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Best Unanswerable Question: "Public servants" are continuing to use electronic voting systems after it has become clear that they don't work reliably. Why aren't there legal consequences for their dereliction of duty and malfeasance?

Best Quote: If we keep applying the values of business rather than the values of democracy, don't be surprised if we end up with an election system that cares only about profit. --Paul Lehto, 6/8/07 

 

=== Fraud ===

Deliver the Vote
Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, an American Political Tradition--1742-2004, by Tracy Campbell, 2005, published in New York by Carroll & Graf.
18-page condensation of Deliver the Vote, by James Allison

1934, one chapter with details including court transcripts
Election Administration in the United States, 1934, by Joseph P. Harris, Ph.D., available at http://vote.nist.gov/election_admin.htm

Ohio
The Deepening Criminal Cover-Up of Ohio's Stolen 2004 Election Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, CommonDreams, Aug. 4, 2007

Confessions of a Republican Operative
How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative, By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet, Jan. 17, 2008 

 

=== Photos ===

1. Dumpster Voting Device. see Ridiculous UK E-Voting Trial Ends in Disaster, BlogWired, Aug. 6, 2007

2. Votes for Women, Now Count'em. Full page flyer

3. US House of Representatives, Jan. 15, 2008 

 

=== January 2008 ===

Maryland
GOP Figure Contracted to Deliver E-Voting Machines in Maryland, Wired, Kim Zetter, Jan. 16, 2008

DRE, OpScan, and Ballot-Marker Videos
Diebold AccuVote TSX, 7 minutes, California
Encoding the Voter Access Card for the Diebold AccuVote TSX, 8 minutes 29 seconds, California
Diebold AccuVote TSX, 7 minutes 6 seconds, Pasadena, California
Diebold AccuVote TSX , Ohio
Hart Intercivic OpScan, 3 minutes 12 secondsa Model 100/ Automark, Ohio
Diebold TSx, Ohio
Diebold OS, Ohio
ES&S iVotronic, Ohio
Hart eScan and eSlate, Ohio
Microvote, Tennessee

New Jersey
New Jersey's Post-Election Audit Bill: Fact & Friction, Howard Stanislevic, Jan. 4, 2008

Super Tuesday Primary
Super Tuesday is February 5. States conducting primaries are: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia.
Potential trouble areas: Arkansas which has had past problems in their primaries with ES&S supplying paper ballots on time and without errors.
California which will have problems due to Bowen's actions though many of the problems will be locally manufactured just to prove Bowen wrong.
Colorado which is in a state of flux and will be a problem through November.
Illinois which had problems with ES&S delivering paper ballots and memory cards on time.
West Virginia which again has had problems getting ballots and memory cards from ES&S.

Ohio Election Official Profits from Contract
Franklin County, OH Election Official Pleads Guilty to 'Profiting from Contracts for Voting Machines', but he says he's "very sorry" so his 6-months jail sentence was suspended. Jan. 3, 2008

Paperless Primary States
List of states and primary date, Jan. 21, 2008

Ohio
Secretary of state retreats from some voting changes, Brunner still wants to replace touch screen machines in 57 counties. Dayton Daily News, Jan. 19, 2008
Central counting of votes waived, Brunner still pushing shift from touch screens to scanned paper ballots. Ohio.com, Jan. 19, 2008

LHS repairs machines during elections--are they also "fixing" them?
Who Counts in New Hampshire? And, are Diebold memory cards forgetful? Pokey Anderson interviews Dori Smith, Aired January 13, 2008
CT Voters Count, archive for January, 2008
Diebold Voting Machine Failures Found Across State During New Hampshire Primary, Bradblog, Jan. 12, 2008
Voting Machine Failures During the 2008 Presidential Primary Race, Mark Crispin Miller, Jan. 12, 2008

NH Primary
Index of Bradblog coverage, Bradblog, Jan. 16, 2008
Send Lawyers, Peace and Money': New Hampshire Election Contests Get Technical, Testy Before They Even Begin, Bradblog, Jan. 15, 2008
Dori Smith interview by Pokey Anderson, Jan. 13, 2008
Eternal Vigilance: Not Just for Founding Fathers Anymore, Bradblog, Jan. 14, 2008
Diebold Voting Machine Failures Found Across State During New Hampshire Primary, Bradblog, Jan. 12, 2008
NH Recount Press Release, Secretary of State William M. Gardner, Jan. 11, 2008
NH Municipalities which use the Diebold Accuvote Voting Machine, New Hampshire Secretary of State, as of Nov. 26, 2007
New Hampshire Democratic Primary – Were Votes Counted Accurately?, pdf, Jan. 14, 2008
New Hampshire Democratic Primary – Were Votes Counted Accurately?, Jan. 14, 2008
Experts Question Clinton's New Hampshire Primary Win, By Steven Rosenfeld, Alternet, Jan. 11, 2008
Candidates Push for a N.H. Recount, New York Times, Jan. 11, 2008
New Hampshire to Recount Ballots in Light of Controversy, By Kim Zetter, Jan. 11, 2008
We need to eliminate secret vote counting, not a recount, Democracy for NH, Jan. 11, 2008
Bo Lipari's Blog, New Yorkers for Verified Voting, Jan. 12, 2008
Pre-election "house calls" in NH, Mark Crispin Miller Blog, Jan. 12, 2008
Mark Lindeman, Bard College, Jan. 11, 2008
Kucinich Seeks NH Dem Vote Recount, New York Times, Jan. 10, 2008
Clinton's Win Enriches Bettors Facing 100-to-1 Odds, Bloomberg, Jan. 9, 2008
Chris Matthews: Raw EXIT POLL Data 'Indicated Significant Victory' for Obama in NH, 'Was Ahead an Average of 8 Points, Even in Our Own Exit Polls' Bradblog, Jan. 10, 2008
Tribune Media: MSM Failed to Note 'Hackable Diebold Red Flags' in New Hampshire Primary Results, Syndicated Columnist Robert Koehler Writes 'Possibility of Tainted Results, a Prospect Most of Media Can't Bear,' Notes Problems With NH's Diebold Machines 'Remain Unsolved'. Bradblog, Jan. 9, 2008
NH Data
BostonNow discussion
BlackBoxVoting Investigates: New England voting machine firm executive has criminal record, Democracy for NH, Jan. 9, 2008
NH Primary: Pre-Election Polls Wildly Different Than Results Announced for Clinton/Obama, Bradblog, Jan. 8, 2008
Reports of 'Voter Fraud' in Dixville Notch, Dem Ballots Unavailable to Voters, Both Debunked by The BRAD BLOG, Jan. 8, 2008
The Cat That Controls New Hampshire Election Programming, ChimpsterNation quotes Black Box Voting, Jan. 8, 2008
YouTube video from Black Box Voting: LHS Associate President John Silvestro challenges Finnish computer security expert Harri Hursti during testimony in NH after Hursti's hack of a Diebold optical-scan machine in late 2005 in Leon County, FL.
The Surprising Democratic Primary Results in New Hampshire, compiled by Pokey Anderson, Jan. 9, 2008, OpEd News
New Hampshire Democratic Primary, Poll data
New Hampshire primary 1988: Allegations of voting machine election fraud, Margie Burns blog, Jan. 9, 2008

New Holt Bill
HR 5036, Jan. 17, 2008
A Quick Fix for Electronic Voting, New York Times, Jan. 16, 2008
Proposed new Holt bill was introduced Jan 17, 2008, and will be HR 5036.
Rep. Rush Holt to Push for Paper Ballots and Vote Count Audits for 2008, By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. Dec. 27, 2007.
WheresThePaper's Points: This bill is
1. not an amendment to HAVA.
2. pertains only to jurisdictions that used paperless DREs in 2006.
3. pertains only to federal races.
4. authorizes money:
. . . a. $500 Million to replace paperless DREs. States wanting to replace paperless DREs would get funding for opscans and ballot marking devices and related supplies and equipment.
. . . b. $100 Million to reimburse states for conducting spot-checks, called "audits" at least 3% of precincts.
5. Needs improvements:
. . . a. Observers. Require citizens to be able to observe all ballot handling and counting, not just the spot-check "audit." As written, citizens only get to watch the audit. If the public can view/film the ballots as they are recounted on election night in the poll site, there would be less pressure to pin all our hopes for election integrity on pathetic spot-checks (aka "audits") that take place after ballots have been unobserved and subject to tampering.
. . . b. Machine Malfunction. Require machines to be taken out of service in case of malfunction, which must be defined as vote-switching, machine refusal to accept a vote, discrepancy between screen and VVPAT, missing races or candidates on the screen or VVPAT, etc. As written, voters must convince a poll worker that a machine is malfunctioning, or poll workers must decide whether a machine is malfunctioning.
. . . c. "Audits." Replace the fixed-percentage 3% spot-checks with real audits all ballot-handling of the chain of custody and a variable-percentage audit that yields a fixed high rate of confidence. In the case of paperless DREs, what will be spot-checked?
. . . d. Cost and the EAC. Replace the concept of "reasonable costs" approved by the EAC with approval by NIST or GAO or some other body.
. . . e. Money for Studies. Replace the $3million for study of ballot read-back technology with study of procedures and equipment that to facilitate observability and citizen oversight.

PEW Grants to Election Officials and Academics
The Pew Center on the States and the JEHT Foundation Award $2.5 Million to Improve U.S. Elections, Jan. 16, 2008
Who got what

Uncounted, The Movie
web site

NY Times
Can You Count on Voting Machines?, New York Times, Jan. 6, 2008
NYT Magazine Covers E-Voting, Daily Kos provides evidence that the NY Times ignored.

