A lot of important decisions are nearing completion. Members of Congress are deciding whether they are happy with HR-811 as it came out of committee. Many members have said they are no longer in support of the bill. Riverside Co. California supervisors have a decision whether to follow the recommendation of their study group to rid the county of Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines. San Francisco California election officials have to decide whether they will have to count ballots by hand in November. And Pennsylvania counties that use ES&S DREs have to decide whether they want to continue paying the exorbitant fees for machine warranties. And, by the way, speaking about decisions; many groups decided to support, and pleaded with their members to support, HR-811 two-weeks before the bill was even filed. Yet, those same groups are totally mum on S-1487 even though it is due to go to committee hearing in a week. Why the silence? Why are they not standing up and being vocal about their support for democracy and opposition to the bill?

 

NAtional: 'Hacking Democracy' Nominated for Emmy!

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4835

 

NAtional: On-Site Observation of the Hand-Counting of Paper Ballots and Recommendations For The General Public

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_sheila_p_070718_on_site_observations.htm

 

NAtional: Hinchey Says Holt Election Bill 'Has Been Compromised'

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4833

 

NAtional: Thoughts on Holt's Verified Voting Bill

http://www.bluejersey.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5248

 

AR: Secretary Of State Lawyer Says Congress Poised To Change Election Law Again

http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2007/07/17/news/071807lreleclaws.txt

 

CA: Riverside County - Supervisors to study phase-out of electronic balloting

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/riverside/20070717-1602-voteequip.html

 

CA: Riverside County - Voting machines may be on way out

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/07/18/news/californian/4_01_077_17_07.txt

 

CA: Riverside County - Voters could decide fate of Riverside County's touch-screen machines

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_H_votes18.359e521.html

 

CA: Riverside County - Election panel advises a return to paper ballots

http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070718/NEWS0301/307180004/1006

 

CA: San Francisco County - Hands may replace digits in November vote count

http://www.examiner.com/a-833886~Hands_may_replace_digits_in_November_vote_count.html

 

FL: Palm Beach County - Century Village wants old touch screens

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/local_news/epaper/2007/07/18/s3b_cenvil_0718.html

 

GA: Congressional election too close to call

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_6404763?nclick_check=1

 

MS: Itawamba County - Election: Absentee voting a concern

http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=246920&pub=4&div=News

 

NC: Cherokee County - Police: Cherokee voting results not affected by break-in

http://www.smokymountainnews.com/issues/07_07/07_18_07/fr_cherokee_voting.html

 

NJ: NJIT tests special printers for electronic voting

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2007/07/njit_tests_special_printers_fo.html

 

NJ: Printers tested for reliability in verifying electronic votes

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-7/118473412494000.xml&coll=1

 

PA: Counties discuss voting machine warranties

http://www.sharonherald.com/local/local_story_198211141.html

 

PA: Bucks County sells old voting machines to reclamation company

http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-52/118475574179350.xml&storylist=penn

 

PA: Lehigh County - County finally pulls lever on voting machine sale

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b1-2voting.5949975jul18,0,4792162.story

 

PA: Luzerne County - County says voting machine warranty too costly

http://www.citizensvoice.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18598127&BRD=2259&PAG=461&dept_id=455154&rfi=6

 

TX: Kerr County - Polling places set for Nov. 6 election

http://stories.dailytimes.com/story.lasso?ewcd=1d5cef389c48cd7b

 

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