The Washington Post         
June 6, 2009
 
Sequoia Voting Systems agreed yesterday to turn over sensitive information to the D.C. Council about how the District's voting machines work and tabulate results, setting the stage for one of the most comprehensive probes on the reliability of electronic voting equipment.
The agreement is a response to the election night chaos in the September primaries, when Sequoia machines tabulated more ballots than there were voters, resulting in thousands of phantom votes.
Electoral change advocates said the agreement, finalized yesterday in D.C. Superior Court after the city threatened a lawsuit, is one of the first times a manufacturer of electronic voting machines has been forced to endure a public vetting of how its equipment tabulates returns.
 
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To view the protective order entered before the DC Superior Court between the DC City Council and Sequoia Voting Systems, Inc., Click Here.

UPDATE: On June 17, 2009, Congressman Holt introduced the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act, HR 2894. To see the announcement of this bill's introduction and the list of 75 original co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, Click Here.
 
May 29, 2009
Voter Action strongly endorses the Holt Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act, soon to be introduced in the United States House of Representatives by Representative Rush Holt (D-NJ). This bill will create a federal mandate for verifiable and accessible voting systems in federal elections with paper ballots marked by voters by hand or through the use of non-tabulating ballot marking devices. It will ensure that voters in every precinct across the United States are guaranteed the right in a federal election to cast their votes using paper ballots. It will require election audits for every federal election where the winning candidate receives less than 80 percent of the vote.
To view the bill, Click Here.