Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Today HR-811 was marked-up. We can only guess at what the bill looks like now and we should know before tomorrow’s DVN. From what I have heard the bill seems not to have suffered from the mark-up process and amendments. In fact, it may now be better than it was when it was filed. The bill was voted out of conference by a party-line vote of 6-3 and will go to the floor for a vote sometime within the next two weeks.
Links to many of today’s notable voting news stories follow below…
NAtional: Testimony on Voting System Testing and Cerification LINK
NAtional: Voter Action Welcomes John Bonifaz LINK
NAtional: Resurrecting Jim Crow: The Erratic Resume of the Voting Section Chief LINK
NAtional: Voting Rights Hearing Scheduled in Senate LINK
NAtional: Effort to Ban Paperless Voting Machines Advances Out of House Administration Committee LINK
AL: Marshall County – County may look at voting changes LINK
CO: Boulder County – Elections official is moving on
Liss will be deputy clerk and recorder in Jefferson County LINK
CO: Denver – New clerk and recorder promises to fix problems LINK
FL: This bill does a lot more than advertised LINK
IN: Veteran voters upset at problems LINK
IN: Marion County – Election headache: Delays at the polls LINK
IN: Marion County – Marion Co. struggles with Election Day problems LINK
LA: Louisiana Elections Burning Over Recent Legislation LINK
MD: In Carroll, some votes look better on paper
Most municipalities prefer old ballots for local elections LINK
MS: Adams County – County election costs to get higher LINK
MS: Jackson County – Clerk says parties miss vote deadline LINK
NY: Electronic Voting May Be Ready by Fall ’08, Official Says LINK
NY: Editorial – Vote of no confidence
Keep old lever voting machines for now, until new technology is perfected LINK
NY: Congressional Hearing Reveals Voting Machine Flaws LINK
NY: Rensselaer County – New machines to be set for Troy voting LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County – Elections officials asked to improve LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County – Elections board sets its sights on race for the White House LINK
PA: Erie County – Another ballot, another boo-boo
Absentee forms contain error for 2nd time in less than year LINK
UK: Voters won’t pay for election chaos LINK
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Today HR-811 was marked-up. We can only guess at what the bill looks like now and we should know before tomorrow’s DVN. From what I have heard the bill seems not to have suffered from the mark-up process and amendments. In fact, it may now be better than it was when it was filed. The bill was voted out of conference by a party-line vote of 6-3 and will go to the floor for a vote sometime within the next two weeks.
Crossing my fingers over here…and getting ready to make noise.
Thanks for keeping us informed John.
I think the vote on HR 811, if the open source code, no communications allowed, criminal case type chain of custody, and paper ballot language, stays in it the vote on the floor will be along party lines too.
And if its counterpart (S 559) in the Senate gets out of committee with its similar language, and if the anti-Ken Blackwell syndrome language stays, it will suffer the same fate as HR 811.
Republicans own the electronic voting machine companies and they do not want to show their source code, etc., so republicans will fight it.
The preznit blush will veto it if it gets past filibuster via a cloture motion.
…or so you hope… but unless the markup worked overtime to fix the numerous holes in the bill then the source running in the machines might not be open after all, external communications could still be allowed to vulnerable equipment… etc etc..
But first we must carefully review the markup with a clear head to see what the bill says now.
And if they missed fixing any of those fatal flaws, Dredd, then I hope you were paying attention to what I’ve said earlier because there will be a test later today or early tomorrow… one that even you cannot argue with 😉
I can argue with that test.
Nobody will listen.
But let’s see what happens.
Then maybe well discuss how physical access to a box could be a real nightmare. And not even by a smart guy. I am dumb a box of ball bearings, but I can destroy things.