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October 13-15, 2012

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National News: Voter registration rolls in 2 states are called vulnerable to hackers | As Election Day nears, voter ID laws still worry some, encourage others | Online voter registration helps bulk up voter rolls | Study: Helping young adults to vote sets life-long democratic habit

Overseas Voting News: States blasted for late absentee ballots

Alabama: Former secretary of state Jim Bennett sees a future in history | Avoid polling place problems

Arizona: Pima county recorder seeks re-election | Fake write-in votes cost the county

California: Registrar of voters is preparing for and testing for upcoming elections | California online voter registration proves popular | SF to release preliminary ranked-choice votes on election night

Colorado: Gessler continues to stir things up | Local election costs on the rise

Connecticut: McMahon not laughing at Bridgeport voting joke

Florida: Two seek supervisor of elections job | Absentee ballots: Easy to cast, open to fraud | Osceola elections supervisor's race has its share of controversy | Experience versus new blood compete in supervisor election | Florida not among states that cross-check registration for double-voting | Volusia Co. absentee ballots missing pages, information | Hernando elections chief hopefuls focus on integrity, efficiency | Absentee ballot delays worry some voters | Vote by mail postage could be tricky

Georgia: Some Douglasville voters will be forced to vote twice

Idaho: County voters to receive mailers with polling place information

Illinois: College take leap into voter registration | Equipment to make voting in Champaign County a snap

Indiana: From levers to touch screens: A brief history of Tippecanoe voting technology | Concerns mount over electronic voting | Republican again nixes satellite voting sites in Marion County

Maryland: Five questions with Stuart Harvey, election director

Michigan: Secretary of state's office now works to ensure no citizenship check-off box | Absentee ballots late for Michigan troops | Lansing city clerk weighs in after absentee ballots delayed | Michigan sues 24 municipalities for sending absentee ballots overseas late

Minnesota: Voter ID foes decry unfairness to seniors | Voter ID questions readers still want answered | Veterans in thick of photo ID struggle | Judge hears senator's photo ID complaint against Ritchie

Missouri: Secretary of state race picks up | Kander attacks Schoeller's past connections

Montana: Deja vu: Old rivals battle anew for secretary of state | Voters prefer absentee ballots

Nebraska: John Gale: Strong election turnout would honor history, vets

Nevada: Washoe county registrar temporarily on medical leave | Latino rights group alleges voter intimidation in Nevada

New Jersey: As deadline approaches, email scam surfaces

New York: Plan to move primary from September to June could shake up mayoral race | Council tests BOE preparedness ahead of election

North Carolina: NC high schools hold voter registration drives | Duke refuses election staff's request for student info | Redistricting might confuse some voters

Ohio: Voter fraud billboards will stay | Texas, 14 other states back Ohio elections chief in early voting dispute | Secretary of state appeals early voting ruling to U.S. Supreme Court

Pennsylvania: Schools use presidential election to teach kids about voting | County voters to be asked for photo IDs | Montgomery County Voter Services stay busy this weekend with voter registration forms | Concern over backlog of city voter registrations | Election director has busy week

South Carolina: Civil rights groups won't appeal SC voter ID decision

South Dakota: Judge rules Gant must reprint pamphlets

Tennessee: New site proposed for Anderson County election office | Tennessee voter ID law challenge continues as early voting begins

Texas: Latinos and African Americans targeted by voter purges, lawsuit alleges | State revises method of purging voter rolls | Texas, 14 other states back Ohio elections chief in early voting dispute

Vermont: Vermont to fight DOJ lawsuit

West Virginia: Behind the Scenes: Marion County election

Wisconsin: Absentee voting popularity grows

Wyoming: Justice Dept. to oversee Wyoming election

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 24, 2013

N.H. Senate removes student IDs as indisputable ID for voting
The state Senate Thursday passed with strict party line votes legislation that changes the current state voter identification law by removing its clear statutory reference to student IDs as an acceptable form of voter ID. John DiStaso, New Hampshire Union.

Fraud just a tiny blip of 2012 vote
0.002397 percent. That’s how much voter fraud there was in Ohio last year, according to a report released yesterday by Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted. Out of about 5.63 million votes cast in a presidential election in this key swing state, there were 135 possible voter-fraud cases referred to law enforcement for more investigation. Joe Vardon, The Columbus Dispatch.

Also in electionlineToday news: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island (7:40 a.m. 05/24/13).