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For comprehensive national coverage, see the Daily Voting News, compiled by John Gideon.

 

Rep. Rush Holt to push for paper ballots and vote count audits for 2008

By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet, December 27, 2007

Congress gets new election bill to ban controversial machines, November 1, 2007: S. 2295

New voting system faces new delay

[Northampton] County weighs option. AVS balks at test of its electronic machine.

By Joe McDonald, Morning Call, Nov. 21, 2007 

 

Voting machine suit set

Northampton County files notice it will sue manufacturer over unusable electronic devices.

By Sarah Cassi, Express-Times, Nov. 17, 2007

 

Voting out e-voting machines

By Tim Padgett, Time.com, November 3, 2007

 

[Northampton] County ready to rule out voting machines

Certification problems mean machines 'not on a good path.'

By Sarah Cassi, Express-Times, Oct. 6, 2007

 

Wayne County leasing scanners for election

By Megan Reiter, Times-Tribune, Sept. 26, 2007

 

With six weeks to go, voting still a mystery

By David Singleton, Times-Tribune, Sept. 26, 2007

EAC for Dummies: How the White House has designs on your elections, by Nancy Tobi, OpEdNews.com, Aug. 31, 2007

A Rigged Report on U.S. Voting? by Tova Andrea Wang, Washington Post, Aug. 30, 2007

Lever-style voting machines back in game

Northampton County's decision helped by Department of State, which suspends use of Advanced Voting Solutions units.

By Joe Nixon, Morning Call, Aug. 23, 2007 

 

Judge OKs election results

By Gema Maria Duarte, Courier Times, July 21, 2007

 

Glitches worry voting advocates

By Jenna Portnoy, Courier Times/Intelligencer, June 17, 2007 

 

Write-in voters found glitches with machines

By Jenna Portnoy, Intelligencer,  June 1, 2007

 

Intelligencer Election Notes, May 16, 2007, Doylestown Township: Machines malfunction handling write-in votes

 

Courier Times "Thumbs Down" 5/12/07 "To the Bucks County Commissioners for not releasing information that helped them choose the Danaher voting machines." Cont.>>

 

Bucks asked to document savings

Voting advocates want the commissioners to explain how they concluded electronic voting machines are cheaper to operate than optical scan machines.

By Jenna Portnoy, Courier Times/Intelligencer, May 10, 2007 

 

Watchdog group blasts county over touch-screen voting machines

Coalition for Voting Integrity says savings have not been detailed.

By Scott Kraus, Morning Call, May 10, 2007 

Congress Urged to Address Security and Reliability of Voting Machines by Lawrence Norden of Brennan Center, May 7, 2007>>

Florida replaces touch-screen voting machines with optical scan machines statewide! Governor Crist applauds legislature for boldly reforming Florida's elections. May 3, 2007

Court rejects state's protests to voting machine suit: Electronic machines have security, accuracy flaws, activists claim.

By Joe Nixon and Brian Callaway, Morning Call, April 15, 2007

Voting machine suit kept alive: A state court ruled not to dismiss the effort to pull touch-screen voting machines from use in Pa.
By Associated Press and Nancy Petersen,
Philadelphia Inquirer, April 14, 2007

Challenge to voting machines remains alive

By Christine Sherman, Jenna Portnoy & Wire Reports, Courier Times/Intelligencer, April 14, 2007 

 

Ruling keeps alive voting machine lawsuit

Morning Call, April 14, 2007

 

Court keeps alive lawsuit over Pa.'s electronic voting machines
Associated Press, April 13, 2007

 

Poll workers made mistakes in November election

By Jenna Portnoy, Courier Times/Intelligencer, April 5, 2007 

AVI RUBIN: 'After four years of study, I now believe that a DRE with a VVPAT (paper-trail) is not a reasonable voting system.'

Voting machine design gets criticism

By Margaret Gibbons, TimesHerald.com, March 8, 2007

 

Activists plan to dissect voting machines

Voting advocates have teamed with university professors to study the workings of Bucks and Montgomery counties' voting machines.

By Jenna Portnoy, Courier Times/Intelligencer, March 6, 2007 

 

Dems take aim at vote flaws

Bucks candidates say county has failed to assure valid tallies.

By Scott Kraus, Morning Call, March 6, 2007 

 

Missouri activists say "Show me the vote"

By Michael Collins, Scoop, February 28, 2007

 

E-voting on trial in Columbus, Ohio: The Squire Case

By Bob Fitrakis, Free Press, February 27, 2007

 

Voting coalition will host town meeting

By Jenna Portnoy, Intelligencer,  February 19, 2007

 

Congressional Hearing on the Hazards of Electronic Voting: Focus on the Machinery of Democracy, February 7, 2007, including video

 

Holt reintroduces voting integrity bill
February 6, 2007

 

[Florida's Republican Governor] Crist to seek millions for voting machines that leave paper trail
By Brian Skoloff, Associated Press, February 1, 2007

 

Election attorneys amplify importance of convictions for recount rigging in Ohio 2004 pres race
By Paul Lehto,
OpEdNews.com, January 24, 2007

 

Prosecutor says presidential recount rigged in Ohio county
By M.R. Kropko, Associated Press, Jan. 19, 2007

 

Hill Will Examine Voting Machines
By Matthew Murray, Roll Call,
January 16, 2007

 

The Good News (Really) about Voting Machines

By Adam Cohen, New York Times, January 10, 2007

 

Report issued: E-Voting Failures in the 2006 Mid-Term Elections  "1,022 reports of problems associated with electronic voting equipment from 314 counties in 36 states. Many reports depicted multiple problems." January 2007

 

U.S. bars lab from testing electronic voting

By Christopher Drew, New York Times, January 4, 2007

 

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