Today we have two “Featured” articles. The Connecticut Office of Veterans Affairs, under threat of a lawsuit, has allowed Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz to enter the Veterans Hospital in West Haven to register voters and to do voter education. Let’s hope this is a small hole that will finally cause the wall between the DVA and veteran’s rights to vote to crumble into dust.

More good news from the US Election Assistance Commission where computer scientist and election integrity advocate Dr Barbara Simons has been selected to fill a seat on the EAC Board of Advisors. This is a good addition as Dr. Simons will add a voice of reason to combat the voices of the vendor’s surrogates who are on that committee....

• Featured - National: Patients at West Haven Veterans' Hospital registered to vote
  http://www.stamfordplus....now_registered3027.shtml
• Featured - National: ACM Electronic Voting Expert Named to Key Federal Advisory Committee; Dr. Barbara Simons Fills Position for Technology Professionals
  http://newswire.ascribe....;year=2008&public=0
• National: “Democracy Victory” At VA
  http://www.newhavenindep...ves/2008/08/vetsvote.php
• National: The Youth Vote: A Matter of Access, Not Apathy
  http://www.alternet.org/...r_of_access,_not_apathy/
• National: Who Here Thinks We Have the Right to Vote?
  Think Again. Jesse Jackson, Jr. Continues His Fight for a Constitutional Amendment...
  https://bradblog.com/?p=6249
• National: Experts Say Expected Surge in US Voters May Strain Polls
  http://www.voanews.com/e...ish/2008-08-07-voa40.cfm
• KS: Shawnee County - Vote count – oops
  4,446 went untallied, but winners remain same
  http://cjonline.com/stor...0708/loc_315085890.shtml
• MD: Electing to Prepare for a Record
  Voting Officials Boost Purchases
  http://www.washingtonpos.../06/AR2008080601100.html
• MO: Missouri Voter Refuses Illegal Demand to Show Photo ID at Poll, Gets Thrown in Jail
  https://bradblog.com/?p=6252
• MO: Cole County - Wrong ballots may prompt revote in Cole County's Eastern District
  http://newstribune.com/a...ocal/146local02error.txt
• MO: Last votes being tallied in St. Louis County
  http://www.stltoday.com/...49d00586d37?OpenDocument
• NC: Catawba County – Editorial - $3 billion solution: Paper ballots
  http://www2.hickoryrecor...-solution-paper-ballots/
• NY: Editorial - Safe ballots
  http://www.midhudsoncent...ept_id=613310&rfi=6
• OH: Missing votes spark lawsuit
  Brunner: Touch-screen machines defective, company should pay
  http://dispatch.com/live..._A1_OLAV6VF.html?sid=101
• OH: Local counties join vote machine suit
  http://www.middletownjou.../ddn080608votingweb.html
• OH: Ashland County - County board says state's mandate 'seems excessive'
  http://www.times-gazette...com/news/article/4203422
• SC: Greenville County - Gibson complains about voting machines
  http://www.greenvilleonl...S01/80807027/1004/NEWS01
• VA: Stopping Voter Suppression: The Press Gets It Right in Virginia
  http://www.opednews.com/...e/diarypage.php?did=8518
• WI: Human error mars Allendale vote totals, officials say
  http://www.mlive.com/new...16131030.xml&coll=6
• WI: Milwaukee - Fake names get voter registration workers investigated
  http://www.jsonline.com/...ory/index.aspx?id=780716
• WV: Belmont County - Paper Ballots Getting the Vote
  http://www.news-register...nt.detail/id/512624.html

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