Verified Voting Board President Barbara Simons and Mark Halvorson of Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota considered the potential of electoral meltdown is Tuesday’s election forces a recount in States with no software independent record of the vote. TechHive and CNN surveyed the use of electronic voting in the week’s election. Superstorm Sandy presented serious challenges to election administrators and Roll Call wrote about the absence of the Election Assistance Commission. The Republican party issued a letter calling for additional procedures in response to reports of miscalibrated touchscreen voting equipment. Electionsmith identified a glitch in Florida’s registration system that could disenfranchise voters. With attention focused as always on Ohio, a battle over provisional ballots and the State’s Chief Election Official could prove critical on Tuesday (and after) and international observers reported that “democratic progress appears to have reversed in Ukraine.”
The Voting News
A News Service of the Verified Voting Foundation
