While organizations like People For The American Way, Common Cause, and Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition argue that the continued use of DRE voting machines is necessary to support the foreign language speaking minority, they ignore that those machines may, in fact, serve to disenfranchise more voters from that community than they help. A new study from VotersUnite.Org proves that the undervote rate in minority communities in New Mexico plummeted when those communities changed from DRE to optical scan voting systems. // According to BradBlog; “California's new Secretary of State, Debra Bowen, has flatly rejected a request from Riverside County, CA County Supervisor Jeff Stone to participate in a "hack test" challenge originally proposed to Election Integrity Advocates in response to their concerns about security and accuracy for the county's electronic touch-screen voting machines.”

NAtional: 2004 and 2006 New Mexico Canvass Data Shows Undervote Rates Plummet in Minority Precincts When Paper Ballots are Used

http://www.votersunite.org/info/NM_UVbyBallotTypeandEthnicity.pdf

NAtional: REPORT: Undervote Rate Plummets 85% in New Mexico's Native American Precincts after Statewide Switch from Touch-Screen Voting to Paper Ballots

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4193

NAtional: EAC Research Finds Polling-Place ID Laws Reduce Minority Voter Turnout

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2286&Itemid=26

NAtional: Feinstein Calls for Probe Into E-voting Machines

Senator asks GAO to look at potential for DRE malfunctions, election fraud

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=13&articleId=284031&intsrc=hm_topic

NAtional: Fixes for accurate vote counts

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0227/p08s02-comv.html

CA:

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4196

CA: On Election Day, you've got mail

http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/20070226/on-election-day-youve-got-mail

FL: Opinion - Accurate and Fraud-Free Elections Now: Florida's Solution

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_william__070225_accurate_and_fraud_f.htm

FL: Sarasota County - Computer Scientists Defend Voting Machines

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=1896

FL: Sarasota County - Florida e-vote audit criticized by Jennings, activists

State report says machines didn't cause undervote of 18,000

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=government&articleId=9011800&taxonomyId=13&intsrc=kc_top

MA: Royalston to try out new vote machines

http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070225/NEWS/702250478/1008/NEWS02

MD: Opinion - Don't replace voting system

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.opscan26feb26,0,990182.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines

MO: Commentary - Make it easier, not harder, to cast ballot

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/opinion/16783776.htm

NJ: How to Fix Our Broken Voting System

http://www.njbiz.com/weekly_article_reg.asp?aID=178469804.419409.910091.4172302.8519281.700&aID2=69998

TX: Texas Bill Would Require Voting Machine Paper Trail

http://www.public-cio.com/newsStory.php?id=2007.02.26-104039

TX: Matagorda County - Statewide election costly for county

http://www.baycitytribune.com/story.lasso?ewcd=326cd2bac5ea0e9f

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