Daily Voting News 18 June 2007

Ohio’s Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, has announced a plan to hire a firm to determine whether her state’s voting machines work, are secure, and can function under heavy volume. This is pretty much the same thing being done in California. Why don’t the two states join forces and save the taxpayer some money by sharing the costs? Also, in a decision that I’m sure pleased Sen. Diane Feinstein and other protectors of corporate secrets over voters, an appellate court in Florida found that Christine Jennings has no right to examine programming source code that ran the machines that undervoted in her race last Nov....

NAtional: Redistricting Reform: Tanner, Lofgren, Wamp Call for Judiciary Hearings LINK

National: Separating Truth From Fiction in E-voting Reform LINK

California: Riverside County – Columnist - Boycott may be the only answer LINK

Florida: Sarasota County - Appellate court denies access to electronic voting code LINK

Montana: Opinion - Let’s give mail-in voting a try LINK

Ohio: Elections chief seeks experts to test voting machine security LINK

Pennsylvania: Bucks County - Glitches worry voting advocates LINK

Pennsylvania: York County - Congress could hand York County bill for paper ballots LINK

Tennessee: Sullivan County - Legislation may turn into local election officials' 'worst nightmare' LINK

Texas: Harris County - Why your vote isn't secure Study, experts call for tests, paper trail, yet our local leaders ignore them LINK

West Virginia: Orange County - Orange to buy voting machines Orange Electoral Board makes successful pitch for new voting machines in county LINK

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