Election Reform and Related News: Sunday, July 6, 2008

Election Reform and Related News

Sunday, July 6, 2008

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BALLOT SECURITY

Texas sticks with electronic voting
Several states shifting back to paper ballots.
By Laylan Copelin
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

Thursday, July 03, 2008
Paper or electronic?

As the debate over e-voting continues around the country, more Americans will be returning to paper ballots in the fall as several states, including California, Colorado, Ohio and Florida, shift away from electronic voting machines.

Texas, however, remains wedded to the technology because of its large investment in the machines (at least $93 million, mostly with federal dollars) and the solid track record of e-voting during the March 4 primaries despite record turnouts.

"When everyone woke up, the conversation was about who won or lost, and not about voting systems," said Jack Dyer, general counsel to the Texas Secretary of State, the state's chief elections officer. Most of the problems reported this spring in Texas were about long lines, not counting ballots.

After a hearing on the topic last month, Rep. Leo Berman, chairman of the House Elections Committee, pronounced it unlikely that the Legislature would mandate a switch to paper ballots in 2009, barring "wholesale fraud with the machines."

more...

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislatur...

Electing to serve: Poll workers get ready for election
Poll workers are serious about making elections run smoothly

POSTED July 5, 2008 6:44 p.m.

Back in the 1940s, poll worker Melvin Thomas hand counted votes past midnight in a school house, illuminated by the light of gasoline lanterns.

Fast forward to today, when Thomas, now 78, still works the Hall County polls with wife, Bobbie, but a lot has changed.

Today, each voting precinct is armed with an array of technological devices aimed at making the voting process run more smoothly for both voters and poll workers.

"I think the new generation can pick (the technology) up," Thomas said. "I have young people that can do most of the computer stuff (at my precinct). However, I'm computer illiterate myself. I don't even own a computer, I don't want one."

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Some examples of technology being used to assist in voting include:

Voting stations are set up with express electronic voting machines that look like self-checkout machines from the supermarket, only they read votes, not grocery barcodes.

On these machines, the press of a single electronic button could cast or cancel a vote.

At the end of the day, memory cards filled with votes, rather than boxes filled with paper ballots, will be taken to the central elections office to be processed.

A cell phone is distributed to each poll manager so that the elections office can maintain contact with the voting precincts.

more of article at link...

http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/article/6869/

Tuesday last day to register to vote in August elections

Published 07/05/2008 By J.H. Osborne

BLOUNTVILLE — Tuesday is the deadline for registering to vote in August elections — the county’s general election, the Democratic primary and the Republican primary.

In-person registration, at the Sullivan County Election Office, will end at 5 p.m. Mailed registrations must be postmarked no later than that date to be processed.

Early voting for the elections begins July 18 in Blountville and July 25 at satellite locations in Kingsport and Bristol. Early voting ends at all three locations on Aug. 2.

Sullivan County residents who early vote for Aug. 7 elections will use paper ballots and optical scan equipment if they cast their early ballots at the Sullivan County Office Building in Blountville.

Use of the optical scan system will expand to satellite locations — Kingsport’s Civic Auditorium, and the Bristol YWCA on State Street — for early voting for the November election. The optical scan system, however, will not be used in any precinct on Election Day in August or November. (bolding is mine)

more...

http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9007096

Completely off topic, but check out the pic of the indigo bunting on the left, and ignore the spinning pig. He is annoying. LOL

Why is Okaloosa County so Republican?

July 5, 2008 - 3:50PM
Kari Barlow
Daily News

In the fall of 1982, Shell Oil Co. was searching Okaloosa County for crude oil and natu-ral gas, and Laurel Hill had started its first police patrol.

At Santa Rosa Mall, "First Blood" and "Poltergeist" were showing at the movie theater, and toy stores were selling the Atari game system for $128. And in the world of politics?

Registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans 36,166 to 13,179.No, really.

From Milligan to Mary Esther, Okaloosa was a De-mocratic stronghold. A "blue" county, if you will.

really big snip...

"I think the fear mongering and the threats of this administration, I think they're finally falling on deaf ears," says Morgan, who owns Harbor Docks restaurant in Destin. "People are desperately tired of this. They're tired of this war."

Morgan predicts that the rising cost of living and doing business also will steer many voters away from the GOP.

more...

