Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
Scoop InfoPages
This InfoPage in unregistered, if this is your news page register John Gideon for InfoPages here.
John Gideon - Latest News [Page 20]
Daily Voting News For October 23, 2007
Thursday, 25 October 2007, 11:29 am | John Gideon
“Please Vote For Me” is a documentary filmed in Wuhan, China. For the first time ever, the students in grade three at Evergreen Primary School in Wuhan, China have been asked to elect a class monitor. Traditionally appointed by the teacher, the ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 21, 2007
Tuesday, 23 October 2007, 10:27 am | John Gideon
The Butte Co California Clerk/Recorder is going to tell the county supervisors that elections will be more costly and complicated because of an “abuse of political power” by the SoS, Debra Bowen. The clerk, Candace Grubbs, uses the same arguments ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 18, 2007
Sunday, 21 October 2007, 6:24 pm | John Gideon
Last week the Netherlands did away with e-voting and their DREs made by a company called “NEDAP”. These same machines were sold to Ireland under the brand name “Liberty”. “Liberty” is now being marketed in New York. Ireland paid 51.3m ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 19, 2007
Sunday, 21 October 2007, 6:22 pm | John Gideon
I got an email today that asked me why the voting machine companies are not refunding money spent by counties on voting machines. Of course the answer is that very few counties or states are taking the vendors to court and demanding their money back. ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 17, 2007
Sunday, 21 October 2007, 1:37 pm | John Gideon
Broward Co Florida began testing their new ES&S optical-scan system allowing citizens and the media only two hours to view the process before removing them from the area. What is the county and ES&S afraid of? Vigo Co Indiana just wrapped up their Logic ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 16, 2007
Thursday, 18 October 2007, 11:32 am | John Gideon
Voters in five California counties will have to wait a couple weeks, at least, for a decision from the Secretary of State as to what action the state will take against ES&S for selling the counties uncertified AutoMark ballot markers. My guess is that ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 15, 2007
Wednesday, 17 October 2007, 10:31 am | John Gideon
On Oct. 13 I led off DVN with a graf concerning an “Alert” that was on the Maricopa County Democratic Party website. If you waited until Saturday morning to go to the link provided you would not have found the “Alert”. It had been removed. I followed-up ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 13, 2007
Monday, 15 October 2007, 11:57 am | John Gideon
Legal aliens living in Maricopa Co Arizona are being targeted by an insidious fraud. Unscrupulous people are picking people with Hispanic surnames from the phone book, calling them or visiting them and asking if they wish to become citizens. They then ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 12, 2007
Monday, 15 October 2007, 10:58 am | John Gideon
In a press release Project Vote announced the release of a new report, “Representational Bias in the 2006 Electorate”. The report finds a continuing problem with the U.S. electorate: those who are registered and vote are not representative of the overall ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 12, 2007
Saturday, 13 October 2007, 6:34 pm | John Gideon
Lani Massey Brown had this to say about her new novel: "A Margin of Error: Ballots of Straw dramatizes how easy it is for one dedicated techie to steal an election. Sadly, as my novel reveals, even a paper trail will not ensure one-voter-one-vote-every-time. ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 11, 2007
Saturday, 13 October 2007, 5:36 pm | John Gideon
Recertification of voting systems for use in Colorado was supposed to be complete this past summer. Now the state says they may be ready on Dec. 1 or, more probably, later. This is all a result of a lawsuit brought by voters last year for failure ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 9, 2007
Wednesday, 10 October 2007, 10:50 pm | John Gideon
“Daily Voting News” has now been in existence for close to four years. VotersUnite can use some help keeping it going for a while longer. We rely on the Election Integrity Community and those who have interest in elections to keep us funded. If you rely ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 8, 2007
Tuesday, 9 October 2007, 2:24 pm | John Gideon
VotersUnite is honored to have a dozen specially inscribed and signed copies of “A Margin of Error: Ballots Of Straw” by Lani Massey Brown. Ms. Brown has worked as an election official and in the computer security field and now as a novelist. She ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 6, 2007
Sunday, 7 October 2007, 8:01 pm | John Gideon
Ohio Co. West Virginia and Belmont Co. Ohio both use ES&S iVotronic voting machines. Belmont Co was recently presented with a contract from ES&S for programming, licensing, and maintenance. That contract was for $50,000 annually. The county turned down the ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 3, 2007
Friday, 5 October 2007, 10:27 pm | John Gideon
An expert was included as part of a contingent present while the Kentucky State Board of Elections recertified the voting systems used in the state. His report to the state’s Attorney General is revealing and his recommendations would be good for ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 2, 2007
Thursday, 4 October 2007, 10:38 am | John Gideon
Today the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported to a House Committee on the results of their investigation into the Nov. Congressional election in Florida D-13. The report is still being kept secret but the committee voted unanimously to ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 1, 2007
Tuesday, 2 October 2007, 9:47 pm | John Gideon
Today Sequoia announced that they are marketing a new optical scan voting system in New York. They claim it is in process to be certified to the 2005 voting system standards. Sequoia has no system presently in the process that is being tested to ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 1, 2007
Tuesday, 2 October 2007, 11:55 am | John Gideon
As reported by a Dutch outlet in their English translation; “We do not trust voting computers' demanded that every single vote would be retained on its own piece of paper in the polling station. And that is what will happen from now on. On September ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 26, 2007
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 6:39 pm | John Gideon
There are more reports from Pennsylvania today regarding county’s mitigations for the failure of their voting system vendor, Advanced Voting Solutions, to get necessary changes through the federal test and certification phase. The problem is not with ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 27, 2007
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 6:37 pm | John Gideon
Pinellas Co Florida had an open house of all certified Optical Scan Systems for the public to test, view and evaluate. They are also creating a Citizen Selection Committee to decide which system they want to purchase. Meanwhile Broward Co has issued a no-bid, ... More >>
