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- Minority Undervote Rate Plummets After New Mexico Switches To Paper
  Posted by Kathy
  VoteTrust US analyzed New Mexico voting data from 2002 to 2006 ... and discovered a dramatic increase in undervote rates in Native American and Hispanic precincts in 2004. For Native Americans, the rate was almost eight (8) times as great in 2004 (electronic voting, DREs) as in 2002 or 2006 (paper). Even the Caucasian precincts showed an increase in undervotes in 2004, although not to the degree of the minority population. The report does not attempt to explain "why" ... only "what."
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- U.S. Bars Lab From Testing Electronic Voting
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  It's about time: "Experts on voting systems say the Ciber problems underscore longstanding worries about lax inspections in the secretive world of voting-machine testing. The action by the federal Election Assistance Commission seems certain to fan growing concerns about the reliability and security of the devices."
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- Changes Are Expected in Voting by 2008 Election
  Posted by Jon from New York Times
  "By the 2008 presidential election, voters around the country are likely to see sweeping changes in how they cast their ballots and how those ballots are counted, including an end to the use of most electronic voting machines without a paper trail."
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- Election workers see voting problems
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  In Cleveland, voters rolled their eyes as election workers fumbled with new touchscreen machines that they couldn’t get to start properly until about 10 minutes after polls opened. “We got five machines — one of them’s got to work,” said Willette Scullank, a troubleshooter from the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, elections board.
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- Machine Records Dem Vote For GOP _ TPMCafe
  Posted by Jeff from electioncentral.tpmcafe.com
  My wife just came home from voting here in Webster Groves MO. She used the electronic touch-screen voting system. . . She touched Claire McCaskill's picture and the machine recorded a vote for Jim Talent. She then called one of the people running the polling center who helped her correct the problem. My wife then had to call the person over another time after it recorded her vote a Republican again. In her frustration she asked the person who was responsible for the design of this system. The polling person leaned in very close to my wife and whispered, "We're f----d."
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- Diebold demands that HBO cancel documentary on voting machines
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  The program, "Hacking Democracy," is scheduled to debut Thursday, , five days before the 2006 U.S. midterm elections. The film claims that Diebold voting machines aren't tamper-proof and can be manipulated to change voting results.
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- Daily Kos: VA-Sen: George F. Allen vs. James H. "Jim" . . . ?
  Posted by Jeff from Dailykos
  More electronic voting B.S.: Democratic candidate Webb will appear with his first name and nickname only -- or "James H. 'Jim' " -- on summary pages in Alexandria, Falls Church and Charlottesville, the only jurisdictions in Virginia that use balloting machines manufactured by Hart InterCivic of Austin. "We're not happy about it," Webb spokeswoman Kristian Denny Todd said last night, adding that the campaign learned about the problem a week ago and has since been in touch with state election officials. "I don't think it can be remedied by Election Day. Obviously, that's a concern."
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Changes Are Expected in Voting by 2008 Election

This is great news for all of us who have been raising the alarm about insecure electronic voting machines. The tide is running our way. More!

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