Today’s “Enemy of Democracy” is George Gilbert, the director of the Guilford Co, North Carolina Board of Elections. In making an argument against a voter verified paper audit trail and against HR-811, George uses a disingenuous argument when he states, ““Some people have convinced them there's something magical about counting it [the vote] by hand.” He added errors are more likely to occur when ballots are tabulated by hand and results will be significantly slower.” Clearly George would like all who will believe him to think that the choice is only paperless DREs or hand-counted paper ballots. George conveniently forgets that optical-scan machines are used in almost every county in the country and they are used much more successfully than his favorite paperless DRE machines. Meanwhile, where are the final reports that were part of the California “Top-To-Bottom Review”? Why has the state kept them from the public? What is in those reports that is so secret?

 

NAtional: EAC halts certification of e-voting system

http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/45020-1.html

 

NAtional: Who Needs Hackers?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/technology/techspecial/12threat.html?ex=1347249600&en=c34a797aa78e24aa&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

 

NAtional: Voter Purging: A Legal Way for Republicans to Swing Elections?

http://www.alternet.org/rights/62133/

 

CA: The California Top-To-Bottom Review Is Still Incomplete

Only Three-Quarters Of the Review Reports Have Been Released

Is The Secretary of State Hiding Something?

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5053

 

CA: San Francisco - SF Supervisor Calls for Vote Counting Answers

http://www.kcbs.com/pages/935024.php?contentType=4&contentId=907633

 

CO: Denver - Colorado, Denver, And Mail Ballots: One City's Experience

http://www.ejfi.org/Voting/Voting-90.htm

 

CO: Pueblo County – Editorial – Paper Trails

http://www.chieftain.com/editorial/1189582274/1

 

CT: Mostly smooth debut for new machines

http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_6866581

 

CT: Few glitches reported at polls

http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2007/09/12/news/283798.txt

 

NC: Guilford County - Voting Machine Debate Could Cost NC Taxpayers $4.5 Mil

http://www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4329420&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1

 

OH: Board puts off request on voting machine tests

http://zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070911/NEWS01/709110317/1002

 

PA: Northampton County - Panel chastises county registrar

Advisory committee on elections accuses her of 'poor judgment.'

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b1_3vote.6035707sep12,0,2282186.story

 

UT: Utah County - Only Provo uses electronic voting

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/237283/4/

 

WV: Opinion - The paper ballot chase

http://www.wvrecord.com/arguments/200681-the-paper-ballot-chase

 

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