As reported in today’s “Featured†article problems encountered during New York State’s tough certification testing have caused the timeline for the 2009 rollout of state’s new voting machines to slip. Now the State Board of Elections has notified the Court that it will not be possible to complete testing on schedule and deploy the new machines in time for the September 2009 primary, as the Court has ordered. Why has this happened? Bo Lipari, the author of the blog, reports that the State Board of Elections has stated, “In the July 24, 2008 weekly status meeting SysTest announced that the vendors were not ready for testing at this point in time due to various issues, among them: documentation issues, testing machines supplied which did not function, lacked hard drives and or USB ports and therefore could not be tested.†Is it any surprise that the vendors, ES&S and Sequoia, are not ready for testing? In what other industry would a contractor come to a state, in hopes of making hundreds of millions of dollars in sales, with a product that was not ready to be tested? …
- Featured – NY: Tell It To The Judge
http://www.nyvv.org/boblog/2008/07/28/tell-it-to-the-judge/ - National: Editoral – Our view: Helping veterans vote
VA should immediately rescind its ban on nonpartisan registration drives
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080727/OPINION/807270312/1006/NEWS01 - National: A way to beat the primary system and get more people voting
http://newsofthenorth.net/article.cfm?articleID=24094 - National: Action Alert: Tell your Senators to Support Transparent Elections and Oppose S.3212
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Action-Alert–Tell-your-Se-by-the-web-080727-555.html - National: Voter surge will challenge states
http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=328893 - National: The Systematic Destruction of Voting Rights in America (Part 1)
http://www.naturalnews.com/023706.html - AZ: Secretary of State’s office recruiting poll workers
http://prescottdailycourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&subsectionID=1&articleID=57610 - FL: New voting machines: Paper trail to nowhere?
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-papervote2808jul28,0,7510487.story - LA: Voter-rights group cries foul in state
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?/base/news-6/121705062632710.xml&coll=1 - NJ: Justice Department Announces Agreement Protecting Puerto Rican and Spanish-Speaking Voters in Penns Grove, New Jersey
http://7thspace.com/headlines/288169/justice_department_announces_agreement_protecting_puerto_rican_and_spanish_speaking_voters_in_penns_grove_new_jersey.html - NV: Lawsuit over voting machines dismissed in Reno
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jul/27/lawsuit-over-voting-machines-dismissed-in-reno/ - NY: In Defense of Lever Voting Machines
http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/In-Defense-of-Levers-by-Richard-Hayes-Phil-080727-985.html - NY: The Fight to Hold on to Our HAVA-Compliant Lever Voting System: Keeping the Air and the Facts Clear
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Fight-to-Hold-on-to-Ou-by-andi-novick-080728-948.html - NY: NY is set to miss the mark again
http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2008/07/28/ny-is-set-to-miss-the-mark-again/ - NY: Lever voting wins again
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=248&dept_id=462341&newsid=19875089&PAG=461&rfi=9 - OH: Editorial – Internet offers the future of voting
http://www.news-herald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19874218&BRD=1698&PAG=461&dept_id=220548&rfi=6 - VA: New electronic machines get their votes
http://www.winchesterstar.com/showarticle_new.php?sID=6&foldername=20080726&file=votes_article.html
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FBI Raids Cleveland Offices
Monday, July 28, 2008 11:22 AM
http://www.onntv.com/live/content/onnnews/stories/2008/07/28/cleveland_raid.html?sid=102
CLEVELAND, Ohio —
Cuyahoga County’s top elected official has pledged cooperation with a federal investigation into alleged public corruption in Ohio’s most populous county.
Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones made the commitment Tuesday in response to a massive raid by FBI and IRS agents Monday at the homes and offices of Commissioner Jimmy Dimora and Auditor Frank Russo.
Jones, who is president of the three-member board of commissioners, says Dimora told him by phone that he was shocked by the raid and didn’t believe he had done anything illegal.
Jones also released a five-page inventory of items that agents seized from Dimora’s office, including calendar appointments, employment applications and fundraising lists.
The commissioners are all Democrats…..