Daily Voting News For August 12, 2007

Diebold seems to have convinced the Florida Sec. of State that they have fixed security problems found on their optical-scan systems during a review by Florida State University. It’s amazing how they did that in just a couple weeks. Or maybe not. The Attorney General of New Jersey has denied certification for use of any voter verified paper audit trail printer on the state’s voting machines. State law requires these printers be used by January 2008 but testing of the printers has shown they do not work as advertised. No printers; no DREs. There is still much more news coming from California.

NAtional: Rep. Dennis Kucinich: guardian of the American voter and democratic values http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mary_ann_070810_rep__dennis_kucinich.htm

CA: What Have We Learned About Elections Lately? http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_dave_ber_070809_what_have_we_learned.htm

CA: UC Davis Concludes E-Voting Systems Hackable http://campustechnology.com/articles/49618/

CA: Voting must be secure by primary time http://www.dailybulletin.com/opinions/ci_6587171

CA: Secretary of state's act worrisome for election http://www.modbee.com/opinion/story/38926.html

CA: Columnist: 'Whining' California Election Registrars are 'Losers, Exposed as Careless at Best, Irresponsible at Worst' http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4941

CA: El Dorado – Placer Counties - Secretary of state decertifies some electronic voting machines http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/TD/20070810/NEWS/108100087/-1/REGION

CA: San Bernardino County - Voting machines could cost county Registrar weighs options for 2008 elections if they must use paper ballots http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/verjil_2247___article.html/county_voting.html

CA: San Joaquin County - Electronic voting reforms won't be cheap http://tracypress.com/content/view/10590/2244/

CA: Shasta County - Properly counted votes are worth counties’ trouble http://www.redding.com/news/2007/aug/10/properly-counted/

CO: Mesa County - Elections office pleads for more voting gear http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/08/10/8_10_1a_elections_meeting.html

FL: Secretary of state says voting machine flaws now fixed http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/199459.html

IA: Security will be tight for straw poll Voters will have thumbs dipped in indelible ink http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2007/08/09/news/iowa/03bf73b73fd93d0c862573320000aafa.txt

IA: Iowans ask judge to forbid machines in straw poll http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070810/NEWS/70810026/1001/Multimedia

IA: Request To Stop Straw Poll Denied http://www.kcci.com/news/13868061/detail.html

IA: Iowans Object To Voting Machines Used for Straw Poll http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/iowans-object-t.html

IN: Hamilton County - Absentee voters to get paper again http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070810/LOCAL/708100392/1015/LOCAL01

MS: Editorial - Let's start pulling http://www.ddtonline.com/articles/2007/08/10/news/editorials/edit1.txt

MS: Washington County - Voters denied rights in election http://www.ddtonline.com/articles/2007/08/10/news/news3.txt

NJ: AG orders voting machine flaws fixed http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--votingmachinechal0810aug10,0,70279.story

NJ: State orders fixes to ballot printers http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2007/08/state_orders_fixes_to_ballot_p.html

NJ: The Vote: New Jersey Attorney General Denies Voting Machine Certification Until Fixes and Retesting Completed http://www.govtech.com/gt/130178?topic=117674

NV: Despite California voting machine review results, Lyon Clerk remains confident in Nevada voting system http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070810/MVN01/708100328/1038/MVN

NY: Lever voting machines get a reprieve in NY http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070810/NEWS01/708100363

WA: King County - Reckless Plan: Full Steam Ahead http://www.washblog.com/story/2007/8/9/5136/34028

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