My apologies for the lateness of DVN this evening. I, as many in the Election Integrity community, waited to provide the news of the actions on California Secretary of State Bowen with respect to the voting systems used in California. In a clear victory for the EI community and the voters in the state Secretary of State Bowen has announced the following actions: ES&S InkaVotePlus used only in Los Angeles County has been decertified. Hart Intercivic version 6.1 was withdrawn from use in the state by the company. The other systems by Diebold, Sequoia and Hart all had approval for use withdrawn with conditional reapproval for use in the state primary election on 5 February 2008. The conditions for reapproval are tough and thorough with Diebold and Sequoia limited to one DRE per polling place for use by voters with disabilities on election day.

 

NAtional: IEEE - Paper-based elections: no better than electronic ones?

http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/tech_talk/2007/08/paperbased_elections_no_better.html

 

NAtional: Diebold Voting Machines Vulnerable to Virus Attack

An analysis of Diebold's source code shows that a hacker with access to a single voting machine could use a virus to affect an election.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135461-c,techindustrytrends/article.html

 

NAtional: Holt’s paper trail bill still waiting

http://www.politicsnj.com/holt-s-paper-trail-bill-still-waiting-10751

 

AR: Benton County Commission Adopts Recount Policy

http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2007/08/03/news/080407bzelectioncommission.txt

 

CA: California Source Code Reports Released

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4907

 

CA: Today Is D-Day for Electronic Voting Machines

http://www.alternet.org/story/58720/

 

CA: Press Release – UCBerkeley - E-voting systems vulnerable to viruses and other security attacks, new report finds

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/08/02_evoting.shtml

 

CA: CA Releases Source Code Review of Voting Machines New Security Flaws Revealed; Old Ones Were Never Fixed

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/ca-releases-sou.html

 

CA: E-voting systems vulnerable to viruses, other security attacks

http://www.huliq.com/29163/e-voting-systems-vulnerable-to-viruses-other-security-attacks

 

CA: “Top-to-Bottom Review” Provides No Basis for Trust

http://www.commonwealinstitute.org/CIBlog/2007/08/top-to-bottom_review_provides_no_basis_for_trust.html

 

CA: E-Voting Hacks Highlight Political Problems

http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0030009XBKS3

 

CA: CA Source Code Report: Diebold Voting Machines Can Be Hacked With Virus by Single Person, Affecting Entire Election

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4909

 

CO: Mesa County - County struggling to find extra money to fund '08 election

http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/08/03/8_3_1a_elex_budget.html

 

FL: Accuvote? Bit Of An Oxymoron, Don’t You Think?

http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20070803/diebold-florida/

 

FL: FL-13 - GAO says more time needed in District 13 probe

http://www.bradenton.com/breakingnews/story/113376.html

 

FL:  Status of GAO’s Review of Voting Equipment Used in Florida’s 13th Congressional District

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d071167t.pdf

 

IA: Ron Paul Supporters Denounce Iowa Diebold Use

http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=46721

 

NJ: Judge wants plans in place for substitute voting machines

Ruling prepares for possibility of no printers

http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/nj/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1186114003141900.xml&coll=2

 

OH: The criminal cover-up of Ohio's stolen 2004 election sinks to the fraudulent, the absurd, the pathetic

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2261.shtml

 

OH: State makes changes to provisional ballots

http://www.mountvernonnews.com/local/07/08/03/kno.elc.ballots.html

 

PA: California's State-Level Red-team analysis and its implications for

Pennsylvania.

http://www.votepa.us/documents/2007/CaliforniaStudy-PressReport.pdf

 

TX: Study: Voting machine used here open to attacks

California review finds hackers could alter totals, violate voters' privacy and audit trails

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5023773.html

 

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