Thursday, 15 November 2012

November 15, 2012

Arizona: Latinos frustrated by slow ballot count | Arizona races up in the air as ballot count continues | Wilcox backs more time for county to finish vote tabulation | 4 vehicle accident in front of polling place

California: Machines help counter slow-down caused by vote-by-mail ballots | DMV voter registration has problems | Roughly 20K ballots left to count | Confusion over write-in votes cleared up

Connecticut: Merrill discusses successes, problems in 2012 election | Registrar blames voters for Election Day confusion

District of Columbia: D.C. council chair 'dissatisfied' with BOE

Florida: Gayle Harrell: St. Lucie County elections 'a disaster' | Elections office closes to process paperwork | Scott calls for elections improvements | Scott repeats: Sec. of state is looking into voting debacle | Critics are latching on to state's election problems | What's behind smoother voting in Collier County | Election leaders brainstorm in Tallahassee | Florida governor, Democrats call for election reform

Georgia: Kemp certifies Georgia election results | Town divided over voter fraud allegations | Elections board member's future unclear

Guam: GEC addresses 22 general election complaints

Hawaii: State election commission to have meeting next month on election problems

Iowa: Supervisors finalize county's general election results | Scott County reports 3 attempted voter fraud incidents

Kansas: Kobach loses round in battle over voter names | Staff shortage, software training issues blamed for Sedgwick County election problems

Kentucky: Whitley County sees record number of elections over the past 13 months

Maine: Maine GOP chairman questions black voters

Maryland: Dems, watchdog group saw little evidence of voter suppression or fraud

Michigan: Secretary of state supports 'no excuse' absentee voting

Minnesota: Defeat of voter ID was team effort | Recount underway

Missouri: County clerk gives election wrap-up

Montana: Local vote counting wraps up | Some ballots counted twice in legislative district | Vote early, vote often: Laurel precinct shows more votes than voters | Provisional ballot count complete | Yellowstone County looks to pinpoint ballot-counting issues

Nebraska: Youth lend hand for election

Nevada: Ghost voting claim repeated

New Hampshire: Nashua broke two of its own election records last week | Voter turnout the largest in 10 years

New Jersey: Hoboken will know final election result on Nov. 20 | Man admits he committed voter fraud to make a point, now being investigated by prosecutor | Gloucester County waits for green light from Trenton before counting provisionals

New Mexico: AG wants answers to voter catastrophe

New York: 46th state senate race in limbo until December | Board of elections officials praise their work on Election Day

North Carolina: Coleman wants more ballots counted in race | Recount still possible | No word on election complaints

Oklahoma: Hearing on irregularities set in House race

Oregon: Kate Brown, saying she needs to do a better job, shakes up her staff | 1 vote, 2 votes, 3...Hand counting continues

Pennsylvania: Dems call for investigation into possible voter fraud | New website logs complaints from Pa. voters | Councilwoman ripped for poll presence | Pa. lawmakers seek probes of Election Day irregularities | NAACP leader urges defeat of voter ID law | This voting mess has city sweating ballots

South Carolina: Richland vote: Finlay, Dixon, penny tax appear winners in count | Write-in votes cast for Beyonce, Clint Eastwood in recent election | County council members say their 'hands are tied' in election mess | Richland County explains ballot troubles

Texas: Hundreds of motor voters forced to cast provisional ballots

U.S. Virgin Islands: Elections board members question investigation | Paper ballot count continues in St. Croix

Virginia: New push to allow early voting in Virginia | GOP electoral ploy may have led to long lines

West Virginia: Tennant: Election laws need attention | Ex-W.Va. county official faces vote fraud sentence

Wisconsin: Voters with disabilities have options at the polls | Stevens Point woman questions process for disabled voters

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June 13, 2013

First Person Singular: Larry Lomax
Is that a full-time job? A question I am repeatedly asked

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Clark County, Nev. Clerk (retiring)

1997: “All you have to do is put on two elections a year. How hard can that be?” As a 30-year retiring Air Force colonel, I am joking with some fellow instructors at the Air War College as I prepare to leave for my new “civilian” job as the assistant registrar in Clark County, Nevada. I am headed to Las Vegas, cocky, confident and totally unprepared.

Over the next 15 years, I’ll eat those words many times. Read More…

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June 19, 2013

Arizona lawmakers push changes in voter law
Arizona lawmakers at the state and federal level are working on separate efforts that would make it harder to vote in what Democrats are calling an attack on low-income and Latino voters. The Associated Press.

Hidalgo County delays vote centers proposal
Hidalgo County delayed a plan to test vote centers in November, putting the pilot program off for at least two more years. Jared Janes, The Monitor.

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