Today California SoS Debra Bowen announced that she is suing ES&S for nearly $15M for selling uncertified voting machines to counties in the state. The total includes $9.72M for selling the 972 machines and $5M to reimburse the counties. This is the second suit announced in the past three weeks against ES&S and the third lawsuit to be announced against a voting machine vendor in that time period.&&&“How much does it cost to fix an election?” VotersUnite.Org has just received copies of a great new novel by Mark Coggins, mystery writer and Shamus and Barry award-nominated author of the August Riordan series. We were honored to have been asked to review the book a few months ago and our review included the following opinion; “What could be better than a fun fiction about the real dangers of electronic voting? Coggins shows us that elections can be hacked and the cover-up can be murder.” The book is gripping and laugh-out-loud funny in places and it is another example of the fact that election integrity is no longer conspiracy theory from “tin-foil hats”. Read more about the book at VotersUnite.Org (http://www.votersunite.org/info/runoff.asp ) and help us out with a $50 or more donation and get a copy of the book as a premium. You help VotersUnite continue our valuable work and you get a great book. [Note: VotersUnite! is in affiliation with International Humanities Center, a nonprofit public charity exempt from federal income tax under Section 501[c](3) of the Internal Revenue Code.]

 

NAtional: Solving the Election Crisis: Should We Consider a Constitutional Amendment?

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_anthony__071116_solving_the_election.htm

 

CA: Secretary of State Debra Bowen Sues ES&S Over Sale of Unauthorized Equipment to California Counties

http://www.sos.ca.gov/executive/press_releases/2007/DB07_086.pdf

 

CA: Statement of Findings and Decision of the Secretary of State to Seek Relief Against Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S) Regarding the Automark A200

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/automark_findings_111907.pdf

 

CA: Voting-machine company fined millions

http://www.appeal-democrat.com/news/machine_56684___article.html/company_millions.html

 

CA: Calif. secretary of state to sue company over voting machines

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/348/story/197600.html

 

CO: State voting group urges paper ballots

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/nov/19/state-voting-group-urges-paper-ballots/

 

CO: Colorado Voter Group Wants Polling Place Elections With a Few Adjustments

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2654&Itemid=113

 

FL: Sarasota County - Opinion – Concerned Voters Get Involved

Upward from the grass roots

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20071118/COLUMNIST43/711180814/1057/NEWS0105

 

LA: St. Tammany Parrish - Covington-area residents erroneously barred from tax vote

http://blog.nola.com/tpnorthshore/2007/11/covingtonarea_residents_errone.html

 

MS: Wilkinson County - Attorney: Officials to take 5th in voting irregularities case

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071118/NEWS/71118009/1263/rss

 

NY: Opinion - Counting on Chaos at the Polls

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/opinion/nyregionopinions/CIvoting.html?_r=2&ref=nyregionopinions&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

 

NY: Essex County - SPECTRUM: Voting machines raised ire both now and then

New electronic election machine earns no-confidence vote

(NOTE: Be sure to follow the “Read More” arrows for more of this article)

http://www.pressrepublican.com/homepage/local_story_321233130.html?keyword=topstory

 

OH: Hamilton County voting system beats Cuyahoga's in timeliness

Cincinnati area's switch to optical scans brings timelier results

http://www.cleveland.com/open/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/isope/1195390606288420.xml&coll=2

 

PA: Northampton County to sue over voting machines

Units could not be used because of testing, approval issues.

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b3_3avs.6143130nov19,0,2583389.story

 

SC: South Carolina Primary Will Use Paperless E-voting

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2653&Itemid=113

 

SD: Columnist - Kranz: not a Diebold

S.D. doesn't use controversial voting machines targeted in lawsuit

http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071119/COLUMNISTS0102/711190311/1160/COLUMNISTS

 

WA: King County - Certification delay could stall all-mail voting in King County

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004020803_elections18m.html

 

WI: Area communities boost election budgets

Municipalities try to anticipate escalating costs

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071118/GPG0101/711180645/1207/GPGnews

 

WI: Bill would increase election mandates for Wisconsin communities

Proposed law requires paper records, audits

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071118/GPG0101/711180658/1207/GPGnews

 

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