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"Abolish the Electoral College"
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune offers this editorial....
Posted in Election Law on January 11, 2009 11:09 AM
"Voting machines cleared in 2006 undervote; GAO says touch-screens didn't cause undervote"
The Herald-Tribune (Sarasota) offers this report, which begins: "U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan's campaign claimed a 'huge victory' late Wednesday when it released a federal report that found Sarasota County's touch-screen voting machines were not the cause of 18,000 undervotes in...
Posted in Election Law on February 7, 2008 09:07 AM
"Voting inquiry finds reasons to dig deeper"
The South Florida Sun Sentinel offers this report on the FL-13 controversy, which begins: "Federal investigators have found several potential shortcomings in previous state and local reviews of the disputed election results in Sarasota Count''s November election, keeping them from...
Posted in Election Law on August 6, 2007 11:08 AM
You can find Jennings' papers here. A memo from the People for the American Way supporting moving forward is here. If anyone has links to Buchanan's papers, please send them along and I'll link. UPDATE: See this report in The...
Posted in Election Law on April 16, 2007 03:11 PM
FL-13: "GOP, seeking 'clarity,' holds up task force"
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune offers this report, which begins: "Before it can even begin, a congressional task force reviewing Sarasota's disputed election is already bogging down. In a move that seems to portend the bitter partisanship that awaits, GOP leaders are...
Posted in Election Law on March 28, 2007 07:28 AM
Following up on this post, you can find more on People For the American Way's support of the Holt bill here and here....
Posted in Election Law on March 22, 2007 03:33 PM
FL-13: "Voting machine maker warned of 'issue'"
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune offers this report, which begins: "A voting machine manufacturer warned state elections officials and Sarasota County's Supervisor of Election of an 'issue' with its equipment months before the disputed Nov. 7 election but no changes were made,...
Posted in Election Law on March 14, 2007 05:50 AM
"Panel Cites Voter Error, Not Software, in Loss of Votes"
The NY Times offers this report, which begins: "Florida election officials announced yesterday that an examination of voting software did not find any malfunctions that could have caused up to 18,000 votes to be lost in a disputed Congressional race...
Posted in Election Law on February 24, 2007 09:51 AM
See here. I earlier linked to Sen. Feinstein's letter here....
Posted in Election Law on February 16, 2007 06:13 AM
See this press release....
Posted in Election Law on February 14, 2007 12:38 PM
"Sarasota: Limited Investigations"
Ed Felton has this very interesting post on his blog. A snippet: The second attempt [to investigate what happened in the FL-13] was by the Department of State (DOS) of the state of Florida, who commissioned a study by outside...
Posted in Election Law on February 5, 2007 01:46 PM
"Why So Many Undervotes in Sarasota?"
Ed Felton has written this post on his "Freedom to Tinker" blog. Brad Friedman responds....
Posted in Election Law on January 31, 2007 09:41 AM
The Latest from the FL-13 Controversy
The Sarasota Herald Tribune reports: "Supervisor of Elections Kathy Dent will get to use 800 touch-screen voting machines for local elections in March, after her lawyers made a deal with Democratic congressional candidate Christine Jennings."...
Posted in Election Law on January 29, 2007 09:43 AM
"District 13 voting machine dispute could complicate March election"
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune offers this report....
Posted in Election Law on January 22, 2007 08:16 AM
Mebane and Dill on the FL-13 Undervote
Walter Mebane and David Dill have written a working paper, Factors Associated with the Excessive CD-13 Undervote in the 2006 General Election in Sarasota County, Florida. Here is part of the introduction: Based on statistical analysis of detailed electronic ballot...
Posted in Election Law on January 18, 2007 11:30 AM
Michael Richardson has this piece at OpEd News. See also this related piece....
Posted in Election Law on January 16, 2007 09:05 AM
The Sarasota Herald Tribune offers Buchanan's Swearing-in Day Arrives and this column by Tom Lyons....
Posted in Election Law on January 4, 2007 04:20 AM
"'Older' precincts added to problem"
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune offers this report, the latest in its series on the FL-13 controversy. It begins: "Sarasota County voting precincts with large numbers of older voters also registered large numbers of undervotes in the disputed congressional race, according to...
