Hi, I'm Rachel Leon, Executive Director of Common Cause/NY checking in with my first post on this blog. I thought I'd share a commentary I do on a bi-weekly basis for WAMC/ Northeast Public Radio, a regional public radio network serving parts of seven northeastern states. These include New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. Stations and translators are in ten locations throughout the region. My first broadcast was on voting. The next, to air this Friday on midday magazine, will be on lobby reform. Check it out here.

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Several states that are trying to introduce electronic voting machines to their electoral process are being challenged in the courts.

Per USA Today:

We've already seen difficulties with state primaries held in March in Texas and Illinois, and more and more counties are discounting the use of electronic ballots as unreliable and unsafe.

What's it going to take for officials everywhere to realize that a voter-verifiable paper ballot is the only good solution?