February 14, 2006
By JGideon
a run-down of the days elections/voting news from across the country and overseas.
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Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
Smartmatic paid up to $35M for Sequoia Voting Systems last year, depending on performance. This year they contracted with Cook County and Chicago, Illinois to sell them voting machines worth $50.2M. For that amount of money the state of Illinois could have bought the whole company. A court in Pennsylvania found that at least one county needed to go to the people and ask them, via referendum, how they want to vote. The Arizona legislature rejected a hand audit. Regular readers of DVN will recall that
VoteTrustUSA has been sponsoring an Action Alert to ask voters to notify the EAC and demand that they take action with regards to the use of banned software on some voting systems. You all are responsible for 20,113 Emails and 2220 letters sent so far!...
NAtional: Twists and Turns - Who Owns Sequoia? LINK
AZ: Lawmakers reject hand count of votes. (5% hand counted audit) LINK
AZ: SB1557- A Day of Tragedy for Democracy in Arizona LINK
CA: Vendors, Testers, and Secretary of State Decline Invitation To Voting System Hearing LINK
CA: San Francisco Election Director Plans To Use Uncertified Voting Machines LINK
CA: Santa Cruz County - Get set to vote by mail LINK
CO: Vote-machine laws trip counties LINK
FL: Leon County - Sancho wants grant back LINK
IL: Illinois Certification - a Recipe for Disaster? LINK
IL: Are Chicago and Cook County Wasting $25 million on Inferior, Non-Compliant Voting Technology? LINK
MO: Photo ID foe says bill smacks of 'Jim Crow' era LINK
MS: Bond would finance new voting machines LINK
MS: Jackson County - State gives voting machines LINK
NC: Wake County - Paper ballots to stay in Wake LINK
NC: Wake County - County commissioners vote against touch-screen voting machines LINK
NM: Paper Ballot Bill Passes State Senate LINK
NM: Senate Approves Paper Ballot Voting Systems LINK
PA: Luzerne County - New voting machines face hurdle LINK
PA: Westmoreland County - Voters must OK machines LINK
PA: Westmoreland County - Voting machine purchase blocked LINK
PA: Westmoreland County - Judge: vote required for purchase of electronic voting machines LINK
TX: Navarro County - County, City closing in on election day agreement LINK
VA: Appropriations Subcommittee Votes to Delay HB 1243 Til Next Year LINK
**"Daily Voting News" is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in "Daily Voting News" may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or OpEdNews.Com**
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Authors Bio:John is the Executive Director of VotersUnite.Org