Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Colorado’s Secretary of State, Mike Coffman, seems to be doing all he can to get away from the decisions he made recently that were negative toward the state’s voting machines. Amazingly he has allowed ES&S and Mesa and Jefferson Counties to run a test on their equipment in an attempt to prove his computer experts wrong. Of course, they can find none of the problems found during the testing done by experts for the state. Also today there are reports that Coffman called election officials in Denver last week and told them that all they need to do is to appeal his decision and he will probably change his decision. This all happened after Coffman met with Sequoia Voting Systems officials. Coffman might just as well have ignored the court when they told the state they had to retest and certify all voting systems. Simply amazing!!...

• NAtional: As primary season ramps up, an e-voting snapshot
  Are states across the nation ready for the elections to begin?
  http://www.computerworld...098&intsrc=hm_topic
• NAtional: Interview - Bits, Bytes and Votes
  http://www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=37489
• NAtional: Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arguments on Indiana Voter ID Law
  http://www.munciefreepress.com/node/18488
• NAtional: Voter-ID Law Draws Political Clash at Supreme Court
  http://www.bloomberg.com...9wwihWs0&refer=home
• NAtional: Voter ID: "much ado about nothing"?
  http://www.moresoftmoney...w.com/news.html?AID=1169
• NAtional: Our view on improving elections: Photo ID to vote? Only if all who are eligible can get one
  http://blogs.usatoday.co.../01/our-view-on-imp.html
• NAtional: Election (including security) madness
  The continuing saga of poorly designed voting machines
  http://www.networkworld..../2008/010808bradner.html
• NAtional: Election Burden
  Indiana's voter-ID law is harmful and worthless.
  http://www.slate.com/id/2181573/
• NAtional: White House Watch: The question the candidates aren't asked and won't answer
  http://www.opednews.com/...ite_house_watch_3a__.htm
• AR: Ark. officials expect electronic voting to go smoothly at primary
  http://www.pbcommercial....p-state-ar/d8u1viv81.txt
• CA: San Diego County - Security Concerns Sideline Electronic Voting Machines
  http://www.nbcsandiego.c...ews/14999283/detail.html
• CA: San Mateo County - Voting contract changing
  County's move will not affect use of e-machines
  http://sanmateodailynews...8-1-8-01-08-smc-contract
• CO: Lack of election-plan direction after April 1? Foolish
  http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_7908100
• CO: Denver - E-voting could be back in '08
  http://www.rockymountain...voting-could-be-back-08/
• CO: Mesa County - County vote machines pass tests
  http://www.gjsentinel.co..._1b_Voting_machines.html
• FL: Columnist - An accurate vote count is essential --- but elusive --- in a democracy
  http://www.pensacolanews...01/801080332/1006/NEWS01
• FL: Editorial - Paper counts
  The issue isn't electronics, but verifying votes
  http://www.news-journalo...rials/opnOPN53010808.htm
• HI: Maui County - County officials scrambling to ready for elections in fall
  http://www.mauinews.com/...2008/1/8/08couo0108.html
• NH: The cat that controls New Hampshire election programming
  http://onlinejournal.com...blish/article_2810.shtml
• NH: ALL Diebold ALL the Time - It's the New Hampshire Primary
  http://www.opednews.com/...all_diebold_all_the_.htm
• NJ: New Jersey's Post-Election Audit Bill Goes to the Governor!
  http://e-voter.blogspot....ection-bill-goes-to.html
• TN: TACIR to act on verifiable votes
  http://www.clarksvilleon...act-on-verifiable-votes/
• WI: Advocates outraged after audit finds polling sites inaccessible
  http://www.rhinelanderda...p-state-wi/d8u1tt281.txt
• Germany: German activists move to block e-voting
  Out of the Chaos Computer Club, calls for dropping the computers
  http://computerworld.com...56138&taxonomyId=84
• Germany: German hackers fight electronic voting
  http://www.theregister.c...hackers_oppose_e_voting/
• Germany: Voting Computers Spark Controversy German State Election
  http://www.dw-world.de/d...e/0,2144,3045927,00.html

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