“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.”

 

NAtional: Essential Revisions to HR 811

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_john_gid_070227_essential_revisions_.htm

 

NAtional: John Bonifaz makes the case for amending Holt's HR 811

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_progress_070225_john_bonifaz_makes_t.htm

 

NAtional: A Return To Sanity – Why We Must Eliminate Computerized Control Of Our Election System

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_andi_nov_070225_a_return_to_sanity__96.htm

 

NAtional: States work on proposals to make voting easier

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-02-26-voting_x.htm

 

NAtional: Opinion - Fixes for accurate vote counts

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070227/cm_csm/eballots

 

NAtional: Unreliable voting machines

http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/19619

 

CA: Orange County - Janet Nguyen is expected to be named winner in disputed O.C. supervisor's race

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-nguyen27feb27,1,1913434.story?coll=la-news-politics-california&ctrack=1&cset=true

 

CA: Riverside County - California Focus

http://ukiahdailyjournal.com/editorial/ci_5314608

 

CO: Montrose County - Report blisters Montrose over election trouble

State finds ‘flagrant violations,’ demands change immediately

http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/02/27/2_27_1a_Montrose_election.html

 

CO: Montrose County - State lambastes county election

http://www.montrosepress.com/articles/2007/02/27/local_news/1.txt

 

CT: Bysiewicz to ask this week for vote audits

http://www.journalinquirer.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17902613&BRD=985&PAG=461&dept_id=161556&rfi=6

 

FL: CD-13 – Opinion - Never-ending campaign

http://www.al.com/opinion/press-register/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1172571654203330.xml&coll=3

 

FL: Sarasota County - Secretary of State’s FL-13 Audit Report Whitewashes Evidence of Voting Machine Problems in Sarasota

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2291&Itemid=113

 

FL: Touchscreen voting: vote of no confidence?

http://www.selfserviceworld.com/article.php?id=17091

 

IL: Call for new election audit rules in Illinois

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=investigative&id=5071680

 

NM: Paper Ballots are Better (NM Case Study)

http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2007/2/26/205229/794

 

TX: Bowie County will get new election equipment

http://www.texarkanagazette.com/articles/2007/02/27/local_news/news/news15.txt

 

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