Another Blog on Voting

Hmm, apparently there’s a Caltech and Reed College collaborative blog on Voting Issues, called Election Updates. It’s early morning and I can’t sleep so I’ve been catching up on blog research and editing.
So Election Updates just clued me in on the apparent news that Kentucky Secretary of State, Trey Grayson, wants to adopt no excuse [...]

More Electoral Fraud By Mail - Dec. 12, 2006

I’ve been following this story since it broke, and today brings additional convictions in the story of the Mayor that recently rigged his own election using mail ballots. Instead of paraphrasing, I have added a few choice quotes from the article below.

December 12, 2006, DailyPress.com, VA
GATE CITY, Va. — A former Gate City mayor [...]

Vote By Mail-A Great Example of Voting Badly

http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110009167
A great opinion piece on the problems with Vote By Mail.

One Month After the Election… Votes Still Being Counted

From Humbolt County, CA:
The Humboldt County Elections Office ran ballots from the 21 vote-by-mail precincts Wednesday afternoon, working through about 700 ballots in a little over an hour. While the new vote tally certainly marked forward movement, the reported results around 3:30 p.m. had very little, if any, effect on the closely contested races. + [...]

Mayor Uses Absentee Ballots to Rig Election, Dateline Nov. 30th, 2006

Here’s an interesting story about a mayor who rigs elections using, what else?… absentee votes.
During an October trial of one of Cooper’s 13 co-defendants, the ex-mayor was portrayed as the key figure in a plot to rig the election - mostly through intercepting absentee ballots from the mail and forging the names of [...]