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Daily Voting News For May 14, 2007
Tuesday, 15 May 2007, 12:24 am | John Gideon
Today has been a slow day which is probably a good thing because there are elections happening in different states around the country. No news means there was nothing reported to the media so everything went smoothly or no reports of failures leaked ... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 12, 2007
Monday, 14 May 2007, 12:57 am | John Gideon
Michael Shamos is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, the Pennsylvania state voting machine examiner, and a proponent of paperless voting systems. He is also the man who offered a reward to anyone who could hack a voting machine. More >>
Daily Voting News For May 11, 2007
Monday, 14 May 2007, 12:43 am | John Gideon
An article in Arstechnica correctly points out that the Lofgren amendment to HR-811 “significantly watered down the requirement that voting machine source code be made publicly available. More >>
Daily Voting News For May 10, 2007
Friday, 11 May 2007, 11:59 am | John Gideon
On the same day that a committee of the House of Representatives met to pass a marked-up HR-811 out to the floor for a full House vote, the voters in Indiana counties went to the polls. Today the reports of the failures began to come in from Allen, Hancock, ... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 9, 2007
Thursday, 10 May 2007, 12:12 am | John Gideon
Brian Chess, chief scientist of Fortify Software [United Kingdom] has gone on record as saying, “As with any computerised system, e-voting machines can be subject to programming errors and malicious tampering. With evidence in the States clearly showing ... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 7, 2007
Wednesday, 9 May 2007, 9:46 am | John Gideon
In testimony presented today to a House subcommittee, computer scientist and voting system expert David Wagner said, in part: “In my research into electronic voting, I have come to the conclusion that the federal certification process is not adequate. More >>
Daily Voting News For May 6, 2007
Wednesday, 9 May 2007, 9:39 am | John Gideon
There are elections in many jurisdictions around the country this week so we will be keeping our eye on the media for any reports of problems. A report on the recent French e-voting catastrophe opines, "Two types of machines were certified for use ... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 8, 2007
Wednesday, 9 May 2007, 12:32 am | John Gideon
Today HR-811 was marked-up. We can only guess at what the bill looks like now and we should know before tomorrow’s DVN. From what I have heard the bill seems not to have suffered from the mark-up process and amendments. In fact, it may now be ... More >>
Daily Voting News For May 4, 2007
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 11:09 am | John Gideon
Voters in Randolph Co Indiana are being asked to vote on a system made by now defunct Voting Technologies International; the same system that has failed in the last two elections and that failed in pre-election day set-up. Meanwhile an election this ... More >>
Daily Voting News For 2 May, 2007
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 9:53 am | John Gideon
While the voters in Florida have received good news from the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) which has told them they can spend HAVA funds for new optical-scan machines to replace their DRE machines, all is not golden. More >>
Daily Voting News For May 1, 2007
Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 11:54 am | John Gideon
Today finds a mixed-bag of articles but nothing earth shattering.... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 30, 2007
Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 9:55 am | John Gideon
Tune in to Voice of the Voters this Wednesday, May 2 at 8PM EDT (5PM PDT) to listen to an hour devoted to three American heroes - whistleblowers, who, based on their experiences on the ground, will paint a comprehensive picture of electronic voting ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 28, 2007
Tuesday, 1 May 2007, 9:58 pm | John Gideon
The state of Texas has taken action to close the elections office in Waller County. The state will be providing monitors who will be closely watching the election process in the county. More >>
Daily Voting News For April 27, 2007
Tuesday, 1 May 2007, 9:58 pm | John Gideon
Yesterday we provided a link to an opinion piece by Dr. David Dill of Stanford University and Verified Voting. Dr. Dill gave his opinion on why he supports HR-811. Today I have provided you a link to Dr. Dill’s article as posted to OpEdNews and a counter ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 26, 2007
Tuesday, 1 May 2007, 7:59 pm | John Gideon
In a statement today, Tova Wang of the Century Foundation says in part, “Over the last few weeks, there has been a developing controversy in the press and in the Congress over a report on voter fraud and voter intimidation I co-authored for the Election ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 24, 2007
Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 4:14 pm | John Gideon
According to an article in USA Today this morning, “State and local officials have begun a coordinated campaign to stop Congress from requiring a paper record of ballots cast on electronic voting machines, arguing it could cause more problems in next ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 19, 2007
Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 12:59 pm | John Gideon
In written testimony presented to the US House Information Policy, Census, and National Archives Subcommittee, Government Accountability Office representative Randolph Hite said in part; "The integrity of voting systems -- which is but one variable in a ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 23, 2007
Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 11:54 am | John Gideon
In an article on the EAC, Congressional Quarterly had this to say; “After the turmoil over the 2000 presidential election, Congress created a bipartisan commission that was supposed to do nice, non-controversial things: hand out some federal grants, ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 20, 2007
Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 1:09 am | John Gideon
It is amazing that different media sources can read a report (or not read it) and report on it and those reports are totally different. The recently released Cuyahoga County, Ohio report told that vote-memory card totals failed to match electronic ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 22, 2007
Monday, 23 April 2007, 8:42 pm | John Gideon
The Pensacola [FL] News-Journal begins an editorial this way, “There is little of more importance in a democracy than that each qualified voter who appears at the polls on an Election Day will be able to vote -- and that this vote will be recorded ... More >>
