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Daily Voting News For February 21, 2008
Friday, 22 February 2008, 2:06 pm | John Gideon
Election officials in three Colorado counties claim that they can catch all of the stray marks on ballots. Those stray marks may be read as votes by their Hart Intercivic eScan voting machines. Those claims don’t seem to carry any water. More >>
Daily Voting News For February 20, 2008
Thursday, 21 February 2008, 2:58 pm | John Gideon
Today New Jersey media reported that some Sequoia Advantage voting machines used in that state’s primary election on February 5 were not accurately reporting vote totals. The totals found in the memory were not the same as the totals reported. More >>
Daily Voting News For February 19, 2008
Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 3:11 pm | John Gideon
Daily Voting News For February 19, 2008 Daily Voting News For February 19, 2008 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org More >>
Daily Voting News For February 18, 2008
Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 9:26 am | John Gideon
Daily Voting News For February 18, 2008 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org More >>
Daily Voting News For February 14, 2008
Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 10:05 am | John Gideon
Daily Voting News For February 14, 2008 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org More >>
Daily Voting News For February 15, 2008
Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 10:03 am | John Gideon
Daily Voting News For February 15, 2008 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org More >>
Daily Voting News For February 16, 2008
Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 10:02 am | John Gideon
Daily Voting News For February 16, 2008 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org More >>
Daily Voting News For February 17, 2008
Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 9:59 am | John Gideon
Daily Voting News For February 17, 2008 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org More >>
Daily Voting News For February 12, 2008
Thursday, 14 February 2008, 8:08 am | John Gideon
What a mess Colorado has become. Last year the state lost in court because their previous system for certifying the voting machines used in the state was non-compliant with state law. The court required the state to test all voting systems. More >>
Daily Voting News For February 10, 2008
Tuesday, 12 February 2008, 8:58 am | John Gideon
Next Tuesday is another round of primary voting on DREs. Maryland uses Diebold/Premier DREs. Virginia uses a mixture of different vendors DREs. Washington DC uses precinct-optical scan and DREs. More >>
Daily Voting News For February 09, 2008
Monday, 11 February 2008, 4:39 pm | John Gideon
Iowa appears to be on its way to a statewide paper ballot voting system. The Governor is backing down from his plan to outfit the state’s DREs with vvpat printers. Instead he now seems willing to support the plan of the Secretary of State. More >>
Daily Voting News For February 07, 2008
Sunday, 10 February 2008, 9:52 am | John Gideon
Besides the growing number of voting machine problems, none of which would have been helped by adding a vvpat printer to a DRE but most of which would have been helped by banning the DREs outright, we’ve also got the leaking of the GAO report. More >>
Daily Voting News For February 06, 2008 (Morning)
Thursday, 7 February 2008, 9:16 am | John Gideon
Most of the big reports are election administration failures. Administration failures are those failures that cannot be blamed on voting machines or the voters or poll workers. More >>
Daily Voting News For February 05, 2008 (Evening)
Wednesday, 6 February 2008, 2:55 pm | John Gideon
Voting machine malfunctions were wide-spread as were electronic poll book failures. This evening and tomorrow will bring us many more reports of problems as counties get polls closed and begin to tabulate the votes. More >>
Daily Voting News For February 05, 2008 (Morning)
Wednesday, 6 February 2008, 2:04 pm | John Gideon
There is a lot of voting news today so this will be the morning edition of today's news. There have been voting machine problems reported around the country. All of the reported problems, so far, have been on DRE machines. More >>
Daily Voting News For February 04, 2008
Wednesday, 6 February 2008, 8:49 am | John Gideon
Tomorrow will be a busy day for "Daily Voting News". Depending on the number of reports of failures of voting machines around the country we may send out two issues of the news tomorrow. One will be around Noon Pacific and the second at our regular 4PM ... More >>
Daily Voting News For February 03, 2008
Monday, 4 February 2008, 4:18 pm | John Gideon
Iowa Sec. of State Michael Mauro wants to change the state’s voting machines to a paper based system using optical-scan machines. Meanwhile Iowa’s Governor and ex-Sec. of State Chet Culver wants to just add a vvpat printer to the state’s DREs. More >>
Daily Voting News For February 01, 2008
Monday, 4 February 2008, 3:26 pm | John Gideon
Next Tuesday is "Tsunami Tuesday" in which 22 states will participate and of those 15 states will hold primaries. The primary states are: AL, AZ, AR, CA, CT, DE, GA, IL, MA, MO, NJ, NY, OK, TN, and UT. More >>
Daily Voting News For February 02, 2008
Monday, 4 February 2008, 11:55 am | John Gideon
Liberty Election Systems (NEDAP) has already been to court in New York and should have a decision early next week as to whether their argument to be put on the short list of voting systems that can be purchased by the state’s counties. More >>
Daily Voting News For January 31, 2008
Monday, 4 February 2008, 11:51 am | John Gideon
Counties are still making decisions on their voting systems of the future. Wayne Co Pennsylvania has opted for central-count optical scan machines provided by ES&S and AutoMark for accessibility. This decision was forced on the county. More >>
