EAC Commissioner Rosemary Rodriguez has tendered her resignation and will return to Colorado to be the State Director for Senator Michael Bennet. Commissioner Rodriguez joins ex-Commissioners Soaries and Martinez who resigned before their term was up and not, like ex-Commissioner Hunter, to take another job in DC.

Lawmakers in New Jersey have taken the state backwards as the State Senate agreed with the House that the state should scrap plans to provide any verifiability in their elections. A requirement signed into law a few years ago should have required a "Voter-verifiable Paper Audit Trail" [VVPAT] on all of the state’s Direct Recording Electronic [DRE] voting machines over a year ago. Instead the deadline has been a moving target and will now, with signature of the Governor, go away...

• National: [EAC] Commissioner Rodriguez Resigns
  Transparency and Voter Access Hallmarks of her Tenure
  http://www.eac.gov/News/...riguez-resigns/base_view
• National: E-voting security fixes will get us nowhere without stats
  http://arstechnica.com/s...e-without-statistics.ars
• AZ: Pima County - Records from 2006 RTA election will go to attorney general
  http://www.tucsoncitizen.../fromcomments/110789.php
• AZ: Pima County - Election Integrity Tucson: strange day at the courthouse
  http://arizona.typepad.c...y-at-the-courthouse.html
• DE: State launches electronic voter registration
  http://www.delmarvanow.c...224/NEWS01/90224008/1002
• FL: Browning wants to beef up overseas voting via e-mail
  http://www.palmbeachpost...24/0224xgrelections.html
• GA: Election fraud focus of bill
  http://www.albanyherald....m/stories/20090224n2.htm
• IN: Delaware County - Dems, GOP debate early voting models
  Satellite clerk's offices that supplement precinct polling sites don't appear to have bi-partisan support.
  http://www.thestarpress....24/NEWS01/902240346/1002
• MI: Bill could repeal law requiring voter card, license to match
  http://www.statenews.com...er_card_license_to_match
• MI: Opinion - Never turn away a voter
  Reforms can increase participation with fewer problems
  http://www.freep.com/art.../Never+turn+away+a+voter
• MN: Senate recount trial: More absentee ballots ruled in and out
  http://www.startribune.c...aEP:kD:aUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
• MN: Still unanswered: How many tossed votes will be tallied? Coleman plans to wrap up this week — then it's Franken's turn
  http://www.twincities.com/politics/ci_11770144
• MN: Coleman nears end of case
  http://www.bemidjipionee...=21752&section=News
• MN: Senate race trial: Franken lawyer's 'Perry Mason' moment hurts Coleman claim on absentee ballots
  http://www.twincities.com/politics/ci_11773851
• MN: Recount trial: Franken team tries to shrink Coleman's ballot pool
  http://www.startribune.c...O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUs
• MN: Update on Coleman-Franken trial: Franken lawyer mows down potential Coleman ballots, but Coleman side says it proves their point
  http://www.minnpost.com/...ys_it_proves_their_point
• NJ: Senate OKs indefinite delay on paper trails for voting machines
  http://www.dailyrecord.c...1/902240339/-1/UPDATES01
• NJ: Lawmakers vote to shelve ballot printer plan
  http://www.pressofatlant...om/184/story/410957.html
• NJ: New Jersey Delays Installation of Printers for Voting Machines
  http://printerinkcartrid....printcountry.com/?p=898
• NY: Paper ballots only for election on Staten Island's North Shore
  http://www.silive.com/ne...ts_only_for_electio.html

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