Monday, 01 October 2012

September 29-October 1, 2012

National News: Voter registration fraud claims singe GOP

Alabama: Another big Supreme Court term kicks off Monday including voting rights | John Merrill considers running for secretary of state | Where and when is the next election in Baldwin County? It depends

Arizona: If you die after sending mail-in ballot, your vote counts

California: Ranked-choice voting comes to Berkeley | About 110K Californians did online voter registration in first week | Election Day upgrades on their way to San Bernardino County | Update on ranked-choice voting in San Francisco | Riverside County GOP registration surge raises questions of fraud

Colorado: Larimer County clerk not to blame for phone calls | Girl in viral voter registration video worked for shady firm | Denver files suit against 'inactive voter' rule

Florida: Voter registration problems widening in Florida | Voter registration fraud probe spreads | Republicans play defense on voter registration fraud | More suspicious voter forms are found | Manatee to join 'My Vote, My Voice' statewide voter registration drive | PBC at center of probe into voter fraud | Brandon elections office expands hours to include Sundays | Land O'Lakes man says paperwork mistake made him target of voter purge | Democrats' effort to register students angers Pasco GOP | PBC elections supervisor calls for wide fraud probe

Georgia: Former elections director gets two years probation | Fulton County elections officials make adjustments ahead of election

Guam: Primary election workers to be paid

Hawaii: Kawauchi, five others attend election workshop

Illinois: DuPage County to have bilingual ballots

Indiana: State pushes voter registration with new ad campaign

Iowa: Voting class set for disabled Iowans

Louisiana: La. readies emergency paper ballots | Election preps well underway

Maryland: Early voting urged in Maryland's biggest county | Early voting coming to Frederick in October

Michigan: ACLU sues to stop citizenship question on Michigan ballot | Muskegon County secretary of state office remodeling pushed back to Oct. 10

Minnesota: Voter ID opponents call it costly, unnecessary | Wrong ballots sent to Judson Township voters

Mississippi: Week late, still no ballots for Hinds absentee voting

Missouri: Ballot language issues growing for secretary of state | Fuhr named St. Louis County's Republican elections director

Montana: Election administrators didn't send out applications

New Hampshire: Dispute grows over voter ID | Gardner wary of court ruling on voter ID law | Voter registration law debated | AG asks NH Supreme Court for 'expedited' review of voter registration case | Merrimack town council OKs using high school for single polling site in election

New Jersey: Middlesex County mail-in ballots sent out with error | As voter requirements increase in other states, NJ goes easy

New York: SUNY Fredonia helps board of elections with training videos | More readable ballots to be available at county election poll sites | New screens to offer more privacy to voters in Onondga County

North Carolina: Some Brunswick Co. pastors pushing for Sunday early voting hours | NC law requires voter drives in high schools

Ohio: Elections board preparing for start of early voting Tuesday | Lake County election officials preparing for high voter turnout | County board gears up for election | Board of elections getting ready for early voters | Franklin County's early voting center should accommodate all

Oregon: Buehler, Brown say they're concerned about big money in politics

Pennsylvania: Voter ID foes argue for full stop of new law | Officials say issuing IDs to local voters a success | Voter ID law has Masloff miffed | Judge could rule on ID law as early as Monday | York County prepares for new voter ID law | Sans director, Luzerne's bureau of elections to get state help | Judge rejects newspaper settlement on vote

Rhode Island: Secretary of state starts final push to register voters, hand out IDs | Is RI's 7-member board of elections earning its $49K a year?

South Carolina: Fraud proof scarce in two voter ID cases | Early voting underway, but not in SC

Tennessee: Davidson election chief says voting machine vendor cause of ballot problems | Voting machines had wrong programming

Texas: DA investigators to probe voter assistance

Utah: Mailed ballots encourage early voting | Utah lenient when it comes to former prisoners voting

Virginia: Demand for military absentee ballots drop in Virginia | McDonnell on pace to restore voting rights to record number of felons

Washington: Proposed bill pushes back against voter ID laws | Candidates spar over changes to voter registration | Wyman, Drew clash over experience, ideas for secretary of state's office

Wisconsin: Van Hollen considering options on voter ID

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).