More New York counties join the
resistance to switching from lever machines to optically
scanned ballots. Smartmatic brought the wrong cable to its
all-important demo in the Philippines and caused a short
circuit in the optical scanner. Voter ID and Internet voting
continue to be in the news. And an error was discovered in
TrueBallot’s counting of the votes in Aspen’s IRV
election – but it didn’t affect the outcome....
NAtional: SOTOMAYOR v SESSIONS: Obama
Supreme Court nomination sets up battle over voting rights
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