Have you seen the front page of today's "USA Today"?

[CatWoman]

[StellaBlue]

1. Thanks, Id' almost forgotten I need to go see that new Aniston movie NOW!!

:eyes:

[Atman]

2. OMG!

Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn are breaking up???????!!!!!

[Spazito]

3. It is good to see E-voting issues on the front page instead of being

hidden on the back pages!

[CatWoman]

5. Thanks, Spazito

at least somebody gets it.

[hiley]

7. first thing I noticed, thank you for posting this!

hope, what a great feeling.

[CatWoman]

8. I'm thrilled and amazed that it made the front page!!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Whoops.

I thought you were pointing out the photo of the doctor with the gun.

[hiley]

13. me too, frankly it shocked me at first

then I laughed out load & even had a few tears of relief.

[Jawja]

17. CatWoman,

is there a class action suit here in Georgia? If not, why not?

Voting machines with no transparency and no paper trail should be legally challenged here.

Thought you might know of something....

:hi:

[CatWoman]

18. Hi, Jawja

I haven't heard of anything that Georgia is doing to address this problem.

I know Cynthia McKinney spoke out against it, but other than her, not a peep.

:hi:

[Jawja]

19. Yes and when our

Secretary of State was challenged over it, she stuck up for Diebold.

Perhaps she will understand in November when she leads in the polls and loses to Perdue, hm?

[CatWoman]

20. IMO

Cathy Cox is completely worthless.

[Jawja]

25. Agreed.

[Turn CO Blue]

21. The headline about e-voting lawsuits is in the biggest font, by far!

[Spazito]

22. You're very welcome! It was the first thing I spotted on the page...

and I am watching everything that is happening on E-voting so I can fight it if it ever becomes an issue in Canada. Thank you for posting this, it makes me hopeful the issue is beginning to get the serious attention it deserves.

[johnaries]

4. Can you please post this in the Election Reform Forum?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=203

they'll love it!

[CatWoman]

6. Johnaires

knock yourself out, with my blessings. :hi:

[Sadie5]

11. Reminds me

of why I quit buying the newspaper around five years ago. This is not news.

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. It is news that the MSM is finally picking up this story

[me b zola]

24. How is it not news?

This, imo, is one of the most important issues of our time.

[Laurab]

27. Lawsuits about E-voting on the front page isn't news?

I'd START buying the paper because of that. Free and fair elections are our only hope to get out of the mess we're in. USA Today is read by a LOT of people, and it will surely be news to them.

[LA lady]

9. I'm disappointed

The article seems sort of dismissive but it's a start.

No case yet has claimed intentional manipulation of electronic vote data. But another advocacy group, Black Box Voting, reported last month that a Finnish expert found security flaws for a Diebold Election Systems model.

Diebold, a major manufacturer, says the vulnerability is theoretical and will be fixed this year.

System defenders say most problems occur because of hasty set-up before elections or poor training of poll workers. "Certainly none of the allegations of security breaches on the equipment have ever been demonstrated to be true," says R. Doug Lewis of the Election Center, a group of state and local election officials.

Electronic voting, in use for more than a decade, didn't catch fire until Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002. It overhauled election standards and required states to replace old voting methods such as punch cards, which fouled up the 2000 election in Florida. Congress also gave states more than $300 million to replace outdated systems.

Paul DiGregorio of the federal Election Assistance Commission acknowledges some glitches but says any system "can be trusted" as long as safeguards are in place.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-06-04-electronic-voting_x.htm

[shadowknows69]

12. Whoo hoo!

Now we still have to hope that people still actually read the newspaper.

[Synnical]

14. Here's the Yahoo Link - please rate the story up

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/spateoflawsuitstargetevoting

[CatWoman]

16. thanks!!

done.

[Synnical]

31. And a K&R n/t

[Patsy Stone]

23. Thanks for the good news!

K&R!

[snot]

26. Could the corp. media finally be rptg this BECAUSE

they sense a landslide in favor of Dems that even the Repubs can't reverse? I.e., position the issue so that when Dems win, all elections can be thrown into doubt?

[New Earth]

28. i wouldn't doubt it

i would not be surprised if that happened. i will hope and pray that the Dems keep it clean, i have faith that they would. as long as they do, and we do, there should be no problems. unless the Repubs. set up people to purposely claim fraud or problems when they vote. i put nothing past them.

[Cleita]

29. ...

:kick:

[Melissa G]

30. YESS!!! thanks, catwoman! n/t

[Zorra]

32. Outstanding! Keep the pressure on, friends. Tell everyone you

know about the evils of evoting.
:toast:

[WiseButAngrySara]

33. About time! Thanks for the post and the yahoo link CatWoman! K&R! ...n/t