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/okaloosa_9206___articl...

Optical scan machines get first test in West Palm election
Published July 6th, 2008
By Dale M. King
CITY EDITOR

Voters in West Palm Beach this past week got a taste of what residents throughout Palm Beach County will deal with at the polls when regular elections roll around.

They got the first shot at using the new optical scan voting machines.

“It worked well,” said Supervisor of Elections Arthur Anderson. “The voters found them easy to use.”

The optical scanners replace the touch-screen machines that were brought in to replace the punch-card voting apparatus that created a fiasco during the 2000 presidential election. Results were delayed for 37 days while election officials pored over ballots in an effort that was finally stopped by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The lack of a “paper trail” led U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler to file lawsuits to get rid of the touch screen machines. Finally, they were eliminated in the 15 counties that had them.

more...

http://www.bocaratonnews.com/news/local/1250-optical-sc...

Note: Anderson was endorsed by Wexler when he originally ran for office.

Candidates want to see ballots
By Vershal Hogan (Contact) | The Natchez Democrat

Published Friday, July 4, 2008

WOODVILLE — More candidates have filed to examine the ballot boxes from the June 24 special Democratic primary election in Wilkinson County.

Wilkinson County Circuit Clerk Mon Cree Allen, District 2 Supervisor Richard Hollins and Sheriff Reginald “Pip” Jackson filed motions to examine the boxes Wednesday night.

Hollins and Jackson wanted to examine the boxes Wednesday when representatives for sheriff candidate Jesse Stewart and supervisor candidate Kirk Smith were conducting their own examinations, but Judge Jim Persons ruled they did not have any right to examine the boxes Wednesday.

Both Hollins and Jackson were the declared winners in the primary.

more...

http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/news/2008/jul/04/candida...

IIT to show film on election fraud

July 6, 2008

By Paige Winfield pwinfield@scn1.com
Election fraud is the topic of a documentary film showing Friday at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Wheaton.

Emmy Award-winning director David Earnhardt began working on the film, "Uncounted," after reading online about voting irregularities and fraud in the 2004 general election.

Earnhardt used footage from the National Election Reform Conference in Nashville to build the foundation for the documentary, which highlights discrepancies between tabulated results and exit polls and what he says is a lack of security in electronic voting.

Co-producer Mary Mancini, who hosts the Nashville-based talk radio program Liberadio, said that like Earnhardt, she was troubled by reports she read after the election.

a bit more...

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/1...

07/05/2008
LSCS lawsuit asks for new election
By Kassia Micek
Courier staff

A lawsuit filed against the Lone Star College District alleges the recent bond and trustee election was compromised when several ballot boxes were left unattended.

Conroe resident James Doyle filed the lawsuit in the 333rd state District Court in Harris County June 16 requesting election results be declared void and a new election be scheduled for Nov. 4.

“They had some (ballot boxes) that had broken seals,” Doyle said. “What kind of a thing is that? We should do the election over.

“When you don’t have a fair election, it doesn’t count. Elections are what make America great.”

However, the LSCS has not been served with the lawsuit, Ray Laughter, LSCS vice chancellor of external affairs, said.

“It’s disappointing to me if there is a lawsuit,” he said. “Voters passed the bond two to one and these guys are looking to over turn the voters’ decision.

“We have no concerns. The election was approved by the (U.S.) Department of Justice. … Electronic voting is so safe. There is absolutely no chance those votes could have been tampered with. We feel very confident the election was properly run.”

more...

http://www.hcnonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19832501&...

July 5, 2008

Officials promise: Ballots in the mail

BY R. NORMAN MOODY
FLORIDA TODAY

The Brevard County Supervisor of Elections Office is bustling with activity, as deadlines leading to elections draw near.

About a dozen workers methodically prepared envelopes with absentee ballots this week for the first mass mailing. Another batch is expected to go out next week, all in time to meet the deadline for the Aug. 26 primary.

Dozens of electronic machines that read ballots and keep count were neatly stacked in the room, ready to be sent to polling places for the next election.

"We're kind of kicked into full gear," said Donna Griffin, assistant supervisor for community service. "Then it's the training of all poll workers."

More than 2,000 of the absentee ballots being sent out are going to military personnel serving around the country and 1,000 to service members and civilians overseas. Many more requests for absentee ballots are expected before the Aug. 20 deadline.

more...
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/...