Who's Who in Evoting? Kudzu Effect
The Kudzu Effect: The Voting-Industrial Complex chokes our democracy, by Sheri Myers, Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, Jan. 6, 2007

Common Cause pushes Vote By Mail
Getting it Straight for 2008: What We Know About Vote by Mail Elections, and How to Conduct Them Well . Common Cause supports another way to conceal how ballots are handled and prevent citizen oversight. Are vote selling and coercion real issues with VBM? January, 2007 

 

=== December 2007 ===

California
Election Software Lost in Transit, Wired blog, Kim Zetter, Dec. 19, 2007. San Diego County registrar of voters, Deborah Seiler, is a former sales representative for Diebold Election Systems.
San Diego's Diebold Election Software 'Lost In Transit', BradBlog, Dec. 19, 2007

Ohio
New Ohio Voting Report: "The 2004 Election Was Stolen... Finally We Have Irrefutable Confirmation, Democracy Now! interview with Harvey Wasserman Dec. 17, 2007
Study: Voting Systems Vulnerable, Jennifer Brunner, Ohio Secretary of State, Dec. 14, 2007
Project Everest Evaluation and Validation of Election Related Equipment, Standards and Testing, Dec. 14, 2007
Brunner declares Ohio's voting systems vulnerable, All counties should use paper ballots counted at a central location, secretary of state says, Columbus Dispatch, Dec. 14, 2007
Ohio Elections Official Calls Machines Flawed, New York Times, Dec. 15, 2007
Larry Norden, Brennan Center on Brunner's recommendations, Dec. 17, 2007
Everest: Ohio's Voting System Report, by Dan Tokaji, Dec. 15, 2007

Cost
Maryland Cost Analysis, SAVEourVotes.org, December, 2007

NC Bribery
Bribery of a North Carolina Election Director, December, 2007

DOJ
Justice's voting chief steps down amid controversy, McClatchy Washington Bureau, Dec. 14, 2007

Colorado
Colorado Voter Group, blog of Dec. 20, 2007: Board says, "do not certify any of the voting equipment".
PoliticsWest, The Denver Post, Dec. 19, 2007
ES&S letter
Report on ES&S
Hart InterCivic letter
Report on Hart
Premier (formerly Diebold) letter
Report on Premier (formerly Diebold)
Sequoia letter
Report on Sequoia
Security Testing Review, Colorado Evoting Systems, Cyber, Dec. 17, 2007. This document lists election activists as "threat agents" but persons with "trusted insider" access, such as election judges, state employees and contractors who certify voting systems and install software and firmware were not evaluated as threat agents. Page 6: "these people would be responsible for certifying the voting systems and installing trusted build software and firmware. They have no motive in particular and their actions would be classified as 'mistakes'. This group is not being evaluated due to the trusted and highly skilled nature of the group."

Iowa
Election Integrity Concerns in the Iowa Democratic and Republican Caucuses, Bradblog, Dec. 31, 2007

Kansas
Kansas GOP Chair Brags of Vote 'Caging' Efforts, Successes, End of Year Letter Describes Plan to Identify, Challenge Voters in 2008, Bradblog, Dec. 27, 2007

Heller Documents posted at BBV
Steven Heller is the whistle-blower who revealed Diebold secrets, Black Box Voting, Dec. 3, 2007
Stephen Heller: Felonious Punk No More The 'Diebold Whistleblower' Sees His Charges Reduced to a Misdemeanor, But Unlike Republicans Who Have Committed Far More Serious Crimes, Heller Continues to Pay. Reflections on Selective Criminal Punishment in Bush's America. Bradblog, Guest Blogged by Stephen Heller, Dec. 2, 2007

Tennessee
Need Tenn. citizens to make phone calls ASAP, Gathering To Save Our Democracy, December, 2007 

 

=== November 2007 ===

ACLU
ACLU Policy #322b on Electronic Voting Systems, October, 2007
Comments on Policy, November, 2007
Suggested revised Policy Statement, Dec. 11, 2007

CA Secy of State Bowen sues ES&S
Press Release, Nov. 19, 2007
Statement of Findings

Product Recall
In November 2006, Two Machines 'Smoked' - Only One Was Recalled, One Caused no Problems; the Other Impacted a High-Profile Local Election. Blogged by Ellen Theisen of VotersUnite.org, Bradblog, Nov. 16, 2007

CT and FL
Diebold Optical-Scan Failures Reported in Florida May be Affecting Connecticut As Well, Bradblog, Nov. 20, 2007

Utah
Salt Lake Officials Urging Voters to NOT Come to Polls in Wake of Disastrous Move to Touch-Screen Voting, Bradblog, Nov. 29, 2007

Military and Overseas Voters
Press Release, The Century Foundation, Nov. 29, 2007
Issue Brief, Bringing Voting Rights to Overseas and Military Voters, The Century Foundation, Nov. 29, 2007

Black Box Voting Moonshine Reports
BBV Moonshine Elections Series, Part 1
BBV Moonshine Elections Series, Part 2
BBV Moonshine Elections Series, Part 3
Original investigative reports by BBV on local corruption in the election industry.

VVSG compromise secret ballot
Getting in Touch with the Inner VVSG, Nov. 7, 2007.

Dutch voting machine humor
The adventures of citizen Michael C. Robertson.

Disabled Voters
$45,588 Per E-Vote for Disabled Voters in Marin County, California, Bradblog, Nov. 24, 2007

California
Testers for CA Secretary of State Finds LA County's ES&S E-Voting System Vulnerable to Hacking, Fraud and Manipulation, Bradblog, Nov. 25, 2007

South Carolina
Gone in a Minute, Nov. 27, 2007

Voter-marked paper ballot and optical scanner video
Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold) voter training video, AccuVote-OS precinct scanner.
Documentation Assessment of the Diebold Voting Systems, California Top to Bottom Review.
. . . Section 2.5 (page 13) Election Office Optical Scanning: Central Count Tabulation (AV-OS): The AccuVote-OS (also known as the AV-OS) is the same hardware scanner that is used for the precinct count optical scanning but it has a different embedded software (“firmware”) installed. Its configuration allows it to be linked with a number of other AV-OS units via a network whereby voting data can be sent into the GEMS server from many scanners concurrently scanning ballot batches. Firmware version 2.0.12 designates the machine is configured for ‘central count” as opposed to “precinct count.” Central count AV-OS is often used to count absentee ballots as well as provisional and damaged but “remade” paper ballots at county election headquarters or another centralized location.
. . . Unlike the precinct count AV-OS, the AV-OS central count units’ operation is largely controlled by GEMS. While the units scan ballots and interpret the ballot marks, the AV-OS central count uploads the voting data to GEMS and does not tabulate or keep any record of votes on the unit. The central count AV-OS memory card needs no ballot definitions and only has some technical information regarding the particular scanner so that it can be individually tracked as it scans ballots. It can be used with or without an automatic ballot feeder called the AccuFeed.
. . . Information on the Bell & Howell AccuFeed is at: http://pdf.superwarehouse.com/specs/BELLAG.pdf or http://winocular.com/Scanners/Bell___Howell/AccufeedOptions.htm
. . . Photo of a similar Bell & Howell high speed scanner is at http://www.scantastik.com/hardware/bell_howell/images/spectrum_small.jpg and http://www.scantastik.com/high-speed-scanners.htm
. . .. . . Accuvote OS Product Information.

EDS acquires Saber
EDS Agrees to Acquire Saber Corporation, a Leading Provider of U.S. State and Local Government Software and Solutions. Nov. 13, 2007. Concentration of government databases into a few powerful, private vendors is a concern. Suppliers don't need access to live data, but the government does nothing to stop it.

Provisional Ballots Report
A Fallible 'Fail-Safe', An Analysis of Provisional Balloting Problems in the 2006 Election, Demos, 2007.

Flu Shots Contain Mercury
Americans Dumbed Down by Flu Shots?, Organic Consumers, November, 2007.

Colorado
9,800 votes left in Denver, Denver Post, Nov. 7, 2007.
Colorado Group proposed 2008 Elections Framework
Colorado Group Press Release for 2008 Elections Framework, Nov. 19, 2007
Voter group wants state to switch to paper ballots, Nov. 20, 2007

Ohio
Cuyahoga Board of Elections gets secretary of state's OK to reprint paper records for recounts, Nov. 27, 2007. Vendors and politicos use poor quality printers to pull end run around VOTER-VERIFIED paper trails.
20 percent of election printouts were unreadable, Nov. 28, 2007.
Cuyahoga's electronic system falters even in low-key poll, Nov. 7, 2007.
Recounts Possible For 9 Races In Cuyahoga County Election, Nov. 18, 2007.

History of Vote Machines to 1890
University of Virginia Scholar Traces Voting Technology Controversy to the 1890s, Nov. 7, 2007.

ACM Risks of Evoting
Inside risks: Risks of e-voting, Communications of the ACM, November, 2007. Important article by Matt Bishop and David Wagner.

50-State Lawsuit
Lawsuit asks states to hand-count votes, Times Argus, Nov. 10, 2007

New Jersey
Atlantic City: Voting Problems, New York Times, Nov. 8, 2007

Political Scientists study voter confidence
Political Scientists Examine Voter Confidence in Electoral Administration, Make Recommendations, Press Release, Nov. 5, 2007

Sequoia has new owners
U.S. Voting Technology Leader Sequoia Voting Systems Announces New Corporate Ownership, Sequoia Press Release, Nov. 8, 2007
Congresswoman Maloney on Sequoia Sale, Nov. 8, 2007
Without examination of the terms of the financing provided by Smartmatic, it is impossible to determine whether the management of the US company is indeed independent of Smartmatic’s control.

