Daily Voting News 26 July, 2007
Daily Voting News 26 July, 2007
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Tomorrow is a big day for the state of California and the rest of the nation. The Secretary of State will be releasing the reports from their “Top-To-Bottom Review” of voting systems used in the state. These reports will give the results of the code review, “red team” hack test, document review and accessibility review. On Monday morning the Secretary of State will give the “Teams” an opportunity to officially present their reports and the vendors a chance to comment. The public will then be given an opportunity to speak their piece. One week later the Secretary will announce her decisions with respect to any actions to be taken. Her options appear to be to decertify the systems, decertify the systems and recertify them with new requirements for use, or do nothing....
- NAtional: Voting Paper Trail Bill May Move In the House but Die in the Senate LINK
- National: Reluctantly withdrawing support to HR 811 LINK
- Arizona: Tempe ballot firm looks for national opportunities LINK
- California: New Details on the Release of CA's Landmark 'Top-to-Bottom Review' of E-Voting Systems LINK
- Florida: Palm Beach County - GOP seeks probe of 60 possible double voters LINK
- Louisiana: State official expects fed OK on voting law LINK
- New York: Needed: a vote to move forward New Yorkers will still use levers this fall -- or paper -- to cast their ballots. LINK
- New York: NY City Residents: Urgent Help To Pass Res. 961 LINK
- Ohio: Missing records and record access in Ohio, July 2007 LINK
- Pennsylvania: Lancaster County - Voting bill could be costly for county Congress plan would mandate ‘paper trail’ LINK
- Pennsylvania: Lehigh County - Man who destroyed touch-screen voting machine is convicted LINK
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