Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

41 voters in Atlanta, Texas went to the polls to vote for, amongst other items, a candidate for City Council District 1. Little did those voters know that the city had leased the machines from Cass County and Hart Intercivic had done the ballot programming which contained an error. It turns out that the vendor had programmed the DREs used by the city so more than just citizens of District 1 could vote in that particular race. Rather than 41 votes there was a combined total of 198 votes cast. This is an accuracy issue that was not caused by the voters and is another clear violation of HAVA Section 301(a)(5)....

• NAtional: Voting Rights advocates say America is unprepared for massive turnout Nov. 4
  http://www.louisianaweek...articlegate.pl?20080519c
• KS: Sebelius vetoes bill requiring a photo ID to vote
  http://www2.ljworld.com/...us_vetoes_photo_id_vote/
• MA: Plymouth County - Recount affirms: Abington approves another override
  http://www.boston.com/ne...proves_another_override/
• MD: Maryland Taxpayers Pay Big Money for Controversial E-Voting System
  http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=23255
• NC: Opinion - A costly way to pick a winner
  Runoff for state labor commissioner shows there's a better way of voting
  http://www.charlotte.com/409/story/629271.html
• NY: Nassau County - Nassau tests new voting machines
  http://www.newsday.com/s...966may19,0,6640698.story
• NY: Westchester County - Westchester lawmakers approve funding for new voting machines
  http://www.midhudsonnews...tingMachines-19May08.htm
• OR: Opinion - Some things lost when voting by mail
  http://www.registerguard...46&sid=5&fid=1
• OR: Oregon's Post Office Primary
  http://blog.washingtonpo...post_office_primary.html
• PA: Requirement that voters identify themselves each time is a solution in search of a problem
  http://www.pennlive.com/...10273350.xml&coll=1
• TN: Opinion - Providing paper trail for ballots makes sense
  http://www.jacksonsun.co...080519/OPINION/805190301
• TX: Texas attorney general's two-year effort fails to unravel large-scale voter-fraud schemes
  http://www.dallasnews.co...olvotefraud.3c75dcb.html
• TX: Cass County - City discovers error
  http://atlantacitizensjo...038;id=210&Itemid=2
• Netherlands - Dutch government bans electronic voting
  The government of the Netherlands has banned electronic voting machines from future elections because of a risk of eavesdropping. The nation will return to paper voting.
  http://news.idg.no/cw/ar...A4-0F78-31DDDC0DCFA62609

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