As reported in today's "Featured" article problems encountered during New York State's tough certification testing have caused the timeline for the 2009 rollout of state's new voting machines to slip. Now the State Board of Elections has notified the Court that it will not be possible to complete testing on schedule and deploy the new machines in time for the September 2009 primary, as the Court has ordered. Why has this happened? Bo Lipari, the author of the blog, reports that the State Board of Elections has stated, "In the July 24, 2008 weekly status meeting SysTest announced that the vendors were not ready for testing at this point in time due to various issues, among them: documentation issues, testing machines supplied which did not function, lacked hard drives and or USB ports and therefore could not be tested." Is it any surprise that the vendors, ES&S and Sequoia, are not ready for testing? In what other industry would a contractor come to a state, in hopes of making hundreds of millions of dollars in sales, with a product that was not ready to be tested? ...

• Featured - NY: Tell It To The Judge
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  http://www.floridatoday....ON/807270312/1006/NEWS01
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• National: Action Alert: Tell your Senators to Support Transparent Elections and Oppose S.3212
  http://www.opednews.com/...-the-web-080727-555.html
• National: Voter surge will challenge states
  http://www.stateline.org...s/story?contentId=328893
• National: The Systematic Destruction of Voting Rights in America (Part 1)
  http://www.naturalnews.com/023706.html
• AZ: Secretary of State's office recruiting poll workers
  http://prescottdailycour...D=1&articleID=57610
• FL: New voting machines: Paper trail to nowhere?
  http://www.orlandosentin...808jul28,0,7510487.story
• LA: Voter-rights group cries foul in state
  http://www.nola.com/news...62632710.xml&coll=1
• NJ: Justice Department Announces Agreement Protecting Puerto Rican and Spanish-Speaking Voters in Penns Grove, New Jersey
  http://7thspace.com/head...ns_grove_new_jersey.html
• NV: Lawsuit over voting machines dismissed in Reno
  http://www.lasvegassun.c...hines-dismissed-in-reno/
• NY: In Defense of Lever Voting Machines
  http://www.opednews.com/...yes-Phil-080727-985.html
• NY: The Fight to Hold on to Our HAVA-Compliant Lever Voting System: Keeping the Air and the Facts Clear
  http://www.opednews.com/...i-novick-080728-948.html
• NY: NY is set to miss the mark again
  http://polhudson.lohudbl...-to-miss-the-mark-again/
• NY: Lever voting wins again
  http://www.zwire.com/sit...&PAG=461&rfi=9
• OH: Editorial - Internet offers the future of voting
  http://www.news-herald.c...ept_id=220548&rfi=6
• VA: New electronic machines get their votes
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