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Daily Voting News For April 17, 2007
Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 1:30 pm | John Gideon
In a “Wired News” article today, Kim Zetter reports in part, “Symptoms consistent with a known software flaw in a popular electronic voting machine surfaced widely in a controversial election in Sarasota County, Florida, last November, despite county ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 14, 2007
Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 11:37 am | John Gideon
What is it about elections administration that the names never change, just their jobs? Tom Wilkey moved from the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) to the Election Assistance Commission. More >>
Daily Voting News For April 13, 2007
Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 11:33 am | John Gideon
A press release from the office of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) begins; “In the wake of a news report that the Election Assistance Commission altered its findings to overstate the pervasiveness of voter fraud, U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) today ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 16, 2007
Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 12:24 am | John Gideon
As reported by BradBlog, “While revelations surrounding the mysterious 18,000 "undervotes" in the November 2006 U.S. House election between Christine Jennings and Vern Buchanan in Florida's 13th Congressional district continue to inform the nation about the ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 12, 2007
Friday, 13 April 2007, 1:15 pm | John Gideon
Yesterday the New York Times reported, “Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 11, 2007
Friday, 13 April 2007, 10:58 am | John Gideon
The Election Assistance Commission has again taken deserved flack for hiding commissioned reports that do not meet the political aims of some. Instead the commission has released versions of the reports that more closely represent those aims. More >>
Daily Voting News For April 10, 2007
Wednesday, 11 April 2007, 3:58 pm | John Gideon
Yesterday the Maryland legislature voted unanimously to ban the use of paperless voting machines by 2010. The legislation requires an optically scannable paper ballot marked by hand or with the help of a ballot marking device. This news leaves one ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 9, 2007
Tuesday, 10 April 2007, 11:48 am | John Gideon
In his article, “Electric Boogaloo” [see below], Art Levine begins, “For most political controversies, progressives don't need a scorecard to tell the good guys apart from the bad. More >>
Daily Voting News For April 7, 2007
Tuesday, 10 April 2007, 11:29 am | John Gideon
A few years ago the government of Ireland purchased Liberty voting machines, the same machines that are being marketed, unsuccessfully so far, in New York and other eastern states. After receiving the machines from the vendor Irish computer scientists ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 6, 2007
Saturday, 7 April 2007, 3:28 pm | John Gideon
Voters of the United States have certain rights as American citizens. Among those rights is the right to vote for people who represent us in the local, state or federal government and to have our vote counted as we cast it. We also have the right to ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 5, 2007
Saturday, 7 April 2007, 3:12 pm | John Gideon
Today’s top news item, in my mind anyway, is a column written by Bob Koehler who is an editor for Tribune Media Services and is a friend and fellow Election Integrity activist. Today Bob wrote an article about another friend and activist who many of ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 3, 2007
Wednesday, 4 April 2007, 1:53 pm | John Gideon
In a March 30 news release reposted today on VoteTrustUSA[see directly below for link], ProjectVote reports, “A federal agency tasked with serving as a clearinghouse for election research played politics today when it released but declined to endorse ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 2, 2007
Tuesday, 3 April 2007, 12:22 am | John Gideon
Many on all sides of the discussions over HR-811 point to the “Hursti Hack” as proof of their arguments. Those who back HR-811 without any ban on DREs tell us that the “Hursti Hack” in Florida proves that optical-scan systems are equally as ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 30, 2007
Monday, 2 April 2007, 2:20 pm | John Gideon
Recent reports that Voting Technologies International has gone out of business have apparently been premature but now the company is being sued by past employees, vendors, and Wisconsin labor regulators, all of whom say the company did not pay them for ... More >>
Daily Voting News For April 1, 2007
Monday, 2 April 2007, 2:20 pm | John Gideon
The rise of electronic voting has created new ways to disenfranchise African-American voters—through high-tech ethnic profiling, inequitable allocation of equipment, and discrimination against non-computer-users and the elderly. More >>
Daily Voting News For March 28, 2007
Thursday, 29 March 2007, 3:23 pm | John Gideon
Since October of last year, The Coalition for Voting Integrity has been producing a radio show, “Voice of the Voters” - available on WNJC1360 AM and the Internet - devoted to the exploration not only of the impact of electronic voting but also ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 27, 2007
Thursday, 29 March 2007, 2:55 pm | John Gideon
Daily Voting News For March 27, 2007 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org More >>
Daily Voting News For March 26, 2007
Tuesday, 27 March 2007, 4:30 pm | John Gideon
Today, Monday, the state of Massachusetts goes to court to defend themselves in a lawsuit brought by Diebold. Diebold claims that the state should have bought their accessible voting machines rather than the AutoMark that was offered by ES&S because ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 24, 2007
Monday, 26 March 2007, 3:24 pm | John Gideon
First I want to welcome Kim Zetter to the “blogosphere”. She has been a respected reporter for Wired News and has covered voting technology for a few years now. You can find her work at Informed Consent . More >>
Daily Voting News For March 23, 2007
Monday, 26 March 2007, 3:16 pm | John Gideon
In what may be the first local action to HR-811, Westmoreland Co. Pennsylvania is asking for more state or federal funds to allow them to change voting systems if their present system is affected by federal legislation. More >>