Youthful Utah last in nation in voter turnout

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | 7/6/08 9:58 AM EST

Voter turnout in Utah two years ago was the lowest in the country.

According to a U.S. Census study, only 36.7 percent of Utah's eligible voters who were surveyed said they voted in the 2006 general election. Utah was No. 51 on the list, which included 50 states and Washington, D.C.

The national average was 47.8 percent, and the top state was Minnesota at 65.4 percent.

Kelly Patterson, a political science professor at Brigham Young University, said 2006 wasn't a very competitive year in the three congressional districts and the U.S. Senate race.

'Campaigns were not spending a lot of time motivating voters to register and get out to vote like we normally see with the most competitive races,' Patterson said.

more...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11546.html

7/6/2008 9:59:00 AM
Request for ballot recount denied

STEVE ROBB
Messenger news editor

A judge has dismissed a court action filed by a former candidate for Athens County commissioner who was seeking a hand recount of ballots in March's Democratic primary.

Charlies Adkins lost the Democratic nomination by a flip of a coin after election results had him tied with Jim Pancake. Pancake was declared the winner and will face Republican Larry Payne in the November election.

Adkins said Saturday that he does not think he will appeal the court decision, and that he felt he would have been a good commissioner.

"I believe I would have done the best job for folks in this county," he said. "I could have brought something different to the county commissioners."

A request filed in Athens County Common Pleas Court on behalf of Adkins sought a hand recount of the ballots. It was signed by two other people, and also had Adkins' signature at the bottom. Judge Lawrence Grey, who was assigned to hear the case, dismissed it on Thursday.

more...

http://www.athensmessenger.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&Sub...

Eyes Wide Shut

An Imperative SOS

New Yorkers Struggle for the Soul of Democracy

New York State, the State Board of Elections and New York’s Attorney General are Preparing to Violate Our Constitutional Right to be Protected From Disenfranchisement -- Even as They Know Computerized Voting Systems Cannot Secure our Votes.

Saturday, July 5, 200

by Andi Novick

At a recent (June 19th 2008) meeting of the four commissioners of the State Board of Elections (SBOE) the discussion focused on the myriad problems New York State is having with the voting vendors who continue to sell the only product they offer – “crap.” As SBOE Co-Chair Douglas Kellner (D) stated:

“(T)he voting industry sells crap. And that's the problem.”snip

Last week Nassau County wrote to the federal judge, who’d accepted the State’s shameful surrender of our constitutionally protected right to vote, justifiably complaining that “85% of the 156 BMDs received (so far) ... have substantial operational flaws that render them unusable or that require major repairs”. (see Nassau County's Letter to Judge Sharpe 6/27/08) Nassau blames the SBOE for certifying these machines and forcing them upon the counties. While there’s plenty of blame to go around, the bottom line is the machines are crap; the vendors have a captive consumer and they sell machines that don’t work because the forced consumer feels compelled to have the crap in place for the next election.

And so the state commissioners agreed (at the 6/19 mtg) to relax the rules regarding the BMDs- even as they found literally thousands of defects, because while they may be defective and not work, at least we’re not talking about how vulnerable they are to tampering since these BMDs aren’t being certified to count the votes (yet). But warned Commissioner Kellner, he’s not going to “get caught in this bargain with the devil” when it comes time to certify the scanners to count votes. So what is he going to do when it comes time to certify the counting function on the BMD?

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New York State’s Lever Voting System Is Secure, Supported by Most People in the State, and it Works

What is to be the fate of the great state of New York? That at this moment is in the hands of the electorate because our state government has turned against us. Unlike every other state in the nation, we are the only ones who have not yet computerized our electoral process. We are also the only ones with a functioning, secure, reliable and affordable electoral system. Why are we abandoning our levers when they have been described by one scholar studying the issue as “(O)ne of the most astonishing achievements of American technological genius.”

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Who supports New York’s lever voting system?

Just about all the county election commissioners in New York, in their personal capacity.

Just about all the state board of election commissioners in New York, in their personal capacity.

And I’d venture to say, most of the citizens of New York.