San Francisco sues ES&S
San Francisco Voting Machines Vendor in Breach of Contract allege City Attorney Dennis Herrera and Elections Department Diector John Arntz, San Francisco Sentinel, Nov. 7, 2007
San Francisco seeks reimbursement for election problems, Signs On San Diego, by Rachel Konrad, Nov. 7, 2007.
Press Release and legal papers, Nov. 7, 2007
SF sues its elections vendor, SFBG Politics, San Francisco Bay Guardian Online.
Counting San Francisco Ballots will take a record amount of time, SF Gate, Nov. 7, 2007. GREAT ELECTION PHOTOS.

Movie -- Uncounted
YouTube trailer for movie

California Auditing Requirements
Secretary of State Bowen's requirements, Nov. 8, 2007.

EAC
EAC Kicks Off Voting System Reports Clearinghouse, Nov. 8, 2007. It's only 5 years late, after VotersUnite has done their work for them for years.
U.S. Election Assistance Commission Working Hard to Fail and Succeeding at It!, Federal Oversight Agency Continues Refusal to Notify Election Administrators About Known Failures in E-Voting Systems. Bradblog Nov. 13, 2007

Nov 6, 2007 Election
Election Day 'Glitches' 'Hiccups' 'Snags' and 'Snafus' Return, BradBlog, Nov. 7, 2007

Holt Bill to Count Provisional Ballots
Press Release, Nov. 9, 2007

Democratic Elections Defined
Democracy 1-2-3, by Teresa Hommel, Nov. 5, 2007

Hand-count manual
Manual, 2007
Observations of Hand Counting, July, 2007

New York Times In Defense of Voting Rights
Editorial, Nov. 5, 2007

New Federal Bill in US Senate
Sen. Bill Nelson introduces Holt-lookalike but bans DREs as of 2012, Nov. 1, 2007
Text of new bill

New Documentary, UNCOUNTED: The New Math of American Elections
UNCOUNTED: The New Math of American Elections, Release Date is Nov. 6, 2007

Should Voting Machine Vendors be sued?
Should Voting Machine Makers Be Sued Like Big Tobacco?, AlterNet, Steven Rosenfeld, Nov. 2, 2007

Joyce McCloy article
Vote-counting done correctly is her goal, Journal Now, Raleigh, NC, Nov. 4, 2007

EAC Brownbag Lunch, Guidelines
EAC Vice-Chair Rodriguez to Host First Brownbag Lunch Discussion, Nov. 9, 2007
EAC Seeks Public Comment on TGDC's Recommended Voluntary Voting System Guidelines, 120-day comment period, announced on Oct. 31, 2007
EAC Issues Six Quick Start Management Guides for Election Officials, Nov. 1, 2007. An interesting quote in "Acceptance Testing" is: Acceptance tests must be conducted either by or under the strict control of the jurisdiction’s election official. Under no circumstance should acceptance tests be conducted by a vendor.
Next Public Meeting is Nov. 13, 2007

BradBlog
TIME: The 'Stampede Away from Touch-Screen', Nov. 4, 2007

Diebold Flaws
Diebold/Premier Admits Memory Card Failure On Popular Optical-Scan Voting Machines, With Elections Impending Next Week, Company Downplays, Hides Failure Rate! Will The U.S. Elections Assistance Commission Take Action? Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.Org, Nov. 4, 2007
Diebold vendor LHS testifies about Diebold Defects, Oct. 7, 2007

Texas
Judge Lets Texas Election Stand, Despite 2-Vote Margin and Voters Who Testified They Were Given Wrong 'Ballot' on E-Vote Machines, Mayor Calls for 'Paper Ballots'; County Clerk Lies About Federal Law to Support the Continued Use of Her Democracy-Busting DRE Voting System. Nov. 2, 2007
Harris County, With Witnesses in Room, Houston Election Officials Alter Vote Tallies in Last Week's Elections, Bradblog, Nov. 16, 2007
Texas: Voting System Allows "Adjustments", VoteTrustUSA, Nov. 20

Florida
Voting group plans to appeal ruling Appeals court struck down extra audits; state Supreme Court is next, Herald Tribune, Nov. 2, 2007
Florida Second District Court of Appeal, Decision on case 2D06-4339, Oct. 31, 2007
Decision, 32 pages
Survey contradicts Diebold's Failure Rate Claim, Daytona Beach News Journal, Nov. 3, 2007

California
$12.6 million contract for new S.F. voting system is revived, SF Gate, Nov. 2, 2007
Sebastian Kunz Reports: Smashing Diebold Voting Machine in San Francisco, YouTube, Oct. 31, 2007
Photos--Smashing Diebold Voting Machine in San Francisco, Alec Bash's Photos – Diebold Touch Screen Voting Machine on Trial, Oct. 31, 2007
Pushing paper ballot envelope, Monterey Herald, Nov. 4, 2007

San Francisco
139-page Voter Information Book, San Francisco, Nov. 2007

New Hampshire, LHS
Smashing secret vote counting in San Francisco, giving away the vote in New Hampshire, Nov. 2, 2007
NH Ballot Law Commission approved defective vote counting technology in 2006
Ruling nullifies voter data law, Libertarians win suit over unequal access, Nov. 28, 2007

Auditing Conference
Brennan Center and Verified Voting learn old lesson the hard way , David Webber, Nov. 4, 2007

IRV
Assessment of IRV in San Francisco, 2005 election
Burlington VT IRV paper ballot that was counted by optical scan, with 99.9% accuracy, and used no extra paper.
Instant Runoff Voting (IRV): Administrative Implementation Options and Cost March 7, 2007. Report to the Vermont General Assembly by the Vermont Office of the Secretary of State. 

 

=== October 2007 ===

2007 Post Election Audit Summit
Materials from the conference Oct. 25-27, 2007
Post-Election Auditing: A View From The "Summit by Howard Stanislevic

EAC seeks Comments on VVSG
Tell the Feds What You Think of E-Voting Machines -- Updated Kim Zetter, Oct. 31, 2007

Nevy Absentee Voting
States work to make absentee voting easier for military personnel. Navy Times, Oct. 31, 2007

New Zealand
Local government tipped to lead on electronic voting, Christchurch City Council electoral officer Max Robertson sees online voting as a distinct possibility for the next local body elections, a year earlier. ComputerWorld New Zealand, Oct. 29, 2007

California NAACP
Paul Lehto announces CA NAACP support for Resolution on Rights for Open and Honest Elections and against Corporate Secret Vote Counting, Oct. 30, 2007

Warning about Cybercriminals
Cybercriminals Could Steal Elections, Security Researcher Warns, InformationWeek, Oct. 10, 2007
Hackers Could Skew US Elections, NewScientistTech, Oct. 9, 2007

2008 Election
Will the GOP election theft machine do it again in 2008?, OpEdNews, Fitrakis and Wasserman, Oct. 21, 2007
Who Will Rule Us After the Next 9/11?, The reality of NSPD-51 is almost as bad as the paranoia. The Spectator: Scrutinizing Culture, by Ron Rosenbaum, Oct. 19, 2007

Florida
FL-13: GAO Finds Prior Tests Do NOT Offer 'Reasonable Assurance' That Touchscreen Machines Were Not at Fault in Sarasota's November 2006 Election, Report Released Today Says More Testing Needed of ES&S Voting Machines to Determine Cause of Massive, Still Unexplained Undervote. One Year Later and Republican in Disputed Election Still Sitting and Voting in Congress. Bradblog, Oct. 2, 2007 Voting Machines Giving Florida New Headache, New York Times, Oct 13, 2007. Includes photo of Rosemarie Myerson who did influential cost studies showing the lower cost of optical scanners.
Broward County buys a Pig in a Poke, OpEdNews, Ellen Brodsky, Oct. 9, 2007
New York Times, Oct 13, 2007. Includes photo of Rosemarie Myerson

DOJ, John Tanner
Conyers Issues Statement on News Reports Questioning DoJ's 2004 Presidential Election 'Investigation' in Ohio, BradBlog, Oct 12, 2007
DoJ's John 'Minorities Die First' Tanner to Testify to House Judiciary Sub-Committee, as Washington Post Picks up BRAD BLOG Story on His Recent Controversial Comments, BradBlog, Oct 12, 2007
Bush's Legacy on Voting Rights: A Story from Ohio, By Paul Kiel, TPM, Oct. 12, 2007
DoJ voting chief ‘poisoned the well’ for Ohio ‘04 probe, Think Progress, Oct 12, 2007
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: DoJ Voting Rights Chief Says 'It's a Shame' Elderly May be Disenfranchised by Photo ID Laws, But Minority Voters 'Don't Become Elderly, They Die First', BradBlog, Oct. 8, 2007 

 

=== September 2007 ===

New Hampshire
Computer Security Expert Bruce O'Dell: Testimony to NH Legislature, Sept. 5, 2007

Utah
Utah's electronic touch-screen voting machines fail the voters, The Spectrum, by Kathy Dopp, Sept. 9, 2007

New Jersey
AG: State will miss e-voting machine deadline, Newsday, Sept. 13, 2007

Texas
Texas Republican Author of Disenfranchising Photo ID Law Captured on Camera Voting Multiple Times on Same Issue, Bradblog, Oct. 1, 2007

