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

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org As reported by Kim Zetter in her Wired Blog and yours truly on OpEdNews, ES&S has responded to the EAC's rebuke for not disclosing that they were manufacturing voting machines in Manila, The Philippines. ES&S arrogantly acted like a spoiled child in their response to the EAC. In the end they provided a list that included factories in Manila, Taiwan and China, but not before trying to blame the EAC for their corporate reporting failures. Have you ever noticed that these vendors take no ownership of any problems? Vote-flipping is always the voters fault. Machine failure is always the poll workers fault....

NAtional: ES&S Pouts, Stamps Foot, Complies Anyway, After Minor Spanking by the EAC LINK

NAtional: ES&S Discloses Full List of Manufacturers LINK

NAtional: Opinion - Elections must have integrity LINK

NAtional: Election system attracts criticism, concerns voters LINK

NAtional: William Jackson | E-voting machines still not reliable Commentary: Electronic voting systems still have too many holes to be trusted. LINK

CA: California Charges ES&S Illegally Sold E-vote Machines LINK

CO: County unravels snags for mail election State order to recertify voting equipment will not affect the November mail-ballot vote. LINK

FL: Florida: Screwing up elections since 2000 LINK

PA: Allegheny County panel still reviewing voting machines LINK

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