1) The County Boards of Elections

If you ask the county election commissioners, they will tell you that much as they would love to keep the levers and much as they know the nightmares of computerized voting and the excessive costs to taxpayers, “this ship has sailed.” They are beleaguered. New York State’s Legislature did not stand up and fight for the levers when they had the chance. The State caved- first passing state laws to replace the levers and then capitulating to the pressure of the feds in the litigation commenced by the corrupt Department of Justice agreeing to surrender your rights and the lever voting machine by 2009.

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2) The State Board of Elections

If you ask the SBOE commissioners responsible for certifying that these machines can accurately and securely count our votes, they will tell you:

Commissioner Evelyn Aquila (D) at the 6/19th SBOE meeting:

“I support the lever machines”

Newly appointed Commissioner Gregory Peterson (R) at the 6/19th SBOE meeting:

“If it doesn't work the way you said it was going to work (referring to software-driven systems)], we're better with a lever-just pushing down levers. And if the judge doesn't understand that (referring to the DoJ’s lawsuit) then he's going to have to be made to understand that.”

But the SBOE does what the State Legislature tells them to do - certify software, abandon the levers. The SBOE doesn’t have to follow orders. Certainly since the Nuremberg Trials this excuse has been explicitly rejected.

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Will Commissioner Kellner do what he said he’d do at the 6/19 SBOE meeting?

“I'm prepared to go back to Judge Sharp and to say: Judge, it would be unconstitutional to enforce the Help America Vote Act by requiring us to replace the lever voting machines with scanning equipment or DRE equipment or any equipment that does not comply with the current guidelines.”

3) The Good Citizens of New York

Ask most New Yorkers and they’ll tell you they are happy with their levers. That means for the most part they trust the results or they would not be happy with this system. They have good reason to trust the lever voting system and no reason to trust the computerized voting system the State plans on using to disenfranchise us.

But there are some who do not support the levers -- many of them are election activists who believe having a paper ballot is better regardless of how it’s counted: even if it’s counted on undetectably mutable software. Their argument: we know the optical scanners can be rigged without ever being detected, but we can hand-count some of the ballots to check against the computer results. It’s true -- we can do that, but we’re not. And even if we were -- why would we settle for an electoral system that is so insecure it requires us to vote on hackable software to deliver an unreliable result on election night, only to check that unknowable tally after the election, after the press has announced the winner, after the ongoing surveillance of the poll site has ended, when the opportunity for tampering with those paper ballots is at its highest.

Levers vs Optical Scanners

The lever voting machine:

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Testifying before the NYC Voter Assistance Commission in 2004, before the State agreed to install BMDs in every poll site, Commissioner Kellner attested to the lever voting machines’ compliance with HAVA.

“Our lever machines satisfy all but one of standards, that there be at least one machine at each poll site that is 'accessible for individuals with disabilities, including non-visual accessibility for the blind and visually impaired, in a manner that provides the same opportunity for access and participation (including privacy and independence) as for other voters.”

We have met the one standard lever machines could not satisfy. We bought the BMDs.

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As Nassau Election Commissioner William Biamonte (D) recently summed it up:

"All that's at stake is the credibility of representative democracy in New York State."

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More to follow soon alerting you to the actions needed to protect us before the State succeeds in disenfranchising each and every one of us.

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http://re-mediaetc.blogspot.com/2008/07/eyes-wide-shut....

ER Discussion:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

NY Forum Discussion:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

Published: Sunday, July 6, 2008

Details emerge of Mugabe’s plans to win election
The Washington Post

HARARE, Zimbabwe – President Robert Mugabe summoned his top security officials to a government training center near his rural home in central Zimbabwe on the afternoon of March 30. In a voice barely audible at first, he informed the leaders of the state security apparatus that had enforced his rule for 28 years that he had lost the presidential vote held the previous day.

Then Mugabe told the gathering he planned to give up power in a televised speech to the nation the next day, according to the written notes of one participant that were corroborated by two other people with direct knowledge of the meeting.

But Zimbabwe’s military chief, Gen. Constantine Chiwenga, responded that the choice was not Mugabe’s alone to make. According to two firsthand accounts of the meeting, Chiwenga told Mugabe his military would take control of the country to keep him in office or the president could contest a runoff election, directed in the field by senior army officers supervising a military-style campaign against the opposition.

