'Lawyers for the state and groups that opposed Ohio's voter identification rules claimed victory Wednesday in a settlement that suspends the law for absentee voters and clarifies and expands it for voting in person.' / Hart Intercivic has been under the radar lately. VoteTrustUSA has an article that lets you see who is behind the company. / Cuyahoga Co Ohio is back in the news again. Seems they decided that they would make free use of workers lap-tops to make memory card reading a bit easier. No telling what viruses may have been passed around. / There seems to be a yellow button on the back of Sequoia DREs that is suddenly getting a lot of attention because it can be used to gain access to the machine and could be used to vote more than one time....

• National: Who is Counting Your Votes? - A Closer Look at Hart InterCivic LINK
• National: 'Hacking' Doesn't Crack the Code LINK
• National: CNN's Lou Dobb's: 'Tonight, voting activists, not our government, leading the battle for voting security.' LINK
• National: In the Land of ‘Every Vote Counts,’ Uncertainty on Whether It’s Counted Correctly LINK
• National: Debate (Larry Norden v. Michael Shamos) Can Electronic Voting Be Trusted? LINK
• National: Button on state's most used e-voting machine allows multiple votes LINK
• National: Keeping a wary eye: Pitfalls abound LINK
• National: Close races to magnify problems at the polls LINK
• National: ES & S Offers $10,000 Prize in University Voting Technology Competition LINK
• National: Hackable Democracy? LINK
• National: Media Release - Candidates Advised to 'Citizen Audit' Race Before Conceding LINK
• National: Revamped exit poll, vote counting operations get test in closely watched election LINK
• Arkansas: It's Charlie's fault (Reports of vote switching) LINK
• California: California secretary of state unveils new election checks LINK
• California: HERE WE GO AGAIN: 'Just Push the Yellow Button and Vote as Many Times as You Want' on Sequoia Touch-Screen Voting Machines! LINK
• California: Sequoia Voting Machines Certified For Use By Secretary Of State Could Let People In 21 Counties Vote More Than Once LINK
• California: Officials brace for election glitches as e-voting takes hold LINK
• California: Mendocino County - 70% in county vote by mail LINK
• Colorado: Denver - Election judges grapple with new voting machines LINK
• Colorado: Eagle County - Ballots will be translated into Spanish LINK
• Florida: Supervisor told new vote machines pose time-change problem LINK
• Florida: Broward County - Broward racks up nearly 40,000 early votes for Tuesday's election LINK
• Florida: Collier County - Brent Batten: Voters still wary toward touch-screen machines LINK
• Florida: Palm Beach County records 32,000 early votes for Tuesday's election LINK
• Florida: Volusia County - Voting runs into untimely glitch LINK
• Iowa: State confident of voting machines
  Many Iowans can use touch screens at polls; watchdog groups urge caution LINK
• Iowa: Editorial - Iowa's voting methods deserve confidence LINK
• Illinois: Early voters finding new machines aren't without faults LINK
• Illinois: Chicago/Cook County - Voting equipment glitches lingering LINK
• Indiana: Everyone's looking for signs of voter fraud LINK
• Kansas: Sedgwick County - Voting Problems in Sedgwick County LINK
• Maryland: More Poll Workers Recruited, But Training Proves Daunting LINK
• Maryland: Maryland balloting beset with doubts, vulnerability LINK
• Maryland: Md. voters will have lots of company at polling places LINK
• Maryland: Does e-voting need paper trails? LINK
• Maryland: Md. Dems slam GOP voter-credential guide LINK
• Maryland: Prince George's County - Nearly 3,000 absentee ballots yet to be sent LINK
• New Mexico: Domenici criticizes decision not to use election auditor LINK
• New York: Voting machine schedule changed LINK
• Ohio: State Proposes Settlement To Voter ID Requirement LINK
• Ohio: Ohio suspends voter ID law for absentees LINK
• Ohio: Cuyahoga County OH Possibly Exposed Election System to Computer Virus LINK
• Ohio: Cuyahoga County - Ohio's most populous county unveils election monitoring system LINK
• Ohio: Miami County - Official States Electronic Voting System Added Votes Never Cast
  In 2004 Presidential Election; Audit Log Missing LINK
• Ohio: Miami County - Official States Electronic Voting System Added Votes Never Cast LINK
• Pennsylvania: Mistakes affect absentee ballots LINK
• South Carolina: Long ballots could mean long lines at polls LINK
• South Dakota: S.D. voting machines not linked to probe LINK
• Tennessee: Sullivan County - Voting machine problem shuts down Civic Auditorium site LINK
• Texas: Electronic, paper ballots raging controversy this election season LINK
• Texas: Bringing The Ballots To People Who Cannot Get To Them LINK
• Utah: Vote! - But, Bring a Book LINK
• Utah: Utah braces for Nov. 7 jam
  Machine shortage, confusion over ballots bring long lines, frustration in early voting LINK
• Washington: Computerized vote systems raise fears of potential fraud LINK
• GUam: Opinion - Ban is not the way to address the problems with voting machines LINK

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