I highly recommend that everyone reading this take the time to read Lowell Finley’s “Testimony to Senate Committee on Rules and Administration”[see below]. It is excellent. // The New York Times editorializes, “It is good news that Ms. Feinstein has called for the federal investigations — and that she is pushing a bill to require paper trails nationally. As long as there are no paper records, and voting machine manufacturers continue to insist that the software that runs the machines is a “trade secret,” voters cannot be expected to trust that votes are being counted correctly. The leadership in Congress needs to focus on making sure that Ms. Feinstein’s paper-trail bill becomes law, along with a companion House measure from Rush Holt, Democrat of New Jersey.” We need to add that we hope that Senator Feinstein will fix the varied problems that are in the Holt bill. We don’t expect that she will ban the use of DREs though we encourage her to do that and we cannot support any legislation that does not include that ban. We do hope, however, that she fixes audit language that would allow a county to easily skirt the bills requirements; language that squelches the use of alternate, low-tech voting systems amongst other; and the co-opting of “paper ballot” when the legislation uses that  term to describe what is really a voter verified paper audit trail. These are only three of a short list of items that must be addressed.

 

NAtional: Testimony to Senate Committee on Rules and Administration

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2252&Itemid=26

 

NAtional: Editorial - Making Democracy Credible

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/09/opinion/09fri1.html?hp

 

NAtional: Banned Voting Machine Test Lab Given More Time to Fix Problems by Friendly Director of U.S. Election Assistance Commission

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4134

 

NAtional: The Flaws that Need Fixing in Holt's HR811

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_kathy_do_070209_the_flaws_that_need_.htm

 

NAtional: Submission to Feinstein Hearings On Election Rules

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_andi_nov_070208_submission_to_feinst.htm

 

NAtional: A push for paper trails in voting machines

http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/19377

 

NAtional: Hart InterCivic CEO to resign

http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2007/02/05/daily44.html

 

CA: Group investigates Riverside County’s electronic voting system

http://www.pe.com/breakingnews/local/stories/PE_News_Local_D_websafevote.c6d9fb.html

 

CA: Orange County - Janet Nguyen tries to close seven-vote margin

http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/communities/santaana/article_1574093.php

 

CA: Orange County - Janet Nguyen won't seek legal action today

http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/communities/santaana/article_1574965.php

 

FL: Opinion - Electronically stored data is the issue in voting

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/letters/sfl-pbmail820feb09,0,3557672.story?coll=sfla-news-letters

 

FL: House panel links primary date to New Hampshire's

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/state/epaper/2007/02/09/a5a_flaprimary_0209.html

 

FL: Committee hears appeal for voting-system accountability

http://www.venicegondolier.com/Newsstory.cfm?pubdate=020907&story=tp3vn4.htm&folder=NewsArchive3

 

FL: Editorial - Don't dump touch-screen machines

http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070209/OPINION/702090402/1015

 

FL: Opinion - Gov. Crist scores again with plan for touch-screen voting

http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070209/OPINION/702090301/1020

 

FL: Palm Beach County - Optical-scan switch to cost $4.3 million in printing costs

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/local_news/epaper/2007/02/09/s7c_anderson_0209.html

 

FL: Sarasota County - Clearing of D-13 evidence opposed

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/16657924.htm

 

OH: Ohio's firebrand elections chief gone but controversy remains

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/16663295.htm

 

OH: Cuyahoga County - Vu's Waterloo

http://www.cleveland.com/politics/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/opinion/117101566836680.xml&coll=2

 

UT: Legislator proposes presidential preference poll

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660194099,00.html

 

**Articles included in “Daily Voting News” may not all reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or its allied organizations. These articles are all included for the information of the subscribers of “Daily Voting News” though we realize that the subscribers may not agree with the opinions given in all articles**
 
*******************************************************************
If you receive Daily Voting News directly from John Gideon and VotersUnite and wish to unsubscribe, please send an email to jgideon@votersunite.org requesting that you be removed from circulation. If you get the email forwarded from someone else you must contact them to be unsubscribed.
*******************************************************************