Thursday, 07 June 2012

June 7, 2012

Overseas Voting News: U.S. Embassy hosts session for American citizens voting in 2012

California: Shift in voting rules shakes up primary election | More details gleaned in voter card investigation | Registrar looks to cut voter confusion come November election | Still more than 6,600 votes to count | Election night goes smoothly for Riverside County registrar | County registrar saw 'tremendous' amount of fake write-in votes | Officials: Sonoma County's vote tallying only seemed slow | About 85,000 ballots still uncounted in Santa Clara County | More in Sacramento area choose to vote-by-mail, the drop off ballots at last minute | Election workers counting 14K outstanding ballots | Run-off elections could cost tens of thousands of dollars | As Californians embrace vote-by-mail, number of unprocessed ballots swamp election offices | Taxpayers paying for polls that were barely used | Cerritos resident takes down voting booths, for good

Colorado: Mail ballots in Teller County have a mistake | Chaffee clerk defends election process

Connecticut: Town going to four polling places

Florida: Women's voter groups to resume registering voters | Florida, DOJ clash over voter removal efforts | US judge's ruling means voter registration effors will resume, ramp up | Orange voters react angrily to request for new signatures | Indian River elections chief takes voter registration drive to GoLine buses | PBC elections office warns of fradulent calls asking registered voters to re-register | Report: Voter fraud rare in Florida | Duval supervisor of elections says no non-citizens purged | Elections boss closes case on alleged racial slur

Georgia: Gwinnett voters issued new ID cards | Judge rebuffs NAACP on Fayette district vote lawsuit

Iowa: New equipment slows election results | Investigation into possible violation of election rules

Massachusetts: Election reform package passes State House | Amesbury voting polls may move to high school

Michigan: New voter box on absentee application going overlooked | Kalamazoo's East side gets new polling place

Minnesota: Minn. Supreme Court drawn into newest chapter of 'voting wars'

Mississppi: Emotional testimony in Jackson election trial

Montana: 3 western Montana counties plagued by vote-counting machine troubles | Ravalli County finds glitch in election statistics | Montana, Gallatin County absentee voting numbers break records

Nebraska: Data analysis backs poll closure complaints | Phipps reverses himself, will attend voting site forums

New Hampshire: Voter ID passes as session closes | House passes compromise version of photo ID bill

New Mexico: Voter registration? There's an app for that | New voting gets mixed review

New York: Voting can be accessible to all | Voter registration bill seeks to end NY's dismal voter turnout

Ohio: Elections board to replace bags used for 58 years

Oklahoma: Jet man charged for voting twice

Pennsylvania: Voter ID materials coming to libraries | Voter education partnership announced | Puerto Rico official helps Reading voters comply with new law | DA: Charges unlikely in voter fraud case

South Carolina: More candidates removed from SC ballots | Counties scramble, cull candidates for primary

South Dakota: State aids McPherson County in election | Election results slow in Minnehaha County

Texas: State, county eye voter list | Secretary of state says nothing can be done despite voting issues | Recounts ahead for Jim Wells County elections

Utah: June primary could bring big voter turnout

Wisconsin: No manual vote count needed in West Allis | Eagle Point voters cast the last ballot | Thousands of forms printed to keep up with heavy city turnout | Absentee voting particularly popular this election | Voter, 72, mugged heading to polling place

electionlineWeekly

May 23, 2013

San Francisco’s voter guide is one for the books
At 500+ pages, guide will cost almost $2M to produce and send

It certainly doesn’t stack up to David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged or Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, but this fall’s voter’s guide in San Francisco will certainly help prop open just about any door.

The voter’s guide for the 2013 fall election will clock in at more than 500 pages.

The phonebook-sized guide is courtesy of a city law that requires the full text of a referendum, as it was presented during the signature drive, to appear in the voter’s guide.

The legal text for the referendum — regarding the height of a condo project — includes numerous pages of text from the city’s planning commission, board of supervisor meeting testimony and environmental studies.

“If printed with the referendum, this would be San Francisco's largest voter guide,” explained Jon Arntz, director of elections for San Francisco. Read More…

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electionlineToday

May 23, 2013

Historical polling place serving voters again
It was a homecoming for a small contingency of Westmoreland County voters who after more than a decade returned to the Simpson Voting House in Derry Township to cast their ballots in Tuesday's primary election. Linda Metz, The Pittsburgh Post- Gazette.

LA vote count not slow, elections chief says
It took until 3 a.m. Wednesday morning for the L.A. City Clerk to report the results of Tuesday's vote. Some election watchers complained that vote counting in the city was just too slow, while the City Clerk's office says the count was normal, with no unusual delays. Sharon McNary, KPCC.

Also in electionlineToday news: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin and national news (7:40 a.m. 05/23/13).