Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
Nevada County (California) Registrar of Voters/County Clerk-Recorder Kathleen Smith recommended against contracting with ES&S for AutoMark deployment for the June 6, 2006, election, at the Board of Supervisors meeting yesterday. Mr. Tom O'Brien of ES&S said ES&S would not agree to the County's request for contract terms regarding shared cost of upgrades or specific trade-in terms on future improved equipment. Now, 41 days before California's Primary Election, Lou Dedier of ES&S refuses to provide services to Nevada County (software coding for optical scan ballot tabulation equipment) for the June 6 election without a service agreement. A typically arrogant act by a company that does not care if they lose business because they have much more than they can possibly handle....
AR: Pulaski County - Train Wreck - Readying of voting machines is lagging LINK
CA: Nevada County - Train Wreck - County may miss voting law compliance LINK
IN: Porter County - Train Wreck - Incorrect ballots will be replaced. But many problems remain unresolved for next week's primary. LINK
OH: Summit County - Train Wreck - Summit vote system to debut. ES&S has extra memory cards on hand; elections board LINK
OH: Summit County - Train Wreck - E-VOTE TRAIN WRECK '06: ES&S Memory Cards Continue to Fail in Ohio as Primary Kicks off Next Tuesday. But ES&S Has a Brilliant New Plan for Technical Support! LINK
PA: Allegheny County - Train Wreck - New Allegheny County voting machines criticized in court hearing (ES&S) LINK
PA: Allegheny County - Train Wreck - Expert warns of voting chaos LINK
CA: Seven Counties Dismissed From California Voters Lawsuit to Block Use or Purchase of Electronic Voting Machines LINK
FL: Leon County - County will get voting machines LINK
GA: DeKalb County - DeKalb voters need to watch the mail LINK
IN: Elections panel to OK use of new voting equipment (MicroVote) LINK
IN: Voting software likely to get state's OK Friday LINK
IN: Delaware County - Delaware election officials expect voting machines to be approved LINK
IN: Randolph County - Randolph ready to vote electronically (Voting Technologies International) LINK
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