'Daily Voting News' For January 12, 2007

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org "U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, today sent a letter to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission seeking answers as to why the Commission failed to notify election officials or the public about a serious problem with Ciber Labs of Colorado, one of three major labs that tests much of the nation's software used in voting equipment. Senator Feinstein also asked for information regarding what went wrong at Ciber Labs to warrant its loss of accreditation." / "The move came one month after Brian Phillips, president of SysTest Labs, accepted the invitation of a Florida law firm representing a Republican candidate to witness a recount in a Florida election."When there's a conflict over an election, like there was in Florida, we don't want (these companies) to be hired by one party or another," said Donetta Davidson, formerly Colorado secretary of state and now chairwoman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission." This from the woman who told Florida election officials that she was unhappy to see the Republicans lose the Senate because she had promises from them that they would not allow any changes to HAVA. Commissioner, while you're on the conflict of interest theme, let's look inwardly; OK? ...

NAtional: Senator Feinstein Seeks Answers from EAC On Unreported Failures at Voting Equipment Test Lab LINK

NAtional: Election Assistance Cheerleader LINK

NAtional: Toe ethics line, vote machines' testers told LINK

NAtional: Activist: DHS considering outsourcing work for ID law LINK

NAtional: The Technology Devolution LINK

CA: Alameda County - Macdonald Named County Registrar LINK

CA: Long Beach - Council Buys New Voting System For City, First Test May 1 LINK

CA: Long Beach - City Council approves new voting system for Long Beach LINK

CO: No more partisan rules, Coffman vows LINK

CO: Denver - Denver Tests Voting Machines For Jan. Election LINK

CO: Montrose County - Citizens question choice of equipment LINK

FL: 3 Democrats Contest Wins By Incumbents LINK

FL: FL-13 - Computer experts take crack at D-13 vote code LINK

FL: FL-13 - Christine Jennings Admits She Should Have Listened to Election Integrity Advocates Earlier... LINK

GA: Staton wants increased penalties for voter fraud LINK

IL: Cook County - County Clerk vows election improvements LINK

MD: Md. Democrats waste no time proposing paper trail- LINK

NY: Paper ballots vs. touch screen voting machines LINK

SC: Pawleys Island - Pawleys to have electronic voting LINK

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