Today has been another busy day in the news. Building on top of the California reports from Friday and Monday and the Florida report on Tuesday we now have an important report from the Brennan Center just released today. This new report discusses audits and why they are needed and points out that states are not doing enough to ensure their vote count is accurate. On top of all of this one county in Utah has decided to buck the trend in that state and they are returning to hand-marked paper ballots and optical scan machines this November. Also in a town election in one small South Carolina town, 149 voters voted on the town’s provided ES&S iVotronic machines. The election was to a person to sit on the city council. The machine broke down once during the day and 15 voters had to use paper ballots. The 149 votes could not be retrieved from the machine until the next day due to a problem with passwords. It is not good to use a DRE for any election but for an election with only one race and a small expected turnout it is insane. What are these people thinking?

 

NAtional: Voting Machine Vendors Are Not Responsible Citizens? Really?

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4877

 

NAtional: New Report Finds States Not Doing Enough to Ensure Accurate Count on Electronic Voting Machines

http://www.brennancenter.org/press_detail.asp?key=100&subkey=50088

 

NAtional: Voting Officials Face New Rules to Bar Conflicts

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/washington/01voting.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

 

NAtional: Elections Belong To The People: No One Can Conceal Our Right To Know How Our Votes are Counted

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_andi_nov_070801_elections_belong_to_.htm

 

NAtional: It's not just the voting machines it's how we count them, too

http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/08/01/voting_audits/

 

NAtional: Another day, another e-voting critique

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9753405-7.html

 

CA: Public Comments to the California Top to Bottom Review

http://washburnsworld.blogspot.com/2007/07/public-comments-to-california-top-to.html

 

CA: Opinion - You can't trust the voting machines

http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=4175&catid=4&volume_id=254&issue_id=308&volume_num=41&issue_num=44

 

CA: The Hacker Vote - Overlooked No More

http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/eVoting-Fails-Hacking-Test/story.xhtml?story_id=13300G97G2F5

 

CA: Opinion - Hacking democracy

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/08/01/opinion/editorialscal/19_51_197_31_07.txt

 

CA: Editorial: How to deal with voting machine vulnerability

Secretary of state needs to focus on ways to compensate for security shortcomings

http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/301885.html

 

CA: Editorial - California, vendors must solve e-voting dilemma

http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_6514247

 

CA: E-voting Triad Objects to Voting Machine Criticisms

http://www.dailytech.com/Evoting+Triad+Objects+to+Voting+Machine+Criticisms/article8246.htm

 

CA: Simple Challenge to Electronic Voting Machines: Prove My Vote Was Counted Accurately

http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/challenge_to_el.html

 

CA: Where are the California E-Voting Reports?

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1183

 

CT: Plainfield - November ballot may complicate use of new voting machines in Plainfield

http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070801/NEWS01/708010333/1002

 

FL: Vote scans face tests after study flags flaws

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/tcoast/epaper/2007/08/01/s3b_voting_0801.html

 

FL: Florida Adds Their Voice To Voting Systems Studies

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4900

 

FL: Fla. voting machines still flawed, study finds

http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070801/NEWS01/70731092/1075

 

FL: Opinion - If you vote will it count? Can't tell without paper

http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Opinion/Editorials/opnOPN30080107.htm

 

FL: Time to go back to hanging chads?

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=3937193&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1

 

FL: Florida SAIT report highlights more Diebold problems

http://avi-rubin.blogspot.com/2007/07/florida-sait-report-highlights-more.html

 

FL: Florida Report Spurs Growing Distrust of E-Voting Machines

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Kp6u0y20CNEIXG/Florida-Report-Spurs-Growing-Distrust-of-E-Voting-Machines.xhtml

 

IN: Randolph County - Randolph election board votes to buy MicroVote equipment

http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070801/NEWS01/708010358/1002

 

NJ: State Likely to Fall Short of Jan. 1 Deadline for New Voting Machines

http://campaignsandelections.com/nj/articles/index.cfm?id=447

 

NY: Election money unspent

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20070801%2FNEWS01%2F708010308%2F1006%2FNEWS

 

PA: Federal bill proposes paper trail for required electronic voting system

http://www.heraldstandard.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18650000&BRD=2280&PAG=461&dept_id=480247&rfi=6

 

SC: Richland County - Machine glitch leaves Eastover voters in suspense

Who won a seat on town council? Residents hope to learn results today

http://www.thestate.com/local/story/134089.html

 

TX: Fort Bend County - Voting precinct reduction OK, says county attorney

http://www.herald-coaster.com/articles/2007/07/31/news/news01.txt

 

UT: Summit County - Bubble ballots return

Elections officer says November will be less expensive with the old method

http://www.parkrecord.com/todaysheadlines/ci_6509653

 

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