Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Today Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner released the results of her EVEREST (Evaluation & Validation of Election-Related Equipment, Standards & Testing) report. There is a lot of interesting reading for the technical types and for the non-technical among us. Brunner has, with input from a bi-partisan group of county elections people, recommended that changes be made before next years elections; no DREs, no Precinct-Based Optical Scan, hand-marked paper ballots to be counted on Central-Count Optical Scan except for the use of Ballot Marking Devices for voters with disabilities, early voting up to 15 days, and voting centers. One has to hope that if all of the counting is going to take place on CCOS machines that no vendors will be involved in that counting and that the counting be open to the public. One pleasant surprise was that Brunner went farther than the rumors said she would go. Not only did she release her “Executive Summary” but the technical reports were released at the same time. Thank you for that openness, Secretary Brunner....

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  http://electionline.org/...283/xmfid/3/Default.aspx
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  http://www.13wmaz.com/ne...story.aspx?storyid=46572
• OH: Study: Voting Systems Vulnerable
  http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/info/everest.aspx
• OH: Brunner declares Ohio's voting systems vulnerable
  http://www.columbusdispa...ies/2007/12/14/vote.html
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  http://blog.cleveland.co...ios_vote_vulnerable.html
• OH: Report finds voting equipment flaws
  http://www.crainsclevela...4/1008&Profile=1008
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• OH: Ohio Secretary of State confirms 2004 election could have been stolen
  http://www.freepress.org...nts/display/19/2007/2920
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• OH: Statement of Premier Election Solutions in Response to Today's Release of the Ohio EVEREST Voting System Review
  http://www.earthtimes.or...ess_release,242777.shtml
• OH: 'Critical Security Failures’ Leads Ohio Sec. Of State To Recommend Ban of DRE (Touch-Screen) Voting Machines
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5443
• OH: Cuyahoga County - Secretary of State wants new voting system in Cleveland
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• VA: 37th District Recount Set for Next week
  Candidates disagree over the degree to which votes should be studied.
  http://www.connectionnew...38;paper=61&cat=104

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