Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

A recent study by Missourians for Honest Elections, of St. Louis County call center sheets and maintenance logs filed by election board technicians at the polls last Feb. 5, revealed interesting data. 181 problems were reported and of those reports 89 (essentially 50% of the problems) involved the voting machine voter verified paper audit trail printers. The problems ranged from 36 votes not appearing at all on the paper trail to failure to print, loose cables, jammed paper, and “printer error.” We want to save DREs by installing a vvpat printer. Why?

Mesa Co Colorado election officials were prepared to defy any orders from the state not to use their iVotronic voting machines in Nov. In fact, while the machines were decertified by the state the county purchased 130 more of the DREs. Now the county is hat-in-hand in front of the county commission asking for a whopping $5,759 per month for storage for those 130 new machines. If they were using optical-scan they would not need the extra storage and could probably cut down on the amount of storage they are using. It takes far less room to store one optical scan machine per polling place than it does all of the DREs needed to serve the county’s polling places....

• NAtional: "Emergency" Bill Tries to Make Electronic Voting More Accurate, But Will It?
  http://www.alternet.org/election08/81163/?page=1
• NAtional: Internet Voting is Too Risky for Public Elections
  http://www.votetrustusa....8;id=2806&Itemid=26
• NAtional: Helpless, Helpless, Helpless
  http://www.opednews.com/...less_2c_helpless_2c_.htm
• CA: California review of the ES&S AutoMARK and M100
  http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1269
• CO: Storage cost jumps for voting machines
  http://www.gjsentinel.co...8_1B_Vote_warehouse.html
• CT: Procedures Alone Insufficient For Effective Election Audits
  http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=180
• CT: Connecticut: Coalition Releases 2nd Post-Election Audit Report
  http://www.votetrustusa....;id=2805&Itemid=113
• IA: Editorial - A more uniform system
  http://www.siouxcityjour...69268625741e00763c08.txt
• IA: E-Vote: Iowa Governor Signs Voter Machine Legislation
  http://www.govtech.com/gt/282120?topic=117673
• IA: Lee County - New voting machines in county's future
  http://www.dailygate.com...s/2008/04/03/news/03.txt
• IN: Rokita wants voting machine vendor to pay up
  http://www.thetimesonlin...f54796e61d9610194790.txt
• KS: Strictness a sticking point in voter ID bill
  Democrats urge a softer stance to avoid veto from gov.
  http://www.hutchnews.com.../bill2008-04-02T20-59-23
• LA: Voting-sites change passes committee
  http://www.theadvertiser...03/NEWS01/804030318/1002
• MA: More democracy now
  Why Beacon Hill should allow same-day voter registration
  http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid59014.aspx
• MO: Opinion - Is Missouri's voting technology headed for a crash?
  http://www.stltoday.com/...41E007EC759?OpenDocument
• MS: Voter ID: Up for the Final Count
  http://www.jacksonfreepr...nts.php?id=16716_0_4_0_C
• OH: Cuyahoga Co. review leaves few unscanned primary votes uncounted
  http://www.bucyrustelegr...80402/UPDATES01/80402015
• PA: Election systems could face problems, official says
  http://www.pittsburghliv...s/breaking/s_560482.html
• PA: Mercer County - County, UniLect asking judge to settle question
  http://www.sharonherald....cal_story_093225625.html
• PA: Wayne County Democrats up 11 percent
  http://www.wayneindependent.com/news/x79621773
• TX: Comal County - Nathan Macias Suing Over Vote Count
  http://www.fredericksbur...08/04/02/news/03news.txt

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