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Daily Voting News For January 26, 2007
Monday, 29 January 2007, 12:02 am | John Gideon
According to an article in the Albany [NY] Times Union, Ciber has decided to give to the NY State Board of Elections, under the threat of subpoena, paperwork that shows why they were denied interim accreditation by the EAC. Even as the EAC obfuscates ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 28, 2007
Monday, 29 January 2007, 12:01 am | John Gideon
The Election Assistance Commission and Commissioner Paul DeGregorio make every attempt to convince the voter that 98% of them had confidence in the last election, even pointing to a fictitious exit poll as evidence. The Fort Worth Star Telegram [see ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 25, 2007
Monday, 29 January 2007, 12:01 am | John Gideon
According to “End The Veil Of Secrecy” [see below] “At the New York State Board of Elections meeting on January 23, 2007 Commissioners Kellner and Aquila came out strongly for issuing a subpoena to the EAC and Ciber to force them to give up any ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 24, 2007
Thursday, 25 January 2007, 2:12 pm | John Gideon
The collusion on the part of some national elections officials is beginning to come to light due to the hard work of some researchers like Michael Richardson who reports [see below] “Election Assistance Commission Executive Director Thomas Wilkey moved ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 23, 2007
Thursday, 25 January 2007, 10:35 am | John Gideon
According to a Michael Richardson article posted at OpEdNews [see below]; “Although the public was not informed by the Election Assistance Commission about its decision to not issue interim accreditation to Ciber, Inc., one of the nation's three previously ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 22, 2007
Thursday, 25 January 2007, 10:08 am | John Gideon
The Election Assistance Commission has some explaining to do. The secrecy that pervades the EAC, which oversees testing and certification of voting systems, holds dire consequences for our electoral system. Both chambers of Congress need to work to dispel this culture ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 20, 2007
Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 11:56 am | John Gideon
In an Op-Ed in the Miami Herald today, the President of Sequoia and President and CEO of its parent company, Smartmatic, said, in defending the Sequoia ownership, "Most important, the idea that foreigners could somehow influence the U.S. voting ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 19, 2007
Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 11:55 am | John Gideon
"In the Cuyahoga case, the poll workers are charged with circumventing state recount laws that require a random sampling of at least three percent of the votes cast in a given precinct, to be recounted by hand and by machine. The prosecution charges ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 18, 2007
Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 11:04 am | John Gideon
The Duval Co. Florida finance committee approved funding for printers for the counties DREs (Diebold TSx). The first question that came to mind when I read this is, "How can Duval buy printers for their machines when the state has said they are not allowed ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 17, 2007
Friday, 19 January 2007, 10:43 am | John Gideon
Mahoning Co. Ohio sits on the Ohio/Pennsylvania border. Like most of that area of the country they are struggling with funds to keep their infrastructure operating. In fact the county is discussing laying off employees. They have ES&S iVotronic DRE ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 15, 2007
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 3:11 pm | John Gideon
"…….all types of conniving methods are still being used to prevent Negroes from becoming registered voters. The denial of this sacred right is a tragic betrayal of the highest mandates of our democratic traditions and its is democracy turned ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 11-13, 2007
Monday, 15 January 2007, 3:38 pm | John Gideon
The town of Newfane, Vermont has always hand counted their ballots and the town leaders are asking the voters to continue that act and to turn-down the offer of a Diebold optical-scan machine from the state. Adding to the negative feelings against changing ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 10, 2007
Friday, 12 January 2007, 10:59 am | John Gideon
"The manufacturer of voting machines under scrutiny in Sarasota County accused a House Democrat Tuesday of trying to ''intimidate'' and ''unduly influence'' a Florida appeals court. The move by Election Systems & Software comes days after Rep. Juanita ... More >>
EAC Now Admits 'The Ciber Report' Does Exist
Thursday, 11 January 2007, 11:41 am | John Gideon
Moving the ball forward a bit in regard to New York Times' stunning report last week that Ciber was refused interim accreditation last July. I've been able to learn a bit more about the existence of the paperwork concerning that denial of accreditation. More >>
Daily Voting News For January 3-9, 2007
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 10:46 pm | John Gideon
Did you think that Florida is the only state that still has questions about voting machines and results? If you answered yes you were wrong. As in Florida Ohio has thousands of unexplained undervotes and concerns from candidates as to whether they ... More >>
Daily Voting News For December 29-30, 2006
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 3:31 pm | John Gideon
"It is a matter of fundamental fairness, of good government, and of accountability that we get to the bottom of this election," said Rep. Rush Holt. "It is imperative that every election reflect the will of voters accurately. More >>
Daily Voting News For December 28, 2006
Friday, 29 December 2006, 2:09 pm | John Gideon
The past two days news has been about change and lack of change. Kentucky is talking about change and entry into the voter verified world of elections. Meanwhile New York counties are talking about a lack of change. They have voting machines that ... More >>
Daily Voting News For December 24-26, 2006
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 8:07 pm | John Gideon
Tis the season that not much is being discussed in the news about voting machines. Daily Voting News will probably go to being sent out every other day or so until next week. In the mean time VotersUnite hopes that you all had a wonderful Christmas ... More >>
Daily Voting News For December 22-23, 2006
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 6:11 pm | John Gideon
The huge news for today is the announcement that Smartmatic has decided to sell Sequoia Voting Systems. They claim it is because of the 'public debate' over foreign ownership of a company that is involved in our elections. I suspect that Smartmatic didn't ... More >>
Daily Voting News For December 21, 2006
Friday, 22 December 2006, 3:07 pm | John Gideon
The power of the headline is amazing. What may be a fair and balanced article can be changed to be partisan and biased with the turn of the word in the headline. This is especially apparent when it is an Associated Press article that has been run across ... More >>
