Daily Voting News For November 2, 2007

In an article in today’s Alternet, Steven Rosenfeld has said, more eloquently, what we have been saying for awhile now. “Voting machine manufacturers should be investigated by Congress and sued by state and local governments across America for knowingly selling defective products to taxpayers, a growing number of voting rights attorneys and activists are saying. If successful, these advocates say the legal action could lead to multimillion-dollar refunds.” It’s just that simple. The vendors know they are selling defective, poorly designed, and insecure voting systems and previous attempts to inspect and qualify them for use have been nothing more than rubber-stamps to get these systems out to unsuspecting customers. We need to support groups like VoterAction (www.voteraction.org) who are in the forefront of this “rage against the machines”....

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