“Florida's Congressional District 13 race
and the report of conflicts between the paper trail records
and the electronic ballots in Cuyahoga County, Ohio are
only two recent examples of how elections using DRE
technology cannot be trusted and how confusing the
technology can be to voters. Evidence overwhelmingly
confirms that, even with the addition of a voter-verified
paper audit trail, DREs cannot be made to serve our
nation's need for universal citizen enfranchisement. It
would constitute a grievous error to further codify the use
of DRE systems, as is currently done by the redefinition of
"voter verified paper ballot" found at the beginning of HR
811's Section 2(a)(1). We believe that all voters should
have equal access to accurate, secure, meaningfully
observable, and verifiable election systems. DREs have been
touted as providing this kind of election system, but
America’s experience with hundreds of documented DRE
failures and thousands of voters disenfranchised by them
proves otherwise. Any voter required to use a DRE is at
once relegated to second-class status, given that other
voters can vote on voter-marked paper ballots. Evidence
shows that voter-marked paper ballots, combined with
existing ballot-marking interfaces, provide both equity and
parity to disabled and language minority voters in full
compliance with ADA and HAVA.”...
California:
Orange County - Janet Nguyen is expected to be named winner
in disputed O.C. supervisor's race LINK
California:
Riverside County - California Focus LINK
Colorado:
Montrose County - Report blisters Montrose over election
trouble State finds ‘flagrant violations,’ demands
change immediately LINK
Colorado:
Montrose County - State lambastes county election LINK
Connecticut:
Bysiewicz to ask this week for vote audits LINK
Florida: CD-13
– Opinion - Never-ending campaign LINK
Florida: Sarasota
County - Secretary of State’s FL-13 Audit Report
Whitewashes Evidence of Voting Machine Problems in Sarasota
LINK
Florida:
Touchscreen voting: vote of no confidence? LINK
Illinois: Call
for new election audit rules in Illinois LINK
New Mexico: Paper
Ballots are Better (NM Case Study) LINK
Texas: Bowie
County will get new election equipment LINK
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Voting News" is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports
each day concerning issues related to election and voting
news around the country regardless of quality or political
slant. Therefore, items listed in "Daily Voting News" may
not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or Scoop.**
While organizations like People For The
American Way, Common Cause, and Miami-Dade Election Reform
Coalition argue that the continued use of DRE voting
machines is necessary to support the foreign language
speaking minority, they ignore that those machines may, in
fact, serve to disenfranchise more voters from that
community than they help. A new study from VotersUnite.Org
proves that the undervote rate in minority communities in
New Mexico plummeted when those communities changed from
DRE to optical scan voting systems. // According to
BradBlog; “California's new Secretary of State, Debra
Bowen, has flatly rejected a request from Riverside County,
CA County Supervisor Jeff Stone to participate in a "hack
test" challenge originally proposed to Election Integrity
Advocates in response to their concerns about security and
accuracy for the county's electronic touch-screen voting
machines.” ...
NAtional: 2004 and
2006 New Mexico Canvass Data Shows Undervote Rates Plummet
in Minority Precincts When Paper Ballots are Used LINK
National: REPORT:
Undervote Rate Plummets 85% in New Mexico's Native American
Precincts after Statewide Switch from Touch-Screen Voting to
Paper Ballots LINK
National: EAC
Research Finds Polling-Place ID Laws Reduce Minority Voter
Turnout LINK
National:
Feinstein Calls for Probe Into E-voting Machines Senator
asks GAO to look at potential for DRE malfunctions, election
fraud LINK
Florida:
Opinion - Accurate and Fraud-Free Elections Now: Florida's
Solution LINK
Florida: Sarasota
County - Computer Scientists Defend Voting Machines LINK
Florida: Sarasota
County - Florida e-vote audit criticized by Jennings,
activists State report says machines didn't cause undervote
of 18,000 LINK
Massachusetts:
Royalston to try out new vote machines LINK
Maryland: Opinion - Don't replace voting system LINK
Missouri:
Commentary - Make it easier, not harder, to cast ballot LINK
New Jersey: How
to Fix Our Broken Voting System LINK
Texas: Texas Bill
Would Require Voting Machine Paper Trail LINK
Texas: Matagorda
County - Statewide election costly for county LINK
**"Daily
Voting News" is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports
each day concerning issues related to election and voting
news around the country regardless of quality or political
slant. Therefore, items listed in "Daily Voting News" may
not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or Scoop.**
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