"Among the supposed benefits of electronic voting of which Riverside County was a pioneer, and for which it spent in excess of $30 million were greater accuracy, reliability and speed. What we appear to have gotten for that money was less reliability and slower results. The question of accuracy remains unanswered and here we are, almost four weeks after the election, and the Registrar of Voters office just posted what appear to be final numbers late Saturday." / “What is the point if you run it through the machine again?” said Mary Kiffmeyer, the Minnesota secretary of state, who instituted hand recounts in 2000. “If you do it by hand, you’re doing an audit on the machine.”

 

NAtional: Treasury Urged to Make Public the Results of CFIUS Investigation of Smartmatic

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2096&Itemid=51

 

CA: Voters raising bar for process

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_election03.5086fc.html

 

CA: Riverside County – Editorial - Election probe a good start

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/12/03/opinion/editorialscal/18_32_1112_2_06.txt

 

CA: Riverside County – Opinion - Riverside County needs to find fix for myriad voting troubles

http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061203/OPINION01/612030323/1004

 

CO: Denver County - Voters, judges give city an earful

An overflow crowd alleges incompetence, election judges want their pay and the mayor predicts serious changes.

http://www.denverpost.com/mobile/ci_4762770

 

FL: Sarasota County – Columnist - The errors they'll find are likely their own

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061203/COLUMNIST36/612030406

 

FL: Sarasota County - Testing Undervote Hypotheses in Sarasota: Declaration of Technical Expert Dan Wallach

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2097&Itemid=113

 

OH: OH-15 - The Pryce of Democracy in Ohio’s 15th Congressional District

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2006/1470

 

RI: Paper vs. scanner: Ensuring the vote’s integrity

http://www.projo.com/news/content/VOTING3_12-03-06_QR35BEC.2ce2d90.html

 

VA: Opinion - Electronic votes shouldn't be a leap of faith

http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/radmacher/wb/wb/xp-94148

 

WI: Recounts can be costly

http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=109733&ntpid=2

 

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