Daily Voting News For May 11, 2007
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
An article in Arstechnica correctly points out that the Lofgren amendment to HR-811 “significantly watered down the
requirement that voting machine source code be made publicly available. Holt's original legislation had required that
source code be "available for inspection promptly upon request to any person." The version approved by the House still
requires vendors to disclose source code to an independent third party, but that third party may only disclose the
source code to government officials, to parties in election-related litigation, or to a person "who reviews, analyzes,
or reports on the technology solely for an academic, scientific, technological, or other investigation or inquiry
concerning the accuracy or integrity of the technology."” Even with this change to the bill we are pleased with the way
the bill came out of committee. Unfortunately the lack of wording that requires paper ballots for all tallies, recounts
and audits keeps us from supporting the bill. Let me be perfectly clear though; we are not anti-HR811. We are, instead,
neutral and will continue our fight to ban electronic ballots from US elections....
NAtional: House waters down e-voting code disclosure rules LINK
National: Paper trail bill voted out of House committee. Would such a law have prevented Sarasota? LINK
National: The globalization of electronic election theft LINK
National: Voting Paper Trail Requirement Clears Committee LINK
National: Hand-Counted Paper Ballots: Frequently Asked Questions LINK
California: Riverside County - Vote machine probe to start next week LINK
California: San Diego County - BREAKING: Former Diebold, Sequoia Sales Rep Named as New San Diego County Registrar of
Voters LINK
California: San Diego County - Former Diebold Sales Rep Becomes Registrar of Voters in San Diego LINK
California: San Diego County - County hires new registrar of voters LINK
Colorado: Douglas County - High school students to work Douglas elections LINK
Georgia: Karen Handel: Voting Rites Georgia’s Secretary of State says providing a paper trail for electronic voting is a
matter of when, not if. LINK
Illinois: Feds find fault with state election spending LINK
Indiana: Hancock County - After losing by 9 votes, candidate wants a recount LINK
Indiana: Marion County - Council president to reinstate investigative election committee LINK
Massachusetts: Bolton - New voting machine has assistive features LINK
Pennsylvania: Bucks County - Freedom of Information LINK
Utah: Salt Lake County - Special Election Means Special Expenses for Cities, Counties LINK
West Virginia: Jefferson County - Electronic voting equipment purchase approved LINK
Canada: Montreal - City pays $300,000 to settle dispute on botched voting LINK
Scotland: Fragmented databases behind Scottish election debacle LINK
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John Gideon
Executive Director www.votersunite.org and
Member www.votetrustusa.org