Article: 'Daily Voting News' For November 18 and 19, 2007

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org Today California SoS Debra Bowen announced that she is suing ES&S for nearly $15M for selling uncertified voting machines to counties in the state. The total includes $9.72M for selling the 972 machines and $5M to reimburse the counties. This is the second suit announced in the past three weeks against ES&S and the third lawsuit to be announced against a voting machine vendor in that time period.

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NAtional: Solving the Election Crisis: Should We Consider a Constitutional Amendment? LINK

CA: Secretary of State Debra Bowen Sues ES&S Over Sale of Unauthorized Equipment to California Counties LINK

CA: Statement of Findings and Decision of the Secretary of State to Seek Relief Against Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S) Regarding the Automark A200 LINK

CA: Voting-machine company fined millions LINK

CA: Calif. secretary of state to sue company over voting machines LINK

CO: State voting group urges paper ballots LINK

CO: Colorado Voter Group Wants Polling Place Elections With a Few Adjustments LINK

FL: Sarasota County - Opinion - Concerned Voters Get Involved Upward from the grass roots LINK

LA: St. Tammany Parrish - Covington-area residents erroneously barred from tax vote LINK

MS: Wilkinson County - Attorney: Officials to take 5th in voting irregularities case LINK

NY: Opinion - Counting on Chaos at the Polls LINK

NY: Essex County - SPECTRUM: Voting machines raised ire both now and then New electronic election machine earns no-confidence vote (NOTE: Be sure to follow the "Read More" arrows for more of this article) LINK

OH: Hamilton County voting system beats Cuyahoga's in timeliness Cincinnati area's switch to optical scans brings timelier results LINK

PA: Northampton County to sue over voting machines Units could not be used because of testing, approval issues. LINK

SC: South Carolina Primary Will Use Paperless E-voting LINK

SD: Columnist - Kranz: not a Diebold S.D. doesn't use controversial voting machines targeted in lawsuit LINK

WA: King County - Certification delay could stall all-mail voting in King County LINK

WI: Area communities boost election budgets Municipalities try to anticipate escalating costs LINK

WI: Bill would increase election mandates for Wisconsin communities Proposed law requires paper records, audits LINK

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