"Lawyers sue over Snohomish County’s electronic voting machines---In many ways, last year’s doomsayers were right: In the November election, electronic voting machines across the nation added votes, lost votes, broke down and switched votes.
And that’s just what’s documented. But, given that Congress failed to investigate and counties are still buying the equipment, it’s a dead issue, right?
Wrong. Across the country, candidates and voters are petitioning or suing county election officials over voting machines. But none in quite the way that Everett attorney Paul Lehto and his lawyer, Randy Gordon, are going after Snohomish County and its electronic voting vendor, Sequoia Voting Systems Inc., in a lawsuit filed in April.
In what’s being hailed as a simple but brilliant argument that could serve as a national model for legal action, Gordon’s lawsuit, which was filed in King County, argues that it’s unconstitutional to outsource voting to a company that keeps the process secret the way Sequoia and other makers of electronic voting equipment do. The Washington Legislature has just passed a bill that will require electronic voting machines to print paper receipts starting next year. But that, says Gordon — who’s just filed to run against Dave Reichert in the 8th Congressional District — won’t solve the mysteries of what happened on Election Day in Snohomish County."-from the article in Seattle's Real Change newspaper, by Cindy Spanton.
Paul Lehto and author Bev Harris (Black Box Voting) will speak on election reform May 4, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at Seattle’s College Club, 505 Madison. $12. For tickets, call Pat McCoy, (206)283-0725.
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