What is more important; verified accurate elections or results reported on election night? San Francisco election officials would have us believe election night reporting is the most important as they whine about how the decertification of their voting system will cause them to have to spend weeks counting the ballots; a clearly childish and false claim. Why isn’t the verified accurate count of our votes more important than election results being announced on election night or even the next morning? The Secretary of State of Washington and the County Auditor’s Association argue against any audit of the votes counted on optical-scan machines. We are a vote-by-mail state so well over 70% of the ballots are all counted by optical-scan. I find it to be amazing that they would argue against ensuring every vote is counted correctly. The only reason they would make those arguments is cost or early results. Neither of those reasons should take precedence over my vote being counted accurately.

 

NAtional: What Congress Should Be Talking About

http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/comments/articles.php?ID=175

 

NAtional: Response to ITIF Voting Report

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1202

 

NAtional: Election Technology Council: ITIF Report Echoes Industry Concerns

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070920005900&newsLang=en

 

NAtional: Electronic Voting: If It Is Good Enough For Congress

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-d-atkinson-phd/electronic-voting-if-it-_b_65107.html

 

NAtional: How to Take Action on Holt and Fix Our Elections

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mark_ada_070919_how_to_take_action_o.htm

 

NAtional: Black Votes Suppressed Across the Country by Disenfranchising of Prisoners and Former Convicts

http://www.blacknews.com/pr/disenfranchisingblackvote101.html

 

CA: CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen Conference Call & Transcript

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00368.htm

 

CA: Riverside County, CA Board of Supes to Sequoia Voting Systems: 'Drop Dead'

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5087

 

CA: San Francisco - S.F. election outcome won't be known for weeks

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/09/20/MN2MS9DIE.DTL

 

CA: San Francisco - S.F.’s vote tally will come late

http://www.examiner.com/a-945227~S_F__s_vote_tally_will_come_late.html

 

CA: San Francisco - What's More Important: Accurate Elections Or Fast Results?

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070919/235303.shtml

 

CT: Fail-Safe Voting?

http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-voting.artsep20,0,2408006.story

 

GA: Voter ID system passes first test, officials say

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2007/09/19/voterid_0920_web.html

 

KS: Proposal requiring paper trail of all voting criticized

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/sep/20/proposal_requiring_paper_trail_all_voting_criticiz/

 

NJ: Columnist - Our voting machines don't work. Who cares?

http://blog.nj.com/njv_john_atlas/2007/09/will_your_vote_in_the_presiden.html

 

NJ: Will your vote count?

http://www.montclairtimes.com/page.php?page=15787

 

NV: Washoe County Reviewing Voting Machines

http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/9885056.html

 

NY: Glitches Hamper Some Vote Counts

http://www.pall-times.com/articles/2007/09/20/news/news3.txt

 

NY: NYS behind in compliance with federal voting law

http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S200582.shtml?cat=300

 

NY: Groups find fault with state's plan to comply with federal voting law

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070920/NEWS05/709200373/1021

 

OH: Elections board in Cleveland expands testing ahead of '08

http://www.ohio.com/news/ap?articleID=105081&c=y

 

PA: Schuylkill County - Cost of voting rises

http://www.republicanherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18835420&BRD=2626&PAG=461&dept_id=532624&rfi=6

 

TN: Anderson County - New election possible

http://www.oakridger.com/stories/092007/new_201122256.shtml

 

TN: Shelby County - Two front runners for Memphis Mayor react to Herenton's voting problems

http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=7101191

 

TN: Shelby County - Mayor cites irregularities with early voting machines

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2007/sep/20/mayor-cites-irregularities-with-early-voting/

 

TN: Shelby County - MELTDOWN '07: Diebold Touch-Screens Flipping in Memphis Mayoral Election

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5089

 

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