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Daily Voting News For June 26, 2008
Friday, 27 June 2008, 2:32 pm | John Gideon
Ohio counties were required, in the March primary, by the SOS, to have paper ballots on hand, at each polling place, for any voter who wanted to use them and in case there were problems with DRE voting machines. Secretary Brunner wants the same thing ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 25, 2008
Friday, 27 June 2008, 1:32 pm | John Gideon
This is a good opportunity for us to remind all of our subscribers that voter registrations and voter registration data bases have been a huge problem during the primary elections. There is no reason to believe that they will not be a huge problem in November. One ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 23, 2008
Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 4:04 pm | John Gideon
Today’s featured article comes from Colorado but it could just as easily come from many states in the nation. The article discusses the changes that are being made in election technology; changes to the good. There will be more paper ballots and ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 23, 2008
Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 12:57 pm | John Gideon
Today we begin something new; a “Featured Article”. Whenever there is an article that we feel is a must read, we will list that article at the top of the list of articles. Today’s “Featured Article” is about John Gardner, the ex-Colorado ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 22, 2008
Monday, 23 June 2008, 4:40 pm | John Gideon
Recently in this space I reported that a report from the Ohio SoS to the Governor and Legislature glossed over the fact that, among other issues, four of eleven counties who did hand-count audits found discrepancies and had to change the results of their ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 20, 2008
Saturday, 21 June 2008, 7:22 pm | John Gideon
A New Jersey judge today reversed her opinion and ruled that computer experts who will be inspecting the state’s Sequoia voting machines can release the results of their research to the voting public. The inspection will begin immediately and ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 18, 2008
Thursday, 19 June 2008, 6:59 pm | John Gideon
Last Friday election activist and founder of the Florida Fair Elections Coalition, Susan Pynchon, announced her run for Volusia County Supervisor of Elections. Susan joins Ellen Brodsky, who is running for the same position in Broward County and who ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 16, 2008
Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 7:27 pm | John Gideon
A very slow day today. Pay particular interest in the Ohio article today. That story could come from any state in the union. We will have long ballots and long lines in November all over the nation. Voter registration problems will make the lines ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 14 and 15, 2008
Monday, 16 June 2008, 9:02 pm | John Gideon
Following last year’s mayoral primary in Bridgeport Connecticut, one Democratic candidate was sure there were problems with the vote totals. He went to court and appealed the loss but the Superior Court found against him. He was still sure so ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 13, 2008
Saturday, 14 June 2008, 4:02 pm | John Gideon
Yes, for all of you paraskavedekatriaphobiacs (fear of Friday the 13th) or triskaidekaphobiacs (fear of the number 13) today is Friday the 13th. But it’s nearly over so all will be well soon. The Curry Co (New Mexico) Canvass Board approved the final election ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 12, 2008
Saturday, 14 June 2008, 4:01 pm | John Gideon
Voting systems are tested for federal certification by a “Voting Systems Test Lab” (VSTL) against the voting systems standards. So, one would expect, that if a voting system fails to meet the standards it fails testing and cannot be certified. One ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 12, 2008
Thursday, 12 June 2008, 1:22 pm | John Gideon
Yesterday I spoke about what may be election fraud in the handling of absentee ballots in Bullock Co Alabama. Today the District Attorney in Randolph Co requested an investigation of absentee ballot handling in his county. An investigation is already being carried ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 10, 2008
Wednesday, 11 June 2008, 12:22 am | John Gideon
Two unsuccessful candidates for Bullock Co Alabama commissioner have requested that the state Attorney General investigate absentee vote irregularities in the June 3 election. Both candidates won by large margins at the polls. In both cases the candidates ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 9, 2008
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 1:09 pm | John Gideon
State and local primary elections are still ongoing around the country. Tomorrow we have elections in South Carolina, North Dakota, Virginia and Maine with early voting beginning for the Utah primary. Due directly to the failure of the voting ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 6, 2008
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 11:30 am | John Gideon
The Arizona Secretary of State, Jan Brewer, has sent a letter to the Pima County officials complaining about the steps they are proposing to tighten security surrounding elections and vote counting procedures. One proposal from the county is that they ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 8, 2008
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 12:09 am | John Gideon
Sarasota Co Florida Supervisor of Elections, Kathy Dent, intends on holding a mock election which will minimally test the new voting system being purchased by the county. This system has still not been federally certified by the EAC, though that is not ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 7, 2008
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 12:07 am | John Gideon
Tennessee has joined the growing list of states that require a paper trail for use in recounts and random audits. The governor has signed legislation that requires all systems purchased after Jan. 1 to be precinct-based optical scan systems. We ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 9, 2008
Monday, 9 June 2008, 4:06 pm | John Gideon
Election officials in Pinellas Co. Florida were probably very surprised when they inspected their voting machines for malware and found that even though their system is not connected to the internet two bugs, known as Flush.G and W32.SillyDC, were ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 4, 2008
Thursday, 5 June 2008, 1:05 pm | John Gideon
Fort Bend Co Texas has just hired a new elections director. To prove that the revolving door goes in as well as out the county hired the regional sales manager, account manager and Illinois state manager for Election Systems & Software. Pima Co Arizona ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 2, 2008
Wednesday, 4 June 2008, 11:56 am | John Gideon
Besides the presidential primaries in South Dakota and Montana there are primary elections in many states across the nation. Most of those elections are reported to be low turn-out affairs. New Mexico is reporting problems with their state-wide ... More >>
