Article: 'Daily Voting News' For June 22, 2007

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org Remember Arthur Anderson, the man who ran for Palm Beach Co, Florida Election Supervisor on a promise that he would give the voters a voter verified paper trail? He is also the man who ran from that promise just as soon as he was elected and took office. In fact he has gone so far to protect the counties paperless Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines that his office lied in an estimate for how much it would cost for elections if the county went to a paper ballot based optical-scan system. In their estimate to the county, Anderson tripled the cost of printing each paper ballot to $1.25 per ballot from the actual $.40 per ballot. The difference in the estimate? $2.2 million. And in California the SoS has announced that ES&S is not cooperating in her "top-to-bottom" review of the state's voting systems. It seems that ES&S has refused to turn-over their source code for review. ...

NAtional: Panel Faces Partisanship Allegations LINK

NAtional: The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy: Privatizing Our Vote LINK

NAtional: Framing Computerized Voting LINK

CA: Unprecedented: CA SoS Pulls Voting Machine Co. Source Code Out of Escrow LINK

CA: Nevada County - Officials expect to meet voting machine deadline LINK

FL: FL-13 - Deplorable delay in District 13 GAO should seek the truth, but Jennings should concede LINK

FL: Palm Beach County - County backs off ballot revolt as elections chief chops cost LINK

FL: Palm Beach County elections chief blasted for overestimating ballot costs LINK

GA: State Election Board balks at paper backups mandate LINK

NY: Legislature fails to agree on vote machine date LINK

NY: Citizens 1, Microsoft 0 New Yorkers win Round One in fight for source code protections LINK

TX: Cameron County - Hernandez doubts electronic balloting system Mayoral runoff recount tentatively set for Saturday LINK

WA: King County - Reckless Plan: Can Diebold Count Mail Ballots? [Updated] LINK

United Kingdom: Many hidden returns LINK

United Kingdom: May 2007 UK e-voting pilots riddled with flaws LINK

United Kingdom: E-vote 'threat' to UK democracy LINK

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