Mugabe, the only leader this country has known since its break from white rule nearly three decades ago, agreed to remain in the race and rely on the army to ensure his victory. During an April 8 military planning meeting, according to written notes and the accounts of participants, the plan was given a code name: CIBD. The acronym, which proved apt in the fevered campaign that unfolded over the following weeks, stood for: Coercion. Intimidation. Beating. Displacement.

more...

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AI...

Monday, July 07, 2008

Citizens’ poll watchdog all
set for ARMM elections

The coalition expects reduction of irregularities, especially in areas where cases of electoral fraud are high

KIDAPAWAN CITY: The Citizens Coalition for Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Electoral Reforms Inc. (Citizens CARE), announced on Sunday that it is fully prepared to deliver accurate field reports before, during and after the August 11 regional political exercise, reported the Philippine News Agency.

Citizens CARE enjoys the reputation as the biggest accredited poll watchdog in Mindanao.

Chairman Salic Ibrahim, its chair, said the poll watchdogs intend to closely observe the conduct of the regional election, especially that this year’s ARMM polls would showcase the Commission on Elections (Comelec) poll automation machines backed by ample manpower to perform the “huge, yet, challenging” task.

During the elections, the Citizens CARE would monitor over 1,500 barangays; as they also have recruited 93 volunteer municipal election personnel to act as election monitoring officers in over a hundred municipalities across the region.

more...

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/july/07/yehey/...

Brunner needs to earn trust of voters in Ohio

POSTED: July 6, 2008

Ohio probably will play a key role in presidential politics - again - this year. Buckeye State residents surely do not want to repeat the mistakes of 2004, when there were allegations that inefficiency in taking and counting votes was part of some sort of partisan conspiracy.

Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, as the state's chief elections officer, bears a gigantic burden in that regard. What she does and says will be viewed by many as setting the tone for the Nov. 4 general election.

Thus far, Brunner's tone has been a sour one, raising legitimate questions about whether the Democrat leader is handling her office in a fair-minded way. Brunner sometimes appears to be more interested in control than in nonpartisanship.

snip to the most hypocritical statement of all (bolding is mine)...

That position itself is controversial. While many Ohioans - and their county elections boards - are comfortable with the machines, Brunner wants to do away with them and use paper ballots instead. :wow:

Oh.My.Gawd.

Brunner's motives already have come into question, then. It will be difficult, no matter what she does, for her to win the undiluted trust of Ohio Republicans before the Nov. 4 election. Still, she needs to make the attempt. If Ohio's chief elections officer is viewed as a partisan manipulator, there is no doubt that the results of the general election will be controversial.

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http://www.salemnews.net/page/content.detail/id/503374....

My response was in the medium-sized scream category.

K, R, thanks, & how about at least one more rec for the news, y'all? :applause:

Editorial: Stop 'ghost voting' in the House

12:00 AM CDT on Sunday, July 6, 2008

Texas House members practiced in the sleight-of-hand art of "ghost voting" now have an official rebuke to deal with: a scolding from Austin grand jurors who were understandably disgusted.

The colorful term refers to lawmakers' habit of pushing electronic voting buttons on nearby desks when their neighbors are astray and want somebody to cover for them.

Inflamed by a television news exposé of the fakery, an Austin citizen took the matter to the local district attorney, who found no criminal behavior. Undeterred – and bravo for him – the citizen took the unusual step of filing a complaint directly with the grand jury.

The verdict is good news for anyone who doesn't like the idea of a bogus record of votes in the House.

more...

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/...

State Republicans cool to youth-voting bills
John Wildermuth, Chronicle Staff Writer

Sunday, July 6, 2008

A pair of Assembly bills designed to bring more young people into the voting booths are being fought by Republicans who worry that too many of those new voters will be liberal Democrats.

One of the measures would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to "preregister" to vote, while the other would allow 17-year-olds to vote in a primary election if they will be 18 by the date of the next general election. Both bills have prompted straight party-line votes, with no hint of GOP support.

While Democrats sponsoring the bills say they are merely good-government measures, studies show that their party would get a major election-day boost if more young voters cast ballots.

Exit polls done during this year's presidential primary season showed that the number of voters younger than 30 has more than doubled since the 2004 and 2000 elections, with Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, drawing an enthusiastic and growing response from those young voters.

more...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/0...

I know this article mostly focuses on Ohio, but I can see this becoming a national issue, one that I hadn't really thought about before.

