According to a BradBlog article [see below] by Michael Richardson, “CIBER, Inc., the nation’s largest so-called “independent test authority” (ITA) of electronic voting machines is at the center of a growing scandal about lax testing of voting equipment. The recent release of a long-kept secret assessment of the company by the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) detailing a shocking record of sloppy, incomplete or non-existent testing by CIBER led the test lab’s CEO, Mac Slingerlend, to call the report “old news” in an interview with the Rocky Mountain News. While CIBER’s shortcomings may be “old news” to Slingerlend, unaware election officials around the nation are angered at not being informed by the EAC prior to the November 2006 elections when voting machine models “tested” by CIBER were used by 68.5% of the registered voters in the country.” // The big story continues to be the total change of opinion in Florida where the Republican Governor has joined with a vocal Democratic Congressman (Wexler) to recommend the state change to optical-scan voting by 2008. They are now being joined by the Speaker of the State House of Representatives and some DRE county election officials. // “The price of freedom is not cheap. The importance of a democratic system of voting that we can trust, that we can have confidence is, is incredibly important.” Florida Gov. Charley Crist.

 

NAtional: CIBER Voting Machine Test Lab Failures is 'Old News' Known by Top Election Officials for Years

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4105

 

NAtional: Congress Gets to Work on Election Reform

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2231&Itemid=26

 

AL: Mobile County - County wonders what to do with obsolete voting machines

http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/117032522668660.xml&coll=3

 

CA: Ballot counts stretch days, weeks delay final election results

Growing popularity of absentee voting likely to boost trend

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/01/BAGB8NSLBQ1.DTL

 

CA: Irish E-votingA Neocon Approach to be Avoided in California

http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/02/irish_e-voting-.html

 

CO: Denver voters choose wise course

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/editorials/article/0,2777,DRMN_23964_5319165,00.html

 

FL: Editorial - Dump the touch screens? Problems won't go away

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2007/02/01/a12a_leadedit_voting_0201.html

 

FL: Columnist - `Common Sense Charlie' puts people above party

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/columnists/sfl-cmayocol01feb01,0,6920679.column

 

FL: Columnist - Crist a breath of fresh air for skeptical Florida voters

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/columnists/sfl-phoward01feb01,0,1187977.column

 

FL: Crist: Every county needs paper ballots

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/02/01/State/Crist__Every_county_n.shtml

 

FL: Crist pushes for voting papertrail

http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070201/NEWS01/702010318/1006

 

FL: Crist's plan to replace touch-screen voting machines draws some calls for caution

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pvoting01feb01,0,4263637.story?coll=sfla-news-palm

 

FL: Opinion - Paper chase

Raising voter confidence is crucial

http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070201/OPINION01/702010349/1006/OPINION

 

FL: Crist to seek millions for voting machines that leave paper trail

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070201/APN/702012594

 

FL: House Speaker backs Crist plan to scrap touch-screen voting

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-21crist,0,3493344.story?coll=sfla-news-sfla

 

FL: Fla. governor opts for e-voting systems with paper trail

Crist wants to spend $32.5M to replace most touch-screen systems in the state

http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9010081&taxonomyId=17&intsrc=kc_top

 

FL: Crist says he wants paper trail for '08 election

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/local_news/epaper/2007/02/01/0201papertrail.html

 

FL: Florida Moves to End Touch-Sceen Voting

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/us/01cnd-voting.html?hp&ex=1170392400&en=ef9e9773e1e66b0f&ei=5094&partner=homepage

 

FL: Charlotte County - Replacing Charlotte voting machines could cost $1 million

http://www.sun-herald.com/breakingnews.cfm?id=1103

 

FL: Martin County - Push on for optical scanner paper trail

http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/local_news/article/0,2545,TCP_16736_5319018,00.html

 

GA: For sale on eBay: Georgia e-voting equipment

The misplaced hardware was bought back by Diebold, returned to the state

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=it_in_government&articleId=9010019&taxonomyId=69&intsrc=kc_top

 

ID: Legislature mulls vote-by-mail idea

http://www.idahopress.com/articles/2007/02/01/news/news4.txt

 

ID: Idaho lawmakers consider mail-in voting

http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2007/02/01/ap-state-id/d8n16b183.txt

 

KS: Opinion - Lawmakers: Be fair in deciding election

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/opinion/16591681.htm

 

KS: Douglas County - Primary election plans fall into place

http://signal.baldwincity.com/section/citynews/story/6046

 

MD: Md. lawmakers to begin work on paper voting records

http://www.wmdt.com/wires/displaystory.asp?id=58232164

 

MD: Paper voting trail urged

Lawmakers hear testimony about possible tweaks to voting machines

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-voting0201,0,3333299.story?track=mostviewedlink

 

ME: Ballot Blocks

A bill in Maine would disenfranchise college students.

http://campusprogress.org/tools/1411/ballot-blocks

 

NH: Straight-ticket voting may soon be over in N.H.

http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070201/NEWS0201/102010302/-1/CITIZEN

 

NM: Cibola County - Justice Department Settles Voting Rights Claims with Cibola County, New Mexico

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-31-2007/0004517698&EDATE=

 

PA: Northampton County - Citizens blast voting office

http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-9/1170307338172440.xml&coll=2

 

PA: Northampton County - Work needed in elections, panel told

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/easton/all-b1-3electionfeb01,0,84199.story?coll=all-newslocaleaston-hed

 

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