'Daily Voting News' for June 07-08, 2009
Ellen Theisen, Dave Klein, and John Washburn

We still have Georgia on our mind. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the NAACP lawsuit, filed in 2005, against Georgia's photo voter ID law (not to be confused with the recently passed Georgia law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote, nor the Georgia database matching procedures recently struck down by the DoJ, nor the challenge currently before the Supreme Court to Section 5 of the National Voting Rights Act).

CO: Practical solutions for Colorado elections
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_12530249

DC: Voting Machine Company Agrees to Hand Over Source Code
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/06/voting-machine-company-agrees-to-hand-over-source-code/

GA: Georgia Voter I.D
http://www.wrbl.com/rbl/news/local/article/georgia_voter_i.d/75408/
http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/common-cause.php (Link to case details)
http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/Billups-Petition-4-1-09.pdf (Link to Original Petition]

GA: Voting law does not target minorities
http://metrospirit.com/index.php?cat=1992409084010404&act=post&pid=12350506092952523

NJ: Election overshadows city issues
http://hudsonreporter.com/pages/full_story?page_label=hoboken&article-Election%20overshadows%20city%20issues-Layoffs-%20a%20new%20police%20chief-%20and%20rent%20control%20all%20loom%20in%20the%20future-%20=&id=2674401-Election+overshadows+city+issues-Layoffs-+a+new+police+chief-+and+rent+control+all+loom+in+the+future-&widget=push&instance=secondary_stories_left_column&open=&

OK: It ain't broke...so why turn elections into a $2 bill?
http://www.tulsaworld.com/site/articlepath.aspx?articleid=20090607_261_G1_DeMari156628

TN: Civic Organizations Urge Lawmakers to Follow Through on Trustworthy Voting Systems
http://www.knoxviews.com/node/11415

TN: Paper Ballots Mean More Dollars in Your Pocket
http://www.openpen.org/?p=1652

TX: Voting in South Texas, voting south of the tracks
http://www.margieburns.com/blog/_archives/2009/6/8/4214744.html

Brussels: Security and risk you should care about
http://belsec.skynetblogs.be/

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Ellen Theisen (ellen@votersunite.org), Director and Managing Editor
Dave Klein (Klein.David@VotersUnite.org), Editor
John Washburn (Washburn.John@VotersUnite.org), Editor

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