'Daily Voting News' For December 14, 2007

 

Today Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner released the results of her EVEREST (Evaluation & Validation of Election-Related Equipment, Standards & Testing) report. There is a lot of interesting reading for the technical types and for the non-technical among us. Brunner has, with input from a bi-partisan group of county elections people, recommended that changes be made before next years elections; no DREs, no Precinct-Based Optical Scan, hand-marked paper ballots to be counted on Central-Count Optical Scan except for the use of Ballot Marking Devices for voters with disabilities, early voting up to 15 days, and voting centers. One has to hope that if all of the counting is going to take place on CCOS machines that no vendors will be involved in that counting and that the counting be open to the public. One pleasant surprise was that Brunner went farther than the rumors said she would go. Not only did she release her “Executive Summary” but the technical reports were released at the same time. Thank you for that openness, Secretary Brunner.

 

NAtional: Midwest Voter Registration Data-Sharing Project Moves Forward

Kansas leads groups of states crosschecking information; Advocates voice concern

http://electionline.org/Newsletters/tabid/87/ctl/Detail/mid/643/xmid/283/xmfid/3/Default.aspx

 

NAtional: Voting Chief Tanner Resigns

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004910.php

 

NAtional: UNCOUNTED: The New Math of American Elections

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_james_st_071213_uncounted_3a_the_new_m.htm

 

NAtional: Post-Election Auditing: A View From The "Summit"

http://e-voter.blogspot.com/2007/12/post-election-auditing-view-from-summit_14.html

 

NAtional: VoteRescue Radio, Sunday, 2-4pm CST Blockbuster Show!

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_press_re_071214_voterescue_radio_2c_su.htm

 

GA: 57 Lacked Photo IDs in Elections

http://www.13wmaz.com/news/state_story.aspx?storyid=46572

 

OH: Study: Voting Systems Vulnerable

http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/info/everest.aspx

 

OH: Brunner declares Ohio's voting systems vulnerable

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2007/12/14/vote.html

 

OH: Brunner: Ohio's vote vulnerable

http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2007/12/brunner_ohios_vote_vulnerable.html

 

OH: Report finds voting equipment flaws

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20071214/FREE/71214014/1008&Profile=1008

 

OH: Ohio's electronic voting system vulnerable, report says

http://www.ohio.com/news/break_news/12505391.html

 

OH: Ohio Secretary of State confirms 2004 election could have been stolen

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2007/2920

 

OH: Official: Ohio Vote Machines Vulnerable

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/12/14/ap4442329.html

 

OH: Statement of Premier Election Solutions in Response to Today's Release of the Ohio EVEREST Voting System Review

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,242777.shtml

 

OH: 'Critical Security Failures’ Leads Ohio Sec. Of State To Recommend Ban of DRE (Touch-Screen) Voting Machines

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5443

 

OH: Cuyahoga County - Secretary of State wants new voting system in Cleveland

http://www.ohio.com/news/ap?articleID=284686&c=y

 

VA: 37th District Recount Set for Next week

Candidates disagree over the degree to which votes should be studied.

http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=91690&paper=61&cat=104

 

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