The Voting News Weekly: TVN Weekly October 31-November 6 2011

David Jefferson answered the question “If I can shop and bank online, why can’t I vote online?” Congressman John Lewis compared Voter ID laws to a poll tax while Hose Democrats called on Secretaries of State to oppose those ID laws. The UK Guardian offered an international perspective on the GOP’s efforts to change state voting laws. Student IDs cannot be used as identification for voting in Tennessee. Microsoft Research proposed a crytographic hash as a security measure as a countermeasure against “trash attack” on voting systems and Egypt prepares for the country’s first post-revolution election and vot­ers in Kyr­gyzs­tan voted Sun­day in a closely watched pres­i­den­tial elec­tion.