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Daily Voting news For April 10, 2008
Friday, 11 April 2008, 2:56 pm | John Gideon
Today it was revealed that a “little fish” may devour a “bigger fish” as Hart Intercivic attempts a hostile takeover of Sequoia Voting systems. Will the Sequoia principals be able to scrape up enough money to stop Hart? Time will tell. One of ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 9, 2008
Thursday, 10 April 2008, 1:27 pm | John Gideon
Newspapers in New Jersey are reporting that Sequoia has gone to court in an attempt to quash the subpoenas of voting machines from six counties. One has to wonder what Sequoia has to hide. They claim to have sent the system used in New Jersey to Wyle ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 6, 2008
Tuesday, 8 April 2008, 10:24 am | John Gideon
Today we have the typical Sunday hodge-podge of news, editorials, and columns. I’ll take this space to remind every voter that one of the major problems we are seeing is voter registration data bases and the fact that a lot of otherwise qualified voters ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 7, 2008
Tuesday, 8 April 2008, 12:45 am | John Gideon
Lackawanna Co Pennsylvania is leasing 85 old, no longer usable, Advanced Voting Solutions DREs to Elections USA Inc. EUSAInc is the company made up of ex-AVS officials that has taken over the AVS contracts. Now they claim they are going to use the machines ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 5, 2008
Monday, 7 April 2008, 1:46 pm | John Gideon
An inspection, by Princeton’s Ed Felten, of summary tapes not previously inspected from Sequoia Advantage voting machines used in New Jersey adds more evidence that Sequoia has misrepresented the cause of voting machine failures last February. Some ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 4, 2008
Monday, 7 April 2008, 12:27 am | John Gideon
Election officials in Pima Co Arizona have been on the wrong side of issues quite a bit lately. Because of this it is surprising that they may ask the Secretary of State to change the “Election Procedures Manual” to disallow tabulation of votes ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 3, 2008
Monday, 7 April 2008, 12:24 am | John Gideon
A recent study by Missourians for Honest Elections, of St. Louis County call center sheets and maintenance logs filed by election board technicians at the polls last Feb. 5, revealed interesting data. 181 problems were reported and of those reports ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 2, 2008
Friday, 4 April 2008, 2:02 pm | John Gideon
Today was a busy day in Congress. Two election related bills went through “mark-up” in the Committee on House Administration. One bill, sponsored by Rep. Susan Davis and others, would allow no-excuse absentee voting. If passed voters would no longer ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 31, 2008
Tuesday, 1 April 2008, 3:39 pm | John Gideon
Statements from Hart Intercivic’s spokesman with regards to the filing of a whistleblower fraud suit seem to have now been debunked. Claims that William Singer was a “disgruntled” employee have now been dispelled. We hope to see this lawsuit continue and look forward ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 30, 2008
Tuesday, 1 April 2008, 11:03 am | John Gideon
Last weekend a diverse group of members of the Election Integrity community met in Palo Alto, CA. One of the group’s jobs was to write a mission statement. This statement became known to them as the “Creekside Declaration” and was recently memorialized ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 25, 2008
Wednesday, 26 March 2008, 6:59 pm | John Gideon
Today attorneys for the state of New Jersey were asked, in court, whether the state had a confidentiality agreement with Sequoia. The attorneys admitted that they were not sure. Judge Linda Feinberg then ordered that testing of the voting machines move ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 24, 2008
Tuesday, 25 March 2008, 3:22 pm | John Gideon
One week ago today California SoS Debra Bowen sent ES&S a letter and informed them that they basically have one more chance to provide information before their version 2.4.3.1 is decertified and their version 3.0.1.1 is finally denied state certification. ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 23, 2008
Tuesday, 25 March 2008, 2:03 pm | John Gideon
The news has been rather sparse this weekend. It appears that Liberty Voting owned by the Dutch company known as Nedap, is pressuring counties in New York to buy their voting machines even though they have not been tested by the state and their use ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 21, 2008
Sunday, 23 March 2008, 3:39 pm | John Gideon
In order to help get themselves out of a very real PR problem Sequoia Voting Systems has followed their recent “Half Truth” press release with an announcement that they are sending their Advantage voting systems to “Kwaidan Consulting of Houston, ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 20, 2008
Saturday, 22 March 2008, 3:16 pm | John Gideon
After spending what must be over $1M total in Colorado and many months the state is in nearly exactly the same position they were in when they started. The court told the state they had to recertify their voting systems so all voting systems in ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 19, 2008
Thursday, 20 March 2008, 4:37 pm | John Gideon
Rightfully Sequoia Voting Systems has been taking a beating over the past few days due to their threatening emails sent to New Jersey counties and to computer scientists at Princeton University. It is clear that Sequoia knows something about the problems ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 18, 2008
Thursday, 20 March 2008, 2:21 pm | John Gideon
Sequoia Voting seems to be very concerned that scientists in New Jersey might actually discover the truth about Sequoia’s implausible explanations for the recently discovered problems with their Advantage voting machines. Of course Sequoia has blamed poll ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 17, 2008
Tuesday, 18 March 2008, 10:42 pm | John Gideon
Éirinn go Brách! In testimony before the Committee on House Administration last week, EAC Commissioner Caroline Hunter testified that there were no EAC certified voting systems at this time and that there would be none used in the election in ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 16, 2008
Tuesday, 18 March 2008, 1:45 pm | John Gideon
It has just been revealed that an investigation is taking place in Franklin Co Ohio stemming from problems noticed by Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner on her DRE voting machine last Nov. 6. Brunner claims that when she got to a municipal court ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 14, 2008
Tuesday, 18 March 2008, 12:48 am | John Gideon
It has been pointed out to me that many states allow you to check your voter registration on-line. Here is a list of those states with links. Again we encourage every voter to ensure they are still registered to vote and that their registration is correct ... More >>
