Tuesday, 27 November 2012

November 27, 2012

Alabama: Crawford declared probate judge

Alaska: Voter turnout could be lowest in presidential year since '96

Arizona: Final canvas of votes approved in Maricopa County, with possible election changes

California: Riverside County election certified | Inyo clerk goes the distance to help voters | Democrat Leland Yee announces 2014 secretary of state bid | Alameda County ballot measure back on track? | 2012 election sees spike in complaints of Berkeley election law violation | County election officials hope to finish ballot count by Wednesday

Connecticut: Voter ballot mix-ups reported | St. Rose polling station in Meridian part of state audit

Colorado: Boulder County canvas board refuses to certify 2012 election results | District attorney to seek a recount | Broomfield sets election record

Florida: Deadline passes on recount; Murphy presumed victor | Former Fla. GOP leaders say voter suppression was reason they pushed new election law | Thousands sign petition calling on governor to expand early voting in Fla.

Georgia: Fulton's election 'error rates' subjected to comparison tests

Guam: Respicio will try overriding veto of election reform bill again | Election volunteers being paid

Hawaii: Abercrombie proposing 100 percent mail-in voting for Hawaii | Hawaii will seek all-mail voting system | Election workers' lawsuit dismissed; appeal to follow | State balloting chief resigns at her boss' request after ballot shortage | After problems at 24 Oahu polling sites, governor asks AG to investigate

Illinois: Quinn sets dates for special election to replace Jackson | Marshall clerk retiring this week

Iowa: Plymouth County to purchase 30 new voting machines

Maine: Election officials finish recounts

Minnesota: Voter fraud found in Mower County | Groh: 3 local ballots showed illegal voting

Missouri: Hearing set to consider new election in House district

New Hampshire: About 1 percent of NH voters didn't show ID on Election Day

New Jersey: Wisniewski will introduce bill allowing early voting in NJ | Results still not in from Hoboken elections, shooting for Wednesday | Cumberland County clerk releases official election results

New Mexico: Secretary of state's office needs more time to complete canvas | Two State House races face recounts | Sandoval County ballot inspection starts tomorrow

New York: Final county begins ballot counting in Senate race | Weeks later, let the counting begin for Staten Island voters | Voters' loyalty to Mirch aired at trial | Senate control hinges on absentee and affidavit ballots in Ulster County | Rockland Dems voting on BOE commissioner

North Carolina: 7th District recount results still pending | NC elections board to meet to certify most results

Ohio: Three possible cases of election fraud sent to Allen County prosecutor | Provisional ballots narrow some races, but outcomes the same

Rhode Island: Democratic party chairman considering run for secretary of state | RI lawmaker wants more training for poll workers

South Carolina: Rep. Garrick: 'We're here 20 days later and there's no plan' | McBride: Misreading led to wrong number of machines | Richland County elections chief is sorry for mess | Questions remain about Richland election mess after hearing | Richland County election director long-awaited explanation leaves questions unanswered | AG: Election board has power to fire elections director | Director reveals cause of election night problems

Tennessee: Few DeSoto absentee ballots cast for Tuesday runoff election | Lawsuit seeks to void Pigeon Forge liquor vote

U.S. Virgin Islands: AG office investigating its own 'clients': Elections

Utah: Elections this year included international poll watchers

Vermont: Checking up on Vermont's voting machines | Vermont secretary of state reports to U.S. DOJ on Nov. 30

Wisconsin: Election-day voter registration debate | Committee addresses registration ordinance | Walker would sign same-day registration bill | Robinson to leave GAB

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).