1/ Election chiefs in New York and PA are justifiably under fire for the glaring conflict of interest arising from their decision to sit on voting machine vendor ES&S’s advisory board and traveling on ES&S’s dime. ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…

2/ NY City “elections officials have typically defended the [ES&S] scanners, even after a bad day at the polls,” but it turns out “ES&S, has a somewhat cozy relationship w/Mike Ryan, the head of the city's Bd of Elections, perhaps blunting any criticism that could come its way.”