Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Sequoia Voting Systems should be very happy today. Palm Beach Co Florida signed a non-bid contract with the company for 1001 precinct based optical scan machines. The contract is worth $5.5M. One has to wonder what the vendor may be holding over the heads of the county commissioners to get them to not take bids and not bargain for the best price.

NJ State Senator Nia Gill will be on Voice of the Voter Radio again tomorrow night to discuss the NJ statistical audit bill, S.507, which was reported out of committee yesterday, as written and amended by Senator Gill....

• NAtional: Flash: NJ S. 507 Out of Committee 12/3/07!!!
  http://www.opednews.com/...ash_3a_nj_s__507_out.htm
• NAtional: Midwestern Election Systems Exposed
  http://thecaucus.blogs.n...lection-systems-exposed/
• NAtional: The Stunning Reality of Voter Fraud
  http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=23731
• NAtional: Managers developing anxiety about nation's 2008 elections
  http://www.normantranscr...on/local_story_338002419
• NAtional: The FEC On its Sick(Death?) Bed
  http://www.moresoftmoney...w.com/news.html?AID=1147
• NAtional: Who is your e-machine voting for? UnCounted offers disturbing anwers
  http://www.clarksvilleon...ffers-disturbing-anwers/
• NAtional: Part 2: "...anonymous voter-marked ballots"
  http://www.opednews.com/..._2_3a__22___anonymou.htm
• AZ: Diebold Tabulation Software Goes on Trial in Pima County, Arizona
  https://bradblog.com/?p=5384
• AZ: Pima County - Trial begins in Pima County election tampering
  http://www.tucsoncitizen...om/daily/local/70590.php
• CA: Latest voting system analysis from California
  http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1232
• CA: Riverside County - Residents should make voices heard
  http://www.nctimes.com/a...acobs/8_39_4112_1_07.txt
• CO: Mesa County - County moves to lease 130 vote machines
  http://www.gjsentinel.co...120407_9b_elections.html
• FL: Palm Beach County - Commissioners approve contract for 1,001 optical-scan machines
  http://www.sun-sentinel....toptical,0,3506028.story
• FL: Palm Beach County sticks with Sequoia for optical scanners
  http://www.palmbeachpost...07/12/04/1204VOTING.html
• FL: Palm Beach County - Preemptive buck-passing on voting machines
  http://www.palmbeachpost...buckpassing_on_voti.html
• IL: Study says nonpartisan director should replace elections board
  Researchers at Ohio college say system too ‘decentralized’
  http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/21212.asp
• IN: State of Indiana Files Brief in United States Supreme Court Case
  http://www.munciefreepress.com/node/18350
• IN: Delaware County - Judge grants recount, names commission
  A time and place had not been established for the recount as of Monday.
  http://www.thestarpress....04/NEWS01/712040330/1002
• NJ: Bill would postpone deadline for 'paper trail' on voting machines
  http://www.nj.com/news/i...postpone_deadline_f.html
• NJ: Voting machine changes primary cause for deadline extension
  http://www.nj.com/news/j...66309080.xml&coll=3
• NJ: Panel OKs more time on ballots verification
  http://www.courierposton...01/712040375/1006/NEWS01
• NJ: NJ S.507 and VVPAR Bills on Voice of the Voters Radio Again 12/5
  http://e-voter.blogspot....of-voters-radio-125.html
• OH: Editorial - 50 ways to reform Ohio elections
  http://www.freepress.org...umns/display/3/2007/1617
• OH: OSU experts urge Ohio to scrap its elections system
  http://www.cleveland.com...8;coll=2&thispage=1
• OH: 'Poster child for reform'
  Ohio's election system still problematic
  http://www.columbusdispa..._B1_4D8LT14.html?sid=101
• VA: Column: Election restrictions intimidate voters
  http://www.collegiatetim...ctions_intimidate_voters

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