Daily Voting News 24 July, 2007
Sunday, 29 July 2007, 12:29 am
Column: John Gideon
Daily Voting News 24 July, 2007
Guest
Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Last
year Luzerne County, PA spent $2.4M on 750 ES&S iVotronic
DREs and a one-year warranty. Now that the first warranty
is to expire ES&S wants $300,000 for a three-year warranty.
The county Director of Elections has written the state and
told them, in part, “In addition to not being able to
meet the financial burden that ES&S is asking us to meet, we
cannot individually deal with such a large, multi-national
corporation and the mix of deception this company
promulgates.” And he asked the state to ensure “that
voting-system vendors doing business here do not have the
opportunity to threaten the democratic process with such
unsavory business practices that vendors, such as ES&S,
seemingly have a deep commitment to employing.”...
NAtional: Senator Clinton to Testify on
Voting Machine Integrity Bill LINKNational: Michael
Collins: First One’s Free... Then You Pay LINKNational: The
Fate Of Electronic Voting Is Being Debated In Washington:
Your Testimony is Urgently Needed LINK
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National: Our
Most Important Voice: My letter on S1487 LINKCalifornia: Paper
ballots the only way to be sure LINKColorado:
Dinosaur - Dinosaur voting center may change LINKFlorida: Martin
County voters to get paper trail LINKIndiana: Marion
County - Voting machine suit to proceed, judge says LINKNew Jersey:
Public hearings to be held on voting machines LINKOhio: Tuscarawas
County - Meaning business at polls - Board of Elections
hopes to recruit workers from area companies LINKPennsylvania:
Luzerne County - County calls for help LINKPennsylvania:
Luzerne County - PA County Election Director Decries
'Unsavory Business Practices, Deception' of ES&S and Other
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