By Mike Shelby, guest blogger on SpidelBlog, AZ.
If ever there was a justification to show that Arizona's recently passed so-called election reform bill, SB1557, was just a first step and that because of obstructionist, self-serving politicians and elections officials who engaged in power plays, petty personality squabbles, unscrupulous and disingenuous negotiations; I don't need to look any further than Monday's USA Today, Analysis finds e-voting machines vulnerable (http://www.usatoday.com/.... ). In the USA Today article, once again, is a listing of the reasons that electronic voting must come under the strictest of security and verification methods if we are ever to hope for accurate and honest elections. Only this time it comes from the non-partisan think tank, Brennan Center for Justice, from a 162 page full report1 (see the Executive Summary2) that took over a year to examine optical scanners and touch-screen machines using elections officials, computer scientists, and security experts to analyze the data.
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