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October 16, 2012

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National News: Fraud, fights & failures | State voting-law cases test Supreme Court's politics | Early voting makes vote-by-mail states loo like late comers

Overseas Voting News: Experts: Ballot requests from overseas service members lag

Alabama; After hoaxes and misinformation, party leaders join probate judge to clarify voter ID laws

Arizona: Voter ID appeal headed for high court | High court to Ariz. voter-registration case | County warning voters not to give early ballots to others to turn in | Pima County makes it easier for smartphone users to locate polling places

California: State hotline provides inaccurate voter registration deadline | Voter fraud found in Vernon election, new winner named | Voting officials say counting ballots sooner could clear up confusion in ranked-choice voting | Dept. of elections announces creation of election fraud hotline | League helps youth register to vote, early

Colorado: Colorado Ethics Watch calls for criminal investigation of Gessler's travel to GOP events | Election activist files complaint against county | Almost 2M mail ballots go out in Colorado today

Connecticut: State working out voter registration computer kinks

Florida: Possibility of double voting a real concern in Florida | Thousands of voters continue to wait for their absentee ballots

Georgia: Some early voters in Bibb County greeted by hour-long wait | Two hour waits reported on first day of early voting | Voting could take longer this election in Muscogee County

Indiana: State offers online preview of your ballot | U.S. Attorney promises extra help to investigate voter fraud

Maryland: To avoid Election Day lines, vote early | MD BOE asks state to investigate MontCo electioneering

Massachusetts: Mansfield attorney on panel discussing voter ID | Worcester staffs-up for clean elections

Minnesota: Voter opposition goes up on airwaves

Mississippi: NAACP lawsuit seeks new districts, new election

Missouri: Couple worried victims of election registration scam

Montana: Record number ask for absentee ballots

Nevada: Deadline brings out late voter registration surge

New Hampshire: Absentee ballot requests up, but that isn't open to everybody

New Mexico: Duran wants federal court to handle straight-ticket lawsuit

New York: Bloomberg: Moving NYC primaries 'a terrible idea' | Council to BOE: Pull yourselves together | Fort Drum helps soldiers process absentee ballot paper work

North Carolina: Duke, elections board agree to address verifications | Hickory repays county fees for referendum vote | NC voter 'pre-registration' law draws national attention | Flu shots offered during early voting

Ohio: Courts have yet to resolve Ohio election fights | Suit aims to protect arrestees' voting rights | Juniata County BOE seeks employees

Oregon: Secretary of state candidates speak | Brown defends record; challenger seeks to be first successful statewide GOP candidate in a decade

Pennsylvania: Voters will be asked to show photo ID, but don't need to | Mailing to retired city workers says photo ID needed | DA wants fraud probe

South Carolina: SC could join early voting trend in 2016 | New voting rules won't stop absentee fraud

Texas: Hart InterCivic announces Ron Clevenger as vice president of sales | LULAC sues county over voter purges

Virginia: Fairfax in need of poll workers | Voter registrars report a rush to register | Local man finds several voter applications in his store dumpster

Wisconsin: Woman convicted of voter fraud charges | Romney campaign sues over absentee ballots in Wisconsin

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).