Posted in Election Law on January 2, 2007 06:51 AM
The Fight Over Source Code in FL-13
The Gainesville Sun reports here on dueling filings in the Florida 13th CD litigation, over access to the ES&S voting machines' source code. Prior filings in the case, including Jennings' discovery motion, may be found here on the Sarasota Herald-Tribune's...
Posted in Election Law on December 23, 2006 08:56 AM
Audit of FL-13 Vote Heads Into Final Phase
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports here and the Brandenton Herald here on the state's comparing the source code on the iVotronic's computer chips to that on file with the Florida Division of Elections. A preliminary report found no discrepancies in parallel...
Posted in Election Law on December 22, 2006 08:12 AM
Jennings Takes Her Case to the House
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune has this story and the NYT this one on Democrat Christine Jennings' filing of a notice of contest with the House, asking it to void the result of the election in which Republican Vern Buchanan was declared...
Posted in Election Law on December 21, 2006 04:16 PM
Florida's 13th, in Court and in Congress
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports here, the AP here on yesterday's proceedings in Leon County Circuit Court, regarding the disputed race between Republican Vern Buchanan and Democrat Christine Jennings for Florida's 13th Congressional District. The Herald-Tribune also has this report on...
Posted in Election Law on December 20, 2006 08:48 AM
The L.A. Times has this story, on the ongoing dispute regarding Florida's 13th Congressional District, where Republican Vern Buchanan leads Democrat Christine Jennings by 369 votes. The story reports that: "Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi's pledge to bring bipartisan peace to that...
Posted in Election Law on December 18, 2006 06:56 AM
"FL-13: Media Turning on Jennings?"
Hotline on Call offers these links. See also this column by Jeremy Wallace in the Sarasota Herald Tribune....
Posted in Election Law on December 13, 2006 06:21 AM
Moveon.org Circulates Petition for Congress to Order Revote in FL-13
See here. See also this very interesting post on the Brad Blog about whether the ES&S instructions about undervotes available on the company's website matched the programming used in Sarasota County that day. And see this PFAW Foundation press release,...
Posted in Election Law on December 12, 2006 08:30 AM
More on FL-13, and a Role for the EAC?
When I saw this headline on the Sarasota Herald Tribune web page, I thought it must have been about the FL-13 race. Over on the election law listserv, Doug Johnson, responding to my commentary calling for the House to investigate...
Posted in Election Law on December 11, 2006 08:53 AM
"Sample ballot was different from screen"
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune offers this report, the latest on the FL-13 controversy....
Posted in Election Law on December 10, 2006 05:37 PM
Troubling Development in FL-13 Litigation
According to this article in the Sarasota Herald Tribune, "The voting machine company now at the center of the disputed 13th Congressional District election made it clear Friday that it will fight the disclosure of the computer codes that run...
Posted in Election Law on December 9, 2006 12:21 PM
McDonald on Apparent Discepancies Between Herald Tribune and Mebane-Dill Analysis of FL-13 Data
You can find Michael's analysis here. A snippet: The key to understanding the difference between the two studies is that among Election Day voters, there are more strong Republicans than there are strong Democrats, 29,364 to 25,326 (also note there...
Posted in Election Law on December 8, 2006 12:16 PM
Reasons to Doubt the Sarasota Herald Tribune Study of the FL-13 Undervote?
In my Roll Call oped calling for the House to order a revote in the FL-13 race, I make the following statements: A recent academic analysis by Laurin Frisina, Michael Herron, James Honaker and Jeffrey Lewis notes that in Charlotte...
Posted in Election Law on December 7, 2006 03:08 PM
Interesting Views Over at Daily Kos About Whether the House Should Order New Election in FL-13
You can find Adam Bonin's post and at least 178 comments here at Daily Kos on my Roll Call oped yesterday calling for the House to order a new election in the FL-13. Meanwhile, the FL-13 page on the Sarasota...
Posted in Election Law on December 7, 2006 06:33 AM
"Analysis Points to Bad Ballot Design"
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune offers this must read report. See also About the Herald Tribune Analysis, Bad Design Unlikely to Get Revote, and Audit to Review Computer Code. I'll be publishing something tomorrow with my thoughts on what needs to be...
