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Daily Voting News For December 18, 2007
Wednesday, 19 December 2007, 3:50 pm | John Gideon
I always thought that “sleepovers” were beyond the limit of good security. In a court election contest in Wilkinson Co Mississippi the county Circuit Clerk pled the fifth amendment to several questions. One of the questions was “Is it true ... More >>
Daily Voting News For December 17, 2007
Wednesday, 19 December 2007, 1:20 pm | John Gideon
A very busy day today. There are still articles about the EVEREST report completed in the state of Ohio. Based on that report, recommendations were made to Cuyahoga County to change their voting system and vendor from DREs by Premier to central-count ... More >>
Daily Voting News For December 15, 2007
Monday, 17 December 2007, 3:49 pm | John Gideon
As we were expecting today’s news is dominated with news from Ohio and the results of Secretary of State Brunner’s review of voting systems used in that state. There are also reports from Cuyahoga Co. regarding the push by Brunner for that county ... More >>
Daily Voting News For December 14, 2007
Monday, 17 December 2007, 3:43 pm | John Gideon
Today Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner released the results of her EVEREST (Evaluation & Validation of Election-Related Equipment, Standards & Testing) report. There is a lot of interesting reading for the technical types and for the non-technical ... More >>
Daily Voiting news For December 13, 2007
Friday, 14 December 2007, 3:06 pm | John Gideon
Daily Voiting news For December 13, 2007 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org More >>
Daily Voting News For December 12, 2007
Friday, 14 December 2007, 9:39 am | John Gideon
Daily Voting News For December 12, 2007 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org More >>
Daily Voting News For December 11, 2007
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 9:46 am | John Gideon
Daily Voting News For December 11, 2007 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org More >>
Daily Voting News For December 10, 2007
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 9:34 am | John Gideon
Good news today from New Jersey where S-507, a post-election audit bill, passed through the budget committee on a party-line vote even with opposition from the state Attorney General. This week we are scheduled to hear the results of the Ohio Secretary of ... More >>
Daily Voting News For December 8, 2007
Monday, 10 December 2007, 1:00 pm | John Gideon
San Francisco has finally certified their Nov. 6 election. They hand-counted 80,000 ballots which delayed the final certification by a month. Officials in Cuyahoga Co Ohio seem to be reluctant to get rid of their Diebold DRE voting machines even though ... More >>
Daily Voting News For December 7, 2007
Monday, 10 December 2007, 11:49 am | John Gideon
The court case in Pima Co Arizona goes into its fourth, and what is supposed to be last, day today. The Secretary of State of Ohio, Jennifer Brunner, is asking Cuyahoga Co to look into changing over to optical-scan and paper ballots for future elections. ... More >>
Daily Voting News For December 6, 2007
Monday, 10 December 2007, 11:16 am | John Gideon
For election watchers there will be a special congressional election next week in northwest Ohio. There will also be another congressional election in Virginia at the same time. In the Virginia election voters are being given their choice between ... More >>
Daily Voting News For December 5, 2007
Friday, 7 December 2007, 10:46 am | John Gideon
HAVA mandated that all punch-card voting systems be replaced? Not at all. In fact a close reading of the law will prove that there are protections for punch-card and hand counted paper ballots. 12 counties in Idaho are still using their punch-card ... More >>
Daily Voting News For December 3, 2007
Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 8:41 am | John Gideon
Last month 108 voters went into the voting booth to vote on a school bond referendum and walked away without voting at all; or that’s what the county is questioning. The votes were cast on ES&S iVotronic DREs. The total undervotes was less than 2% ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 29, 2007
Monday, 3 December 2007, 10:08 am | John Gideon
Knox Co Ohio reports that they have successfully certified the votes from Nov. 6. However, in doing that certification they found that votes from three precincts (418 votes) were counted twice. The problem, as reported by the media, was that an ES&S ... More >>
Daily Voting News For December 1, 2007
Monday, 3 December 2007, 12:41 am | John Gideon
Need a good book as a Christmas gift for someone? We still have a few copies of “Runoff” by noted novelist and mystery writer, Mark Coggins. We had the following to say in our review of the book; “What could be better than a fun fiction about the real ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 30, 2007
Monday, 3 December 2007, 12:21 am | John Gideon
Over 100 computer science and social sciences faculty from more than 20 colleges and universities across the state of New York have signed a letter to the governor, legislature and local election officials to urge them to replace the state’s lever ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 29, 2007
Friday, 30 November 2007, 12:06 am | John Gideon
Yesterday, in this space, I stated that a problem in Wharton Co Texas had votes switching from a GOP candidate to a Democrat. In fact that information was incorrect. The election was a non-partisan election on constitutional amendments. There, however, was clearly ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 27, 2007
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 9:26 am | John Gideon
Daily Voting News For November 27, 2007 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org More >>
Daily Voting News For November 26, 2007
Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 12:10 am | John Gideon
Daily Voting News For November 26, 2007 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org More >>
Daily Voting News For November 21, 2007
Monday, 26 November 2007, 11:26 am | John Gideon
Happy Thanksgiving to all. Enjoy the holiday with family and friends. Advanced Voting Solutions (AVS) which has sold voting machines in three Pennsylvania counties and much of the state of Virginia has finally been notified that if they do not tell ... More >>
