'Daily Voting News' For July 27 and 28, 2008

 

As reported in today’s “Featured” article problems encountered during New York State’s tough certification testing have caused the timeline for the 2009 rollout of state’s new voting machines to slip. Now the State Board of Elections has notified the Court that it will not be possible to complete testing on schedule and deploy the new machines in time for the September 2009 primary, as the Court has ordered. Why has this happened? Bo Lipari, the author of the blog, reports that the State Board of Elections has stated, “In the July 24, 2008 weekly status meeting SysTest announced that the vendors were not ready for testing at this point in time due to various issues, among them: documentation issues, testing machines supplied which did not function, lacked hard drives and or USB ports and therefore could not be tested.” Is it any surprise that the vendors, ES&S and Sequoia, are not ready for testing? In what other industry would a contractor come to a state, in hopes of making hundreds of millions of dollars in sales, with a product that was not ready to be tested?

 

Featured - NY: Tell It To The Judge

http://www.nyvv.org/boblog/2008/07/28/tell-it-to-the-judge/

 

National: Editoral - Our view: Helping veterans vote

VA should immediately rescind its ban on nonpartisan registration drives

http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080727/OPINION/807270312/1006/NEWS01

 

National: A way to beat the primary system and get more people voting

http://newsofthenorth.net/article.cfm?articleID=24094

 

National: Action Alert: Tell your Senators to Support Transparent Elections and Oppose S.3212

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Action-AlertTell-your-Se-by-the-web-080727-555.html

 

National: Voter surge will challenge states

http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=328893

 

National: The Systematic Destruction of Voting Rights in America (Part 1)

http://www.naturalnews.com/023706.html

 

AZ: Secretary of State's office recruiting  poll workers

http://prescottdailycourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&subsectionID=1&articleID=57610

 

FL: New voting machines: Paper trail to nowhere?

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-papervote2808jul28,0,7510487.story

 

LA: Voter-rights group cries foul in state

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?/base/news-6/121705062632710.xml&coll=1

 

NJ: Justice Department Announces Agreement Protecting Puerto Rican and Spanish-Speaking Voters in Penns Grove, New Jersey

http://7thspace.com/headlines/288169/justice_department_announces_agreement_protecting_puerto_rican_and_spanish_speaking_voters_in_penns_grove_new_jersey.html

 

NV: Lawsuit over voting machines dismissed in Reno

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jul/27/lawsuit-over-voting-machines-dismissed-in-reno/

 

NY: In Defense of Lever Voting Machines

http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/In-Defense-of-Levers-by-Richard-Hayes-Phil-080727-985.html

 

NY: The Fight to Hold on to Our HAVA-Compliant Lever Voting System: Keeping the Air and the Facts Clear

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Fight-to-Hold-on-to-Ou-by-andi-novick-080728-948.html

 

NY: NY is set to miss the mark again

http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2008/07/28/ny-is-set-to-miss-the-mark-again/

 

NY: Lever voting wins again

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=248&dept_id=462341&newsid=19875089&PAG=461&rfi=9

 

OH: Editorial - Internet offers the future of voting

http://www.news-herald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19874218&BRD=1698&PAG=461&dept_id=220548&rfi=6

 

VA: New electronic machines get their votes

http://www.winchesterstar.com/showarticle_new.php?sID=6&foldername=20080726&file=votes_article.html

 

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