Subject: news of the day 5/29/05
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 5/29/2005, 8:11 AM
To: election-law

Will Miami Get Rid of Its DRE Voting Machines?

A.P. offers this report, which begins: "Miami-Dade County's elections chief has recommended ditching its ATM-style voting machines, just three years after buying them for $24.5 million to avoid a repeat of the hanging and dimpled chads from the 2000 election. Elections supervisor Lester Sola said in a memo Friday that the county should switch to optical scanners that use paper ballots, based on declining voter confidence in the paperless touch-screen machines and quadrupled election day labor costs." Meanwhile, Cook County Illinois is going from punch cards to optical scans. See here.


"Judge rules with eye to present and future"

The Seattle Times offers this analysis of the evidentiary rulings in the Washington gubernatorial election contest.


Clingman and a Possible Rehnquist Retirement

A.P. draws some connections here.


"Some see court fight as a bore"

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer offers this report on the Washington gubernatorial election contest, which begins: "Is it the trial of the century, or the yawn of the day?" 
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