'Daily Voting News' For January 08, 2008

 

Colorado’s Secretary of State, Mike Coffman, seems to be doing all he can to get away from the decisions he made recently that were negative toward the state’s voting machines. Amazingly he has allowed ES&S and Mesa and Jefferson Counties to run a test on their equipment in an attempt to prove his computer experts wrong. Of course, they can find none of the problems found during the testing done by experts for the state. Also today there are reports that Coffman called election officials in Denver last week and told them that all they need to do is to appeal his decision and he will probably change his decision. This all happened after Coffman met with Sequoia Voting Systems officials. Coffman might just as well have ignored the court when they told the state they had to retest and certify all voting systems. Simply amazing!!

 

NAtional: As primary season ramps up, an e-voting snapshot

Are states across the nation ready for the elections to begin?

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=17&articleId=9056098&intsrc=hm_topic

 

NAtional: Interview - Bits, Bytes and Votes

http://www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=37489

 

NAtional: Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arguments on Indiana Voter ID Law

http://www.munciefreepress.com/node/18488

 

NAtional: Voter-ID Law Draws Political Clash at Supreme Court

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aeYa9wwihWs0&refer=home

 

NAtional: Voter ID: "much ado about nothing"?

http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/news.html?AID=1169

 

NAtional: Our view on improving elections: Photo ID to vote? Only if all who are eligible can get one

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/01/our-view-on-imp.html

 

NAtional: Election (including security) madness

The continuing saga of poorly designed voting machines

http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2008/010808bradner.html

 

NAtional: Election Burden

Indiana's voter-ID law is harmful and worthless.

http://www.slate.com/id/2181573/

 

NAtional: White House Watch: The question the candidates aren't asked and won't answer

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__080108_white_house_watch_3a__.htm

 

AR: Ark. officials expect electronic voting to go smoothly at primary

http://www.pbcommercial.com/articles/2008/01/08/ap-state-ar/d8u1viv81.txt

 

CA: San Diego County - Security Concerns Sideline Electronic Voting Machines

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/14999283/detail.html

 

CA: San Mateo County - Voting contract changing

County's move will not affect use of e-machines

http://sanmateodailynews.com/article/2008-1-8-01-08-smc-contract

 

CO: Lack of election-plan direction after April 1? Foolish

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_7908100

 

CO: Denver - E-voting could be back in '08

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jan/08/e-voting-could-be-back-08/

 

CO: Mesa County - County vote machines pass tests

http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/01/07/010808_1b_Voting_machines.html

 

FL: Columnist - An accurate vote count is essential but elusive in a democracy

http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080108/NEWS01/801080332/1006/NEWS01

 

FL: Editorial - Paper counts

The issue isn't electronics, but verifying votes

http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Opinion/Editorials/opnOPN53010808.htm

 

HI: Maui County - County officials scrambling to ready for elections in fall

http://www.mauinews.com/news/2008/1/8/08couo0108.html

 

NH: The cat that controls New Hampshire election programming

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2810.shtml

 

NH: ALL Diebold ALL the Time - It's the New Hampshire Primary

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__080108_all_diebold_all_the_.htm

 

NJ: New Jersey's Post-Election Audit Bill Goes to the Governor!

http://e-voter.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-jerseys-post-election-bill-goes-to.html

 

TN: TACIR to act on verifiable votes

http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/2008/01/08/tacir-to-act-on-verifiable-votes/

 

WI: Advocates outraged after audit finds polling sites inaccessible

http://www.rhinelanderdailynews.com/articles/2008/01/08/ap-state-wi/d8u1tt281.txt

 

Germany: German activists move to block e-voting

Out of the Chaos Computer Club, calls for ping the computers

http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=privacy&articleId=9056138&taxonomyId=84

 

Germany: German hackers fight electronic voting

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/08/german_hackers_oppose_e_voting/

 

Germany: Voting Computers Spark Controversy German State Election

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3045927,00.html

 

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