Monday, 26 November 2012

November 22-26, 2012

National: Lawmakers eye proposals to speed voting | Justices' reconsideration of Voting Rights Act alarms liberals | Why have there been so many contested elections?

Alabama: State still has to wrap up details from Nov. 6 election

Arizona: Bennett makes push for 'voting centers' | Supes unanimously approve canvass | As tallies confirm results, many call for a faster way to count | Arizona ballots finally counted—and Latinos ask, why so long? | County to voters: We hear your frustration | State asked to consider switch to voting centers

California: Registrar's performance praised by supervisors | County moves toward more 'low-tech' voting methods | County voter turnout hits 20-year high | Friday election update unlikely | SB County vote not likely to be certified until Dec. 4 | LA city council schedules special election for May | Election run-off could cost Northstate taxpayers nearly a million dollars | Thousands of ballots won't be counted | Provisional ballots challenge elections staff | Congressman George Miller's 'Simple Voting Act' | Leland Yee to run for secretary of state

Colorado: El Paso County voters set election record | Canvass shows few discrepancies

Connecticut: Moriarty School polling place recount to be held Tuesday | 2,800 pounds of food collected on Election Day

Florida: Post-election audit matches machine results in Indian River County | Mayor proposes supervisor of elections office move downtown | Duval elections supervisor opposes city's proposal to move office to Yates building | Riverview elections office closes doors | Early voting numbers down | Automatic registration a top priority for some reformers | Former Florida GOP leaders say voter suppression was reason they pushed new election law

Georgia: State investigation of Hall elections still open

Guam: Override of election reform veto fails | Nearly 315 election workers go unpaid

Hawaii: Elections commission moves up meeting after public complaints | Gov. to Halloran: "I'll ask Legislature for all-mail voting system'

Illinois: Special election could cost $5.1M | Roll of dice will determine tied race

Indiana: Porter County needs more room for voters — or does it?

Iowa: State to consider signature verification of voters | Schultz to keep pushing Iowa voter ID law | Secretary of state expects more voter fraud arrests | Iowa secretary of state set to resume campaign to root out voter fraud

Kansas: Kobach voting law | Kobach touts success of Kan. photo ID law

Louisiana: Early voting starts for Dec. 8 election | Clinton residents stunned by allegations of voter fraud | Voters uptown complain about lack of educational materials, long lines in N.O. East

Maine: Final recounts settle election uncertainty

Michigan: Strickland pleads not guilty to voter registration crime | State threatens to use Troy is city doesn't hold mayoral election on Feb. 26 | State Sen. Whitmer, secretary of state see election in a very different way | Troy aims to skip mayoral election

Minnesota: Illegal ballots discovered in Mower County | Will early voting come to Minnesota?

Mississippi: Washington Co. election officials get more space

Missouri: County receives grant reimbursement, preps for recount | Unsuccessful secretary of state bid attracted local backing

Montana: Ballot counting error caught early | Public officials want attorney fees in American Indian voting suit

Nebraska: State board of canvassers to meet Dec. 3 | Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck support untallied in election

New Hampshire: Derry looks at ways to streamline voting process | NH seeks 'bail out' from federal voting law | State begins tabulating cost of voter ID law

New Jersey: Final counts overturn tight races | New Jersey email voting a casualty of Sandy's wake

New Mexico: Commission certifies ballots despite concerns about election

New York: Voting machine sales draw a light turnout | $250K settlement for elections board clerk

North Carolina: NC representative wants online voter registration | Civitas picks fight with state elections director | No offers yet on former Cumberland County BOE building

Ohio: Local activist says elections board retrieving jail ballots was done as favor | Franklin County discards 43 votes | Schoellman selected for precinct election official red carpet

Oklahoma: House District 45 battle continues

Pennsylvania: Photographer at polling place leads to complaint | After election disarray, Philadelphia commissioners try to regroup

Rhode Island: State elections board to ask General Assembly for $9M for new voting machines

South Carolina: Analysis: Richland had 185 fewer voting machines than 2010 | A voter's voice | Richland County delegation is sued over law that established current election office | A voter's voice | Hearing today on Richland County's election debacle

Texas: County considers pay policy for poll workers

U.S. Virgin Islands: St. Croix certifies vote; no change

Utah: Voter turnout remains low in Utah

Virginia: Prince William creates independent panel to look into long lines on Election Day | The results are in: The election went smoothly | Cole bill reduces types of voter IDs | County to look at Election Day efficiency | Utility bills, bank statements could be banned at polls

Washington: Elections director certifies races | Postal Service cuts could affect state's mail-in voting

Wisconsin: Wisconsin clerks fighting Walker on same-day voter registration | Clerks say eliminating same-day registration would create more difficulties | 19% of voters registered on Election Day in Milwaukee | Walker: Early voting could off-set same-day registration | Same-day registrations were popular on Milwaukee campuses

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 23, 2013

Historical polling place serving voters again
It was a homecoming for a small contingency of Westmoreland County voters who after more than a decade returned to the Simpson Voting House in Derry Township to cast their ballots in Tuesday's primary election. Linda Metz, The Pittsburgh Post- Gazette.

LA vote count not slow, elections chief says
It took until 3 a.m. Wednesday morning for the L.A. City Clerk to report the results of Tuesday's vote. Some election watchers complained that vote counting in the city was just too slow, while the City Clerk's office says the count was normal, with no unusual delays. Sharon McNary, KPCC.

Also in electionlineToday news: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin and national news (7:40 a.m. 05/23/13).