Salt Lake County has 2 primary races to recount. The recount will be done in a couple hours according to news reports this morning. That means they will just run the tapes again and come up with the same answers. No real recount. Garbage in – Garbage out! / This evening the county reported that they had completed the recount. There was no change. Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen says the result is a big boost of confidence in the new electronic voting machines. / The Arkansas Co., Arkansas Election Commission Chair told a court that she got a bill from ES&S for programming PEBs in the primary and run-off elections recently and "of course it's wrong". / Avante International Technology is suing Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia for patent infringement / Accenture is failing in another state, Wisconsin, to provide a voter registration database on time and that works....

• National: Inventor of Electronic Voting Verification System Takes Industry Giants to Court for Patent Infringement LINK
• National: CNN's Lou Dobbs: 'What happens when electronic voting machines fail?' LINK
• National: From NASS Convention - Richardson pushes paper ballots LINK
• National: From NASS Convention - New Mexico Governor Richardson Exhorts Secretaries of State To Adopt Paper Ballot Voting Systems LINK
• Arkansas: Arkansas County - Election problems vendor’s fault, head of commission says (ES&S) LINK
• California: Riverside County - Temecula-based group asks supervisors to name panel to reduce potential voting abuses LINK
• California: Riverside County - Complaints lodged on election process LINK
• California: San Diego County - Group says San Diego County ignoring election laws, giving different figures for hand count LINK
• Florida: Collier County - Poll workers trained to avoid another debacle (ES&S iVotronic) LINK
• Georgia: BREAKING: New Lawsuit Seeks Immediate Decertification of Diebold Systems in Georgia! LINK
• Georgia: Houston County - Election workers prepare for V-Day LINK
• Kansas: Crawford County - Extensive training (AutoMark and ES&S M-100) LINK
• Kansas: Douglas County - Advance voting for primary begins today LINK
• North Carolina: Lenoir County - N.C. Elections Board Plans More Hearings In House Primary Dispute LINK
• New York: Dutchess County - Dutchess legislature closes in on HAVA LINK
• Ohio: Everybody Votes Initiative hopes to registered voters LINK
• Tennessee: Hamilton County - Touch-screen voting criticized LINK
• Tennessee: Sevier County - Early-bird voters to cast ballots (ES&S) LINK
• Utah: 3 GOP candidates press for a recount LINK
• Utah: Salt Lake County - 2 primaries undecided as votes face recount LINK
• Utah: Salt Lake County - Recount Confirms Incumbent Loss in House District 42 LINK
• Virginia: Fairfax County - Security of county voting machines questioned LINK
• Wisconsin: Cities unsure about voter registration software. All say they could handle the election if Accenture system isn't ready LINK
• IReland - E-voting system will never be used: ICTE LINK
• Netherlands - Protest against voting machine LINK

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