Article: 'Daily Voting News' For February 07, 2007

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org As related by John Bonifaz of Demos and the National Voting Rights Institute, in a blog on BradBlog.Com, "[Yesterday], Congressman Rush Holt introduced H.R. 811, a bill trumpeted as requiring "a voter-verified permanent paper ballot." But before we all jump on this train as the new guarantee that our votes will be properly counted in future elections, we ought to beware of the warning flag. A paper trail from DRE (Direct Recording Electronic, usually touch-screen) machines cannot protect the integrity of our elections." And "the Holt bill tries to say it is requiring a paper ballot even for DREs, but, in the end, a DRE "paper ballot" is nothing more than a paper trail, which requires voters to verify their votes after they have cast them in the DRE machines. Studies show that most voters will not spend the time to verify their votes after casting them into DRE machines. Thus, the "voter-verified paper ballot" is a fiction when it comes to DREs." // In the wake of the resignation of Cuyahoga Co Ohio's election director is the news that memory cards used in local elections in the county failed again[see below]. // Officials in California and Idaho are calling for legislation to allow counties to use the Oregon Vote-By-Mail plan....

NAtional: Why the Holt Election Reform Bill Must Be Amended to Guarantee a Real Paper Ballot LINK

NAtional: Legislation would demand paper trail of voting records LINK

NAtional: Senate Rules Committee Hearing Testimony LINK

NAtional: Politicians call for e-voting paper trails by '08 election LINK

NAtional: E-Voting Machines Get The Fish-Eye LINK

NAtional: Key senator calls for paper trail of 2008 presidential votes LINK

CA: Mail-only elections on considered LINK

CA: San Benito County - No Problems with SBC Voting Machines LINK

FL: Victory Video: New Florida Secretary of State Says He's 'Physically and Mentally Exhausted from Defending Touch-Screen Voting' LINK

FL: Advocates renew call for paper voting trail LINK

FL: Study: Blank ballots less likely with paper LINK

FL: Polk County - Charlie and the Paper Trail LINK

FL: Sarasota County - Feinstein wants federal audit of Sarasota's voting machines LINK

ID: County clerks push vote-by-mail measure LINK

KS: Lyon County - A paper trail to safe voting LINK

KY: Webster County clerk opposes election system change LINK

MS: Itawamba County - More [DRE] voting machines requested LINK

NV: County officials ask Nevada legislators for election-law changes LINK

OH: Oh My Ohio: Cuyahoga County Election Director Resigns! New SoS Requests Audit of Blackwell, Shredded Documents! LINK

OH: No changes are expected, state official says LINK

OH: Elections not keeping up with the times LINK

OH: Cuyahoga County - Glitch hits Cuyahoga County election...again LINK

PA: Cambria County - Broken water pipe soaks voting screens LINK

TX: Anderson County - Commissioner's Election Will Be Heard Again LINK

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