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New Version of Holt’s Election Reform Bill Would Institutionalize Touch-Screen Voting, Secret Software

Bill 'improved' to require paper ballots, but they may be marked or printed by computer devices which offer most of the same dangers as current Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) devices...

Additional concerns remain in the previously-defeated, newly-rewritten draft version of the landmark legislation...

Riverside County, CA, Still Counting Votes, in Secret, Months After Registrar Certified Election

County election boss claims there's no deadline for manual count of e-voting 'paper trails'

State SoS seems to disagree...

Democrats Continue to Defend Their Indefensible Election Protection Efforts

Still in Denial, Obama's Attorney Describes Serious Concerns About Voting Machines and More as 'Hyperbole'

Argues 'More Votes Lost From Incompetence Than Fraud or Oppression'...

PA Counties Said Unprepared to Serve Voters, Meet Court Order for Emergency Paper Ballots

Election Official: '80% of Counties Do Not Have Emergency Ballots'...

Federal Judge Rules in Favor of Plaintiff Demand for Emergency Paper Ballots in PA

Ballots Must Be Given Out if 50% or More Voting Machines in Any Precinct Breaks Down

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Federal Lawsuit Finally Filed Against PA to Demand Emergency Paper Ballots for Voters

NAACP, Voting Rights Coalition Demand Paper Ballots If 'Majority' of Voting Machines Fail

Sec. of the Commonwealth Had Previously Decreed Paper Only Necessary if ALL Voting Machines Break Down in a Precinct...

‘Daily Voting News’ For October 23, 2008

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SEVERAL BIG VOTING RIGHTS VICTORIES ON FRIDAY!

'We the People' Win, as Thor Hearne's MO Voter Suppression Attempt Fails; von Spakovsky Withdraws FEC Nomination; TN to Require Paper Ballots; AZ Agrees to Follow Law, Perform Voter Registration at Public Facilities...

‘Mashed Into Bits’: Florida Touch-Screen Voting Machines – 28,000 of them – to be Crushed, Recycled, Repurposed…

One Destined for a Museum, Some Sent to an Election Near You, Others to be Gone Forever...Finally...

VIDEO: Rep. Rush Holt Calls For Paper Ballots And Audits In Every Election On Countdown

Says 'Anything Of Value Should Be Auditable And We Know Votes Are Valuable'

Steps Necessary 'To Give Voters The Confidence That They Deserve That Their Votes Will Be Counted As They Intended'

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