Remember Arthur Anderson, the man who ran for Palm Beach Co, Florida Election Supervisor on a promise that he would give the voters a voter verified paper trail? He is also the man who ran from that promise just as soon as he was elected and took office. In fact he has gone so far to protect the counties paperless Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines that his office lied in an estimate for how much it would cost for elections if the county went to a paper ballot based optical-scan system. In their estimate to the county, Anderson tripled the cost of printing each paper ballot to $1.25 per ballot from the actual $.40 per ballot. The difference in the estimate? $2.2 million. And in California the SoS has announced that ES&S is not cooperating in her “top-to-bottom” review of the state’s voting systems. It seems that ES&S has refused to turn-over their source code for review.

 

NAtional: Panel Faces Partisanship Allegations

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/21/AR2007062102103.html

 

NAtional: The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy: Privatizing Our Vote

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_thom_har_070621_the_ultimate_felony_.htm

 

NAtional: Framing Computerized Voting

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_paul_jac_070622_framing_computerized.htm

 

CA: Unprecedented: CA SoS Pulls Voting Machine Co. Source Code Out of Escrow

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4713

 

CA: Nevada County - Officials expect to meet voting machine deadline

http://www.theunion.com/article/20070621/NEWS/106210179

 

FL: FL-13 - Deplorable delay in District 13

GAO should seek the truth, but Jennings should concede

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20070622/OPINION/706220394/1030

 

FL: Palm Beach County - County backs off ballot revolt as elections chief chops cost

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/local_news/epaper/2007/06/22/s1a_BALLOTS_0622.html

 

FL: Palm Beach County elections chief blasted for overestimating ballot costs

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-622panderson,0,19924.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

 

GA: State Election Board balks at paper backups mandate

http://www.henryherald.com/local/local_story_172223616.html

 

NY: Legislature fails to agree on vote machine date

http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S119492.shtml?cat=10114

 

NY: Citizens 1, Microsoft 0

New Yorkers win Round One in fight for source code protections

http://nyvv.org/blog/bolipariblog.html

 

TX: Cameron County - Hernandez doubts electronic balloting system

Mayoral runoff recount tentatively set for Saturday

http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/hernandez_77580___article.html/votes_ahumada.html

 

WA: King County - Reckless Plan: Can Diebold Count Mail Ballots? [Updated]

http://www.washblog.com/story/2007/6/22/3646/44359

 

United Kingdom: Many hidden returns

http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/3447

 

United Kingdom: May 2007 UK e-voting pilots riddled with flaws

http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/91591

 

United Kingdom: E-vote 'threat' to UK democracy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6229640.stm

 

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