Guest Blogged by Ellen Theisen of VotersUnite.org
By Ellen Theisen on 5/28/2009, 4:39pm PT  

Co-Editors: Dave Klein and John Washburn

More New York counties join the resistance to switching from lever machines to optically scanned ballots. Smartmatic brought the wrong cable to its all-important demo in the Philippines and caused a short circuit in the optical scanner. Voter ID and Internet voting continue to be in the news. And an error was discovered in TrueBallot’s counting of the votes in Aspen’s IRV election – but it didn’t affect the outcome....

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Ellen Theisen, Director and Managing Editor
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