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Daily Voting News For November 24, 2007
Monday, 26 November 2007, 10:28 am | John Gideon
We still have a few copies of a great new novel by Mark Coggins, mystery writer and Shamus and Barry award-nominated author of the August Riordan series. “What could be better than a fun fiction about the real dangers of electronic voting? Coggins ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 23, 2007
Monday, 26 November 2007, 10:03 am | John Gideon
We at VotersUnite are thankful for all of our friends in the Election Integrity community. The folks who support our work and who do their own work tirelessly in an attempt to ensure our democratic process is not taken over by corporations whose interest ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 20, 2007
Thursday, 22 November 2007, 9:18 am | John Gideon
The city of San Francisco filed their lawsuit against ES&S today. The city charges the vendor with a panoply of misdeeds including fraud, breach of contract, negligent misrepresentation and multiple violations of California's Elections Code, False Claims ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 17, 2007
Monday, 19 November 2007, 11:38 am | John Gideon
Daily Voting News For November 17, 2007 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org More >>
Daily Voting News For November 15, 2007
Monday, 19 November 2007, 10:50 am | John Gideon
Daily Voting News For November 15, 2007 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org More >>
Daily Voting News For November 14, 2007
Monday, 19 November 2007, 12:54 am | John Gideon
An editorial in today’s Daytona Beach News-Journal begins: “For votes to count, they must be counted, and accurately. Americans expect tallies to be quick, as well. “It doesn't always work that way. Ongoing problems with electronic vote-counting ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 13, 2007
Thursday, 15 November 2007, 11:24 am | John Gideon
I’m back from a very rewarding trip to Washington DC. The conference was a combination of Election Reformers of all types plus elected officials and just interested citizens. Today’s DVN is a mixture of today’s news and some selected from the weekend’s ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 8, 2007
Friday, 9 November 2007, 10:06 am | John Gideon
Sequoia has now been sold, yet again. This time the new owners are the present management team. Who is really behind the purchase and what was the final purchase price? Smartmatic paid $16M for the company which represented a $7M loss for its previous owner. Also, ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 6, 2007
Wednesday, 7 November 2007, 4:58 pm | John Gideon
Today seems to be a typical odd-year election day so far. Problems are reported throughout the nation though the media. Of course no reasons are given for problems except in a few occasions the errors are “human error”; they are never the machines fault ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 5, 2007
Tuesday, 6 November 2007, 5:29 pm | John Gideon
Daily Voting News For November 5, 2007 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org More >>
Daily Voting News For November 4, 2007
Tuesday, 6 November 2007, 11:56 am | John Gideon
Two elections so far this year and Cuyahoga Co Ohio is 0-2 in successful recounts. Both recounts were in small municipal elections and in both cases the recounted voter verified paper trail (vvpat) votes failed to match the official machine results. ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 3, 2007
Monday, 5 November 2007, 2:08 pm | John Gideon
Today the Daytona Beach News Journal reports that 25,000 Diebold optical-scan machines used across the country may have a defect that causes failures in the memory cards. Apparently Diebold has known this problem for sometime. One election official claims ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 2, 2007
Saturday, 3 November 2007, 2:55 pm | John Gideon
In an article in today’s Alternet, Steven Rosenfeld has said, more eloquently, what we have been saying for awhile now. “Voting machine manufacturers should be investigated by Congress and sued by state and local governments across America for ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 1, 2007
Saturday, 3 November 2007, 2:36 pm | John Gideon
Last Nov. 55% of the voters in Sarasota Co Florida spoke with their votes for optical scan voting and for a meaningful audit of the ballots. Before the measure went on the ballot the county and state went to court and argued that the charter amendment ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 31, 2007
Thursday, 1 November 2007, 9:12 pm | John Gideon
Ciber Labs teamed with Wyle Labs to test voting system code while Wyle tested hard and firmware. Under the NASED run voting system qualification process Ciber inspected and tested about 70% of the voting systems presently in use. Ciber Labs has not been ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 31, 2007
Thursday, 1 November 2007, 8:54 pm | John Gideon
What is going on in Colorado? One has to wonder if the Colorado Secretary of State is truly looking out for the voters. On one hand Secretary Coffman sent a suspension letter to ES&S but on the other hand the Colorado Statesman points out that John ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 28, 2007
Thursday, 1 November 2007, 7:29 pm | John Gideon
The Colorado SoS has issued a letter to ES&S to inform them that state certification testing of their voting machines has been suspended due to a lack of concern and inaction taken by the vendor. In that letter the Secretary accused the vendor of ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 26, 2007
Tuesday, 30 October 2007, 10:32 am | John Gideon
The utter arrogance of ES&S has been revealed again with the revelation of a letter from the Colorado SOS to the company. It seems that ES&S is dragging its feet and obstructing the court ordered recertification of their system used by two Colorado ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 24, 2007
Sunday, 28 October 2007, 12:45 am | John Gideon
Recently a frustrated elderly voter from Albuquerque New Mexico wrote a letter to his local newspaper to relate his experience on a recent election day. The city had a 10% turnout of voters for a citywide election and had a problem understanding why. ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 25, 2007
Sunday, 28 October 2007, 12:43 am | John Gideon
“There has been much complaining about the Iowa caucus this year: It is too early—it might even be in December of 2007. Iowa is not representative of the rest of the country in terms of demographics or policy concerns. It has a disproportionate influence ... More >>
