It's been a great seven days for election reform. Last Thursday, Florida's governor Charlies Crist teamed up with long-time paper ballot advocate Representative Robert Wexler to announce support for a plan to scrap Florida's infamous paperless DREs by the 2008, and replace them with optical scan machines.

Then, yesterday, Representative Rush Holt introduced the latest version of his bill, "The Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007," H.R. 811, which already boasts somewhere in the neighborhood of 170 co-sponsors.

Finally, this morning, Sen. Diane Feinstein held a hearing on the voting machine issue. She has promised to introduce a bill soon that would be the Senate counterpart to Holt's House bill. For more on the hearing, and to hear a recording of it, go to VerifiedVoting.org's webpage.

There is no doubt that these changes are happening at least in part due to the intense citizen lobbying pressure voters have exerted in recent months. Our GetItStraightBy2008.org campaign has logged thousands of emails and phone calls to Florida and the U.S. Congress. We haven't won yet, but victory is definitely within reach.