Today’s ‘Featured’ article [PDF] begins, “Florida’s Department of State is proposing a few strategically placed words that would gut Florida Statute 104.29, a brief but powerful law that currently offers Florida citizens their greatest protection for election observation. The altered language is buried on page 61 of a 68-page elections bill1 still in draft form, which, as soon as it is finalized, will be presented to the State Legislature for approval.

Also ‘Featured’ are two press releases (here and here) from Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney’s website with regards to new legislation that will help military and overseas voters.

Correction: In this space yesterday I inferred that Humboldt Co had made the decision to move from Premier/Diebold to another vendor based on the problems encountered by the county in the Nov. 2008 elections. In fact the decision to change vendors had been made before that election....

• Featured - FL: A New Attack on Civil Liberties by Florida’s Secretary of State
  http://www.floridafairel...LORIDA_DEPT_OF_STATE.pdf
• Featured - National: Reps. Maloney and Honda Introduce Bill Protecting Rights of Military and Overseas Voters
  http://maloney.house.gov...38;id=1820&Itemid=6
• Featured - National: Reps. Maloney and Honda Introduce Bill to Bring Oversight to Voting Program Office for Americans Abroad
  http://maloney.house.gov...8;id=1819&Itemid=61
• National: Excerpts of the CIA analyst's warning to EAC about cyber vote fraud that have not been made public
  http://www.examiner.com/...has-not-been-made-public
• National: CIA Cybersecurity Expert Calls Into Question Security of Electronic Voting
  http://www.securitymanag...electronic-voting-005419
• National: New Revelations Provide More Evidence Paperless Voting Not Safe
  http://www.progressivestates.org/node/22912
• National: Diebold's Chief Financial Officer, VP Steps Down Under SEC Investigation
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7018
• National: 3 Questions: Charles Stewart on voting survey
  http://web.mit.edu/newso...009/3q-stewart-0326.html
• MN: Columnist - Coleman v. Franken: Will the ThreeJudges report to the Senate?
  http://www.minnpost.com/...ges_report_to_the_senate
• MT: Montana Now Requires Post-Election Audits of Vote-Counting Machines
  http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/631418
• NY: Justice sues New York over military voters
  http://thehill.com/leadi...y-voters-2009-03-24.html
• NY: Loser seeks to block Hempstead election certification
  http://www.newsday.com/n...628mar26,0,4119700.story
• NY: Erie County – ES&S Withdraws Op-Scans from Erie County Test Run
  http://re-mediaetc.blogs...ns-from-erie-county.html
• OH: NEW FREE PRESS STUDY REVEALS: More than a million Ohio voters purged in run up to 2008 election – Republican Party wanted 800,000 more purged
  http://www.freepress.org...umns/display/3/2009/1734
• OH: Hardball In Ohio & The Lost Ballots
  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00321.htm
• OK: House committee passes voter ID legislation
  http://www.tulsaworld.co...90325_298_0_OKLAHO905339
• TN: Opinion - Let's not go back to era of poll tax
  http://www.tennessean.co...OPINION01/903260323/1008
• TX: Voter ID hearing in daylight forecasted and Democrat may fashion deal
  http://www.statesman.com...aring_in_daylight_f.html

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