As expected today’s news is mostly from California in response to the “Top-To-Bottom” Review. In their response to the California “Top-To-Bottom Review” Sequoia had this to say about accessibility, “As for the Accessibility report, Sequoia’s equipment complies with all requirements of the current 2002 VVSG as well as all California state requirements. Sequoia has worked with both national and local accessibility groups to design our voting system and we continue to do so in an effort to make all of our voting equipment as accessible as possible and continually improve our products as advances are made in technology to better assist persons with disabilities”. The fact that they can say their machines comply with all requirements is amazing. The Sequoia Edge I and II tested in California has a toe-to-knee distance of 26.5 inches. The 2002 VVSG require 30 inches minimum. We can’t expect either of the other two vendors to be any more factual in their defense of their systems.

 

NAtional: California Finds DRE Touch-Screen Voting Systems Easily Hackable, as House Dems and PFAW Strike Deal to Use Them in American Elections Anyway

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4888

 

NAtional: Will Kucinich Reintroduce HR6200- Hand Counted Paper Ballots?

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_nadia_go_070729_will_kucinich_reintr.htm

 

NAtional: Votescam

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2007/08/06/070806taco_talk_hertzberg

 

NAtional: A Publicly Owned and Controlled Voting System Ensuring Transparency and Oversight by the People or Nothing

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_andi_nov_070729_a_publicly_owned_and.htm

 

CA: Response From Sequoia Voting Systems to the California Secretary of State’s Office on the Top-to-Bottom Review of Voting Systems

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070730006024&newsLang=en

 

CA: Hart InterCivic Responds to California SOS Top-to-Bottom Review

http://www.hartintercivic.com/pr_view.php?prid=65

 

CA: California May Get Audits Right So What Took 'em So Long?

http://e-voter.blogspot.com/2007/07/california-may-get-audits-right-so-what.html

 

CA: Post Election Audit Standards Report - Evaluation of Audit Sampling Models and Options for Strengthening California’s Manual Count

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/peas/final_peaswg_report.pdf

 

CA: Voting machines breached in 'top-to-bottom' review

'The veneer of security has evaporated': Hackers given shot at California devices

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56903

 

CA: Today's Voting Machines Post - Prove It

http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2007/07/todays_voting_m_28.htm

 

CA: California finds e-voting riddled with flaws

http://www.intergovworld.com/article/134a9c440a01040801c4b5794e24a8c9/pg1.htm

 

CA: California voting machine security tests uncover serious vulnerabilities

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070729-california-voting-machine-security-tests-uncover-serious-vulnerabilities.html

 

CA: Probe Reveals Hanky Panky With Electronic Voting Machines

http://www.newswithviews.com/NWVexclusive/exclusive118.htm

 

CA: Today's Hearing on Electronic Voting Machines in California

http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/07/todays_hearing.html

 

CA: Flaws in voting systems found

http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_62277.shtml

 

CA: CA 'Post-Election Audit Workgroup' Recommends Improving Standards, Procedures to Ensure Accurate Election Results

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4892

 

CA: Three E-Voting Systems Susceptible to Attack, California Team Finds

http://www.betanews.com/article/Three_EVoting_Systems_Susceptible_to_Attack_California_Team_Finds/1185822412

 

CA: Study: Hackers Could Change E-Voting Machine Results

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/58572.html

 

CA: California finds three electronic voting systems vulnerable to hackers

http://scmagazine.com/us/news/article/673971/california-finds-three-electronic-voting-systems-vulnerable-hackers/

 

CA: Report: E-Voting Systems Hackable

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/07/report_evoting_systems_hackabl.html?nav=rss_blog

 

NY: New York will continue to use old voting machines

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/ny-stvote305313430jul30,0,1787935.story?coll=ny-statenews-headlines

 

OH: Elections officials find ways to replace aging poll workers

http://www.chroniclet.com/2007/07/30/elections-officials-find-ways-to-replace-aging-poll-workers/

 

OH: In Violation of Federal Law, Ohio's 2004 Presidential Election Records Are Destroyed or Missing

http://www.alternet.org/story/58328/

 

OH: Franklin County - Officials hoping more municipal workers will staff voting places

http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=6855364

 

OH: Franklin County - Part II – Squire v. Geer: Facts the Magistrate left out are even more shocking than the ones he included

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2007/2719

 

WA: "Sometimes Vote Suppression is as Important as Vote-Getting": Cleaning up WA Voter Rolls

http://www.washblog.com/story/2007/7/29/2372/70941

 

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