An article in Arstechnica correctly points out that the Lofgren amendment to HR-811 “significantly watered down the requirement that voting machine source code be made publicly available. Holt's original legislation had required that source code be "available for inspection promptly upon request to any person." The version approved by the House still requires vendors to disclose source code to an independent third party, but that third party may only disclose the source code to government officials, to parties in election-related litigation, or to a person "who reviews, analyzes, or reports on the technology solely for an academic, scientific, technological, or other investigation or inquiry concerning the accuracy or integrity of the technology."” Even with this change to the bill we are pleased with the way the bill came out of committee. Unfortunately the lack of wording that requires paper ballots for all tallies, recounts and audits keeps us from supporting the bill.  Let me be perfectly clear though; we are not anti-HR811. We are, instead, neutral and will continue our fight to ban electronic ballots from US elections.

 

NAtional: House waters down e-voting code disclosure rules

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070510-house-waters-down-e-voting-code-disclosure-rules.html

 

NAtional: Paper trail bill voted out of House committee. Would such a law have prevented Sarasota?

http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3137

 

NAtional: The globalization of electronic election theft

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2007/2585

 

NAtional: Voting Paper Trail Requirement Clears Committee

http://www.betanews.com/article/Voting_Paper_Trail_Requirement_Clears_Committee/1178907405

 

NAtional: Hand-Counted Paper Ballots: Frequently Asked Questions

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_sheila_p_070511_hand_counted_paper_b.htm

 

CA: Riverside County - Vote machine probe to start next week

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/05/11/news/californian/4_01_405_10_07.txt

 

CA: San Diego County - BREAKING: Former Diebold, Sequoia Sales Rep Named as New San Diego County Registrar of Voters

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4540

 

CA: San Diego County - Former Diebold Sales Rep Becomes Registrar of Voters in San Diego

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/05/former_diebold_.html

 

CA: San Diego County - County hires new registrar of voters

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/05/11/tomorrow/16_29_435_11_07.txt

 

CO: Douglas County - High school students to work Douglas elections

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5532679,00.html

 

GA: Karen Handel: Voting Rites

Georgia’s Secretary of State says providing a paper trail for electronic voting is a matter of when, not if.

http://www.georgiatrend.com/features-people/05_07_handel.shtml

 

IL: Feds find fault with state election spending

http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/05/11/news/doc4644e7e5c6050842798933.txt

 

IN: Hancock County - After losing by 9 votes, candidate wants a recount

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070511/LOCAL/705110495/1139/LOCAL07

 

IN: Marion County - Council president to reinstate investigative election committee

http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=6503831&nav=9Tai

 

MA: Bolton - New voting machine has assistive features

http://www.townonline.com/bolton/homepage/x569338635

 

PA: Bucks County - Freedom of Information

http://blogs.phillyburbs.com/blog.php?p=13580&cat=8

 

UT: Salt Lake County - Special Election Means Special Expenses for Cities, Counties

http://www.kcpw.org/article/3539

 

WV: Jefferson County - Electronic voting equipment purchase approved

http://www.journal-news.net/news/articles.asp?articleID=9194

 

Canada: Montreal - City pays $300,000 to settle dispute on botched voting

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=83a28ba9-6632-421d-ae76-84d4863c9eb7

 

Scotland: Fragmented databases behind Scottish election debacle

http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=standards_and_legal_issues&articleId=9019158&taxonomyId=146

 

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