Riverside County CA
Riverside County, CA Board of Supes to Sequoia Voting Systems: 'Drop Dead', Board Members Threaten 'Not Another Dime' For Company That Has Failed Them to the Tune of $27 Million So Far. BradBlog, Sept. 20, 2007

Election Theft
Landslide Denied: Exit Polls vs. Vote Count 2006, Demographic Validity of the National Exit Poll and the Corruption of the Official Vote Count, by Jonathan Simon, JD, and Bruce O’Dell, Election Defense Alliance, September, 2007
Fingerprints Of Election Theft: Were Competitive Contests Targeted?, Comparison Between Exit Poll and Vote Count Disparities in Competitive vs. Noncompetitive Contests in Election 2006, by Jonathan Simon, JD, Bruce O’Dell, Dale Tavris, PhD, Josh Mitteldorf, PhD, Election Defense Alliance
Rove, Gonzales and election fraud, Greg Palast on Brasscheck TV, September, 2007

Spakovsky
House Members from a Variety of States Ask Senate Committee to Deny FCC Position to Partisan Hack from Justice Department, Posted by Congressman Solomon P. Ortiz representing the 27th District of Texas, undated, from September, 2007

Cartoon Humor
Congress Considers Legislation Requiring a Voting Machine Paper Trail, Dwane Powell, Sept. 19, 2007
Electronic Voting Machine, Take a Chance, Steve Greenberg, Aug. 11, 2007
Are you SURE you want a permanent paper trail that can verify that you actually voted for some of these people?, Bruce Beattie, Feb. 6, 2007

Ohio
Republicans Block Voting Machine Testing in Ohio, DailyKos, Sept. 18, 2007

Alameda County CA Election Voided
Judge Voids Election Because of E-Voting Snafus, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Sept. 28, 2007
Judge voids results of Berkeley measure on medical pot, San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 28, 2007

Open Voting Solutions
Do Paper Trails fail to secure e-Voting, Open Voting Solutions, September, 2007

Bowen Conference Call
CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen Conference Call & Transcript, Sept. 20, 2007

Late Absentee Ballots
Absentee Ballots Arrive Late In Summit, Ohio. Sept. 13, 2007

Voter Registration Purge
Purge of voter rolls could swing 2008 election, Jason Rhyne, Sept. 12, 2007

US Senate Judiciary Committee
State Officials' Opposition Could Jeopardize Voting "Paper Trail" Measure
Senate Panel Approves Voter Intimidation Measure, Sept. 6, 2007.

Nedap, called Liberty in New York
Dutch Commission Deals Blow To Electronic Voting, SlashDot, Sept. 28, 2007.

San Francisco
S.F. supervisors blamed for blocking new voting system, Sept. 21, 2007.
Newsom implies that buying Sequoia would mean San Francisco would "get it right." But Secretary of State Bowen's Top-to-Bottom Review uncovered many problems with Sequoia's system.

WeThePeople Complaint
We The People Foundation
Lawsuit against voting machines and computers, Sept. 2007
Who are these people?
Judge keeps straw poll's computerized voting machines, Des Moines Register, Aug. 11, 2007, mentions four of the plaintiffs.

Memphis Early Voting Trouble
Mayor Herenton Wants Early Voting Stopped due to irregularities targetting elderly voters (the machines are Diebold touchscreens). September 19, 2007. But Shelby County Election Commission Chair Myra Stiles says "we're comfortable with the fact that we tested those machines and there is nothing wrong with the way the machines are recording the votes. Apparently it's an issue of public education. If people press in the wrong area they're going to get the wrong result."
Mayor Wants Early Voting Stopped, Commercial Appeal, Sept. 18, 2007

Pokey Anderson
Are Elections Very Important?, September 2007.

Voice of the Voters, Transcript, Matt Blaze
Matt Blaze interviewed by Mary Ann Gould, Sept. 5, 2007. He was leader of the Sequoia source code review team for California's Top to Bottom Electronic Voting Investigation.

Bruce O'Dell
Computer Security Expert Bruce O'Dell: Testimony to NH Legislature, Sept. 9, 2007

New Jersey-defective machines
State must come up with plan to replace 10,000 voting machines, Star Ledger, NJ.com, Sept. 5, 2007

Ohio: high cost, fear of vendor retaliation, fear of machine testing
County chiefs rant over voting machines, Crain's Cleveland Business, Sept. 6, 2007. "We can't make Diebold angry because we are dependent on their support."
Why doesn't the GOP want Ohio's voting machines tested?, by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, The Free Press, Sept. 11, 2007.

Hagel Quits
Hagel Is Calling It Quits, Omaha World-Herald, Sept. 8, 2007

Why is this Democratic Congress so Conservative?
Democratic House Officials Recruited Wealthy Conservatives, By Matt Renner, Truthout, Sept. 6, 2007

New York Times: "Ban DREs", Newsweek: Why aren't electeds standing up for our elections?
A Chance to Make Votes Count, Editorial, New York Times, Sept. 6, 2007
Securing (Or Not) Your Right to Vote, Steven Levy, Newsweek, Sept. 10, 2007
A Damaging Paper Chase In Voting, Opinion piece against paper. Washington Post, Sept. 8, 2007

Nedap edits their Wikipedia Entry
Dutch computer voting machine company caught editing Wikipedia entry, International Herald Tribune, Sept. 5, 2007

HR811 vote was scheduled for Sept. 5, 2007, but didn't happen
What happened? Click here

Florida Ethics
Ritter's Vote Still Raising Eyebrows, Miami Herald, Sept. 1, 2007.

Scotland Blames Machines for Machine Malfunction!
Voting machines ditch ballots in Scotland, Computer says no to tens of thousands of votes, The Register, Sept. 3, 2007. Most shocking: they did not blame the voters or poll workers! They did not say it was simply a warm and fuzzy glitch! They did not say they were sure the outcome was not affected!

EAC
EAC to Consider Process for Adopting Regulations Under National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), Sept. 4, 2007.

Fraud
Solutions to Election Tampering Remain Elusive, Scholars Say, Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 4, 2007.

Maryland
Brief segment: Gov. O'Malley pledges funding for paper ballots after activist Mike Berla poses the challenge. MP3, Sept. 6, 2007. www.saveourvotes.org
Full show

Bev Harris investigates election fraud in rural counties
Moonshine Elections Series, Part 1, by Black Box Voting.org, Sept. 6, 2007

Hand Count
Hands-on Elections: A complete handbook, by Nancy Tobi, Sept. 8, 2007
Short version 

 

=== August 2007 ===

AAPD Questions Presidential Candidates for 2008
Excellent list of questions, and candidates' replies, Aug. 4, 2007

Citizens Refuse to Give Up
Allegheny County panel still reviewing voting machines By Ann Belser, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 27, 2007

Hand Count
Estimate time and cost to hand count paper ballots
No Leaky Buckets, XLS spreadsheet to estimate costs
How To Forecast Labor, Cost and Time For Hand-Counting Paper Ballots By Dave Berman, 8/12/07. You have to go down to paragraph 5 to click on "spreadsheet tool" for the Excel spreadsheet, which is easy to use. This flexible and powerful forecast tool allows you to experiment and quickly determine cost/labor/time needs based on varying assumptions.
also on DailyKos
Is it constitutional to outsource the state's vote counting?, Nancy Tobi, Concord Monitor, Aug. 15, 2007

Election Technology Council
Election Technology Council makes top appointments, Houston Business Journal, Aug. 13, 2007.

Wikipedia Edited by Diebold, etc.
See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign, Wired, By John Borland, Aug. 14, 2007.

Election Records Destroyed by Ohio Counties
2004 ballots not preserved, despite Federal Court order. Aug. 12, 2007. Election administrators flout the law and get away with it.

Avi Rubin, The Virus Did It
Evidence of a virus could destroy credibility of an election, Aug. 26, 2007

Tova Wang, EAC Report
A Rigged Report on U.S. Voting?, By Tova Andrea Wang, Washington Post, Aug. 30, 2007
A Useful Study of the Arguments for "Voter Fraud": Credit the Election Assistance Commission, by Bob Bauer, Aug. 30, 2007

Californa, Hearing on ES&S AutoMark
Hearing Notice for Sept. 20 Hearing for ES&S AutoMark California Secretary of State, Aug. 9, 2007

EAC tells ES&S they failed to notify about Manila factory
EAC Notice to ES&S for Non-compliance, Aug. 14, 2007 The EAC asks ES&S why ES&S failed to divulge that they build machines in the Philippines, after Dan Rather exposes them.
ES&S responds to EAC, Aug. 22, 2007
EAC replies to ES&S response re Phillipine manufacturing plant, Aug. 24, 2007
ES&S Pouts, Stamps Foot, Complies Anyway, After Minor Spanking by the EAC, John Gideon, OpEdNews, Aug. 27, 2007

Diebold
Diebold Struggling To Sell Voting Machine Unit, Reuters, Aug. 16, 2007
Premier Election Solutions (Can't sell it? Just rename it)
Diebold Election Systems to become Premier Election Solutions, Aug. 16, 2007
Diebold Stock Falls as Company Fraud is Exposed Aug. 14, 2007, Column Bradblog.Com
KeyBanc Downgrades Diebold on Concerns With Voting Machines Business Aug. 13, 2007, Biz.Yahoo

Colorado
Colorado demands info from voting machine vendors and can't get it! Denver Business Journal, Aug. 29, 2007
Paper Nightmares, Rocky Mountain News, Aug. 31, 2007

