[openvotingSTL] Fwd: 'Daily Voting News' For June 16, 2007: NY activists nail Microsoft Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:05:59 -0500 (CDT) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Gideon Date: Jun 16, 2007 6:08 PM Subject: [DVN] - 'Daily Voting News' For June 16, 2007 To: Daily Voting News In his WebLog New Yorkers for Verified Voting's Bo Lipari relates, "The 800 pound gorilla of software development has moved forcefully into New York State, supported by voting machine vendors using Microsoft Windows in their touch screen voting machines and other systems. Over the last two months Microsoft and a cadre of high paid lobbyists have been working a full-court press in Albany in an attempt to bring about a serious weakening of New York State election law. This back door effort by private corporations to weaken public protections is about to bear fruit." These are the same lobbyists who left a closed door meeting with Senator Feinstein with a satisfied smile on their faces just before her corporate protecting election legislation, S-1487, was completed and filed. NAtional: Statistics Can Help Ensure Accurate Elections http://www.amstat.org/publications/amsn/index.cfm?fuseaction=pres062007 NAtional: Editorial - Get to the truth behind voter fraud charges http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/editorials/stories/MYSA061707.02H.voterfr aud1ed.24a081d.html AK: Doogan questions use of electronic voting machines http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=6667259 FL: Broward County Officials To Consider Voting-Machine Plan http://www.miamiherald.com/467/story/141688.html NY: Watchdog warns of risk to state election law http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070616/NEWS05/7061 60348/1021 NY: Sides spar over voting machine rule Push to change the law pits need to prevent fraud against desire to protect proprietary software rights http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=598403&category=FRONTPG&BC Code=HOME&newsdate=6/16/2007 NY: Microsoft Muscles the NYS Legislature Software giant moves to weaken NY Election law http://nyvv.org/blog/bolipariblog.html OH: Carroll County - Carroll officials decline suggestion to pay county workers to serve at polls http://www.timesreporter.com/index.php?ID=69115 **Articles included in "Daily Voting News" may not all reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or its allied organizations. These articles are all included for the information of the subscribers of "Daily Voting News" though we realize that the subscribers may not agree with the opinions given in all articles** ******************************************************************* If you receive Daily Voting News directly from John Gideon and VotersUnite and wish to unsubscribe, please send an email to jgideon@votersunite.org requesting that you be removed from circulation. If you get the email forwarded from someone else you must contact them to be unsubscribed. ******************************************************************* -- John Gideon Co-Director and Information Manager VotersUnite.Org www.votersunite.org