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Daily Voting News For March 22, 2007
Friday, 23 March 2007, 4:13 pm | John Gideon
Today is one of those days when I wish I could act like the US Senate and just claim the absence of a quorum and put on “Pachelbel’s Canon” or some concerto by Mozart or Bach. There is a lot to talk about; but not a lot to say about; any one ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 21, 2007
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 2:27 pm | John Gideon
As a result of complaints from voters the Diebold DREs used in Montgomery Co. Ohio have been tested. Voters complained that votes flipped on the screens. Testing of the machines that were used by the complaining voters has proven that 56 of the number ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 20, 2007
Wednesday, 21 March 2007, 2:01 pm | John Gideon
Some HR-811 proponents state that while DREs may be bad we have them now and we need to fix what we have. My problem with this thinking is that we are talking about elections; not a line of computers. Think about those things you know about for a minute. More >>
Daily Voting News For March 19, 2007
Wednesday, 21 March 2007, 1:52 pm | John Gideon
In an article on BradBlog, Ellen Theisen of VotersUnite.Org challenges “anyone to put forward an actual disadvantage of amending Representative Rush Holt's bill (HR 811, "The Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007") to ban electronic ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 16-18, 2007
Monday, 19 March 2007, 2:37 pm | John Gideon
In the words of Dale Carrico in his blog “Amore Mundi” on the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies website: “Champions of electronic voting machines often tout their benefits for differently enabled citizens in particular. More >>
Daily Voting News For March 15, 2007
Saturday, 17 March 2007, 1:20 pm | John Gideon
As related by Brad Friedman in today’s Huffington Post (see below): "Electronic ballot systems such as DRE machines, are neither fully accessible nor secure and accurate methods of recording, tallying, and reporting votes ... [They] are inappropriate ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 13-14, 2007
Thursday, 15 March 2007, 7:10 pm | John Gideon
Today we have a lot of fun stuff that was covered by the media (or not). The two election workers from Cuyahoga Co. Ohio who rigged the recount were each sentenced to 18 months in prison and the judge stated that he felt they were not telling the ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 12, 2007
Wednesday, 14 March 2007, 12:51 am | John Gideon
There are many good provisions in the new election reform bill (HR 811 introduced by Congressman Rush Holt D-NJ), called the “Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007.” There is significant momentum in the U.S. House to pass the bill ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 9-10, 2007
Monday, 12 March 2007, 2:24 pm | John Gideon
A recent report from the Wisconsin State Elections Board says, “The three major vendors (Diebold Election Systems, Elections Systems and Software and Sequoia Voting Systems) have minor upgrades that would improve the administration of elections for ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 8, 2007
Friday, 9 March 2007, 2:38 pm | John Gideon
From the just released GAO report "ELECTIONS: All Levels of Government Are Needed to Address Electronic Voting System Challenges", "Election officials, computer security experts, citizen advocacy groups, and others have raised significant concerns about ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 7, 2007
Thursday, 8 March 2007, 3:10 pm | John Gideon
The Vindicator (Youngstown, Ohio) reports that ES&S is showing Lawrence Co., Pennsylvania just why signing a contract with the company is like signing a contract with the devil. More >>
Daily Voting News For March 6, 2007
Wednesday, 7 March 2007, 4:39 pm | John Gideon
As reported by VoteTrustUSA, “The Financial Services Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee will hold a hearing on "Ensuring the Integrity of Elections" on Wednesday March 7 at 2:00 PM in the Rayburn House Office Building. More >>
Daily Voting News For March 5, 2007
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 6:35 pm | John Gideon
There are many good provisions in the new election reform bill (HR 811 introduced by Congressman Rush Holt D-NJ), called the “Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007.” There is significant momentum in the U.S. House to pass the bill ... More >>
Daily Voting News For March 1-3, 2007
Monday, 5 March 2007, 8:25 pm | John Gideon
Miller Co. Arkansas Election Administrator Robby Selph resigned from his job saying this about Election Systems and Software, “The reason I am leaving is the provider of the Ivotronics and related software lacks competency to make their equipment work ... More >>
Daily Voting News For February 28, 2007
Friday, 2 March 2007, 9:45 am | John Gideon
In an excellent, must-read, article in “The Free Press” authors Victoria Parks and Paddy Shaffer relate, “The Squire v. Geer case is more than just a mere election challenge lawsuit; the reliability of electronic voting was on trial last week in ... More >>
Daily Voting News For February 26-27, 2007
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 2:53 pm | John Gideon
“Florida's Congressional District 13 race and the report of conflicts between the paper trail records and the electronic ballots in Cuyahoga County, Ohio are only two recent examples of how elections using DRE technology cannot be trusted and how ... More >>
Daily Voting News For February 22-24, 2007
Sunday, 25 February 2007, 10:44 pm | John Gideon
Princeton’s Professor Ed Felten said this in regards to the Sarasota Co. Florida voting machine report, “Experience teaches that systems that are insecure tend to be unreliable as well — they tend to go wrong on their own even if nobody is ... More >>
Daily Voting News For February 5-11, 2007
Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 12:30 am | John Gideon
Ex-New Mexico SoS Rebecca Vigil-Giron was term-limited out of office in Nov. The Governor then named her to a new position as the head of the state’s new film museum. Now that job has been put on hold by the Governor until a $3Million shortfall in ... More >>
Daily Voting News For February 2-3, 2007
Sunday, 11 February 2007, 10:34 pm | John Gideon
According to an article in Hometown Annapolis; “Addressing the Maryland House Ways and Means Committee yesterday, state Elections Administrator Linda Lamone conceded that a paper voting record will be a part of future Maryland elections, although ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 30, 2007
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 11:37 am | John Gideon
Today the Atlanta Journal Constitution [see below] reported, “Some key components of one of Georgia's most sacred institutions — that had been discovered in discarded office furniture — were recently auctioned on eBay. More >>