How federal certification works
EAC for Dummies: How the White House has designs on your elections, Nancy Tobi, August, 2007
EAC Certification Quick Start Management Guide, August, 2007
EAC issues Voting System Certification Guide, August 15, 2007
EAC Testing and Certification Updates, August 14, 2007
AVS gets caught lying the first time they present a system for ITA testing. They said they had made no hardware changes since their environmental testing in 2006. But they had changed their motherboard.
iBeta Quality Assurance letter to EAC re AVS WINware 2.0.4 voting system
Electronic voting machines might be out for some Nov. races PennLive, Aug. 15, 2007
EAC reply to iBeta Quality Assurance re AVS WINware 2.0.4 voting system
EAC letter to Advanced Voting Solutions (AVS) for written clarification

Voter Confidence Poll and phony reports about it
Field Poll on Voter Confidence, Aug. 23, 2007
Greatest chance of accurate counting:
32% paper ballots,
31% punch-card voting
31% touch-screen voting
63% paper-based voting systems
One way to conceal the results of a poll is to divide people who feel similarly into two or more groups, so that neither group gets the majority of "votes." Here, nearly 2/3 of voters thought paper-based voting was more accurate, but you have to read page 2 of the report to see that.
Election Technology Council false report about the poll
Kim Zetter blog on reports, Aug. 23, 2007

Dan Rather
Dan Rather Reports "The Trouble with Touch Screens" raised the question whether US voting systems companies have engaged in commercial fraud by knowingly delivering defective products to jurisdictions throughout the country. Can he wake up America to the danger of outsourcing election functions to private vendors? VoterAction challenged Congress to investigate the increasing influence and control that private companies have on how we conduct elections and to determine whether certain companies have committed crimes under federal and state anti-fraud statutes.
Dan Rather, archived program, large screen
Dan Rather, archived program on ES&S touchscreens and Sequoia punch card ballots
Dan Rather, Transcript of the report, Aug. 14, 2007
Dan Rather DVD available
VoterAction calls for Congressional investigation
Petition for Congressional investigation
Take more actions: Demand Congressional investigation and DRE ban
Dan Rather Investigates Voting Machines -- Uncovers New Surprises About ES&S Touch-Screens, Blog.Wired, Kim Zetter, 8/13/07
ES&S Failed to Disclose Manila Manufacturer to Fed Agency -- UPDATED, Blog.Wired, Kim Zetter, 8/14/07
ES&S Discloses Full List of Manufacturers, Blog.Wired, Kim Zetter, 8/27/07
Sequoia Voting Systems Responsible for 2000 Presidential Debacle?, Blog.Wired, Kim Zetter, 8/15/07
Sequoia Fails to Answer Questions Raised in Dan Rather Report, Blogged by John Gideon, 8/28/07
'Rather Reports' on vote-count fiascos, by Frazier Moore, AP Television Writer, Boston.com, Aug 13, 2007
TV report questions Westmoreland, Allegheny voting machines, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Aug 15, 2007
EAC Spanks ES&S For Failure to Disclose Philippine Factory; Advanced Voting Solutions Also Caught In Deception, Aug 14, 2007
Dan Rather Interviewed on CNN The Situation Room, Aug 14, 2007
Origin of voting machines traced to Philippines, Aug 29, 2007
Announcement of Dan Rather Report on Irregularities in Touch-Screen Voting Machines, Aug 14, 2007

E-Voting Certification Gets Security Completely Backward Bruce Schneier, Wired, Aug. 9, 2007

Can Congress secure the 2008 elections? Voice of the Voters with Dennis Kucinich and Dr. Matt Blaze who led part of the CA Top-To-Bottom Review.

Kentucky -- We want same protections as CA
Attorney General Stumbo Demands Voter Protections, Office of the Attorney General, Aug. 8, 2007

California -- Tangible Ballot Initiative
The Vote: California Tangible Ballots Initiative Enters Circulation, Government Technology, Aug. 9, 2007

California -- Connie McCormack Retires
Statement by Connie McCormack Announcing Retirement as LA County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, undated, first noticed in August, 2007
Bio of Connie McCormack

California -- Editorial
Paper ballots necessary to preserve democracy, by Ken Karan, North County Times, August 12, 2007

California -- Secy of State Debra Bowen Top-To-Bottom Review
Among their many findings, these reports show that Diebold never corrected the vulnerabilities in their GEMS system that were reported in 2004 by Maryland's RABA study.
Bowen Press Release, Aug. 3, 2007
Overview of Red Team Reports by Matt Bishop, Principle Investigator, Univ. of CA, Davis
Transcript of Hearing, Secretary of State Debra Bowen, July 30, 2007
Video of Hearing, Secretary of State Debra Bowen, July 30, 2007, first 20 minutes may not have audio. Look for the listing for: "073007 TCC Info-Hearing Secretary of State's Top to Bottom Review of CA Voting System"
Decertification/Recertification Decisions Issued August 3, 2007, by Secretary of State Debra Bowen
Report of the Post-Election Audit Standards Working Group
Homepage of Post-Election Audit Standards Working Group
Accessibility Review Report for CA Top-to_Bottom Voting System Review
Secretary Bowen's clever insight, Avi Rubin's Blog, Aug. 7, 2007
More Uncertified Voting Systems in California, Joseph Hall Blog, Aug. 22, 2007
Response to Election Officials & Others Who Encourage Voters to Trust , by UtahCountVotes, Aug. 28, 2007
Automark Statement, Aug. 24, 2007
California Restricts Voting Machines, New York Times, Aug. 5, 2007
Bowen emerges from shadows with dramatic decision, Los Angeles Times, Aug. 5, 2007
State decides to secure electronic voting machines, Los Angeles Times, Aug. 4, 2007
Banning vote machines stirs pot; Lack of paper trail worries other states, Sign on San Diego, Aug. 12, 2007
After outburst, Tuteur owes Bowen an apology, Napa Valley Register, Aug. 14, 2007
Paper Ballots for CA! - Secretary of State announces de-certification/re-certification plans for e-voting systems, Debra Bowen Announces DRE (Touch-Screen) Machines to be Used Only One Per Polling Place for Disabled Voters with 100% Manual Count of Paper Trails! Bradblog, Aug. 4, 2007
California Finds DREs Easily Hackable, as House Dems and PFAW Strike Deal to Use Them Anyway, Bradblog, July 29, 2007
Save Our Votes Press Release, CA Decertifies E-Voting Systems, Aug. 4, 2007
California's SecState report released: All tested machines vulnerable to hacking, VerifiedVoting.org, updated through July 31, 2007
CA: Secretary of State Debra Bowen Issues Landmark Restrictions on the use of Electronic Voting Systems, Restrictions apply starting with February 5 Primary Election. VerifiedVoting.org, Aug. 3, 2007
CA Secy of State Debra Bowen Decertifies Diebold, Hart InterCivic and Sequoia Voting Systems--Late Submitted ES&S System "InkaVote Plus" Used in Los Angeles to be Reviewed, California Progress Report, Aug. 4, 2007
Voting systems hacked in test, Sacramento Bee, July 28, 2007
Three news reports, vendors and officials complain, July and August, 2007
California voting systems code review now released, Matt Blaze, www.crypto.com/blog, Aug. 2, 2007
Security Problem Excuse Bingo
Rules of the Bingo game
Even More Trouble For E-Voting Firms: Source Code Review Finds All Sorts Of Scary Vulnerabilities, TechDirt, Aug. 3, 2007, with comment by a Canadian.
NPR, Listen to "Hackers Test California Voting Machines"
Diebold on CA Top-to-Bottom Review, Aug. 4, 2007
Hart InterCivic on CA Top-To-Bottom Review, July 30, 2007
Sequoia on CA Top-to-Bottom Review, July 30, 2007
Touch vote machine ban hurts counties, slanted report from the San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 5, 2007
Congress is from Venus; Californians are from Mars , Posted by Howard Stanislevic, Aug. 5, 2007
Secretary of State Bowen, political cartoon, San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 1, 2007
Time to review NH Ballot Law Commission approval of Diebold optical scanners, Nancy Tobi, August 6, 2007
CA moves to lock down e-voting systems, Computerworld, Aug. 4, 2007
Study: Hackers Could Change E-Voting Machine Results, TechNewsWorld, July 30, 2007. Includes Avi Rubin comment "I had expected them to find problems -- but to be able to replace firmware in all three systems is nothing short of an utter takeover of machines, and that shouldn't be possible."
Senate to Hold Hearing on Security of Voting Machines, Blog Wired, July 31, 2007
If you vote will it count? Can't tell without paper, Daytona Beach News Journal Online, Aug. 1, 2007
E-voting machine vendors, election officials slam review, Inside Bay Area, July 31, 2007
Elections officials blast vote-hacking research, The fight over electronic balloting's security also has activists clamoring to ban the new technology. Sacramento Bee, July 31, 2007

BradBlog visits Diebold
A Visit to Diebold Elections Systems, Inc., in Allen, Texas, Bradblog, Aug. 7, 2007

Ohio Counties Destroy 2004 Vote Records
The Deepening Criminal Cover-Up of Ohio's Stolen 2004 Election Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, CommonDreams, Aug. 4, 2007
In Violation of Federal Law, Ohio's 2004 Presidential Election Records Are Destroyed or Missing, Alternet, July 30, 2007

GOP and CA Electoral College Votes
GOP eyes California's electoral pie, Strategists push a 2008 ballot initiative that would slice up the state's 55 votes for president, based on congressional districts. Los Angeles Times, Aug. 6, 2007
Votescam, New Yorker, Aug. 6, 2007

