Challenge ends in Alaska US Senate race, Georgia panel to study expansion of vote centers

Alaska's US Senate race appears to have ended as 2010 winds down. Georgia's Secretary of State says that a new appointed election reform advisory panel will look at vote centers and ways to achieve cost savings, and New York's new voting system, and its implementation receive ongoing scrutiny.

All this and more in today's Voting News below.

AK: Miller ends challenge in US Senate race
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/12/31/1484529/miller-ends-challenge-in-senate.html

CA: When 0.45% of Total Voters Can Translate to Victory
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/us/31bcjames.html

CO: Fines against Colorado's new elections chief reduced
http://www.kdvr.com/news/sns-ap-co--secretaryofstate-fines,0,466012.story

FL: Crist squandered potential to make a real difference
http://www.news-journalonline.com/opinion/editorials/n-j-editorials/2010/12/31/crist-squandered-potential-to-make-a-real-difference.html

GA: Getting some of the money of of (holding) elections
http://blogs.ajc.com/kyle-wingfield/2010/12/31/getting-some-of-the-money-out-of-holding-elections/?cxntfid=blogs_kyle_wingfield

IN: Democrats file appeal challenging Secretary of State race
http://www.fox59.com/news/politics/wxin-democrats-file-appeal-challeng-123110,0,6984964.story

IA: Iowa owes nothing on audit
http://www.omaha.com/article/20101230/NEWS01/712319911/0

IA: Michael Mauro to be named state labor chief
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20101231/NEWS09/12310357/-1/BUSINESS04/Insider-Michael-Mauro-to-be-named-state-labor-chief

KS: Debate likely to heat up [voter ID]
http://hutchnews.com/Todaystop/A1--Immigration-1st-Ld-Writethru--1

LA: Louisiana Voter Purge Eliminates 121, 840 People From State Rolls
http://politic365.com/2010/12/31/louisiana-voter-purge-eliminates-121840-people-from-state-rolls/

NY: New York's new voting process is already being tweaked
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/12/new_yorks_new_voting_pr
ocess_i.html

NY: League of Women Voters Says Voting Improvements Needed
http://post-journal.com/page/content.detail/id/577272/League-of-Women-Voters-Says-Voting-Improvements-Needed.html?nav=5192

ND: Resident didn't try to vote twice
http://www.jamestownsun.com/event/article/id/126486/

TN: 2010: A year of change in politics
http://www.herald-citizen.com/view/full_story/10834924/article-2010--A-year-of-change-in-politics?instance=homesecondleft

TX: Ready to go - again [Harris County]
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7360562.html

TX: 'Oracle of Barton Springs was poet and activist
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/oracle-of-barton-springs-was-poet-and-activist-1155025.html


National

United States: NLRB Continues March Toward Administrative Implementation of Processes to Assist Union Organizing
http://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/article.asp?articleid=119108
Recent General Counsel memoranda announcing enhanced enforcement efforts and greater penalties for violations of the National Labor Relations Act (the Act), implement, in principle, some of the "enhanced penalties" provisions of EFCA. The NLRB's exploration of electronic voting and shortening of the campaigning period in a union election emulate some of the purposes of the "card check" provisions of EFCA. A recently proposed rule regarding mandatory posting of a notice of employees' right to organize, combined with the creation of a new unfair labor practice charge for the failure to post, seems consistent with the goal of stimulating organizing activity.


International

India: Man steals EVM; 5 officials suspended
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mysore/Man-steals-EVM-5-officials-suspended/articleshow/7197965.cms

India: EVM thrown into a well in Hassan
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/125329/evm-thrown-well-hassan.html


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