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 Next Page 1 | 2
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