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Daily Voting News For January 29, 2008
Wednesday, 30 January 2008, 2:21 pm | John Gideon
Liberty voting systems is not able to take NO! for an answer. Liberty is the company that sold hundreds of thousands of Euros worth of voting machines to Ireland only so those machines could be found to be insecure and to have them stored since delivery ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 28, 2008
Tuesday, 29 January 2008, 4:57 pm | John Gideon
In a surprise announcement late this afternoon ES&S has announced they have purchased all of the assets of AutoMark Technical Systems. This announcement means that ES&S will now manufacture and market the ballot marking devices. More >>
Daily Voting News For January 23, 2007
Friday, 25 January 2008, 2:51 pm | John Gideon
Late yesterday a report was release by the Florida Fair Elections Center regarding the Nov. 2006election in which voting machines did not register over 18,000 votes in the congressional district 13 race. More >>
Daily Voting News For January 23, 2007
Friday, 25 January 2008, 9:31 am | John Gideon
Today is a mixed bag of articles. Officials in South Carolina have been told to have the proper amount of emergency paper ballots at the polls for the Democratic primary election this Saturday. It seems that Republicans were forced to vote on any scrap ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 19-22, 2007
Wednesday, 23 January 2008, 2:44 pm | John Gideon
Horry Co South Carolina is now reporting that they had more problems than reported on Saturday. It seems that not only could they not get 80% of the machines to start-up on Saturday morning but many of those same machines could not be turned-off when ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 16, 2008
Friday, 18 January 2008, 11:09 am | John Gideon
New York State's county level election commissioners have until February 8, 2008 to choose whether to use either a paper ballot based ballot marker and scanner system, or a direct recording electronic (DRE) voting system for each county. More >>
Daily Voting News For January 15, 2008
Thursday, 17 January 2008, 11:50 am | John Gideon
While SoS Coffman has everything mucked-up with machines decertified based on testing results and his offers to recertify them without any testing if a county appeals his decision. The Senate Majority Leader has stepped forward. More >>
Daily Voting News For January 13, 2008
Tuesday, 15 January 2008, 9:09 am | John Gideon
I have editorialized quite a bit lately about the "mash-up" in Colorado. Secretary of State Coffman has made a mess of a court ordered recertification of voting machines. The state hired consultants and test labs to test the machines. More >>
Daily Voting News For January 11, 2008
Sunday, 13 January 2008, 10:39 am | John Gideon
New Hampshire will now conduct a full recount of all ballots cast in the primary. This, after formal requests were made by Dennis Kucinich and Republican candidate Albert Howard. More >>
Daily Voting News For January 10, 2008
Saturday, 12 January 2008, 8:19 am | John Gideon
It appears that Hart Intercivic has admitted that the optical-scan tabulators certified by the state of Colorado and used in that state show a significant error rate when a ballot has stray marks. This was mentioned in an article in today's Denver Post. More >>
Daily Voting News For January 09, 2008
Thursday, 10 January 2008, 4:36 pm | John Gideon
Yesterday while voters in New Hampshire were going to the polls a large group of activists filled the Board of Supervisors conference room in Pima County Arizona. A judge recently decided that the county should release the database from the 2006. More >>
Daily Voting News For January 08, 2008
Wednesday, 9 January 2008, 2:19 pm | John Gideon
Colorado's Secretary of State, Mike Coffman, seems to be doing all he can to get away from the decisions he made recently that were negative toward the state's voting machines. More >>
Daily Voting News For January 07, 2008
Tuesday, 8 January 2008, 2:37 pm | John Gideon
Today is another busy day with news. The "Supremes" are about to hear the Voter-ID case and The New Yorker actually printed an article on the lack of voter fraud. There is also a new report put out by Common Cause that addresses Vote-By-Mail. More >>
Daily Voting News For January 6, 2007
Monday, 7 January 2008, 9:59 pm | John Gideon
Today’s news includes a lot of articles, opinion pieces, and editorials about the upcoming Supreme Court hearing regarding Indiana’s restrictive Voter ID law. This case could decide whether you and I will be required to get a voter ID in the future. More >>
Daily Voting News For January 5, 2007
Monday, 7 January 2008, 7:57 pm | John Gideon
Ohio counties have begun to fight back against SOS Brunner’s dictate that all DRE counties must provide a paper ballot for anyone who wants one. Counties are wringing their hands over how much longer it will take them to count the ballots. A threat ... More >>
Daily Voting News For December 29, 2007
Tuesday, 1 January 2008, 9:34 am | John Gideon
Pennsylvania has now decertified all Advanced Voting Solutions voting systems used by three counties. This action followed the EACs cancellation of testing of AVS software. One of the three counties has already announced that they plan on filing suit. More >>
Daily Voting News For December 23, 2007
Wednesday, 26 December 2007, 10:58 am | John Gideon
New York City has already decided to purchase one “Ballot Marking Device” for each polling place in the city. That puts them one step ahead of the rest of the state. Meanwhile Pennsylvania has joined other states which have read the Colorado ... More >>
Daily Voting News For December 24, 2007
Wednesday, 26 December 2007, 10:25 am | John Gideon
We are going to take tomorrow off for Christmas. VotersUnite would like to extend our heartfelt good wishes to all of you and your families for a wonderful day tomorrow. Merry Christmas to you all. ... More >>
Daily Voting News For December 23, 2007
Monday, 24 December 2007, 10:25 am | John Gideon
Colorado Secretary of State Coffman continues to step as far away from state law as he possibly can. Rather than protect the voters it seems that Coffman wants to do everything possible to cut corners and ignore the facts in order for counties ... More >>
Daily Voting News For December 21, 2007
Sunday, 23 December 2007, 2:43 pm | John Gideon
Just in late this afternoon, a typical-bad-news-on-a-late-Friday-after-the-news-week-is-complete, is the news that Secretary of State Brunner has ignored the statements of every person who spoke before the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. She has decided that the ... More >>
