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Daily Voting News For February 18, 2009
Thursday, 19 February 2009, 9:49 am | John Gideon
Today we have three “Featured” articles. Regular readers will note that we have been warning about the recent call for Internet voting and the fact that the Internet is not secure for elections use. The first two articles clearly bring this concern ... More >>
Daily Voting News For February 17, 2009
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 9:59 am | John Gideon
A slow news day today. We hope you had a good President’s Day weekend.... National: Varieties of Reform of the Federal Election Commission LINK More >>
Daily Voting News For February 10, 2009
Wednesday, 11 February 2009, 7:07 pm | John Gideon
Scantegrity, a registered non-profit organization, has announced a collaborative effort with Takoma Park Maryland to hold a primary and general election on an open-source voting system with both conventional paper and cryptographic audit trails. I’m ... More >>
Daily Voting News For February 8, 2009
Monday, 9 February 2009, 2:26 pm | John Gideon
Not much in the news this weekend. Of course more from Minnesota and the Senate recount/court case. That will be going on for awhile more I’m afraid. ... More >>
Daily Voting News For February 6, 2009
Sunday, 8 February 2009, 4:00 pm | John Gideon
“…he didn't see anything wrong with asking to work for Premier Elections Solutions, despite still managing a public office that owed the company $2.2 million.” So claimed Buddy Johnson the former Supervisor of Elections of Hillsborough Co. Florida ... More >>
Daily Voting News For February 5, 2009
Sunday, 8 February 2009, 3:50 pm | John Gideon
Today’s news finds articles from Minnesota where the recount trial continues on. Now the justices are trying to decide whether they can allow Franken to take the Senate seat on an interim basis. It looks like there will be no final decision this ... More >>
Daily Voting News For February 3, 2009
Wednesday, 4 February 2009, 1:30 pm | John Gideon
The recount trial is still ongoing in Minnesota. It’s hard to tell whether there will really be any changes or if this is all just a waste of time and tax money. Time will tell, I guess.... More >>
Daily Voting News For February 2, 2009
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 2:38 pm | John Gideon
One of the most successful state election integrity groups has been New Yorkers for Verified Voting. Today their executive director and one of the founders of the group, Bo Lipari, announced that he was giving up his position with NYVV. More >>
Daily Voting News For February 1, 2007
Monday, 2 February 2009, 12:20 pm | John Gideon
Even though the Nov 4 election has been certified by the Riverside Co California RoV since Dec 2, the county is still in the process of doing the state-mandated hand count verifying all ballots cast on touch-screen voting machines. Maybe sometime ... More >>
Daily Voting News For 30 January 2009
Sunday, 1 February 2009, 5:55 pm | John Gideon
The new Hillsborough Co Florida elections boss has saved the county $500,000 by going to Premier/Diebold and making them a deal they could not refuse. Of course with the problems the county had last Nov with uncounted ballots and memory card failures, ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 29, 2009
Friday, 30 January 2009, 3:31 pm | John Gideon
Daily Voting News For January 29, 2009 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org More >>
Daily Voting News For January 28, 2009
Friday, 30 January 2009, 9:17 am | John Gideon
The trial against the use of unverifiable voting machines in New Jersey is continuing. Computer scientist Andrew Appel was before the judge tearing apart a Sequoia Advantage DRE voting machine to show how easy it would be to get into the machine and replace ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 27, 2009
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 3:06 pm | John Gideon
Today the New Jersey voting machine trial started. The trial will decide whether the state’s DRE voting machines can continue to be used or whether they are error-prone and too easily hacked. Today Princeton University computer scientist Andrew Appel ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 26, 2009
Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 2:44 pm | John Gideon
As our “Featured” article reports California Secretary of State Debra Bowen has sent a letter to new EAC Chair Gineen Beach. The letter has three proposals that Secretary Bowen is convinced will improve the integrity of voting systems used in ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 24, 2009
Monday, 26 January 2009, 9:54 am | John Gideon
Now that the recent general election is completed some counties are now in the process of determining how much that election cost the taxpayers. One Colorado county reports a cost of $36.57 per vote cast. That is an amazing amount especially when much of ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 23, 2009
Saturday, 24 January 2009, 4:24 pm | John Gideon
From this evenings “Featured” article: “The recount of the 2008 Minnesota Senate race gives us an opportunity to evaluate the accuracy of precinct-count optical-scan voting. Though there have been contentious disputes over which absentee ballot envelopes ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 22, 2009
Friday, 23 January 2009, 3:30 pm | John Gideon
Daily Voting News For January 22, 2009 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org More >>
Daily Voting News For January 21, 2009
Thursday, 22 January 2009, 1:32 pm | John Gideon
We will try this one more time because I have nothing else to put into this space this evening. We do need help. VotersUnite.Org is proud to continue offering “Daily Voting News” as one of our services. Though we don’t charge for the service we ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 20, 2009
Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 2:39 pm | John Gideon
VotersUnite.Org is proud to continue offering “Daily Voting News” as one of our services. Though we don’t charge for the service we do, on occasion, reserve the right to ask for a donation. This is one of those very few times. Please assist us ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 17 & 18, 2009
Tuesday, 20 January 2009, 2:59 pm | John Gideon
Recently we have spent a bit of time discussing the cost over-runs found during an audit of Hillsborough Co Florida’s election office. Now the county has revealed that they just discovered 440 uncounted ballots that were found in their warehouse. ... More >>
