Good thing they have paper ballots. Cuyahoga Co Ohio’s voting machines have a source code flaw causing some to “freeze” up. Cuyahoga uses DS200 optical scanners made by ES&S. A source code change is needed… FL Veterans for Common Sense to Crist -Veto poison pill bill!…Sarasota FL County Commissioners hire attorney to defend election audit charter from Kathy Dent…US concerned about transparency of Iraq election recount…
CO: Election Integrity Activist LaBonte Supports Election Commission Review of Zimet Complaint
http://aspenelectionreview.blogspot.com/2010/05/election-integrity-activist-labonte.html …One reason anonymity is important is that it enables ballot level transparency. I hope that Aspen will continue to support transparency, preferably achieving full transparency by releasing ballot images…
FL: Florida Veterans for Common Sense Letter to Crist- Veto CS/CS/HB 131 Elections
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/electionreform/message/13454
this bill preempts to the state all matters pertaining to elections. The result is that it preempts stricter election procedures adopted in some counties that protect the voting rights of Florida’s citizens even where not in conflict with state law.
FL: Sarasota County Commissioners vote to hire outside counsel to defend charter
http://sarasotacounty.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=18&clip_id=1289
HIRED OUTSIDE LEGAL COUNSEL (ATTORNEY DAVID PERSSON) TO REPRESENT/DEFEND THE COUNTY AND THE COUNTY CHARTER IN THE CASE OF KATHY DENT V. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, ET AL (See video at Sarasota CO website, Click on 30. COUNTY ATTORNEY’S REPORT
view beginning at the 1:58 mark)
FL: Florida elections official Kurt Browning resigns
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/01/1607293/florida-elections-official-kurt.html
KY: New voting machines ready in NKY
http://nky.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20100503/NEWS0103/5030316/
Boone, Campbell , Kenton, Gallatin and Grant counties have all bought new “e-Scan” paper ballot voting machines with federal grants from the Help America Vote Act.
KS:Mentally ill voter rights on ballot
http://cjonline.com/news/local/2010-05-01/mentally_ill_voter_rights_on_ballot
NC: Allegations of vote buying bring State Board of Elections Officials to Bladen
http://www.bladenjournal.com/view/full_story/7244996/article-
Allegations-of-vote-buying-bring-State-Board-of-Elections-Officials-to-Bladen-?
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NC: ONLY ON 3: State Board of Elections wants info on Breazeale gas giveaway
http://www.wwaytv3.com/only_3_state_board_elections_wants_info_
breazeale_gas_giveaway/05/2010 http://bit.ly/9zPd3z
Will Breazeale offered up to $20 worth of gas for anyone who agreed to volunteer for his campaign in the final days before Election Day, but we found not everyone was really volunteering.
OH: Reason for election machine glitch found, officials expect things to be OK for the primary * http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/05/reason_for_election_machine_gl.html
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Six percent of the county’s vote-counting scanner machines failed a pre-election test, but the elections chief said the board has enough backup machines for the Tuesday primary and is confident no votes will be lost if machines freeze up on election day.
All told, 89 of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections’ 1,200 machines powered down and then froze during a specific test done to ensure the optical scanners were reading paper ballots correctly.
Voting machine manufacturer Election Systems & Software, Inc. said it believes the problem has to do with the scanner’s software. And they believe they have a coding update that will fix it.
OH: ES&S Letter to Cuyahoga OH Board of Elections r/e DS200 code problem
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/electionreform/message/13455
TN: Election panel seeks solution on $32K bill
http://www.dnj.com/article/20100503/NEWS01/100502057
…to fund a $32,500 settlement to a lawsuit filed by the county Administrator of Elections Hooper Penuel.
Citizens United
“Corporations are not people. Money is not speech.” These are fundamental truths that our nation needs to remember — and add to the Constitution.
http://www.alternet.org/vision/146664/8_words_that_could_save_our_country
Broadcasters Take Aim At Campaign Finance Bill
http://undertheinfluence.nationaljournal.com/2010/05/broadcasters-take-aim-at-campa.php
Who will watch the Citizens United Ad Men?2 (youtube by Sunlight Foundation)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53MYpunk9-w Thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United case corporations and special interest groups now have the right to spend unlimited funds on political campaigns.
International
Iraq: Election recount under way in Baghdad
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/election-recount-under-way-in-baghdad-20100503-u3pb.html …The United States is increasingly concerned that an initially credible election could unravel because of political stalemate, a lack of democratic transparency and the potential disenfranchisement of a large number of voters
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