Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Éirinn go Brách! In testimony before the Committee on House Administration last week, EAC Commissioner Caroline Hunter testified that there were no EAC certified voting systems at this time and that there would be none used in the election in November. The certification process should not become what it was under NASED where they qualified all of the garbage that is presently being used. The long process for certifying voting systems will surely become shorter as the labs and the EAC’s representatives get experience. Unfortunately the long process will surely affect the voters in New Jersey. The state legislature mandated a vvpat printer be added to the Sequoia Advantage machines used by the state by January 2007. The Attorney General has now moved the deadline for the printers twice with support from the legislature and is now asking that it be moved again until after November.
Perhaps it is time for the courts and the legislature to step in and take action to get rid of those machines and force the Attorney General to accept paper ballots for November and beyond.
That, and links to the rest of today’s notable voting news stories, follow below as usual…
- NAtional: American Statistical Association Calls for Audits to Increase Confidence in Electoral Outcomes
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2008/3/prweb773424.htm - NAtional: U. of Conn. Study Reveals Still More Vulnerabilities in Diebold Optical Scan Voting System
https://bradblog.com/?p=5806 - FL: Lawsuit against Democratic National Commitee goes before appeals court Monday
http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=ef34dad2-1fea-45bd-ae29-7508840344ff - IA: Voting-system reversal too costly for taxpayers
Shouldn’t officials have just done this right the first time?
http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=194700 - IL: Election officials dispute report critical of Illinois
Disagree with abolishing local boards
http://www.bnd.com/homepage/story/282961.html - MI: Clerks divided over absentee ballot mailing
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080317/POLITICS01/803170377 - NJ: Elections in 32 N.J. towns could shift under plan
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-9/1205732107247650.xml&coll=1 - NJ: Senate considers request to delay voting safeguards
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj–votingmachines0317mar17,0,4761323.story - NJ: Senate OKs measure to delay voting safeguards
http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/new_jersey/20080317_ap_senateoksmeasuretodelayvotingsafeguards.html - NY: Elections Board cries budget shortfall
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/03/17/2008-03-17_elections_board_cries_budget_shortfall.html - OH: E-Vote: Ohio Paper Ballots Save the Day Says Secretary of State
http://www.govtech.com/gt/275036?topic=117673 - OH: Ohio’s voting machines are now an official crime scene
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2008/3054 - OH: Ohio voting machines declared an official crime scene
Secured for forensic examination
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/ohio-voting-machines-declared - OH: Warren County, OH’s 2004 Election Night Lockdown Finally Investigated by Media
https://bradblog.com/?p=5810
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