Tonight's Featured article discusses the report from VotersUnite.Org that we discussed in this space on Monday. The report does not just tell what is wrong; it also tells about what states and local jurisdictions can do that is right. "Researchers then offer solutions by highlighting the story in Luzerne County, Pa., where election director Leonard Piazza in 2006 refused to allow ES&S to service its voting machines. Instead, Piazza and his staff perform most maintenance functions and ballot design programming without letting vendor representatives upgrade the machines or come near county precincts during an election. It's not too late, Theisen said, for more public officials to take election administration into their own hands come November."...

• Featured - National: Report: Vendor Control Undermines Elections
  Nonprofit group claims vote-counting machine vendors are the ones in control during some elections.
  http://www.miller-mccune.com/article/621
• National: Corporate Vendors Are Undermining U.S. Elections
  https://bradblog.com/?p=6287
• National: States seek workarounds for e-voting systems
  http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/803
• National: Veterans focus of Dem voting law reform
  http://www.politico.com/.../stories/0808/12624.html
• National: How do you compare security across voting systems?
  http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1367
• CO: Coffman has confidence in Morgan County elections
  http://www.fortmorgantim...morgan-county-elections/
• CT: Hand audit to review primary ballots
  http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_10250092
• CT: Recounts to be held at four Danbury polls
  http://www.newstimes.com/ci_10250516
• CT: Local polling places among 82 due for audit
  http://www.nhregister.co...ept_id=635049&rfi=6
• HI: Hawaii ballots add pick-a-party box
  http://ap.google.com/art...gdi_0fe_B5eXabQD92LUJMO1
• MI: Voting machines still a problem for some local clerks
  http://www.spinalcolumno...r_some_local_clerks.html
• MO: Christian County - Recount doesn't alter commissioner race
  http://www.news-leader.c...0080820/NEWS06/808200510
• OH: Legislature makes changes to improve Ohio's elections process
  http://www.wnewsj.com/ma...=168452&TM=24399.42
• OH: State official ends 'sleepover' practice for voting machines
  http://www.daytondailyne.../ddn082008sleepover.html
• OH: Voting machines can't go home, Brunner says
  http://www.dispatchpolit...ec=politics&sid=101
• OH: Editorial - Make Voting Easy, Secure
  http://www.news-register...l/id/513199.html?nav=511
• OH: Fairfield County - County having problems with voting machine logistics
  http://www.centralohio.c...20/NEWS01/808200325/1002
• OH: Summit County - Elections board to seek $615,000 for '08
  Officials say more is needed to buy ballots, postage, rent scanners
  http://www.ohio.com/news/27166114.html

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