Article: 'Daily Voting News' For August 15, 2007

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org It appears that Advanced Voting Solutions (AVS), vendor for the WinVote DREs, may be in financial trouble. A report from PA, where WinVote is widely used, relates that AVS has failed to pay their bill for testing of their newest version of system. The testing lab has stopped testing and will not certify the system until they are paid. AVS is the same vendor who was just warned by the EAC for swapping out the motherboard in the new system without notifying either the test lab or the EAC. That notification is mandatory. If you have not seen the Dan Rather Report on voting issues the full program is now on-line. It is a powerful indictment of the vendors....

NAtional: Voter Action Calls For A Full Congressional Investigation Of Voting Systems Companies LINK

NAtional: DAN RATHER REPORTS VIDEO: The Trouble with Touch Screens LINK

NAtional: First in the "Fooled Again" Series: Interview with Nancy Tobi LINK

NAtional: Sequoia Voting Systems Responsible for 2000 Presidential Debacle? LINK

NAtional: EAC Issues Voting System Certification Guide LINK

NAtional: President Urges Effective Election Audits LINK

AZ: Tucson - Touchscreen Voting Machines Won't Be Part of City Elections LINK

CA: Alameda County - State rules risk to early voting Security requirements threaten county's advance ballot casting LINK

CA: Nevada County - Diaz: All-mail ballot possible Foresees voting machines ready for 2008 primary LINK

CA: Siskiyou County - Voting machine changes mandated LINK

FL: Sarasota County - Finally, an election victory Approval of voting system gives Sarasota County voters a break LINK

MS: Natchez - Malfunction postpones vote certification LINK

NH: Is it constitutional to outsource the state's vote counting? Lawyer objects to optical scan machines LINK

NY: Editorial: Push plan on new voting machines LINK

OR: Jackson County - County unveils state-of-the-art voting equipment It will take the guesswork out of which pencil to use LINK

PA: Allegheny and Westmoreland Counties - TV report questions Westmoreland, Allegheny voting machines LINK

PA: Northampton County - Electronic voting machines might be out for some Nov. races LINK

WV: Kanawha County - More Uncounted Ballots Found LINK

WV: Kanawha County - Public confidence wavering after more bags of ballots found LINK

Philippines: 'Defective' machine supplier in U.S. also figured in past ARMM polls LINK

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