Article: 'Daily Voting News' For December 12, 2006

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org "At least two commissioners and [Broward County] Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes question the reliability and credibility of touch-screen machines without a physical record of each vote. They want county staff to explore the cost of several alternatives, among them buying printers for the controversial system or switching to paper ballots that can be read by scanners." It appears that some are beginning to realize they were wrong in their support of paperless voting all along. / Harri Hursti --- The Lead Programmer Who Hacked Diebold Systems in Both Florida and Utah --- Looking Forward to Testing the Security Vulnerability of Riverside County's Systems! Election Integrity Individuals, Group, Stake $1000 for Charity on Supervisor Jeff Stone's Offer!...

NAtional: Editorial - Regardless of result, voting procedures must be reviewed LINK

NAtional: Editorial - The Florida 'race' LINK

NAtional: Root the Vote: The Hard and the Soft LINK

CA: Opinion - End state travesty of a rigged system LINK

CA: Riverside County - Nominations for special commission on registrar of voters to be annouced LINK

CA: Riverside County - Group Accepts Voting Machine Hacking Challenge LINK

CA: Riverside County - EXCLUSIVE: Renowned Computer Security Expert Agrees to Meet California County Supervisor's '1000 to 1' Challenge to 'Manipulate' Sequoia Voting Machine! LINK

CA: San Mateo County - Workers to blame in voting problems LINK

CO: Colorado Democrats to form select committee on elections LINK

FL: Opinion - Paper trail the next 'dangling chad' LINK

FL: Opinion - Elections: a failure of trust It's not the machines but the system that needs fixing LINK

FL: Democrats vow votes will have paper trail LINK

FL: Broward County to explore paper trail for touch-screen voting machines LINK

FL: Duval County - Holland seeks funds to provide paper trail Touch-screen machines would be improved. LINK

FL: FL-13 - Candidate vows not to give up vote fight She says voting irregularities raise too many questions to just let it pass. LINK

FL: Fl-13 - Florida's 13th District Debacle Requires a Re-Vote in Sarasota Today and National Reform Tomorrow LINK

IN: Delaware County - Recount begins in local contest Machine, provisional and absentee ballots will be counted separately, in case provisional ballots are thrown out. LINK

MD: Recount to Start in Delegate Race Decided by 28 Votes LINK

MT: Electronic Voting, Counting Machines can be Troublesome LINK

NJ: Ocean County - 2 Democrats sue for new elections LINK

NY: Chautauqua County - County Board Of Elections Still Working On Voting Machine Decision LINK

NY: Otsego County - Otsego board endorses scanners LINK

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