Wednesday, 21 November 2012

November 21, 2012

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Note: In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday, electionlineToday will no publish on Nov. 22 and 23. We will return on Monday Nov. 26. Have a safe and enjoyable holiday.

National: Boxer urges Republicans to revive impotent election commission

Arizona: Bennett: Early ballots should be processed faster | County supervisors approve election canvas | Supervisors reject request for special hand ballot audit | Bennett wants other counties to take Yavapai's lead with voting centers

California: Riverside County supervisors order study on ways to speed up tally | Replacement of county voting machines suggested | Every ballot is now tallied | County registrar continues general election ballot count | Officials hope for final Monterey County count by Wednesday

Connecticut: Cheshire voting districts chosen for presidential election audit | Norwich to participate in state election recount | Merrill: 75 precincts to be audited

Delaware: Director says technology helped ease Election Day hassles

Florida: Ken Detzner seeks 'solutions' not blame to fix elections | West's concession won't end troubles for St. Lucie County elections | Suspended Madison County elections chief asking judge to dismiss charges | New Senate president: Elections will be improved

Georgia: Elections director presented Five Star employee award

Illinois: Absentee ballots reverse county board result; recount to be sought

Kansas: Students picket secretary of state

Louisiana: Early voting begins Saturday for Dec. 8 runoff elections

Michigan: State: Troy must have February election to pick mayor

Minnesota: GOP likes judge's fix for ballot mistakes | 35 votes to be thrown out in Alexandria-area House race

Mississippi: Tupelo-native named assistant secretary of state, elections division

New Jersey: State extends vote count | Election to be certified today | Slammed by Sandy, N.J. counties seek more time to count ballots

New York: At trial, voter disavows ballot

North Carolina: Congressional hopeful seeks recount in NC 7th

Ohio: Cuyahoga County elections chief Jane Platten to take job at county prosecutor office | Commission candidate says errors made in provisional ballot process | Lorain County BOE rejects ballots, will review fraud | Another 993 votes will be counted by BOE | Why did 81 voters cast ballots twice | Walton woman wins city council race coin toss, then gives up job | Elections board approves 8,439 provisional ballots | Provisional ballots don't affect results | 19 absentee ballots cast by jail inmates rejected over delivery person | Henrietta Township man accused of voting twice | Ross County BOE reviews voting issues

Oklahoma: Loser wants new election in Oklahoma House race | Cleveland County vote still not decided | Election hearing continued

Pennsylvania: Audit of Philadelphia election process planned | Philadelphia controller says he'll audit 2012 election | After provisional-ballot controversy, Butkovitz wants to audit election | Bucks, Montco reject 70 percent of provisional ballots

Rhode Island: R.I. board of elections wants to purchase new voting machines | Board discusses polling place problems | More training proposed for poll workers

South Carolina: Richland's Election Mess: 5 key unanswered questions, day 5 | The great Richland County election debacle of 2012 | Benjamin expresses 'concern', 'frustration' in letter to BOE | Richland Co. hiring procedures under scrutiny after election debacle

South Dakota: Yankton Co. officials use election success to plan for the future

Tennessee: Nov. 6 election in Hamilton County cost over $280K | Chattanooga Democrats air complaints about election | Election commission secretary objects to naming building after former administrator | Favors, Smith cite Election Day issues

Texas: Voting complaints vetoed at state level | Andrade resigns as Texas secretary of state

U.S. Virgin Islands: Outcome unchanged on St. Croix after board finishes counting votes | St. Thomas-St. John board rules on provisional ballots

Utah: Canvass confirms Weber County election results | Final tally confirms Davis County election results

Virginia: Paper ballots in Prince William County? | Board OKs commission to improve election efficiency | Fairfax County approves commission to review election

Washington: Okanogann officials plan election recount

West Virginia: Morgantown City council drops 'vote by mail' program

Wisconsin: Support for same-day registration

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).