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Daily Voting News For August 10, 2007
Saturday, 11 August 2007, 1:57 pm | John Gideon
In an interview by Mary Ann Gould on “Voice of the Voters” last night Congressman Dennis Kucinich said, “There is a question of validity of an election. People have to know their vote counts and is counted. People cannot be guaranteed that with the ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 9, 2007
Saturday, 11 August 2007, 1:46 pm | John Gideon
California is still the big news. Counties are beginning to realize that they have some decisions to make and some planning to do. While most counties take on the challenges one or two Registrar’s have decided that rather than do any planning they would ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 8, 2007
Thursday, 9 August 2007, 11:10 am | John Gideon
Today we have much more from California including the first talk about counties filing a lawsuit to stop Bowen from forcing them to meet new requirements. The Houston Chronicle has editorialized about the CA decisions and the fact that officials in Harris Co ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 7, 2007
Wednesday, 8 August 2007, 3:31 pm | John Gideon
“With gratitude, VotersUnite! applauds Secretary of State Bowen's decision to decertify voting systems in California and recertify them for limited use with extensive conditions and safeguards intended to mitigate their shocking vulnerabilities and inadequacies. ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 6, 2007
Tuesday, 7 August 2007, 12:28 am | John Gideon
California county election officials are now beginning to speak up and speak out against the decisions made in the state with regards to their voting systems. Common in all of the negative comments is that only the “Red Team” hack test and reports ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 5, 2007
Sunday, 5 August 2007, 10:40 pm | John Gideon
Of course today’s news is overwhelmingly about the “California Decisions”. After this weekend we will probably hear a lot more from the county officials and the vendors. Diebold appears to have had a press release ready to roll out upon the ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 30, 2007
Saturday, 4 August 2007, 11:39 am | John Gideon
As expected today’s news is mostly from California in response to the “Top-To-Bottom” Review. In their response to the California “Top-To-Bottom Review” Sequoia had this to say about accessibility, “As for the Accessibility report, Sequoia’s ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 1, 2007
Friday, 3 August 2007, 12:59 pm | John Gideon
Today has been another busy day in the news. Building on top of the California reports from Friday and Monday and the Florida report on Tuesday we now have an important report from the Brennan Center just released today. This new report discusses audits ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 31, 2007
Friday, 3 August 2007, 12:54 pm | John Gideon
Sen. Diane Feinstein has announced a hearing in the Senate Rules Committee to be held in September. In her press release she says, ““I was very surprised to read how easily these machines could be hacked into and election results distorted,” ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 1, 2007
Friday, 3 August 2007, 12:40 pm | John Gideon
Sen. Diane Feinstein has announced a hearing in the Senate Rules Committee to be held in September. In her press release she says, ““I was very surprised to read how easily these machines could be hacked into and election results distorted,” ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 28, 2007
Monday, 30 July 2007, 1:56 pm | John Gideon
Naturally nearly all of the news is from California in regards to their “Top-To-Bottom” review. However for those of you who are concerned about election audits there is also a great report from a group who have been working with VerifiedVoting. Also ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 25, 2007
Sunday, 29 July 2007, 5:12 pm | John Gideon
It appears that the Senate will go the way of the House and move any requirement for a voter verified paper audit trail to at least 2010. Reports on testimony given to the Senate Rules Committee today are that there was a lot of “kissing a**” ... More >>
Daily Voting News 26 July, 2007
Sunday, 29 July 2007, 5:00 pm | John Gideon
Tomorrow is a big day for the state of California and the rest of the nation. The Secretary of State will be releasing the reports from their “Top-To-Bottom Review” of voting systems used in the state. These reports will give the results of the code ... More >>
Daily Voting News 24 July, 2007
Sunday, 29 July 2007, 12:29 am | John Gideon
Last year Luzerne County, PA spent $2.4M on 750 ES&S iVotronic DREs and a one-year warranty. Now that the first warranty is to expire ES&S wants $300,000 for a three-year warranty. The county Director of Elections has written the state and told ... More >>
Daily Voting News 22 July, 2007
Tuesday, 24 July 2007, 11:38 am | John Gideon
The New Jersey Institute of Technology has just released the results of testing done by their Center for Information Age Technology on voter verified paper audit trail printers provided by Sequoia and Avante International. The printers from Sequoia ... More >>
Daily Voting News 18 July, 2007
Monday, 23 July 2007, 10:36 am | John Gideon
A lot of important decisions are nearing completion. Members of Congress are deciding whether they are happy with HR-811 as it came out of committee. Many members have said they are no longer in support of the bill. Riverside Co. California supervisors ... More >>
Daily Voting News 17 July, 2007
Friday, 20 July 2007, 5:45 pm | John Gideon
Today was the day of congressional announcements. It’s funny how things all seem to happen on the same day. First, on the Senate side, it was announced that Feinstein’s democracy-busting S-1487 will be heard in the Senate Rules Committee on July 25. ... More >>
Daily Voting News 16 July, 2007
Wednesday, 18 July 2007, 11:48 am | John Gideon
My turn to rant: Over five months ago Florida State University put out their report on what they found when inspecting the Sarasota Co. voting system that had not recorded over 18,000 votes for congress. FSU researchers found a serious security vulnerability ... More >>
Daily Voting News 15 July, 2007
Monday, 16 July 2007, 9:42 pm | John Gideon
A large majority of the news is still about California. The tentative ruling by the judge in Alameda County, the report from the ‘Blue Ribbon” Committee in Riverside County and the ruling from the state supremes that they won’t hear the complaint ... More >>
Daily Voting News 13 July, 2007
Monday, 16 July 2007, 9:40 pm | John Gideon
Rebecca Mercuri, in an article on OpEdNews, reminds us that Avante International has a lawsuit against Sequoia, Diebold and ES&S for patent infringement. “This case grinds merrily along and trial has been scheduled for May 2008. Should Avante ... More >>
