Election 2008: Tuesday Roundup

• For the first time since the May primary, Republican John McCain attracted more West Virginia cash than Democrat Barack Obama last month, The Associated Press reports.

• AP also reports that a National Rifle Association film crew sought to include West Virginia miners in a national anti-Obama ad campaign deemed false by FactCheck.org. Alleging the NRA tried to coerce its members into "bad-mouthing" their endorsed candidate, the United Mine Workers Union has called for a localized work stoppage for next week in protest. MetroNews also has an item, with audio.
  

• The State Elections Commission has balked at certifying additional touch-screen voting machines that had been ordered by Ohio, Hancock and Summers counties, The Charleston Gazette reports. The manufacturer had said "the new machines have different parts than the machines ordered by the state in advance of the 2006 elections."

• Democratic Congressional candidate Anne Barth stumped in the 2nd District's Eastern Panhandle corner, with the help of House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., The Journal of Martinsburg reports.

• The GOP's candidate for governor, Russ Weeks, has joined critics of the state's bid to revamp its Medicaid program, The Register-Herald reports.

• (Update) All three candidates for state Supreme Court opined on its workload and other topics before the editorial board of the Charleston Daily Mail.