Daily Voting News - 19 December 2004

http://www.votersunite.org/info/mess-updujour.asp

Mess-Up Du Jour - Craven County, North Carolina. October, 2004. ES&S. Touch screens register votes incorrectly.

http://www.roanoke.com/editorials%5C15627.html

Editorial in favor of a voter verified paper ballot

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-washvote19dec19,1,4605107.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

Washington - Governor's Race So Close, Yet So Divisive

http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/04/12/19/100loc_cornfield001.cfm

Washington - Recount has its own kind of math

http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20041219/_government/52419.shtml

Washington – Opinions differ on what the final outcome will be in the governors race

http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2004_12_17.html

Ohio – Green Party candidate blasts election officials for obstructing the recount

http://www.middletownjournal.com/opin/content/news/stories/2004/12/19/mj1219myview.html

Ohio – Guest opinion on the recount, election reform and problems and Blackwell recusing himself from the proceedings

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041219/NEWS24/412190419

Ohio – Blackwell has his eyes on the governor’s office in 2006

http://www.newbernsj.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=19026&Section=Local

Craven Co., NC - Commissioners to get update on electronic voting machines at Monday morning meeting

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/204078_trahant19.html

Opinion - I'm counting on every vote being tallied

http://www.indystar.com/articles/1/203310-2101-098.html

Johnson Co., IN – County reviews the election in preparation for 2006. Software on optical scan machines was finally certified for ES&S but the touch screen software is still not certified

http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1281&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

51capitalmarch.com announces the following CALLS TO ACTION

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/10452098.htm

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/10455167.htm

North Carolina – Vendors show their wares in Raleigh

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20041219-9999-1n19bubbles.html

California - Run for Congress stymied by wrongly marked ballots in both San Diego and the Bay area

http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041219/NEWS01/412190305/1008

Union Co., IN – County may need to combine precincts in order to be able to afford to buy new voting machines

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/ny-bc-ny--votingmachines1219dec19,0,1780075.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

New York – Voting machine vendors have spent $357,000 in the state on lobbying efforts

http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8731FN00.html

Washington – Process for verifying signatures varies by county

John Gideon

Information Manager