Daily Voting News 18 July, 2007

A lot of important decisions are nearing completion. Members of Congress are deciding whether they are happy with HR-811 as it came out of committee. Many members have said they are no longer in support of the bill. Riverside Co. California supervisors have a decision whether to follow the recommendation of their study group to rid the county of Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines. San Francisco California election officials have to decide whether they will have to count ballots by hand in November. And Pennsylvania counties that use ES&S DREs have to decide whether they want to continue paying the exorbitant fees for machine warranties. And, by the way, speaking about decisions; many groups decided to support, and pleaded with their members to support, HR-811 two-weeks before the bill was even filed. Yet, those same groups are totally mum on S-1487 even though it is due to go to committee hearing in a week. Why the silence? Why are they not standing up and being vocal about their support for democracy and opposition to the bill?...

NAtional: 'Hacking Democracy' Nominated for Emmy! LINK

National: On-Site Observation of the Hand-Counting of Paper Ballots and Recommendations For The General Public LINK

National: Hinchey Says Holt Election Bill 'Has Been Compromised' LINK

National: Thoughts on Holt's Verified Voting Bill LINK

Arkansas: Secretary Of State Lawyer Says Congress Poised To Change Election Law Again LINK

California: Riverside County - Supervisors to study phase-out of electronic balloting LINK

California: Riverside County - Voting machines may be on way out LINK

California: Riverside County - Voters could decide fate of Riverside County's touch-screen machines LINK

California: Riverside County - Election panel advises a return to paper ballots LINK

California: San Francisco County - Hands may replace digits in November vote count LINK

Florida: Palm Beach County - Century Village wants old touch screens LINK

Georgia: Congressional election too close to call LINK

Mississippi: Itawamba County - Election: Absentee voting a concern LINK

North Carolina: Cherokee County - Police: Cherokee voting results not affected by break-in LINK

New Jersey: NJIT tests special printers for electronic voting LINK

New Jersey: Printers tested for reliability in verifying electronic votes LINK

Pennsylvania: Counties discuss voting machine warranties LINK

Pennsylvania: Bucks County sells old voting machines to reclamation company LINK

Pennsylvania: Lehigh County - County finally pulls lever on voting machine sale LINK

Pennsylvania: Luzerne County - County says voting machine warranty too costly LINK

Texas: Kerr County - Polling places set for Nov. 6 election LINK

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