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The Voting News for September 22, 2011
Friday, 23 September 2011, 5:34 pm | Daily Voting News
Ruling that the intentional voter discrimination that led to the passage and multiple extensions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 still exists, a federal judge in Washington on Wednesday dismissed an Alabama county’s claim that portions of the act were ... More >>
The Voting News for September 19 2011
Tuesday, 20 September 2011, 3:47 pm | Daily Voting News
The Gusciora case was filed in 2004 by the Rutgers Constitutional Litigation Clinic on behalf of Reed Gusciora and other public-interest plaintiffs. The Plaintiffs sought to end the use of paperless direct-recording electronic voting machines, which are ... More >>
The Voting News for September 17, 2011
Monday, 19 September 2011, 6:13 pm | Daily Voting News
The EAC Certification Division has released the technical report “A Survey of Internet Voting,” a comprehensive review of Internet voting systems used in elections worldwide between 2000 and 2011. More >>
The Voting News for September 16, 2011
Monday, 19 September 2011, 6:12 pm | Daily Voting News
There's a solution in place to help address a concern of the new Voter ID Law. To meet requirements of the new law, many universities have been worried they'd have to spend tens of thousands of dollars to update all student IDs. More >>
The Voting News for September 15, 2011
Monday, 19 September 2011, 6:10 pm | Daily Voting News
During the June 2011 New Jersey primary election, something went wrong in Cumberland County, which uses Sequoia AVC Advantage direct-recording electronic voting computers. From this we learned several things: 1. New Jersey court-ordered election-security ... More >>
The Voting News for September 12, 2011
Friday, 16 September 2011, 12:03 pm | Daily Voting News
A southern Indiana county has terminated its contract with a Nebraska company following concerns about its voting machines. The Herald-Times reports that the Monroe County Commissioners voted unanimously Friday to end its contract with Omaha, Neb.-based ... More >>
The Voting News for September 13 2011
Friday, 16 September 2011, 12:01 pm | Daily Voting News
Maine’s secretary of state has certified enough petition signatures to ensure a statewide people’s veto referendum in November that asks voters to support or reject a new law banning Election Day voter registration. More >>
The Voting News for September 8, 2011
Monday, 12 September 2011, 3:39 pm | Daily Voting News
An internal memo from a top Department of Transportation official instructs workers at Division of Motor Vehicles service centers not to tell members of the public that they can obtain voter identification cards free of charge -- unless they know to ... More >>
The Voting News for September 5, 2011
Tuesday, 6 September 2011, 10:16 am | Daily Voting News
There, that wasn't so terrible, was it? Democracy didn't sputter out when citizen volunteers were allowed to inspect — and yes, handle — ballots cast by residents of Saguache County in a recent recount of last fall's contested results. More >>
The Voting News for September 3, 2011
Tuesday, 6 September 2011, 10:15 am | Daily Voting News
Ohio will mail absentee ballot request forms to voters in all counties ahead of the 2012 presidential election, settling a dispute between the state's top election official and the leader of the state's largest county. More >>
The Voting News for September 2, 2011
Tuesday, 6 September 2011, 10:13 am | Daily Voting News
A new election for county Democratic Committee in Fairfield Township in Cumberland County will be held on Sept. 27, Superior Court Judge David Krell ordered Thursday. Further, Krell asked the state Attorney General’s office to turn the case over ... More >>
The Voting News for August 30, 2011
Tuesday, 6 September 2011, 10:12 am | Daily Voting News
South Carolina voters will have wait to find out whether the U.S. Department of Justice will authorize the state's new voter ID law, following an announcement Monday that federal officials need more information from the state. More >>
The Voting News for 29 August 2011
Tuesday, 30 August 2011, 1:00 pm | Daily Voting News
Last week, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted said he is considering banning the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections from processing applications from individuals who wish to vote by mail, if county government moves forward with a plan to mail ... More >>
The Voting News for 26 August 2011
Tuesday, 30 August 2011, 12:58 pm | Daily Voting News
Cumberland County recently replaced computer chips in all its voting machines and completed background checks on five technicians who service them as a safeguard against tampering and inaccuracy. More >>
The Voting News for 25 August 2011
Tuesday, 30 August 2011, 12:57 pm | Daily Voting News
The Maine Secretary of State’s Office said Wednesday it is investigating a potential security breach in the computer system that contains records on Maine’s registered voters. The state was notified Wednesday afternoon by the cybersecurity monitoring ... More >>
The Voting News for 22 August 2011
Tuesday, 23 August 2011, 10:46 am | Daily Voting News
In approving one of the strongest photo ID requirements in the country for voters, GOP lawmakers and Gov. Scott Walker violated a few little-noted paragraphs of the state constitution - so say opponents of the law who are preparing a legal challenge ... More >>
The Voting News for 20 August 2011
Tuesday, 23 August 2011, 10:44 am | Daily Voting News
Elections Canada intends to seek approval to implement a system of online voting, according to a report released Wednesday. Let me say first that, on the one hand, it’s positive that an organization that is as culturally-conservative and traditional ... More >>
The Voting News for 19 August 2011
Tuesday, 23 August 2011, 10:42 am | Daily Voting News
Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning wrote in an editorial on Thursday that the Justice Department had determined "all 76 provisions" of Florida's new elections law were not discriminatory, except for the four controversial parts of the law he ... More >>
The Voting News for August 18, 2011
Friday, 19 August 2011, 6:25 pm | Daily Voting News
The head of the agency in charge of federal elections says it's time to modernize Canada's elections, including testing online voting and ending a ban on publishing early election results. In a report on the May 2 election, released Wednesday, Chief ... More >>
The Voting News for August 15, 2011
Friday, 19 August 2011, 11:38 am | Daily Voting News
Local Democrats are up in arms about a controversial voter ID bill that would exclude veterans' identification cards from the short list of photo IDs required to cast a vote in Texas. Ann McGeehan, director of the Secretary of State's elections division, ... More >>
