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Daily Voting News For June 2, 2008
Tuesday, 3 June 2008, 6:16 pm | John Gideon
I’m back after a much needed rest and with a freezer re-stocked with fish. Today, in catch-up mode, I am running some of what I think are important items from the last week. In two cases these items come from VotersUnite. One is a recount of public ... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 24, 2008
Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 1:34 pm | John Gideon
Faulkner Co, Arkansas media is reporting that there was a tabulating error on machines in at least one precinct. In the East Cadron B precinct the iVotronic moved votes for Cadron Township Constable candidate John Edwards to Linda Tyler who was a candidate ... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 23, 2008
Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 1:26 pm | John Gideon
It was a successful day in Pima Co Arizona where a Superior Court Judge found that the county failed to prove its contention that the release of all electronic election databases to the Pima County Democratic Party would jeopardize the integrity of future ... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 22, 2008
Saturday, 24 May 2008, 7:13 pm | John Gideon
The minor problems experienced by voters in Arkansas that I reported here two days ago seem to have been a lot worse than was reported by the media on Tuesday; at least in White Co. Not one voting machine functioned properly at any of 32 polling places ... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 21, 2008
Saturday, 24 May 2008, 6:16 pm | John Gideon
Is anything but a take-over by Hart Intercivic going to save Sequoia Voting Systems? The Sequoia president, Jack Blaine, seems to have been caught, again, trying to deceive officials. This time he may have been less than truthful when providing testimony ... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 20, 2008
Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 1:24 pm | John Gideon
As of press time there are no reports in the media of voting machine problems in Kentucky. There were some reports of “minor problems” in Arkansas today where they are also holding elections. ES&S is raping New Mexico counties for maintenance ... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 18 & 19, 2008
Tuesday, 20 May 2008, 12:38 am | John Gideon
41 voters in Atlanta Texas went to the polls to vote for, amongst other items, a candidate for City Council District 1. Little did those voters know that the city had leased the machines from Cass County and Hart Intercivic had done the ballot ... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 17, 2008
Monday, 19 May 2008, 11:43 am | John Gideon
On March 4 election officials in Butler Co Ohio discovered that even though their system said that all memory cards had been read, in fact the system did not read one of the cards. This is an error in accuracy. Last Thursday Diebold issued a report ... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 16, 2008
Saturday, 17 May 2008, 12:22 am | John Gideon
Some county election officials in Ohio are pushing to continue using only central-count optical scan. The ACLU withdrew a suit against Cuyahoga Co because the county promised to go to precinct-count optical scan. Now the county wants to renege on that deal. ... More >>
Daily Voting news For May 15, 2008
Friday, 16 May 2008, 1:09 pm | John Gideon
Just yesterday we mentioned that there was not a lot about voting system problems in West Virginia. Today the media woke up and began reporting. Nothing really serious but there were problems reported and probably many more that the media never discovered ... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 13, 2008
Thursday, 15 May 2008, 9:14 am | John Gideon
Do you know where your passport is? Do you have one? Do you know where your birth certificate is? How about your marriage license? In Missouri, and probably more states to come, some law makers want you to prove your citizenship before you can register ... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 14, 2008
Thursday, 15 May 2008, 12:37 am | John Gideon
It appears that West Virginia either had very, very few machine failures yesterday or they were very, very successful at keeping the failures out of the news. It appears that our friends north of the border want the same instant gratification that our ... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 12, 2008
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 4:38 pm | John Gideon
Tomorrow is West Virginia’s turn to primary. Unfortunately for the voters WV is totally an ES&S state. Over half of the voters will vote on DREs, though some think that those machines are safer because they include a vvpat printer. As usual we will ... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 12, 2008
Monday, 12 May 2008, 12:53 am | John Gideon
Happy Mothers Day! On Friday, not a day to announce good news in a press release, the EAC announced that Alice Miller, the Executive Director of the Washington DC Bureau of Elections and Ethics (BOEE), has been named to fill the post of Chief Operating ... More >>
Daily Voting news For May 9, 2008
Saturday, 10 May 2008, 5:33 pm | John Gideon
I am a Disabled Viet Nam Vet. I am also a retired federal employee. I understand the Hatch Act which was written to ensure that partisan politics has no place in our federal work force. It is a good act and not hard to follow. However, the actions ... More >>
Daily Voting news For May 8, 2008
Saturday, 10 May 2008, 5:31 pm | John Gideon
Today is one of those days when there are a lot of important articles but not a lot that gets my brain matter working so I don’t have a lot to say today. Here is the news.... More >>
Daily Voting news For May 9, 2008
Saturday, 10 May 2008, 5:01 pm | John Gideon
Today is one of those days when there are a lot of important articles but not a lot that gets my brain matter working so I don’t have a lot to say today. Here is the news.... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 7, 2008
Thursday, 8 May 2008, 4:37 pm | John Gideon
The Help America Vote Act requires states to have a centralized voter registration data base. Most of the states have successfully been able to meet this mandate. Colorado, on the other hand, has done about as well with their data base as they did recertifying ... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 6, 2008
Wednesday, 7 May 2008, 12:05 am | John Gideon
As is becoming typical, the Main Stream Media is not reporting a lot of voting problems today. It appears that we have to wait for the busy election protection hotlines to report on their day. One thing for sure is that turnout was huge. Early voting ... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 05, 2008
Tuesday, 6 May 2008, 1:11 pm | John Gideon
Governor John Corzine of New Jersey has signed yet another extension of the electronic voting paper verification requirement for his state. Now citizens of New Jersey will again vote in an election without any paper. What the state needs to do is to get ... More >>
