Today the Secretary of State of Ohio, Jennifer Brunner, announced a call to a meeting of the State Board of Voting Machine Examiners. The subject of Friday's meeting is to be whether modifications made by ES&S to AutoMark machines used in many Ohio counties are enhancements or significant adjustments. If the modifications made to the machines in Ohio are the same that were made to machines in California then they are clearly significant adjustments that required a model designation change. The modification in California was done without any notice to the state or counties and has resulted in a $15Million lawsuit against ES&S. There will be more on this story over the next couple days....

• NAtional: FedEx Express Launches Express Your Vote Initiative with Overseas Vote Foundation for the Upcoming 2008 Presidential Election
  http://news.van.fedex.com/node/10846
• NAtional: Ballot Woes As We Head To Polls
  http://www.kccommunityne...73e559d8065913746733.txt
• AZ: Pima County "“ Evidence of RTA Election Tampering To Be Destroyed
  http://www.opednews.com/...n-Brakey-080709-543.html
• CA: L.A. County Supervisors Do The Expected: Dean Logan Named Permanent Registrar of Voters
  https://bradblog.com/?p=6154
• CA: Los Angeles County - L.A. County supervisors name Dean Logan as registrar
  http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_9822536
• FL: PARALLEL UNIVERSE: Third Try for Voting System in Florida Could be the Charm...or Not
  http://www.huntingtonnew...hen-columnsparallel.html
• FL: Sarasota County - Fox News Report of July 8th
  http://www.opednews.com/...dra-Muntz-080708-37.html
• FL: Sarasota County - Results of the mock election are not something to laugh at
  Nearly perfect score for optical scan machines
  http://www.heraldtribune...868267435/-1/newssitemap
• FL: Sarasota County - Mock election tests new voting system
  http://www.bradenton.com...herald/story/727058.html
• IN: Johnson County - Time short to choose new voting machines
  http://www.indystar.com/...4/807090438/1023/LOCAL04
• NY: Ulster County moves forward with its new special needs voting machines
  http://www.midhudsonnews...emach_disab-09Jul08.html
• NY: Westchester lawmakers approve purchase of building to house voting machines
  http://www.midhudsonnews...temach_hsng-09Jul08.html
• OH: A Lesson From the '04 Election in Ohio: How Latinos Were Disenfranchised
  http://www.alternet.org/...378e8f2dd3902e0db5a0ba63
• OH: Ohio official mulls new voting machine rule
  http://www.lancastereagl...80709/UPDATES01/80709014
• OH: Secretary Brunner Calls Meeting of the Board of Voting Machine Examiners
  http://www.sos.state.oh....I/Default.aspx?page=8841
• OH: Seneca County - Elections board expects to make improvements for November
  http://www.advertiser-tr.../id/507203.html?nav=5005
• TX: Federal appeals court hears Texas electronic voting case
  http://www.kvue.com/news...evoting-cb.3bcb8eb0.html
• France: Study: Electronic Voting Increased Counting Errors in France
  http://www.pcworld.com/a...ng_errors_in_france.html

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