The Executive Summary of a new report from VotersUnite.Org, and our Featured article, begins: “As we approach the 2008 general election, the structure of elections in the United States — once reliant on local representatives accountable to the public — has become almost wholly dependent on large corporations, which are not accountable to the public. Most local officials charged with running elections are now unable to administer elections without the equipment, services, and trade-secret software of a small number of corporations.
If the vendors withdrew their support for elections now, our election structure would collapse.
However, some states and localities are recognizing the threat that vendor-dependency poses to elections. They are using ingenuity and determination to begin reversing the direction. 
- Featured – National: Vendors are Undermining the Structure of U.S. Elections
http://www.votersunite.org/info/reclaimelectionssumm.asp - National: Election Integrity – How We Lost It and How States are Getting It Back
http://www.progressivestates.org/content/886/election-integrity-how-we-lost-it-and-how-states-are-getting-it-back - National: November’s Spectre Rising…
https://bradblog.com/?p=6283 - National: Planning to E-Vote? Read This First
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=electronic-election-day - National: States Still Struggling With Voting Machines
http://www.propublica.org/article/states-still-struggling-with-voting-machines-818/ - National: States Abandoning Touchscreen Voting Equipment
http://uspolitics.about.com/b/2008/08/18/states-abandoning-touchscreen-voting-equipment.htm - National: Banish: Lever Machines, DREs & Opticscans-Support Ballots as Objects
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Banish-Lever-Machines-DR-by-Phyllis-Huster-080817-749.html - NY: New York’s Backdoor To The Ballot Box
http://e-voter.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-yorks-back-door-to-ballot-box.html - OH: Ohio Election Officials Whistle Past the Graveyard of 2004
http://thejournal.epluribusmedia.net/index.php/state-news/ohio-news/147-ohio-election-officials-prepare-for-success-in-2008-by-whistling-past-the-graveyard-of-2004-election - PA: Luzerne County – Report praises Luzerne for voting-machine finesse
http://www.standardspeaker.com/articles/2008/08/18/news/hz_standspeak.20080818.a.pg5.hz18_cvelection_s1.1885236_loc.txt - WI: Election to test statewide registration databases
Records critical to ballot casting
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080818/GPG0101/808180512/1207/GPG01
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