Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Just in late this afternoon, a typical-bad-news-on-a-late-Friday-after-the-news-week-is-complete, is the news that Secretary of State Brunner has ignored the statements of every person who spoke before the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. She has decided that the county must change voting systems and voting system vendors before the primary election which is March 4 with early voting beginning in a little over a month. ES&S will be given the contract. NAtional: Electronic Voting Equipment Records a Vote of 'No Confidence' LINK
NAtional: Voting Rights Activists Win Big Cases in Florida and Arizona LINK
NAtional: Diebold under Justice Department scrutiny, too LINK
NAtional: Diebold Now Also Under DoJ Investigation as Stock Price Hits FIVE-YEAR Low!
Once-Great, Now-Disgraced American Company Also Facing SEC Probe, Lawsuits, Upcoming 2008 Election Meltdowns LINK
AK: Vote count for 2004 general election will stand
SYSTEM CRITICIZED: Division of Elections must pay attorney fees. LINK
CA: Kern County - Kern considers lawsuit against state official LINK
CA: Marin County - Women urge hand-count double-check of county ballots LINK
CA: San Diego County - Chip disappearance prompts sparks LINK
CA: Solano County - Kondylis wants probe of mayoral tallies LINK
CO: Clerks plead for all-mail vote LINK
CO: Party Chair Questions Coffman's Ability to Lead Elections LINK
CO: Political firm boss denies any conflict
Phase Line-Coffman link prompts call for resignation LINK
CO: Coffman caught in conflict over lobbying firm LINK
CO: Arapahoe County - Doty responds to decertification of voting machine LINK
CO: Park County voting machines need upgrades
Machines will be ready for August primary, says Park County clerk and recorder LINK
CO: Pitkin County voting machines on track
Local voting machines immune to statewide security problems LINK
CO: Pueblo County - Editorial - Double whammy LINK
CO: Pueblo County - Will Pueblo have legal voting machines in time for the next election? LINK
CO: Weld County - Weld voting machines remain certified despite state-wide concerns LINK
IN: Porter County - Versau likes voting machines, not election results LINK
LA: Colorado voting machine decision being reviewed in La. LINK
MI: Feds review Warren elections
City is one of five in Michigan undergoing audit of election spending, equipment security LINK
MN: Instant runoff voting has its first hurdle - a lawsuit
A citizens group filed suit to stop instant runoff voting in Minneapolis. The group says the ranking system is too confusing. LINK
NV: I-Team: Voting Machines Used in Nevada Deemed Unreliable in Colorado LINK
NY: Federal Judge Sets Voting Machine Deadline LINK
NY: Judge Orders Voting Machine Deadline LINK
NY: N.Y. ordered to comply on election law
Judge gives state deadline for voting machines plan LINK
NY: Judge gives N.Y. 14 days to devise plan to comply with voting law LINK
NY: Oneida County Board of Legislators urge state to comply to voting machine updates LINK
OH: WHAT the HE DOUBEL HOCKEY STICKS is going on in OHIO? LINK
OH: Opinion - Resolve Voting Issues Quickly LINK
OH: Athens County - Voting machine issues to have little effect in county LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County - Ohio County Split on New Voting System LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County - Secretary of State Brunner expected to order Cuyahoga County to buy optical scanners LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County - Conflict in Cuyahoga LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County - Secretary of state breaks tie, votes to scrap Cuyahoga machines LINK
OH: Official To Issue Decision For BOE To Overhaul Voting System LINK
VA: Virginia: Election Advocates Urge New Security Measures LINK
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Two more states have begun to look at the results of testing of voting systems and they are answering questions of the media. In both cases, Nevada and Louisiana election officials told the same story. Yes, they use the same machines and the machines have the same problems BUT they have administrative methods that make the findings from Ohio and Colorado inconsequential. Of course, both states have the same, or nearly the same, administrative methods as both Ohio and Colorado and the methods described in the media would not have any impact on the insecure, inaccurate and inaccessible voting systems in use.
Speaking of inaccessibility of voting systems; why has no one yet stood-up and reminded these states that their reports say the machines do not meet HAVA requirements? Why is this being ignored? ...
