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May 11, 2008 Providing legal resources and election news to California election officials and the attorneys who represent them. |
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« March 2005 | Main | May 2005 » April 28, 2005 "County checking voter fraud""Monterey County elections workers say they have discovered what they believe to be another voter-registration fraud. Details are still sketchy as employees of the Monterey County Registrar of Voters office pore through hundreds of recent voter-registration applications delivered to their Salinas office." The full story is here. Posted by Randy Riddle at 09:15 AM | Permalink. . . April 27, 2005 " Not Your Father's Justice Department"This is an interesting discussion of a recent Justice Department letter about the ability of a state under HAVA to require provisional voters to show IDs at the time of voting. Posted by Randy Riddle at 12:13 PM | Permalink. . . "Blackwell approves touch-screen voting machines"The story out of Ohio is here. Posted by Randy Riddle at 12:10 PM | Permalink. . . April 25, 2005 "Touch-screen voting anomalies found"The story out of Pennsylvania is here. Posted by Randy Riddle at 12:04 PM | Permalink. . . April 22, 2005 "For Signature Gatherers, Name Game Means Profit""Across California these days, the front lines of democracy run past the nearest big-box store, where political capitalists beg for voters' signatures and money often talks louder than ideas. Outside these busy retail centers, the nomadic men and women who collect signatures for proposed initiatives dispense political advice authoritatively, endure shouting matches and curses from opponents, and occasionally cajole voters into supporting ideas they know little about."\ The LA Times story is here. Posted by Randy Riddle at 11:54 AM | Permalink. . . "Chairman of Voting Reform Panel Resigns""The first chairman of the federal voting agency created after the 2000 election dispute is resigning, saying the government has not shown enough of a commitment to reform. DeForest Soaries, a Baptist minister, said Friday that his resignation from the commission created by Congress would take effect next week." The LA Times story is here. Posted by Randy Riddle at 11:31 AM | Permalink. . . April 20, 2005 "Voting officials slam Diebold on instant-runoff system""Advocates of instant-runoff voting say Alameda County officials and Diebold Election Systems are dragging their feet, preventing a majority winner in a current Oakland City Council mail election and slowing efforts for instant-runoff voting in Berkeley." The story is here . Posted by Randy Riddle at 07:04 AM | Permalink. . . April 19, 2005 "Schwarzenegger Initiatives Find Difficulty Meeting Deadline""Tuesday was the deadline set by the secretary of state for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign team to hand in signatures for three initiatives that could be on a special ballot in November. Secretary of State Bruce McPherson said Tuesday was what he called a "practical" deadline, designed to give counties time to do their signature verification duties. But the governor's political team said they're not ready and won't be for at least two more weeks." The story is here. Posted by Randy Riddle at 08:08 PM | Permalink. . . "Funding a top election-reform issue"The Detroit Free Press article is here. Posted by Randy Riddle at 04:09 PM | Permalink. . . April 18, 2005 "E-voting May Face Recall in Florida County ""Ongoing technical glitches are prompting election officials in Florida's Miami-Dade County to consider scrapping a $25 million investment in electronic voting systems." The story is here. Posted by Randy Riddle at 08:49 AM | Permalink. . . "Election reform on the go: State builds voter database"The Seattle Post-Intelligencer article is here. Posted by Randy Riddle at 08:46 AM | Permalink. . . "Ranked-choice voting topic of town hall""An upcoming town hall meeting on "ranked-choice" voting has caused a mild flap in some circles with at least one prominent city resident saying the "extreme left" is trying to take over Eureka with the system used by San Francisco and under consideration in Davis." The story is here. Posted by Randy Riddle at 08:43 AM | Permalink. . . April 15, 2005 " HAVA informs about new voter system, regulations"The Ottuwmwa Courier article is here. Disclosure: I am a former paperboy for the Courier. Posted by Randy Riddle at 10:38 AM | Permalink. . . "Ohio picks computer voting with paper trail"The story is here. Posted by Randy Riddle at 08:58 AM | Permalink. . . April 12, 2005 "Dade studies switch to paper ballots""Three years after spending $24.5 million to install a controversial touch-screen voting system, Miami-Dade County elections officials have been asked to study scrapping the system in favor of paper-based balloting. The request from County Manager George Burgess follows the recent resignation of Elections Supervisor Constance Kaplan and the revelation that hundreds of votes in recent elections hadn't been counted." The Miami Herald story is here. Posted by Randy Riddle at 06:31 AM | Permalink. . . April 08, 2005 "Panels approve bills that respond to San Diego mayoral race"The AP story is here. Posted by Randy Riddle at 08:49 AM | Permalink. . . "State dumps touch-screen voting system""The computerized UniLect voting system, under fire in Mercer County because some of the machines malfunctioned and wiped out votes in November, has been decertified by the state [of Pennsylvania], meaning county election bureaus can no longer use it." The story is here. Posted by Randy Riddle at 08:42 AM | Permalink. . . April 07, 2005 " Voting rights: Paper trail ensures accurate records "The Daytona Beach News-Journal editorial is here. Posted by Randy Riddle at 10:08 AM | Permalink. . . Update on Election LegislationAB 158 (Registration Deadlines)
Analysis SB 117 (Absentee ballots) SB 1016 (Voter privacy)
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The story is here.
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April 05, 2005 "A bill introduced by a North County Republican who wants voters to provide proof of citizenship and identification before voting will be debated in a state Assembly committee today." The North County Times story is here.
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April 01, 2005 The Modesto Bee story involves a Modesto lawsuit in which the trial court held that that the California Voting Rights Act, which became effective in 2003, is unconstitutional.
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The report is available on electionline.org.
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This follows problems with DREs in recent local elections. The story is here.
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