Article: 'Daily Voting News' For February 27, 2007

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org "Florida's Congressional District 13 race and the report of conflicts between the paper trail records and the electronic ballots in Cuyahoga County, Ohio are only two recent examples of how elections using DRE technology cannot be trusted and how confusing the technology can be to voters. Evidence overwhelmingly confirms that, even with the addition of a voter-verified paper audit trail, DREs cannot be made to serve our nation's need for universal citizen enfranchisement. It would constitute a grievous error to further codify the use of DRE systems, as is currently done by the redefinition of "voter verified paper ballot" found at the beginning of HR 811's Section 2(a)(1). We believe that all voters should have equal access to accurate, secure, meaningfully observable, and verifiable election systems. DREs have been touted as providing this kind of election system, but America's experience with hundreds of documented DRE failures and thousands of voters disenfranchised by them proves otherwise. Any voter required to use a DRE is at once relegated to second-class status, given that other voters can vote on voter-marked paper ballots. Evidence shows that voter-marked paper ballots, combined with existing ballot-marking interfaces, provide both equity and parity to disabled and language minority voters in full compliance with ADA and HAVA."...

NAtional: Essential Revisions to HR 811 LINK

NAtional: John Bonifaz makes the case for amending Holt's HR 811 LINK

NAtional: A Return To Sanity - Why We Must Eliminate Computerized Control Of Our Election System LINK

NAtional: States work on proposals to make voting easier LINK

NAtional: Opinion - Fixes for accurate vote counts LINK

NAtional: Unreliable voting machines LINK

CA: Orange County - Janet Nguyen is expected to be named winner in disputed O.C. supervisor's race LINK

CA: Riverside County - California Focus LINK

CO: Montrose County - Report blisters Montrose over election trouble State finds 'flagrant violations,' demands change immediately LINK

CO: Montrose County - State lambastes county election LINK

CT: Bysiewicz to ask this week for vote audits LINK

FL: CD-13 - Opinion - Never-ending campaign LINK

FL: Sarasota County - Secretary of State's FL-13 Audit Report Whitewashes Evidence of Voting Machine Problems in Sarasota LINK

FL: Touchscreen voting: vote of no confidence? LINK

IL: Call for new election audit rules in Illinois LINK

NM: Paper Ballots are Better (NM Case Study) LINK

TX: Bowie County will get new election equipment LINK

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