Princeton’s Professor Ed Felten said this in regards to the Sarasota Co. Florida voting machine report, “Experience teaches that systems that are insecure tend to be unreliable as well — they tend to go wrong on their own even if nobody is attacking them. Code that is laced with buffer overruns, array out-of-bounds errors, integer overflow errors, and the like tends to be flaky. Sporadic undervotes are the kind of behavior you would expect to see from a flaky voting technology. The study claims to have ruled out reliability problems as a cause of the undervotes, but their evidence on this point is weak, and I think the jury is still out on whether voting machine malfunctions could be a significant cause of the undervotes.” // The town of Putney, Vermont may be about ready to accept a free optical-scan machine from the state. They will no longer count their votes the traditional way; hand counting. Gone will be the crowd of counters sharing pizza and enjoying the community spirit. Putney is not alone as 75 of the state’s 246 municipalities have already made the decision to change over to optical-scan.
CA: Riverside County – Critics feed Riverside County review panel examples of voting system issues
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_elect24.385e399.html
CA: San Joaquin County - Questions linger for electronic voting machines
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070224/A_NEWS/702240323
FL: 'Paper trail' printer jams can gum up vote recounts
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/state/epaper/2007/02/24/m1a_PAPER_TRAIL_0225.html
FL: Sarasota County – Ed Felten - Sarasota Voting Machines Insecure
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2284&Itemid=51
FL: Sarasota County - Jennings Says Florida's Audit of Election 'Flawed, Incomplete'
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4183
FL: Sarasota County - Panel Cites Voter Error, Not Software, in Loss of Votes
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/24/us/politics/24voting.html?ref=us
FL: Sarasota County - Missing votes in Sarasota not caused by machines
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/state/epaper/2007/02/24/a4a_election_0224.html
FL: Sarasota County - Jennings has another loss at voting machines
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/02/24/State/Jennings_has_another_.shtml
FL: Sarasota County - State audit concludes Sarasota election fair
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-fvoting24feb24,0,751102.story?coll=sfla-news-florida
IA: Paper trail for votes
http://www.radioiowa.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=F4469E9B-DF42-53ED-F23FD0E1BB3D9D4F
ID: Ada County will do away with punch-card ballots, move to optical-scan system
http://www.idahostatesman.com/102/story/72716.html
MN: Houston County - Mound Prairie to vote on election changes
http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2007/02/24/news/07mount.txt
NY: Spitzer must protect New York voters with disabilities
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20070224/1002145.asp
NY: ‘Paper’ tigers issue warnings - Greens lead fight to scrap electronic voting machines
http://www.brooklynheightscourier.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17894573&BRD=2384&PAG=461&dept_id=560113&rfi=6
OH: Cuyahoga County - A Report from the Public Monitor of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2285&Itemid=113
VT: Putney mulls buying electronic vote-counting machine
http://www.reformer.com/localnews/ci_5296006
WY: Electronic voting study requested
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/02/24/news/wyoming/26-voting.txt
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