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November 29, 2012

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Alaska: Thomas requests recount in tight House election

Arizona: Huckelberry seeks help with smooth elections

California: County election office continues ballot count | Riverside County finishes counting faster this year | Election results dominate Oxnard council meeting | Election may not be certified until next week

Connecticut: Boxes of unprocessed forms reaches about 125 | Early voting initiative rekindled in Connecticut | Reforms could boost voter participation

Florida: Lee County poll workers get $50 bonus | Lawsuit seeking to remove commissioners from office lives on | Miami-Dade panel seeks remedies for election woes | Miami-Dade group begins examining what went wrong in elections | Dems ask for election bill hearing  | Election advisory group meeting to analyze election problems

Georgia: Slow early voting in Augusta race | Elections board dismisses ID fraud case

Hawaii: State panel to probe ballot shortage

Iowa: Schultz relaxes proposed rules on voter-registration complaints | Iowa elections chief softens voter removal rules | Secretary of state eases two rules on voting

Idaho: Counties frustrated with double-envelope early voting system

Kansas: Kobach, AG preparing to certify election

Kentucky: Beshear deciding whether state elections board member should be removed

Massachusetts: Boston city council looks to prevent long Election Day lines

Michigan: Troy rebukes state's demand for quick election

Minnesota: Recount process not as simple as it may seem | Every vote counts and recounts in House race

Nebraska: Secretary of state's office reviewing voter complaints

New Jersey: Hoboken election results are in; machine vote stands

New Mexico: Elections boss counted on best-case scenario | Recount ordered in tight Dona Ana race; unclear where funds will come from

New York: County weighing options on voting machine storage | Election Day problems for voters and with poll workers | Credibility of witness assailed | Satvisky to be hired as board of elections commissioner

Ohio: State rep calls Ohio's provisional process 'broken' | Husted illegally tossing provisional ballots, Dems say

Pennsylvania: Election board hears voting horror stories

South Carolina: Election employees saw 'train wreck coming' | Poll worker quits over lack of leadership from county election board | Attorney: At least 30 days for elections report | Attorney prepares for hearing on election debacle | Another recount ordered in Senate race

Texas: Application period for elections job closing | West U residents asked for input on election polling sites

Vermont: Vt. to do random audit of voter tabulator results

Washington: Cowlitz County write-in votes reveal wacky side of election

Wisconsin: Walker, clerks don't agree on 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 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).