Posted in Election Law on December 5, 2006 08:45 AM
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune offers Test Adds to Mystery, Voting Chiefs 'Diss' Paper, But See Inevitability, and Congress to Look at Voting Problems....
Posted in Election Law on November 30, 2006 06:39 AM
"Ballot Formats, Touchscreens and Undervotes: A Study of the 2006 Midterm Elections in Florida"
Frisina, Herron, Honaker and Lewis have posted this paper that moves to the top of my "to-read" list. Here is the abstract: The 2006 midterm elections in Florida have focused attention on undervotes, ballots on which no vote is recorded...
Posted in Election Law on November 26, 2006 09:37 PM
"Experts say revotes rare, but possible"
The Brandenton Herald offers this report on the FL-13 possibilities. See also this report in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and this analysis in the Orlando Sentinel which "suggests that if votes were truly cast and lost -- as Democrat Christine Jennings...
Posted in Election Law on November 22, 2006 08:26 AM
"Judge issues setback to Jennings in lawsuit"
The Sarasota Herald Tribune offers this news update....
Posted in Election Law on November 21, 2006 03:13 PM
Keeping Up with the FL-13 Recount and Controversy?
Check out this page at the Sarasota Herald Tribune. See also District 13 power players fight for fairness in the Bradenton Herald about the lawyers involved in the case....
Posted in Election Law on November 20, 2006 06:35 AM
The Sarasota Herald Tribune offers Partisan Tone Growing and Crowd Likes Idea of District 13 Revote....
Posted in Election Law on November 17, 2006 06:25 AM
Partisan Hacks Determining the Outcome in FL-13?
I recently wrote in the NY Times that " We don't need disputes like the current one in Florida being resolved by party hacks." The following troubling news release just came in from the People for the American Way foundation:...
Posted in Election Law on November 16, 2006 09:39 AM
The Sarasota Herald Tribune offers Stage 2: Manual recount to begin, Analysis suggests undervote caused by ballot design, and Experts: 15% undervote in 2000 isn't comparable. The Tampa Tribune offers Undervote Raises Revote Issue. An emailed press release from the...
Posted in Election Law on November 15, 2006 08:58 AM
"Jennings Takes Legal Action Amid Recount"
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune offers this report, the latest on the FL-13 race. See also this very interesting analysis by Justin Moore, which concludes that there's something about the way voters interacted with the machines or some error with the machines:...
Posted in Election Law on November 14, 2006 09:25 AM
Why Ballot Design May Have Caused Up to 18,000 FL-13 Voters To Skip Race
Joseph Hall has posted the screen shots for the ballot. Note the placement of the Congressional race at the top of page 2. Did you miss it the first time?...
Posted in Election Law on November 13, 2006 09:21 AM
Election Law is pleased to host Blawg Review # 83. As with last week's Blawg Review by Ed Still at Votelaw, this Review focuses on election law, in an effort to law blog the vote. Before getting to this week's...
Posted in Election Law on November 12, 2006 09:48 PM
The Sarasota Herald Tribune, which has had the most in-depth coverage of the FL-13 controversy, offers this report, which begins: "Amid questions surrounding the touch-screen voting system that registered an 18,000-ballot undervote in Tuesday's congressional race, Supervisor of Elections Kathy...
Posted in Election Law on November 11, 2006 07:53 AM
"Where is She Now? Department: Florida's Katharine Harris
The Sarasota Herald Tribune reports: "Already trying to avoid the media, Longboat Key Republican Katherine Harris is now canceling campaign stops in Southwest Florida as questions swirl about her ties to a Washington, D.C., defense contractor at the center of...
Posted in Election Law on March 7, 2006 07:20 AM
Purging African-American, But Not Hispanic, Felons on Voting Lists
See this New York Times report. A few snippets: Of nearly 48,000 Florida residents on the felon list, only 61 are Hispanic. By contrast, more than 22,000 are African-American....In a presidential-election battleground state that decided the 2000 race by giving...
Posted in Election Law on July 10, 2004 07:33 AM
The National Law Journal features Shifting Ground: A Campaign Ruling Gives Congress Great Deference. The Washington Post offers Democratic "Shadow" Groups Face Scrutiny. The New York Times offers A Law Survives. Now Let's Subvert It. The Christian Science Monitor offers...
Posted in Election Law on December 14, 2003 12:36 PM