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      Election workers see voting problems

      Posted by Jeff from MSNBC

      In Cleveland, voters rolled their eyes as election workers fumbled with new touchscreen machines that they couldn’t get to start properly until about 10 minutes after polls opened. “We got five machines — one of them’s got to work,” said Willette Scullank, a troubleshooter from the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, elections board.

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      Scientist idea leads to Calif. bill to align Electoral College with Popular Vote

      Posted by Jeff from New York Times

      The first fruit of his effort, a bill approved by the California legislature that would allocate the state’s 55 electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, sits on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s desk. The governor has to decide by Sept. 30 whether to sign it, a decision that may well determine whether Dr. Koza’s scheme takes flight or becomes another relic in the history of efforts to kill the Electoral College.

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    • Ohio Voting Problems Deemed Severe

      Posted by Billbar from Washington Post

      Problems with elections in Ohio's most populous county are so severe that it's unlikely they can be completely fixed by November, or even by the 2008 presidential election, a report commissioned by Cuyahoga County and released Tuesday says. A nonprofit group hired to review the county's first election with new electronic voting machines found several problems with the May 2 primary, the results of which were delayed six days because roughly 18,000 absentee ballots had to be hand counted.

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      Penn. Sued Over Electronic Voting Machines

      Posted by Billbar from Associated Press

      The suit asks the state's Commonwealth Court to decertify machines used in 58 of Pennsylvania's 67 counties. The other counties use optical scanning systems, in which voters fill in bubbles on paper forms that are counted in scanning machines; the plaintiffs say such systems should be in use statewide. "Whatever the initial promise may have been for electronic voting, we now know ... that they are simply not ready for prime time," said Lowell Finley, an attorney with the nonprofit group Voter Action.

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    Scientist idea leads to Calif. bill to align Electoral College with Popular Vote

    It’s a good idea, despite the smoke Prof. Hardaway is throwing up. If the Gropenator signs it, other western states may sign up.

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    6:06 am 9/22/06
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