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[IP] more on Two items on voting security & electoral politics





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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 2, 2006 1:24:17 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Two items on voting security & electoral politics

Along these lines, this was in my morning paper:

Suit targets electronic voting
Nonprofit group claims machines are unreliable, vulnerable to fraud
By Christopher N. Osher
Denver Post Staff Writer

A nonprofit group filed a lawsuit Thursday to block the use of electronic voting machines in Colorado, saying they are unreliable, vulnerable to fraud and inaccessible to the disabled.

The lawsuit makes Colorado the latest battlefront in a growing controversy over the use of the machines. The litigation has the potential to disrupt Colorado's August primary.

"There is a tsunami sweeping the United States right now of voter concern about the insecurity and unreliability of electronic voting systems," said Lowell Finley, co-director of Voter Action, which filed the Denver suit with the Wheeler Trigg Kennedy LLP law firm.

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http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3889573




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