Wednesday, 28 November 2012

November 28, 2012

Arizona: Bennett's proposed voting changes would be welcome, and expensive | Yavapai officials offers ways to improve election process

California: Recount in Redding race resumes today | Recount requested

Connecticut: Should Madison schools remain open on Election Day?

Florida: Random audit finds 9-ballot discrepancy | Poll workers receive a bonus | Homestead officials shut out of voting fiasco task force | Early voting takes center stage in Florida | Florida Dems call for federal probe into voting law

Georgia: Will Section 5 of the VRA remain in effect for Athens, Ga.? | Ga. elections officials scold Fulton County for absentee voting problems in 2010 | Fulton voting problems not an issue | State sanctions Fulton for 2010 election mishaps

Guam: GEC to pay precinct officials Thursday

Hawaii: After Election Day confusion, Hawaii pushes for mail-in voting | Hawaii commission panel to probe ballot shortage; elections chief under fire | Elections chief gets grilled | Senator calls for new elections chief | Elections commish goes into executive session | State elections panel plans to study ballot-shortage 'fiasco' | Ballot shortage spurs panel to form new subcommittee

Illinois: Partial recount in local Kane race | Will County clerk wants special election date moved

Iowa: Delayed victory | Woodbury County auditor named to state election advisory panel | Auditors prepare for special election

Kansas: State's photo ID law deemed a success in first trial | Cass County clerk can keep her job

Maryland: Alderman unsure about spending $80K on office space | Md lawmakers seek to expand early voting

Michigan: Dems raise election concerns | Village elections move to November | State pressures Troy to hold February mayoral election

Minnesota: Ritchie would support early voting legislation

Montana: Loney alleges 'irregularities' at ExpoPark polling place

Nebraska: Group files complaint alleging Omaha voters told to provide voter ID number to get ballots | Election watchdog group says Phipps violated law

Nevada: Miller calls for voter photo ID law in Nevada | Liberal activists suspicious, conservatives applaud Miller's voter ID proposal

New Jersey: Morris closes out election after getting bombarded with mail, email, fax, provisional ballots | Passaic County certifies election results | Rutgers-Newark law clinic examines e-voting in wake of Sandy | Group requests information on how fax, email voters were processed | Group seeks data on NJ voting | Provisional ballots not enough to overturn any election results i Gloucester County

New York: GOP accused of playing politician with appointment of election commissioner | Election reform in NYC focuses on wait times | Court battle to follow vote count in Senate races | Stavisky picked for board of elections commissioner

North Carolina: McIntyre could face second recount | NC elections board meets to certify most results

Ohio: Fears of voter fraud unfounded | Elections board wants to move to former Kohl's | Ohio Senate leader rules out changes to voter ID | Lorain County elections board dismisses fraud probes, certifies election results

South Carolina: SC AG backs Richland Co. board's firing authority | Some lawmakers not satisfied with election hearing

Tennessee: Election certified amid continued complaints | Big Bird, Han Solo, Clint Eastwood, some Knox voters had their own picks for president | Sevier County election workers review liquor votes

Texas: Gov. Perry appoints new secretary of state

Vermont: Secretary of state conducts random audit of voting equipment in four towns

Virginia: Spotsy voting issues explained | McDonnell willing to consider early voting | Cuccinelli seems to agree voter fraud helped Obama | Searching for a polling place

Washington: Recount will be coming to county

Wisconsin: Local clerks split on election-day voter registration

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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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