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Voting - Election Integrity

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By JAKE TAPPER and REBECCA ABRAHAMS - ABC

"So there were ways that we could potentially change the entire online data base and disenfranchise voters throughout the entire city of Chicago."

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BradBlog.com

Lou Dobbs and Kitty Pilgrim report on the frenzy to hire computer science graduate students by state officials fearing an e-voting machine disaster on election day.

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ABC

Source code to Diebold Election Systems voting machines has been leaked once again. Last week, former Maryland state legislator Cheryl Kagan was anonymously given disks containing source code to Diebold's BallotStation and Global Election Managem

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OpEdNews.com - Kat L'Estrange

Sproul is suspected of falsifying voter information without permission of the voter. This makes the voter ineligible to vote by regular ballot on Election Day. Sproul was linked to registration fraud in the 2004 and is on the RNC payroll.

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NY Times

A growing number of state and local officials are getting cold feet about electronic voting technology, and many are making last-minute efforts to limit or reverse the rollout of new machines in the November elections.

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AP

Denver District Judge Lawrence Manzanares said the secretary of state’s office had violated state law by failing to come up with minimum security standards for the new machines. He said they had done an "abysmal" job in testing the machines

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Reuters

Require voters to present at the polls a photo identification that also proves citizenship for federal elections beginning in 2010. The only identification that would meet that requirement is a passport, which costs $97 to obtain. Only 25% of America

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AP

The House voted to require Americans to show proof of citizenship in order to vote, and the Senate moved to build a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border as Republicans sharpened attacks on illegal immigration before the midterm elections.

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Freedom to Tinker (kudos Carolyn C.)

The access panel door on a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine — that protects the memory card that stores the votes, and is the main barrier to the injection of a virus — can be opened with a standard key widely available on the Internet.