Article: 'Daily Voting News' For January 06, 2006

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUsa.Org

12,272 emails have been sent to the EAC along with 1620 letters demanding the ITA be made to do their job....

Today there is a mixed-bag of news and opinion. We have more on Connecticut canceling plans to purchase Danaher machines because Danaher could not get anything federally qualified. There is also additional information on the hold-up in New Mexico due to the temporary restraining order that is stopping the state from buying Sequoia DREs. Virginia's legislature is getting closer to putting the state into the vvpat column. And Debra Bowen, in California, is going to hold hearings on open source voting.

NAtional: Robert Fisher: Voting machines, bills will take away our voting rights LINK

AR: Washington County - Election Commission chooses new touch-screen voting machines LINK

AZ: Prop 200: Voters now must show specific kinds of identification LINK

AZ: Activists upstage Jan Brewer at re-election announcement LINK

AZ: Secretary of state vows to update voting laws, technology LINK

CA: Opinion - Don't Strangle E-Voting With Paper (Misguided, misinformed tripe from a conservative think-tank) LINK

CA: Commentary: Hanging chads were better than this LINK

CA: Bowen Announces Hearings On 'Open Source' Voting Software Issue For February or March LINK

CO: Boulder County - Citizens' voting comments in LINK

CO: El Paso County - Plenty of ballots, but not at right spots LINK

CT: Editorial - Electronic voting decision correct LINK

CT: Secretary of state says voting machine company misled her (Danaher) LINK

FL: Sarasota County - New equipment makes voting machine call inevitable LINK

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