Tuesday, 20 November 2012

November 20, 2012

National: Senator urges Republicans to fill election commission vacancies

Alabama: Recount begins in tight Madison race

Alaska: Latest ballot count gives JKT 28-vote lead

Arizona: Bennett seeks deep overhaul of election system | County supervisors approve record-setting vote | Pima County finishes ballot count Monday

Arkansas: Early voting begins again

California: County, state feud over slow vote tally | Race and ranked choice voting in San Francisco | Election update expected Wednesday or Friday | Nearly 1 in 4 ballots in Sonoma County still uncounted | Mayoral election ballot measures cost Encinitas $37,630 | Ballot count continues in Napa County

Florida: West concedes House race to Murphy | St. Lucie County may not release final recount results | Miami-Dade, federal officials examine elections mistakes to 'fix' problems | The election that wouldn't end in St. Lucie County | Voting lines, slow counting put Miami-Dade elections supervisor in spotlight

Georgia: Fulton to face state hearing over 2010 elections complaints

Guam: Respicio will need Republican votes to get election reform override

Indiana: Clerk: Monroe made sure all votes counted | Voters office needs more space

Iowa: Schultz eyeing voter signature verification | Spotlight placed on voting rights restoration

Kentucky: Six Kentucky counties selected for post-election audits

Maine: Maine election panel to hold final public hearing

Maryland: Timmerman questions ballot procedures | Could Friendship Heights get a new polling precinct?

Massachusetts: E. Longmeadow voter fraud scandal

Michigan: Muskegon County election results certified; local recounts can be filed | State says Genoa Township may have wrongly deleted voter registrations | Outgoing clerk says recount will bring peace of mind

Minnesota: Albertville City council election recount results in tie | Minnetonka precinct to be audited | Ballot error muddies legislative race by one vote

Mississippi: Secretary of state still awaiting certified election results from several counties | US judges: No Miss. legislative elections in 2013

Nevada: Provisional votes in state Senate race could change election outcomes

New Hampshire: More than 99K NH voters registered at polls on Election Day | Officials recounting ballots in state Senate race

New Jersey: Legislation to create early voting system introduced in Senate | Parsippany election certified as county closes in on final tallies | Passaic County elections officials pressing to receive outstanding ballots | Ballot count continues two weeks after election | New Jersey press can't get closer to poll sites

New Mexico: Sandoval County certifies election results

New York: Glitch in 7th Senate race leads to emergency ballots | McGrath takes stand during voter fraud retrial | New York City BOE: Unlucky or incompetent? | Witness alleges McDonough forged ballots

North Carolina: Recount planned in Buncombe races

Ohio: Board likely to OK 8,200 provisional ballots today | Elections board certifies election results | Coin toss could decide Walton City council race | Poll workers, voter errors could cost candidates a win

Oklahoma: Court hearing set in close Oklahoma House contest

South Carolina: State commission says 'human error' in Richland vote count | Opinion sought on who can fire Richland County elections director | State: A few Richland Co. paper ballots were not counted correctly

Tennessee: Election commission to create 'lesson learned document'

Texas: Starr County eyes tool for a smoother Election Day | Commissioners to get detailed election report | Voter fraud allegations persist in Bexar balloting | Clark files for recount

Utah: Counting the final ballots one by one

Virginia: Roanoke City council hears concerns about voting precincts proposal

Washington: Benton, Stonier keep leads after 500 more ballots counted

Wisconsin: Does Scott Walker want to kill same-day voter registration? | Walker calls for changes to same-day registration rules | Veteran prosecutor set to adjudicate Election Day rules issues

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…

Calendar

November 2012
M T W T F S S
29 30 31 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 1 2

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).