OpEdNews
OpEdNews compendium of voting-related articles

Humor
Diebold humor never dies, just remember that it applies to all the other vendors too.
Dilbert on Open Source

EAC
TGDC Plenary Teleconference
. . . We will webcast the August 17, 2007 Technical Guidelines Development Committee plenary teleconference. You will be able to access the web cast in real time at: http://origin.eastbaymedia.com/~nist/html/tgdc-0707/
. . . The web cast will also be accessible in archival mode. This public meeting was originally scheduled for July 3, 2007 but was re-scheduled to August to allow NIST staff to complete open technical issues. The purpose of the August 17, 2007 TGDC teleconference is to review the final draft of the next iteration of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG).
. . . The draft VVSG document under consideration and all other meeting support material will be at http://vote.nist.gov web site on August 13, 2007.
Report on HAVA Spending by States
EAC Releases HAVA Spending Report, July 31, 2007

Voting Systems Seeking Certification
EAC Applications for Voting System Testing-2007

UK Election Disaster with Dominion
Ridiculous UK E-Voting Trial Ends in Disaster, BlogWired, Aug. 6, 2007
E-voting comedy of errors in Shakespeare's Stratford, the Inquirer, Aug. 3, 2007
Stratford Statutory Evaluation Report

PBS covers "voter caging"
Voter Caging & Housing Works, PBS, Aug. 6, 2007

Ron Paul vs. Mitt Romney in Iowa
Romney Leadership Team Member Overseeing Straw Poll, Ron Paul blog, Aug. 9, 2007
Straw Poll Results ... Still Waiting ... And Waiting, Washington Post, Aug. 11, 2007
Bizarre "Audits" At GOP Straw Poll, Aug. 11, 2007

Florida, Voting Machine Study
Software Review and Security Analysis of Diebold Voting Machine Software, SAIT, Aug. 10, 2007

Vote Buying and Selling
Supervisor among latest Benton voter fraud arrests, Daily Journal, NE Mississippi, Aug. 25, 2007

Surveillance Cameras
"Ring of Steel" Surveillance Cameras coming to New York, CNN, Aug. 3, 2007 

 

=== July 2007 ===

EAC report to Congress, how much states spent of their HAVA funds, July, 2007
EAC web page on funds

Senate to Hold Hearing on Security of Voting Machines, Blog Wired, July 31, 2007

Open Source, Open Voting Solutions OVS
A Publicly Owned and Controlled Voting System Ensuring Transparency and Oversight by the People -- or Nothing, OpEdNews, July 30, 2007
Open Source Voting, presentation by Arthur M. Keller, Pd.D. and David Mertz, Ph.D. at OSCON Open Source Convention, July 23-27, 2007 in Portland, Oregon.
Police Blotter: Defendant wins breathalyzer source code, CNET News, Aug. 9, 2007. Defendant's attorney said the source code was necessary because "for all we know, it's a random number generator." Voting integrity activists should use that argument.

Paul Lehto
Defending the Freedoms of July 4, 1776: America's Hope for the World, July 4, 2007

Doug Lewis
Testimony to U.S. Senate Rules and Administration Committee, July 25, 2007
Response to Doug Lewis Testimony of July 25, 2007 by Teresa Hommel
WheresThePaper opinion -- this testimony is important because it states clearly the direction of arguments that will be made in the next year, and the way issues will be framed. Activists for election integrity need to clearly understand what's wrong with Lewis's arguments.

All Your Votes Belong to Vendors
Voting Machine Vendors Warn Congress About H.R. 811's Dangerous and Unrealistic Timeframes, Posted by the Ranking Republican, July 17, 2007, The vendors are threatening a denial of service in the sense that, now that jurisdictions have bought voting equipment from them, they are refusing to update the equipment. Vendors claim it would take 54 months to install a VVPAT printer. If the VVPAT were audited, that might reveal that the machines don't work and are easily corrupted. The lobbyists remind Congress that they are lobbyists (are they saying "we have money and this is what we want"?).
Voting Machine Companies to Congress - ALL YOUR VOTES BELONG TO US, by ncvoter, March 29, 2007
12 page testimony from Election Technology Council

Computers not needed for handicap Access
Handicapped Access to Mark-Sense Ballots, Douglas W. Jones, U. of Iowa, patented design for non-computerized device for voters with disabilities to mark and verify a paper ballot.

SAFE Audits
Percentage-based versus SAFE Vote Tabulation Auditing: A Graphic Comparison , July 26th, 2007

California Secretary of State Debra Bowen Top-to-bottom Review
More links
Reports released July 27, 2007
Transcript of Hearing, Secretary of State Debra Bowen, July 30, 2007
Scientists' Tests Hack Into Electronic Voting Machines in California and Elsewhere, New York Times, July 28, 2007
Points to make in your letter to the editor:
1. Is it a coincidence that as soon as we develop technology to protect paper ballots from fraud, we start recording our votes with computers, which prevent any one from detecting fraud?
2. Some advocates for the disabled may claim that federal law requires them to be able to vote without any help from poll workers, but this is false. The law requires voters to be able to cast a secret vote, and for poll sites to be accessible.
. . . The law does not require every voter to be able to deposit a ballot into a ballot box without personal assistance. This would be unreasonable.
. . . We have a variety of ballot-marking devices that enable voters with disabilities to mark a paper ballot in secrecy, and a variety of "ballot sleeves" that fully protect the secrecy of votes on those ballots. Regardless of who carries the ballot to the optical scanner and inserts it, the secret vote can remain secret.
. . . The accessibility issue should not be used politically to support the use of electronic touchscreen voting machines, when voter-marked paper ballots and optical scanner systems give every voter a more secure vote.
3. There is no way a paper trail lets voters "verify that their ballots had been correctly cast" unless the paper trail is counted for initial tallies as well as recounts. If the electronic record of the vote is counted for initial tallies, then the paper trail is a placebo.
4. One reason "that no machine was known to have been hacked in an election" is that vendors use their trade secret claims to prevent anyone from examining the systems and collecting the evidence.
5. No computer system is secure from insider tampering in the field of elections or anywhere else.

Florida, Voting Machine Study
Software Review and Security Analysis of Diebold Voting Machine Software, SAIT, Aug. 10, 2007
Study: Fla. Voting Machines Can Be Hacked, Miami Herald, July 31, 2007
Software Review and Security Analysis of Diebold Software, July 27, 2007
Secretary Browning's letter to Diebold, July 31, 2007
Statement by Matt Bishop
Study: Fla. Voting Machines Still Flawed, Washington Post, July 31, 2007
The Plot Thickens for Electronic Voting, Sci-Tech Today, Aug. 2, 2007
Florida voting machines show problems, TG Daily, July 31, 2007

Senate Rules Committee hearing on S1487
Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, July 25, 2007, testimony
Comment on upcoming hearing, Mary Ann Gould
Recorded audio coverage in segments
Recorded audio coverage--one big MP3 file 43MB

Disability
Relationship of Diebold and National Federation for the Blind, BlackBoxVoting, June 16, 2004

Congress can't fix HAVA mess
WheresThePaper.org opposes use of DREs and believes their widespread use is a HAVA-created mess.
Congress puts off fixing touch-screen voting, Farhad Manjoo, July 21, 2007
Holt Paper-Trail Election Bill Dead? -- UPDATE: Not Dead Yet, Kim Zetter, July 18, 2007
Overhaul Plan for Vote System Will Be Delayed, New York Times, July 20, 2007
Accessibility Isn't Only Hurdle in Voting System Overhaul, New York Times, July 20, 2007, By Christopher Drew
There is more than enough time to fix US democracy - open letter to Sen. Feinstein OpEdNews, July 22, 2007, By by Alastair Thompson
Question: Does Senator Hagel still own part of ES&S? Is it a conflict of interest for him to participate in writing election reform legislation after he was a stakeholder in the company?

Hand Count Paper Ballots
On-site observations of the hand-counting of paper ballots and recommendations for the general election of 2008, Sheila Parks, July 18, 2007
We're Counting the Votes, And You Can Too! Watch citizens hand-counting votes on paper ballots! (requires Windows Media Player)
Paper Ballot Election Administration Basics, Nancy Tobi, Election Defense Alliance, July 19,2007
Hand Counting Paper Ballots, Anthony Stevens, Assistant Secretary of State, New Hampshire
New Hampshire Poll Worker Training Disability Access
New Hampshire Reconciliation Hand-counting, Bud Fitch, Deputy Attorney General
New Hampshire Election Procedure Manual, 2006-2007
New Hampshire Hand Count in Lyndeborough, Part 1, YouTube

Ballot-marking methods
Methods

New Jersey studies on VVPAT printers
 NJ Institute of Technology Reports, web page of Division of Elections
Avante Vote-Trakker
Sequoia AVC Advantage
Sequoia Advantage, Addendum
Sequoia objects! July 20, 2007 Letter To NJ

Pennsylvania and ES&S, Warrantee Cost
County Says Voting Machine Warranty Too Costly, CitizensVoice, July 18, 2007. (Contract in haste, repent in leisure)

Sequoia new optical scanner
page 1-2
page 3
page 4 and 6
page 5

San Francisco may use HCPB in November
Hands may replace digits in November vote count, California secretary of state refused to certify San Francisco's ES&S machines in a fourth 'one-time' administrative certification. Examiner, July 18, 2007

