a run-down of the days elections/voting news from across the country and overseas

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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 **Articles included in "Daily Voting News" may not all reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or its allied organizations. These articles are all included for the information of the subscribers of "Daily Voting News" though we realize that the subscribers may not agree with the opinions given in all articles** ******************************************************************* If you receive Daily Voting News directly from John Gideon and VotersUnite and wish to unsubscribe, please send an email to jgideon@votersunite.org requesting that you be removed from circulation. If you get the email forwarded from someone else you must contact them to be unsubscribed. *******************************************************************

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