Article: 'Daily Voting News' For December 19, 2006

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org All US citizens who have not been otherwise disqualified, have the right to vote for President? Not if you live in the US Virgin Islands. They are citizens but residents have no right to vote for President. / "If you needed any more evidence to counter the argument that it would be "too expensive" to dump all the shitty, unreliable, inaccurate, hackable, disenfranchising touch-screen (DRE) voting systems in favor of paper ballots, just take a look at Utah. They're the state which pushed out heroic 23-year Emery County Election Clerk Bruce Funk because he had the temerity to allow independent computer security experts to test the Diebold touch-screen systems the state was forcing him to use. (The experts found massive security flaws described as "the most serious" ever discovered)."...

NAtional: Comparing Testing Costs of DRE and Paper Ballot Systems LINK

CA: Riverside County - Opinion - Is electronic voting safe and secure? LINK

FL: FL-13 - Election dispute continues in court today LINK

FL: FL-13 - MoveOn Calls for New Election in Florida Voting Machine Meltdown LINK

FL: Sarasota County - State audit says voting machines worked in Buchanan-Jennings election LINK

FL: Sarasota County - Jennings camp expert testifies on first day of election suit hearing LINK

IL: Kane County - Cunningham says much work needed before '08 election LINK

IN: Delaware County - Lasater wins recount by 10 votes Her opponent wanted to throw out thousands of ballots, but a judge found no fraud, tampering or misconduct. LINK

NC: Person County - Person OKs $160K for new elections building LINK

UT: Election Costs Doubled in Utah Due to Use of Diebold Touch-Screen Voting Systems LINK

VT: Unofficially, it's Salmon LINK

US Virgin Islands - After six year delay the denial of voting rights of U.S. citizens in the Virgin Islands to be heard by appellate court LINK

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