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Daily Voting News For May 4, 2008
Monday, 5 May 2008, 1:24 pm | John Gideon
Indiana’s use of a wide range of voting systems and some produced by smaller vendors has historically proved to be problematic. There is no reason to expect next Tuesday’s primary to be anything different. North Carolina seems to have gotten past their ... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 2, 2008
Saturday, 3 May 2008, 6:32 pm | John Gideon
Yesterday Cuyahoga Co announced that in preparation for a lawsuit against Diebold/Premier they were going to have their old DRE voting system inspected by Systest Labs. This is a clear conflict of interest because Systest is presently testing for EAC certification ... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 1, 2008
Friday, 2 May 2008, 1:01 pm | John Gideon
In this space in yesterday’s DVN I made comments about “Women’s Voices; Women Vote” and their actions, as reported by the media, in North Carolina. Some readers have responded in defense of “WVWV”. Until yesterday I had not heard of that ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 30, 2008
Friday, 2 May 2008, 12:47 am | John Gideon
North Carolina voters who live in predominately black neighborhoods are the target of robo-calls and a mailing campaign, by a national non-profit called “Women’s Voices; Women Vote”, that may result in many voters being disenfranchised. The ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 29, 2008
Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 9:35 pm | John Gideon
In a laughable blog item Sequoia’s Michelle Shafer takes snippets of news articles that make Sequoia’s machines look good while she ignores all of the reports of problems. It must be harder and harder for Shafer to find good things to write about. ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 29, 2008
Tuesday, 29 April 2008, 1:01 pm | John Gideon
Today’s wrong-minded Supreme Court ruling on voter ID is not really a surprise but it is still very disappointing and disheartening. I’ve listed a few articles under “NAtional” below even though the ruling affects Indiana only at this time. ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 26, 2008
Monday, 28 April 2008, 11:25 am | John Gideon
In an updated article, Brad Friedman reveals that while the Sequoia spokeswoman Michelle Shafer claims that their Intellectual Property (IP) must be protected, in fact, they don’t even own the IP used on their voting systems. It is still owned by Smartmatic ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 25, 2008
Monday, 28 April 2008, 10:25 am | John Gideon
Attorney Penny Venetis won a huge victory in court in New Jersey today. The judge found against Sequoia Voting Systems and the state. Election officials, who have complained about an issue with the machines where a few machines misreported some ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 24, 2008
Friday, 25 April 2008, 5:27 pm | John Gideon
What happened in Pennsylvania and what can be done about it? All indications, outside of the main stream media, are that there were problems all over the state with voting systems. There were many anecdotal reports of vote flipping and other machines failures ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 23, 2008
Thursday, 24 April 2008, 12:07 am | John Gideon
Two and a half years ago Sangamon Co Illinois (Springfield) purchased 930 new Populex voting machines for $1.7M. The state will not accept them for use to count vote-by-mail (absentee) ballots so the county has been hand-counting those ballots and using a ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 22, 2008
Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 2:09 pm | John Gideon
What is wrong with election officials in Pennsylvania? They knew that voter turnout was going to set records today yet many precincts only have two machines. Two machines equal long lines and voters turning around and going home. On top of that there were ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 21, 2008
Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 12:36 am | John Gideon
In a critical editorial, The Asbury Park Press asks why the Secretary of State of New Jersey has decided that it is alright to undermine the court. Not only has Secretary Wells undermined the court, as they editorialize, but she has done all she can to ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 20, 2007
Monday, 21 April 2008, 11:28 am | John Gideon
Thank you to those who have already responded to our plea for funds. Your support is very much appreciated. Anyone still wishing to assist can find the information to make a tax deductable donate to VotersUnite via PayPal or with a check here VotersUnite! ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 19, 2008
Monday, 21 April 2008, 11:15 am | John Gideon
We know well that money is tight and everyone seems to have their hands out for a bit of your hard earned money. Unfortunately we have to be one of those and ask for some help. We don’t have any premiums (Our books sold out and thank you to all ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 18, 2007
Friday, 18 April 2008, 1:36 pm | John Gideon
Were you aware that HAVA mandates the accuracy of voting machines? Were you also aware that many of the voting machines used in elections today fail miserably to meet those mandates? The maximum legal error rate is 0.0002% or one error in 500,000 ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 18, 2007
Friday, 18 April 2008, 1:24 pm | John Gideon
Were you aware that HAVA mandates the accuracy of voting machines? Were you also aware that many of the voting machines used in elections today fail miserably to meet those mandates? The maximum legal error rate is 0.0002% or one error in 500,000 ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 15, 2007
Wednesday, 16 April 2008, 1:54 pm | John Gideon
Today the House GOP members managed to block Congressman Rush Holt’s emergency voting bill with a 239 – 178 vote; 2/3 majority was required for passage. It is unknown at this time what the next move will be. Maybe an all-out ban on DREs? The ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 15, 2007
Wednesday, 16 April 2008, 8:04 am | John Gideon
Daily Voting News For April 15, 2007 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org More >>
Daily Voting News For April 13, 2007
Monday, 14 April 2008, 4:35 pm | John Gideon
Peter Lichtenheld, a spokesman for Hart Intercivic, told a Kane Co Illinois reporter (see below) that the Hart Intercivic voting machines received rigorous federal testing. This is the same disinformation put out by the other top voting system purveyors. ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 11, 2008
Monday, 14 April 2008, 10:18 am | John Gideon
It appears that Sequoia Voting has misrepresented the facts to their customers in Pennsylvania and those customers and the media have gone along with the tales. Sequoia has told election officials in Montgomery Co that the recently reported problems ... More >>
