Recent reports that  Voting Technologies International has gone out of business have apparently been premature but now the company is  being sued by past employees, vendors, and Wisconsin labor regulators, all of whom say the company did not pay them for accrued time off, services rendered and reimbursable expenses. How much longer can it be for VTI? Meanwhile a congressional task force will meet April 17, for the first time, to begin discussions of the election in Florida CD-13. The GOP has, so far, chosen to not have any members on this task force. The group will meet with or without a GOP representative. And speaking of Florida, the Governor and Senate seem to be in agreement that DRE voting must go. The state House seems to be holding out. The Speaker of the House is concerned that state funds are going to be used by the counties to correct their bad decisions. And then late this afternoon the GOP majority in one House committee voted to axe any funds for the state to purchase new machines to replace their DREs. Also today, true to its seemingly partisan position the EAC has decided to disown a commissioned study on VoterID and do it again in an attempt to get the result that they want.

 

NAtional: Federal Election Agency Plays Politics with Voter ID Study

http://projectvote.org/newsroom/project-vote-news/project-vote-news.html?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=202&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=75&cHash=fc5ff6bfa8

 

NAtional: EAC to Launch Comprehensive Study of Voter ID Laws

http://www.eac.gov/news_033007.asp

 

NAtional: "The Right to Count: Democracy v. Electronic Voting" - A documentary by Richard Van Slyke

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/page.php?a=32770&p=1

 

CA: Early primary squeezes review of voting systems

Registrars warn secretary of state that August deadline for fixes is unrealistic

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/30/BAG4NOUOVG1.DTL

 

CA: New California e-voting measure uses hackers to test voting machine security

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070330-californian-voting-machines-to-be-tested-by-hackers.html

 

CA: CA-11 - McNerney Election Protection Task Force Releases Election Report with 36 Recommendations

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4339

 

CA: Riverside County - Voting machines topic at hearing

Programmer will discuss vulnerabilities of electronic system

http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070330/NEWS0301/703300362/1006

 

CA: Riverside County - Expert: Paper ballots are best for Riverside County

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_webvote.191ea64.html

 

CA: Riverside County - ELECTIONS HACK TEST: Counter-Challenging Elections Officials on the Truth

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/page.php?a=32778

 

CA: San Joaquin County - Election officials object to audit

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070330/A_NEWS/703300333

 

FL: Florida Senate: $35M for voting machines

http://www.miamiherald.com/416/story/57468.html

 

FL: Paper Trail Still Lacks Direction

http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGB8AS92WZE.html

 

FL: Touch vote machines in Senate cross hairs

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/state/epaper/2007/03/30/a19a_XGR_voting_0330.html

 

FL: Florida Senate backs new voting machines

The Florida Senate has signaled its support to buy new opti-scan voting machines across the state for $35 million. The House, meanwhile, has kept silent on the plan.

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/politics/16997180.htm

 

FL: Legislators look for support to replace controversial touch-screen machines

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-felection30mar30,0,5050082.story?coll=sfla-news-florida

 

FL: Lawmakers debate voting-machine bill

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070330/NEWS/703300319

 

FL: Republicans vote to ax effort for more money for optical voting scanners

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-330votingmachine,0,2857617.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

 

FL: House panel says no to voting machines that leave paper trail

http://www.sun-herald.com/breakingnews.cfm?id=1580

 

FL: FL-13 - Group to start District 13 talks

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/16997273.htm

 

FL: FL-13 - Democrats press on with voting probe

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070330/NEWS/703300510

 

IL: DuPage County - Elected officials caught in loophole

Why some towns won’t be able to swear them in

http://www.dailyherald.com/news/dupagestory.asp?id=296269&cc=d&tc=&t=

 

MN: IRV shows how to put heart back into our elections

http://www.timberjay.com/current.php?article=3164

 

NV: Bill seeks accountability report on elections

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20070330/ELECTIONS/103300156

 

NV: Lawmaker proposes election complaint study

http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070330/NEWS11/703300493/1002/NEWS

 

NY: When Will New York Upgrade Voting Machines?

http://www.weny.com/News-Local.asp?ARTICLE3864=5731589

 

NY: Council backs paper ballots - Votes unanimously to replace old voting booths

http://www.bayridgecourier.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18149156&BRD=2384&PAG=461&dept_id=576270&rfi=6

 

NY: Chemung County - New voting machines discussed

http://news10now.com/content/all_news/?ArID=100230&SecID=83

 

OH: Cuyahoga County - Bennett sues to keep his job on elections board

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1175244772127260.xml&coll=2

 

OH: Cuyahoga County - Election board chair sues to keep his job

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/17001416.htm

 

PA: Cambria County - County gets ‘good report’ on machines

http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/local_story_089000235.html?keyword=secondarystory

 

RI: Commentary: R.I. should require voters to present ID

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18146694&BRD=1713&PAG=461&dept_id=24490&rfi=6

 

WI: Entrepreneur sued by Microsoft says he was unaware of alleged infractions

http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2007/03/26/daily18.html

 

WV: Beckley councilman wants election overhaul

http://www.register-herald.com/local/local_story_088225649.html

 

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