Article: 'Daily Voting News' For April 15 and 16, 2007

As reported by BradBlog, "While revelations surrounding the mysterious 18,000 "undervotes" in the November 2006 U.S. House election between Christine Jennings and Vern Buchanan in Florida's 13th Congressional district continue to inform the nation about the dangers of electronic voting machines, new information has recently come to light exposing a shocking lack of responsible oversight by those entrusted with overseeing the certification of electronic voting systems at the federal level.

"An investigation into what may have gone wrong in that election has revealed a serious security vulnerability on some, and possibly all, versions of the iVotronic touch-screen voting system widely used across the country. The iVotronic is a Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) touch-screen voting machine manufactured by Elections Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S), the nation's largest distributor of such systems."

NAtional: Exclusive: ES&S Touch-Screen Voting Systems Found Vulnerable To 'Serious' Viral Vote-Flipping Attack; U.S. Elections Assistance Commission Refuses To Issue Warning
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4396

NAtional: Severe Insecurity in the ES&S iVotronic Electronic Voting System
http://www.votersunite.org/info/ES&SInsecurity.asp

NAtional: EAC Requests Review of Voter ID, Vote Fraud and Voter Intimidation Research Projects
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2386&Itemid=26

NAtional: Open Letter to Congressman Ehlers
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_david_gr_070415_open_letter_to_congr.htm

NAtional: Pending Election Reform in Congress Doesn't Give Citizens Right to Sue
http://www.alternet.org/story/50492/

FL: Academics Call Foul On Florida Test of Voting Machines
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/04/academics_call_.html

FL: FL-13 - Task force to look at Jennings' challenge
Panel meets Tuesday to review Southwest Florida congressional election.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070416/NEWS/704160576

FL: FL-13 - Congress to begin inquiry into contested Fla. House seat
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/breaking_news/17086943.htm

MO: Carnahan wins federal lawsuit over voter rolls
http://www.columbiatribune.com/2007/Apr/20070414News009.asp

MO: Federal Judge Finds Against U.S. Dept. of Justice in Missouri 'Voter Fraud' Case
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4410

NJ: Sussex County - Busy-bee election workers getting everything ready
http://www.njherald.com/293301994523197.php

NJ: Warren County - Warren at voting's cutting edge
Paper proof of tally. First N.J. county to be up and ready. Could serve as model for rest of state.
http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/nj/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1176697026105230.xml&coll=2

NY: Microsoft Says - We Won't Escrow
http://nyvv.org/blog/bolipariblog.html

OH: Cuyahoga County - Bye bye to Cleveland GOP Election Chair Bob "Ballots for Bush" Bennett
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2007/2538

OH: Cuyahoga County - Wanted: qualified people to rebuild Cuyahoga's elections system
http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=348285&Category=13&subCategoryID=

OH: Cuyahoga County - Opinion - Brunner goes 4-for-4
click here

OH: Franklin County - Response to voter complaints over privacy: Extension cords
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/17085687.htm

OH: Franklin County - $7 extension cords will boost privacy at polls, panel says
click here

PA: Court rejects state's protests to voting machine suit
click here

PA: Case Moves Forward Against Pennsylvania Voting Machines
http://www.public-cio.com/newsStory.php?id=2007.04.16-104978

PA: Electronic voting under legal scrutiny in the US
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/16/evoting_scrutiny/

TN: State officials oppose paper trails for voting machines
http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070416/NEWS02/70416074

VA: Virginia Bans New DREs in First Step Toward Verifiable Voting
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2384&Itemid=113

WI: Voting officials work to fix flaw in the system
Bug leads to inaccurate reports
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=591489

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