Foreclosed-on voters using old addresses could snag election
Sunday, July 6, 2008 3:36 AM
By Robert Vitale

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Punch cards in Florida left the 2000 presidential election in limbo. Ohio's voting-machine shortage became a source of continuing controversy in 2004.

If there's Election Day disorder brewing for 2008, it might well be rooted in the nation's mortgage-foreclosure crisis. In Columbus, across Ohio and in other key presidential battlegrounds, more people losing their homes means more registered to vote from addresses where they no longer live.

Although federal law ensures that most still will be able to cast a ballot on Nov. 4, Ohio voters with outdated addresses risk pre-election challenges and trips from polling place to polling place. They're also more likely to cast provisional ballots that might not be counted.

"It's a real issue," said Daniel Tokaji, an Ohio State University law professor who wonders whether foreclosures might explain the increasing percentages of provisional votes cast between 2004 and Ohio's latest election, the presidential primary in March.

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Columbus ranked 32nd among U.S. cities in the number of foreclosure filings during the first quarter of 2008, according to RealtyTrac, a Web site that lists homes on the market in most cities. Cleveland, Dayton, Akron, Toledo and Cincinnati also were among the top 50, and Ohio was ninth among states during May, with one filing for every 410 homes.

Other battleground states rank high in foreclosure filings as well: Nevada led the nation in May with one filing for every 118 homes, while Florida was fourth, Michigan fifth, Georgia sixth, Colorado seventh and New Jersey 10th.

more...

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news...

Have a great week ahead!

State's News and a 'Toon	livvy	Jul-06-08 09:50 AM	#1
Texas Sticks With Electronic Voting (July 3)	livvy	Jul-06-08 09:52 AM	#2
GA: Electing To Serve: Poll Workers Get Ready For Election	livvy	Jul-06-08 10:15 AM	#5
TN; Tuesday Last Day To Register To Vote in August Elections	livvy	Jul-06-08 10:21 AM	#6
FL:Why is Okaloosa County so Republican?	livvy	Jul-06-08 10:53 AM	#9
FL: Optical scan machines get first test in West Palm election	livvy	Jul-06-08 10:59 AM	#10
MS: Candidates Want to See Ballots	livvy	Jul-06-08 11:04 AM	#11
IL: IIT To Show Film on Election Fraud	livvy	Jul-06-08 11:53 AM	#13
TX: LSCS Lawsuit Asks For New Election	livvy	Jul-06-08 12:00 PM	#15
FL: Officials Promise: Ballots in the Mail	livvy	Jul-06-08 12:06 PM	#16
Youthful Utah last in nation in voter turnout	livvy	Jul-06-08 12:14 PM	#19
OH: Request for Ballot Recount Denied	livvy	Jul-06-08 12:16 PM	#20
(Some) New Yorkers Struggle for the Soul (and "Credibility ") of Democracy	Wilms	Jul-06-08 07:00 PM	#26
World News and a 'Toon	livvy	Jul-06-08 09:56 AM	#3
Details Emerge of Mugabe's Plans to Win Election	livvy	Jul-06-08 09:58 AM	#4
Citizens’ poll watchdog all set for ARMM elections	livvy	Jul-06-08 11:50 AM	#12
Editorials, Op-Eds, Blogs, Opinions, etc and a 'Toon of course	livvy	Jul-06-08 10:24 AM	#7
Brunner Needs to Earn Trust of Voters in Ohio (warning-indignant snort alert)	livvy	Jul-06-08 10:33 AM	#8
Warning insufficient!	tbyg52	Jul-06-08 12:56 PM	#24
Editorial: Stop 'ghost voting' in the House (Texas)	livvy	Jul-06-08 11:56 AM	#14
Youth Vote Issues and a 'Toon	livvy	Jul-06-08 12:08 PM	#17
State Republicans cool to youth-voting bills	livvy	Jul-06-08 12:10 PM	#18
National Issues and...yup...a 'Toon	livvy	Jul-06-08 12:21 PM	#21
Foreclosed-on voters using old addresses could snag election	livvy	Jul-06-08 12:24 PM	#22
Just 'Toons	livvy	Jul-06-08 12:38 PM	#23
Thanks, livvy!	sfexpat2000	Jul-06-08 04:55 PM	#25
Thamks livvy, excellent work as usual. Toons!!!	vickiss	Jul-06-08 07:58 PM	#27