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Daily Voting News For September 3, 2007
Tuesday, 4 September 2007, 1:56 pm | John Gideon
HR-811 is rumored to be going to the floor of the House for a vote on Wed. Sept. 5. They would not allow it to go for a vote unless they had the votes to pass it so, I imagine, it is now a done deal. However, suddenly we are being informed that ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 31, 2007
Monday, 3 September 2007, 12:12 am | John Gideon
"Suppose an article had been introduced into the Constitution, empowering the United States to regulate the elections for the particular States, would any man have hesitated to condemn it, both as an unwarrantable transposition of power, and ... More >>
Caught in a Lie: Using Uncertified Voting Systems
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 11:15 am | John Gideon
Just prior to the AG's investigation, Diebold Elections Systems, Inc. (now re-named Premier Election Solutions) sent a letter to Jefferson County, KY election officials to tell them that they had been using an uncertified voting system for the last three ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 30, 2007
Friday, 31 August 2007, 12:09 am | John Gideon
The Colorado Sec. of State seems to be having a bit of problem with the big 4 vendors. The state has been ordered by the court to re-certify all voting systems used in the state. This order is a result of a lawsuit that proved that previous SoS Gigi ... More >>
Daily Voting News For 29 August, 2007
Thursday, 30 August 2007, 1:23 pm | John Gideon
A Sequoia VP told Riverside Co California officials that the company may be willing to discuss a rebate or credit if state or federal regulators decertify their equipment. May be willing? The county, as with every county who has purchased these machines, ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 28, 2007
Wednesday, 29 August 2007, 12:27 am | John Gideon
Just after the “Dan Rather Report” ran for the first time Sequoia Voting Systems issued a press release and promised exculpatory evidence in the way of documents. These documents were promised to demonstrate proper paper thickness; to demonstrate ... More >>
Daily Voting news For August 27, 2007
Tuesday, 28 August 2007, 11:59 am | John Gideon
As reported by Kim Zetter in her Wired Blog and yours truly on OpEdNews, ES&S has responded to the EAC’s rebuke for not disclosing that they were manufacturing voting machines in Manila, The Philippines. ES&S arrogantly acted like a spoiled ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 26, 2007
Tuesday, 28 August 2007, 10:27 am | John Gideon
It has been a very slow weekend. Next week look for something about the “evidence” that Sequoia’s VP Michelle Shafer promised would prove the recent “Dan Rather Report” was wrong; it proves nothing at all. There will also be something about ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 23, 2007
Monday, 27 August 2007, 11:32 am | John Gideon
Today’s news brings us more from California. A poll was conducted by The Field Poll in the state with 402 registered voters responding. The questions asked were to gauge the voter’s confidence in different modes of voting i.e. paper ballots, ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 24, 2007
Monday, 27 August 2007, 11:22 am | John Gideon
Just as newspapers used their headlines to lead their readers in how they wanted them to understand the California Field Poll mentioned in yesterday’s DVN, the voting industry’s trade group has attempted to do the same. The Election Technology ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 21, 2007
Tuesday, 21 August 2007, 12:34 am | John Gideon
Have voting machine vendors violated state and federal fraud statutes? I’ll leave the answer for that question to the attorneys. Have the vendors sold their voting systems with a promise of maintaining the secrecy of the vote? Have any of the vendors ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 20, 2007
Monday, 20 August 2007, 11:28 pm | John Gideon
Recently a VP for one of the vendors told me in an email that I should not necessarily believe all of the voting machine failures reported by the media. She said, “I would hope you would know not to believe everything reported by the media! There ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 19, 2007
Sunday, 19 August 2007, 7:10 pm | John Gideon
At least two California counties have announced that they may change from touch-screen voting to paper and optical scan. Of course this means buying more equipment from the vendors. Rather than just buying more they should be turning to the vendors of ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 18, 2007
Sunday, 19 August 2007, 6:11 pm | John Gideon
In yesterday’s DVN I mentioned that Smartmatic had been looking for a buyer for Sequoia for “over a year”. In fact Smartmatic announced they were looking for a buyer for Sequoia on 22 Dec. 2006 so it has been 8 months. Both Sequoia and ES&S ... More >>
Daily Voting News For 17 August, 2007
Sunday, 19 August 2007, 10:40 am | John Gideon
It seems that Diebold tried to get out from under their voting machine division by selling it. Well, they have reported that there are no buyers so they are going to separate themselves from that division and give them more autonomy and their own ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 15, 2007
Sunday, 19 August 2007, 10:05 am | John Gideon
It appears that Advanced Voting Solutions (AVS), vendor for the WinVote DREs, may be in financial trouble. A report from PA, where WinVote is widely used, relates that AVS has failed to pay their bill for testing of their newest version of system. ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 13, 2007
Wednesday, 15 August 2007, 10:44 am | John Gideon
Today’s news brings more complaints and whining from California election officials. Last week I questioned whether Diebold could have got word of problems with their software in Florida then made needed corrections then had the software inspected ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 12, 2007
Monday, 13 August 2007, 3:47 pm | John Gideon
This Tuesday, DAN RATHER REPORTS presents conclusive evidence of the failure of touch screen voting machines across the country. The episode, “The Trouble with Touch Screens”, is an entire hour devoted to new information on this story. From scientists ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 12, 2007
Sunday, 12 August 2007, 5:39 pm | John Gideon
Diebold seems to have convinced the Florida Sec. of State that they have fixed security problems found on their optical-scan systems during a review by Florida State University. It’s amazing how they did that in just a couple weeks. Or maybe not. The Attorney ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 11, 2007
Sunday, 12 August 2007, 5:21 pm | John Gideon
On July 27 the FSU SAIT Team released their report on their findings from their security inspection of the Diebold machines used in Florida; the same machines that Harri Hursti hacked in Leon Co and also just purchased by Sarasota Co. On July 31 the Florida ... More >>
