Senator Diane Feinstein has recently released a "Ballot Integrity Act of 2007." The bill, co-sponsored by Senators Brown, Clinton, Dodd, Inouye, Kennedy, Leahy, Menendez, Obama and Sanders, presents an alternative of sorts to Representative Rush Holt's HR811 "Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007."

Unfortunately, there are grave concerns about the Feinstein bill, as forwarded by scholarly election researcher Kathy Dopp in Utah. As Dopp concludes, “Feinstein's bill is a real disappointment if our goal is to ensure the accuracy of election outcomes, because no sufficient, independent election audits are required as compared to ...   more »