EAC Seeks Voter Input
Statement of EAC Vice-Chair Rosemary E. Rodriguez EAC Seeks Input from Voters and Advocacy Groups, July 9, 2007

Riverside County CA
Report from Blue Ribbon Panel in Riverside County, California By Avi Rubin, July 13, 2007

HR811
Web page on HR811 and S1487
Connecting the Dots? Rush Holt, HR 811, and Avante International By Rebecca Mercuri, July 13, 2007
Time Running Out For Voting Reform, New York Times, July 31, 2007

Contractual Barriers to Transparency in Electronic Voting
Analysis of 55 Contracts, Joe Hall, 2007

Escrow version control, ES&S in Los Angeles, InkaVote
Discrepancies Reported in Versions of LA County E-Voting System Source Code as Submitted and Escrowed by ES&S. Letter Obtained by BRAD BLOG to Voting Machine Company Confirms Potential Violations Of California Election Law as Revealed During CA SoS Bowen's 'Top-to-Bottom Review' of E-Voting Systems. Matter May Have Far Reaching, National Consequences Concerning the Effectiveness of Escrowing Secret Vote-Counting Software. BradBlog, by John Gideon and Brad Friedman, July 10, 2007

Alameda County must rehold election
California Judge To Rule County Must Rehold Election After Diebold Touch-Screen Election Records Destroyed by County Officials, Judge to Nullify Election Results of 2004 Alameda County Ballot Measure, According to Tentative Ruling. County Had Refused to Allow Public Examination of Electronic Votes and Audit Logs on Diebold Voting Systems After 'Numerous Machine Malfunctions' in Medical Marijuana Election.
Bradblog, by John Gideon of VotersUnite, July 12, 2007

Tova Wang gag order reversed
Expert Hired to Write Voter Fraud Study Now Allowed to Speak About It, Commission's Burying, Altering of Her Report, Bradblog, by John Gideon of VotersUnite, July 12, 2007
On July 13, 2007, he U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations issued Senate Report 110-129, which recommended passage of the "Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Bill, 2008" (H.R. 2829). The bill makes appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008. In the report's section on the Election Assistance Commission:
"Research Products- The Committee directs that no Federal funds shall be used in a way that would bar the public release of final research presented to the Commission for its consideration. While the Commission may determine how to respond to research performed with Federal funds, any use of research paid for from the public funds shall be made available without substantive edits. The Commission shall review and produce its own reports without partisan influence or bias, and shall not unduly limit the rights of Federally-funded researchers to speak freely about the research following the conclusion of the contract."

DREs cause long waiting lines
Why Computerized Voting Machines Cause Long Lines and Disenfranchise Voters, William Edelstein, July 8, 2007

Internet voting spreads
Lithuania, Scientific American, July 8, 2007
Markham (Canada) voters can now cast their eballot, InterGovWorld, Oct. 26, 2006
Democratic Party Rules for 2008, Aug. 21, 2006
Michigan, Feb. 9, 2004
Hawaii, Feb. 20, 2007
Wikipedia, Feb. 20, 2007 

 

=== June 2007 ===

Letter from Harriotte Hurie Ranvig to Sen. Kennedy, June 27, 2007

Election Fraud
Election Fraud in America: Don't worry about Paper Ballots--The Problem is Secret Procedures and Lack of Observers! by Teresa Hommel, www.WheresThePaper.org, June 28, 2007

Observers Report, E-voting Elections in England and Scotland
Open Rights Group Election Report highlights problems with voting technology used, June 20, 2007.
Executive Summary
Election Report

Privatization
The Sack of Washington, Vanity Fair, June, 2007, Excerpted from Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America, by Cullen Murphy, to be published this month by Houghton Mifflin.
E-voting Vendors Commonly Refuse to Promise That Their Voting Machines Work, by Paul Lehto.

Study
Voters Fail to Notice Vote-Flipping, by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org, on BradBlog, June 13, 2007.

Hans van Spakovksy
Who Is Hans von Spakovksy?, CivilRights.org, June 12, 2007
Another Sorry Ascension, New York Times Editorial, June 14, 2007.

Election 2004: The Urban Legend
Scoop American Coup II presents Election 2004: The Urban Legend, by Michael Collins, June 13, 2007
Sludge Report #177 – Bigger Than Watergate II, aka Election 2004 vs George On The Block & the White Ghosts of NYC, Scoop, Column by C. D. Sludge, June 13, 2007

Hack and Stack
Sleuthing Stolen Election 2004: John Brakey and the "Hack and Stack", OpEdNews, By David L. Griscom, Ph.D. 

 

=== May 2007 ===

How Long does it take to change voting systems?
How Long does it take to change voting systems?, VerifiedVoting.org, May 9, 2007

Study
The Usability of Electronic Voting Machines and How Votes Can Be Changed Without Detection. Everett, S. P. (2007). Doctoral dissertation, Rice University, Houston, TX. See especially, discussions on page 77 and 103.
Abstract:
. . . Results indicate that over 60% of voters do not notice if their votes as shown on the review screen are different than how they were selected. Entire races can be added or removed from ballots and voter’s candidate selections can be flipped and the majority of users do not notice. ... The result is that malicious software installed on a DRE could steal votes right in front of voters with a low probability of being detected.
p. 115 [PDF page]
. . . The most striking result of Study 3 was that only 37% of participants noticed the vote flipping that occurred on their review screens. For each participant, the candidate choices for 1, 2, or 8 races had been changed and most voters did not detect this.
p. 122 [PDF page]
. . . The third study, which used a large sample size and participants who were representative of voters in general, showed that age had a negative direct impact on whether voters would notice the change. It is easy to obtain demographic information such as the average age of registered voters in a precinct. Because age is an important factor in whether voters will detect changes, malicious software attacks could be targeted to precincts with high numbers of older voters. This would mean that the vote flipping attacks could be executed selectively with a very low probably of detection.
Remember?
. . . Sarasota County had more than 18,000 undervotes in the 2006 FL-13 congressional contest. Sarasota County has over 30% of voters who are 65 and over, and has the 6th highest number of those voters in the country.
. . . Votes can be stolen electronically without flipping them on the review screen, but this study flipped votes in three contests, right on the review screen, and only 37% of voters demographically representative of the voting population discovered it.

Peering Through Chinks
Peering Through Chinks in the Armor of High-Tech Elections, Pokey Anderson, May 27, 2007

Greg Palast, Caging Lists
The Goods on Goodling and the Keys to the Kingdom, By Greg Palast, BradBlog.com, Thursday 24 May 2007. The no-longer "missing" Rove emails reveal the cagey scheme to steal 2008.

Pacific NW Elections Conference
June 26-19, Portland OR, vendors and election officials

NYT praises Florida
Trust in Paper, New York Times, May 5, 2007.
Florida Acts To Eliminate Touch-Screen Voting System, New York Times, May 3, 2007.

American Center for Voting Rights Disappears
The Fraudulent Fraud Squad, The incredible, disappearing American Center for Voting Rights, by Richard L. Hasen, Slate, May 18, 2007.

CBTU Resolution for Paper Ballot Systems
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, New York City Chapter, Resolution Supporting Voter-Marked Paper Ballot Voting Systems, passed May 19, 2007.

EAC Spanish Glossary
released May 17, 2007

Maryland
Gov. O’Malley Signs Paper Records Bill Into Law, requiring a durable paper record. It would allow DREs with VVPAT or paper ballots with optical scanners. Implementation is required by 2010, contingent on funding prior to fiscal year 2009. Audit provisions are needed.

Secretary of State Project
Support Secretaries of state who will protect voter rights

Voter Rage
Creative Use of a Hammer, BlackBoxVoting.org, May 11, 2007

California Tests
E-voting Machine Tests Face Delay, Inside Bay Area, May 15, 2007

Americans with Disabilities Call for Accessible and Secure Election Systems
statement and 41 signers, VoterAction, May 3, 2007

Slammer Worm in Sarasota
Worm Attacked Voter Database In Sarasota in October, 2006, ComputerWorld, May 16, 2007
The database server was connected to the Internet.
If they had thought the disaster would have affected the election, they would have handled things differently.
Kathy Dent didn't include this in her post election report.
Sarasota County Incident Report, Oct. 24, 2006
Worms and the Internet, comment by Howard Stanislevic, May 16, 2007

Florida Voters Coalition and Council of the Blind
Strategic Alliance formed, May 16, 2007
Go All the Way Florida

NY Times Supports Holt bill
New York Times editorial supporting Holt Bill, May 16, 2007

PRLDEF position statement
Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., Statement of Concern Regarding H.R. 811 and the Problems of Electronic Voting Technologies and Electronic Ballots, May, 2007

Cuyahoga Audit
Critique of the "Collaborative Public Audit" of Cuyahoga County Ohio's November 2006 Election, Kathy Dopp, May 7, 2007

Congressional Field Hearing in NYC, May 7: Certification and Testing of Electronic Voting Systems
Electronic Voting May Be Ready by Fall '08, Official Says, New York Times, May 8, 2007. The big question is, did this reporter attend the hearing? He missed the main news of the day--experts agreed that NASED certification was meaningless, but decided that the shoddy equipment should continue to be used because... because... we've gone too far to turn back?
Voting Flaws, New York 1 News, May 7, 2007.
Hearing Notice.
Statement by Rep. Carolyn Maloney.
Douglas Kellner, Co-Chair of NY State Board of Elections.
John Washburn, VoteTrustUSA Voting System Technical Advisor.
David Wagner, Ph.D., Computer Science Division, University of CA, Berkeley.
Testimony on Voting System Testing and Cerification from VoteTrustUSA.
Distributed at hearing: Michael Shamos Testimony to EAC, Oct. 26, 2006, on DRAFT Procedureal Manual for Voting System Testing and Certification Program. Statements by persons not called as witnesses
John Gideon, Co-Director, VotersUnite.org.
Teresa Hommel, creator of WheresThePaper.org.

