Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Election officials in three Colorado counties claim that they can catch all of the stray marks on ballots. Those stray marks may be read as votes by their Hart Intercivic eScan voting machines. Those claims don’t seem to carry any water when you consider that some of the marks that were read by the machines instead of the actual votes were just dots where voters may have rested their pens.

On the heels of reports of serious problems with Sequoia Advantage voting machines used in New Jersey the state Attorney General has announced that there is no way they can have voter verified paper audit trail (vvpat) printers for those machines by the November election. Of course, some would have you believe that the inclusion of a vvpat printer would mitigate the problems reported yesterday. No vvpat printer on those machines would have made any difference with the internal memory and voters do not verify their ballots using those printers. The only savior would be to replace the machines with a paper ballot voting system....

• NAtional - Analysis: e-voting's success rests on chain-of-custody issue
  http://arstechnica.com/n...in-of-custody-issue.html
• NAtional: Electronic Voting and Partial Audits --- Let's do the Math
  http://www.cnet.com/8301...9876062-33.html?tag=more
• NAtional: Following the Paper Trail
  Case study examines five states' efforts to limit paperless voting
  http://www.sys-con.com/read/505286.htm
• CO: Key voting machine hearing today
  http://www.rockymountain...g-machine-hearing-today/
• CO: 3 county officials dispute state test results on voting equipment
  http://www.9news.com/new...ticle.aspx?storyid=86824
• FL: Broward County – Incredible Turnout - The Phantoms of Oakland Park
  http://www.browardpalmbe...news/incredible-turnout/
• FL: Hillsborough County - Hillsborough approves $5.97 million contract for voting system
  http://tampabay.bizjourn.../2008/02/18/daily39.html
• MS: Wilkinson County - Judge calls new election
  http://www.natchezdemocr...ns-tosses-paper-ballots/
• NH: Statement from the New Hampshire Fair Elections Committee Regarding Activist Recount Investigations in New Hampshire
  http://www.democracyforn...shire.com/node/view/5472
• NJ: Sequoia E-Voting Machines Reporting Inaccurate Totals in New Jersey
  https://bradblog.com/?p=5718
• NJ: Minor problems with voting machines
  http://www.nj.com/news/g...26286680.xml&coll=8
• NJ: AP NewsBreak: Another delay for N.J. electronic ballot safeguards
  http://www.newsday.com/n...221feb21,0,5683398.story
• NJ: Voting Machine Discrepancies Leave Questionable Results
  http://www.votetrustusa....;id=2757&Itemid=113
• NJ: Another delay for N.J. electronic ballot safeguards
  http://www.philly.com/ph...nicballotsafeguards.html
• NY: New York City - Data entry errors to blame for wrong NY Super Tuesday tallies
  http://www.newsday.com/n...220feb20,0,4200259.story
• NY: New York City Still Tallying Votes
  http://blog.washingtonpo...ty_still_tallying_v.html
• OH: Forum addresses voting equipment
  http://www.thepost.ohiou...s/News/2008/02/21/23006/
• OH: Will Some Ohio Polling Places Be Inadvertantly Shut Down on Election Day?
  http://www.josephhall.or...hp/2008/02/21/ohpollshut
• OH: Licking County to exceed paper ballot requirement
  Local election officials hope to have enough on hand for March 4 primary
  http://www.newarkadvocat...21/NEWS01/802210332/1002
• OH: Summit County - Ohio SoS Fires Another GOP County Election Official, GOP State Senator Applauds
  https://bradblog.com/?p=5724
• OH: Summit County - GOP chief Arshinkoff loses elections board seat
  http://www.ohio.com/news...op_stories/15822622.html
• OK: House voter identification bill clears committee
  http://www.journalrecord.../article.cfm?recid=86435
• PA: Bucks County - Bucks voting machine activists will have their say
  http://www.mcall.com/new...012feb21,0,2798462.story
• PA: Bucks County - Paper Balloting Advocates Decry Bucks County Voting Machines
  http://www.thebulletin.u...ept_id=618959&rfi=6
• PA: Bucks County – Columnist - Meeting shows our system at work
  http://www.phillyburbs.c...37-02212008-1491249.html
• PA: Bucks County - Voting advocates protest machines
  http://www.phillyburbs.c...11-02212008-1491317.html
• PA: Bucks County - Dry Ice and the DRE Dumpster
  http://www.opednews.com/...dry_ice_and_the_dre_.htm
• PA: Luzerne County - 3rd-party voters get reminder
  http://www.timesleader.c...221_21elect_jen_ART.html
• PA: Wayne County – Editorial - Wayne officials made savvy decision on voting
  http://www.weeklyalmanac...eklyalmanac&he=.com
• TN: Film raises issue of vote fraud
  http://media.www.mtsusid...Vote.Fraud-3223785.shtml
• TN: Tennessee may change voting machines
  93 of 95 counties can't generate paper trail that bill would require
  http://www.tennessean.co...01/802210402/1009/NEWS01
• VA: Recounting the recount
  http://www.nelsoncountyt...e&cid=1173354695272
• VA: Chesterfield County - Democrats protest Chesterfield vote
  Complaint claims county mismanaged election and some couldn't cast ballots
  http://www.inrich.com/cv...RTD-2008-02-21-0098.html

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