights Act 0f 1965 before a Supreme Court that has signaled it is suspicious of its constitutionality. Working…

The Voting News Daily: Saguache, CO Ballot Dispute: New Clerk, But Same Old Controversy, Democrats ask court to enforce ruling making Vop Osili Secretary of State

Blogs: Saguache, CO Ballot Dispute: New Clerk, But Same Old Controversy | Doug Chapin/PEEA On January 24 Saguache County, CO voters overwhelmingly recalled County Clerk Melinda Myers. Myers had been under fire ever since presiding over a hotly-disputed 2010 election in which preliminary results – which showed some candidates, including Myers’ GOP opponent, leading –…

The Voting News Daily: Nevada caucuses: State GOP rolls snake eyes, Tempers flare at chaotic ‘sundown caucus’

Nevada: Nevada caucuses: State GOP rolls snake eyes | Politico.com The biggest loser in Nevada’s Republican caucuses? The state’s feckless GOP. Unable to control how its county parties count and report results, state Republicans were scrambling Sunday to explain why, almost 24 hours after most caucuses ended, the votes still have not been counted. Here in Clark…

The Voting News Daily: Charlie White Found Guilty of Voter Fraud, Election official says Santorum doesn’t qualify for Indiana ballot

Indiana: Indiana election chief found guilty of voter fraud | The Associated Press Indiana’s top elections official could lose his job and his freedom after jurors convicted him of multiple voter fraud-related charges on Saturday, leaving in flux the fate of one of the state’s most powerful positions. Republican Secretary of State Charlie White has held…

The Voting News Daily: Oscars vote vulnerable to cyber-attack under new online system, experts warn, Summit addresses military and overseas voters – despite progress, challenges remain

National: Oscars vote vulnerable to cyber-attack under new online system, experts warn | guardian.co.uk Computer security experts have warned that the 2013 Oscars ballot may be vulnerable to a variety of cyber attacks that could falsify the outcome but remain undetected, if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences follows through on its decision…

The Voting News Daily: Contests in battleground states could hinge on ‘invisible’ overseas voters, Citizens United Lawyer: I Hate Super PACs Too

National: Contests in battleground states could hinge on ‘invisible’ overseas voters | NBC Since the 2000 recount in Florida, voting procedures have been under the microscope; in close races, painstaking legal details and arcane rules can determine the results. Among those details is the handling of ballots cast by hundreds of thousands of “invisible” overseas voters.…

The Voting News Daily: Study: SuperPACs Behind Nearly Half Of 2012 Ads, Matt Strawn resigns as Iowa GOP chair – resignation letter does not mention Iowa caucus results

National: Study: SuperPACs Behind Nearly Half Of 2012 Ads | NPR A new analysis shows that in the deluge of TV ads in the early voting states for the Republican presidential primaries, nearly half of the ads are coming not from the candidates but from superPACs — the new breed of political committees that raise…

The Voting News Daily: One-man Washington nonprofit helps steer Shelby County voting case, Confusion feared since ballots bear names of presidential contenders no longer in Florida race

Alabama: One-man Washington nonprofit helps steer Shelby County voting case | al.com Shelby County’s name is on the case, but a one-man Washington, D.C., legal defense fund with pri­vate donors is the driving force be­hind one of the most important constitutional challenges to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The Project on Fair Representa­tion is the nonprofit run by…

The Voting News Daily: Disclose Act: Super PAC Transparency Legislation To Be Introduced By House Democrats, Super PACs set sights on 2012 congressional races

National: Disclose Act: Super PAC Transparency Legislation To Be Introduced By House Democrats | Huffington Post Amid growing concern over the growing influence of super PACs, congressional Democrats are set to introduce new legislation designed to bring an increased level of transparency to campaign-related expenditures. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) will introduce in the coming weeks…

The Voting News Daily: ID bills target college-aged voters, Mutually Assured Super PAC Destruction In Massachusetts?

National: ID bills target college-aged voters | The Temple News New voting laws requiring identification and eliminating absentee ballots disenfranchise young and low-income voters in various states. Students who move out-of-state to attend college normally shrug a slew of stresses on their shoulders. From a potentially higher tuition to possible travel expenses, most college students think…

The Voting News Daily: The winner of South Carolina’s primary: Super PACs, Constitutional Showdown over the Voting Rights Act: D.C. Circuit Hears Shelby County v. Holder

National: The winner of South Carolina’s primary: Super PACs | baltimoresun.com It has been two years since the Supreme Court issued its decision in the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, and we are only now just beginning to see how its overturning of a century of campaign finance law is distorting the electoral…

The Voting News Daily: Activist groups want to undo ruling that led to ‘super PAC’ frenzy, More voters casting ballots early – early voting benefits campaigns with money, manpower

National: The Influence Industry: Activist groups want to undo ruling that led to ‘super PAC’ frenzy | The Washington Post Two years ago this week, the Supreme Court set the political world on its head by ruling that corporations could spend unlimited money on elections, rolling back decades of legal restrictions. An array of liberal-leaning activist…

The Voting News Daily: Did Citizens United Lead to Super PACs? Setting the Record Straight, Is Citizens United just misunderstood?

National: Did Citizens United Lead to Super PACs? Setting the Record Straight | Election Law Blog Salon is out with an interview today with Floyd Abrams (noted First Amendment lawyer and campaign finance law opponent).  Abrams took the NY Times to task for blaming the $5 million Adelson contribution to Super PACs on Citizens United.  Abrams says it is Buckley v. Valeo, recognizing an…