Technical Guidelines Development Committee
The Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) will hold its next plenary meeting on May 21-22, 2007 at NIST's Gaithersburg campus. The Committee will review a near-final draft of the next iteration of the voluntary voting systems guidelines (VVSG). The meeting will be webcast and the link will be provided shortly at http://vote.nist.gov.
If you plan to attend in person, please register by May 14, 2007 on line at: http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/confpage/070521.htm.

Florida gets federal money for new machines
Federal funds pave way to voting paper trail, Miami Herald, May 1, 2007

David Jefferson rebuts Election Center
document, 2005

Movie, 1 min, 36 seconds
Electronic McVoting 

 

=== April 2007 ===

Voter Errors
Center for American Politics and Citizenship, University of Maryland
Promise and Performance of E Voting Systems Workshop, April 23, 2007
Voter Accuracy: Voter Abilities to Cast their Votes as Intended
The voter-marked optical scan ballot had an error rate probably because the write-in option required voters to both fill in the write-in bubble, AND write the name of the candidate. Nevertheless, the voter-marked optical scan ballot had the lowest undervote rate of any voting system used in the 2004 Presidential election: CalTech Voter Residual Vote Rates

Election Fraud
Did Bush Commit Election Fraud? Gonzales Story - Smoking Gun #1, Scoop, April 23, 2007.

Virginia
State law bans NEW DREs, VoteTrustUSA, April 15, 2007.

Counted As Cast
web site with useful links.

Dept of Justice strategy to disenfranchise
DOJ strategy: Limit voting in swing states, Political appointees allegedly skewed rulings to influence outcome of elections Sacramento Bee Editorial, April 22, 2007.

Pacific NW Elections conference
June 26-29, 2007, Jantzen Beach, Portland OR.

EAC lists certified equipment and labs
EAC’s Voting System Certification Program.

Florida video
excellent 51-second video.

GAO Report
All Levels of Government Are Needed To Address E-Vote Challenges, Government Accountability Office, April 18, 2007. The report contatins testimony before the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
. . . "The integrity of voting systems -- which is but one variable in a successful election process equation -- depends on effective system life cycle management, which includes systems definition, development, acquisition, operations, testing and management. It also depends on measuring actual voting system performance in terms of security, reliability, ease of use and cost effectiveness, so that any needed corrective actions can be taken. Unless voting systems are properly managed throughout their life cycle, this one facet of the election process can significantly undermine the integrity of the whole.
. . . "Election officials, computer security experts, citizen advocacy groups, and others have raised significant concerns about the security and reliability of electronic voting systems," continued Hite, "citing vague or incomplete standards, weak security controls, system design flaws, incorrect system configuration, poor security management and inadequate security testing, among other issues. Many of these security and reliability concerns are legitimate and thus merit the combined and focused attention of federal, state, and local authorities responsible for election administration."
. . . Unfortunately, the author, Hite, in testimony before the Oversight Committee, referred to the "problem" of decentralized elections as leading to fraud and incompetence at the state levels, and in his report he concludes that the EAC must be strengthened to fulfill its mandate.

Remote sensing of computer screen content
Content of one computer screen can be seen on another computer through walls with some new technology, April 20, 2007.

Rove's missing emails and 2004 election
Are Rove's missing e-mails the smoking guns of the stolen 2004 election?, by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, The Free Press, April 25, 2007
The GOP's cyber election hit squad, by Steven Rosenfeld and Bob Fitrakis, The Free Press, April 22, 2007

US Attorneys and "voter fraud"
Did Bush Commit Election Fraud?, Michael Collins, Scoop, April 23, 2007

EAC silences writer/researcher
Tova Andrea Wang, Co-Author of Bi-Partisan 'Voter Fraud and Voter Intimidation Report' for the Election Assistance Commission, Calls for an End to the Censorship in Wake of EAC's Altering of Her Report, Bradblog, April 26, 2007
Tova Andrea Wang's statement
Draft report which was changed EAC Under Fire, Long Overdue Congressional Scrutiny, Bradblog, April 23, 2007

History of American Election Administration
Election Administration in the United States, 1934, by Joseph P. Harris, Ph.D.

Lynn Landes
Voting security web page, The case for a return to total transparency in voting - open voting!

Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-CA), Chair of House Admin Committee, dies of cancer
Millender-McDonald's Death Leaves Chair Open. Congressional Quarterly, April 23, 2007
Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald dies. The Hill, April 22, 2007
Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-Calif.) has been diagnosed with cancer. She will take a leave of absence from Congress until May 25. Rep. Millender-McDonald is chairwoman of the House Administration Committee where HR811 is under consideration. The Hill, April 18, 2007

PA Court Decision
PA Court Recognizes PA Voters' Right to Reliable, Secure Voting Machines, PR Newswire, April 12, 2007
Opinion by Judge Friedman, April 12, 2007
The Pennsylvania court held that voters have a right under the commonweath's constitution to reliable and secure voting systems and can challenge the use of electronic voting machines "that provide no way for Electors to know whether their votes will be recognized" through voter verification or independent audit.
Court rejects state's protests to voting machine suit, Electronic machines have security, accuracy flaws, activists claim. Morning Call, April 15, 2007.

Citizens need to be able to sue to enforce election integrity
Pending Election Reform in Congress Doesn't Give Citizens Right to Sue, By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. Posted April 13, 2007.

Cleveland Ohio Audit of 2006 finds flaws, Diebold claims to own vote data
Audit Finds Many Faults in Cleveland's '06 Voting, New York Times, April 20, 2007.
Cuyahoga Report, April 18, 2007 (2.8MB PDF)
The audit was done by representatives of major political parties, the League of Women Voters and two citizens' groups. Meanwhile, the 4 members of the Board of Elections and the county's election director, Michael Vu, have resigned or been forced out of office. Michael Vu was immediately hired as Director of Elections in San Diego, CA.
Ohio Audit Says Diebold Vote Database May Have Been Corrupted, Kim Zetter, BlogWired, April 19, 2007
Center for Election Integrity at Cleveland State University.
Bennett Quits Elections Panel, The Plain Dealer, April 12, 2007
San Diego County hires Vu as assistant registrar, North County Times (San Diego), April 11, 2007
Electionline News Analysis: The Coming Paper-Trail Debacle?, Aug. 17, 2006
Two Election Workers Convicted in '04 Tally, Plain Dealer, January 25, 2007
Ohio Election Portends Trouble, by Kim Zetter, Wired, October 31, 2006

PFAW lies to support Holt bill HR811
People for the American Way Misleads Americans on Holt Election Reform Bill and My Position on It, Bradblog, April 9, 2007.
To send your objections to PFAW, send email to pfaw@pfaw.org

Voter Fraud
Panel Said to Alter Finding on Voter Fraud, New York Times, April 11, 2007.
EAC responds.
Administration tried to curb election turnout in key states, Campaign against alleged voter fraud sought to bolster the GOP, Baltimore Sun, April 19, 2007

American Blackout
"American Blackout", a documentary by Ian Inaba, review by Joan Brunwasser, OpEdNews, April 10, 2007

Sequoia pats itself on the back
because no visible problems occurred--OK, they're fast, but has anyone checked the accuracy of these computers yet?

Ballot-on-demand
Removing Barriers to Voter Verified Paper Ballots, Ballot on Demand to Increase Flexibility of Paper Ballot Voting, by Joyce McCloy, NC Coalition for Verified Voting
Automated Election Services, a company in New Mexico.

France
Opposition To Electronic Voting System Grows In France, New York Times-Europe, April 4, 2007

Oklahoma made its own OpScan
Upgrades Sought In State Election System For 2008 Presidential Race, KOTV, AP, November 26, 2006.
Testimony of Michael Clingman, Secretary, Oklahoma State Election Board, before the EAC, June 3, 2004.
Voice of the Voters Radio Show, Interview with Clingman of February 14, 2007, Announcement,
radio interview, version 1 , version 2

Maryland
Maryland Senate passes paper ballot bill, Avi Rubin's Blog, April 6, 2007. 

 

=== March 2007 ===

Holt HR 6414 of 2006
So 2008 is history -- ALREADY? I don't think so, and here's why, Howard Stanislevik, March 20, 2007.

Diebold sues Massachusetts
Firm sues Mass. over contract for voting machines for disabled, Telegram, March 25, 2007.

Florida, Jennings/Buchanan Race
ES&S fears were listed in a letter seeking to limit the state audit, Terms of 'Independent' State Run Audit, Source Code Review Dictated by Voting Machine Company to Florida State Election Director Prior to Tests of Failed Touch-Screen Voting Systems from Contested Jennings/Buchanan Election! Bradblog.
State audit team replies to questions surrounding newly discovered ES&S 'Source Code Review Agreement' sent to state certification chief. Bradblog.
ES&S Memo Points to Known Problem with Florida Voting Machine, Informed Consent, March 22, 2007
Source Says Second ES&S Letter Tried to Dictate What Florida Test Reports Could Say, Informed Consent, March 23, 2007

Jim Crow
The New Face of Jim Crow: Voter Suppression in America, PFAW

Hacking Democracy
Hacking Democracy DVD released, March 27, 2007

Sarasota, Florida, Privatization looks like this