Florida: ES&S moves to strike letter from Rep. Millender
The Herald-Tribune reports: The maker of the voting machines used in Sarasota County's contested Congressional election wants a state appeals court to ignore a letter from a member of Congress.
Attorneys for Election Systems & Software filed a motion with the 1st District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee on Tuesday, urging the court to strike the letter from U.S. Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald, D-Calif.
In her letter dated Jan. 4, Millender-McDonald, chairwoman of the House Committee on Administration, said she was disappointed when a lower court ruled against Democrat Christine Jennings' attempt to require ES&S to provide access to voting machine source codes.
The codes are key in determining whether voting machines malfunctioned on election day, and the state has already commissioned a contractor to examine them as part of an audit of Sarasota's touch-screen voting machines. -- ES&S urges court to ignore letter from congresswoman