Article: 'Daily Voting News' For June 1, 2007

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org It's good to be back from my well deserved trip to Alaska. A great time was had by all; except the fish. Journalist, radio personality and friend Pokey Anderson opened her excellent article, "Peering Through The Chinks in the Armor of High-Tech Elections" thusly; "When you vote, who you voted for is a secret. "Virtually everything else about elections should be public and transparent. But somehow, secrecy has come to cloak many aspects of elections. "First off, the software counting votes is secret. "A raft of other aspects of elections are secret or obscure, including who owns and runs voting machine companies, who their programmers are (google Jeffrey Dean & Diebold for one hair-raising example), reports by certification entities and many experts, and even raw exit poll data by the nation's biggest exit polling group. All secret."...

NAtional: Peering Through The Chinks in the Armor of High-Tech Elections LINK

NAtional: Top vote-machine maker also tops complaint list Vendor discounts woes, blames poll workers. LINK

NAtional: Civic Groups Call on Senate to Correct E-voting Problems Before 2008 LINK

NAtional: Voting: Taken In By High-Tech LINK

NAtional: Raging Caging What the heck is vote caging, and why should we care? LINK

NAtional: DNC: Bush Administration Owes Apology Over Assault on Voting Rights LINK

AZ: Pima County - Fellow Investigators and Patriots: Election Misconduct in Pima County AZ LINK

AZ: Pima County - Results of Pima County sales tax vote disputed LINK

AZ: Pima County - RTA lawyer: It's too late to challenge vote Dems, Pima seeking probe of possible rigging LINK

CA: Riverside County - Positive results in test of vote-counting machines fail to sway critics LINK

CA: San Diego County - 'And that's it' County dismisses critics of elections-office hires LINK

CA: San Mateo County - Slow voting system review sparks concerns County elections chief says process could create 'impossible' situation LINK

CO: Montrose County - Secretary of State: County on right track LINK

CT: EDR To Get Vote Today; Senate GOP Propose Solution, Search for Problem Continues LINK

HI: Editorial - 111 Seats Open in 2008 Elections - Hawaii Needs You LINK

KS: Johnson County - Timing of U.S. House vote on election paper trail bill unclear LINK

NY: Editorial - State must comply with Voting Act LINK

OH: Stark County - Election board makes good investment LINK

PA: Bucks County - Write-in voters found glitches with machines LINK

PA: Mercer County - Extended warranty for voting machines is costly LINK

PA: Monroe County - Group alleges trouble at Coolbaugh polls LINK

UT: Opinion - Holt's bill not fiscally fair LINK

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