In today's featured article Bo Lipari of New Yorkers For Verified Voting opens, "It's become obvious that New York State's new voting systems will not be able to complete New York State certification testing in time for the scheduled 2009 rollout. The state sets the highest bar in the nation for approval of voting machines, one that vendors have never been required to meet before. Their performance in New York demonstrates that they are a long, long way from understanding that the public will not stand for poorly designed, badly tested and outrageously overpriced equipment, and a business philosophy of let the customer be damned."...

• Featured "“ NY: Schedule Slips and Slippery Slopes
  Voting Machines Can't Meet NY Standards in Time for 2009
  http://www.nyvv.org/bobl...ips-and-slippery-slopes/
• National: Editorial - A Lesson Not Learned
  http://www.nytimes.com/2...#038;hp&oref=slogin
• National: Columnist - They Fight but Can't Vote
  http://www.washingtonpos.../AR2008072302905_pf.html
• National: Lots of Bullets, Not Enough Ballots
  http://www.usni.org/maga.../story.asp?STORY_ID=1525
• National: EAC Chair Urges Recruitment of Two Million Poll Workers for Presidential Election
  http://www.eac.gov/News/...presidential-election-1/
• National: VA of two minds when it comes to voting help for veterans
  http://ohmygov.com/blogs...g-help-for-veterans.aspx
• AL: Selma - Time to move forward
  http://www.selmatimesjou...ul/23/time-move-forward/
• AL: Selma - Visually impaired voters count, too.
  http://www.selmatimesjou...paired-voters-count-too/
• AL: Selma - ES&S: There's nothing to hack in optical voting machine
  http://www.selmatimesjou...-optical-voting-machine/
• CO: State no longer overseeing elections in Routt, Montrose counties
  http://www.rockymountain...elections-routt-montros/
• GA: Early numbers show low voter turnout for primaries
  http://www.ajc.com/metro.../24/primary_turnout.html
• MA: Same-day registration push on hold
  http://www.wickedlocal.c...egistration-push-on-hold
• MD: Predicting long delays at polls, group urges paper ballots in Nov.
  http://www.baltimoresun....tes24jul24,0,40253.story
• MS: Jones forms committee to craft new voter ID bill
  http://www.gulflive.com/...ews/1216894515312761.xml
• NY: Union County - Malfunctioning machines cause ire
  http://www.zwire.com/sit...ept_id=478677&rfi=6
• OH: Ohio GOP criticizes Brunner's ruling
  http://www.portclintonne...S01/80723027/1002/NEWS01
• VA: Virginia edges towards backup for electronic votes
  http://hamptonroads.com/...-backup-electronic-votes

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