The Voting News Weekly: The Voting News Weekly – May 12-18 2014

The Democratic Party’s plans to employ internet voting in the 2016 primaries have been questioned by computer security experts and political strategists. Partisan gridlock in the US Senate has left two nominees for the Election Assistance Commission in limbo for years. The Arkansas Supreme Court tossed out a judge’s ruling striking down the state’s voter ID law on Wednesday, but stopped short of ruling on the constitutionality of the measure. U.S. Rep. John Conyers has joined a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a state election law that resulted in a majority of petition signatures turned in to certify him for a 26th term were invalidated. A federal trial judge declined Thursday to side with North Carolina lawmakers who believe they are not required to provide documents to groups seeking answers about how a disputed elections-overhaul law was passed. Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen on Monday filed court papers asking U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman in Milwaukee to delay his April ruling blocking the law until the decision is reviewed by an appeals court. Independent researchers have declared that Estonia’s internet voting system should not be used for the European elections in May because its security vulnerabilities could lead to faked votes or totals and Ukraine’s government dismissed a referendum on independence held in Eastern provinces of the country as a “farce.”