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Daily Voting News For November 17-18, 2006
Monday, 20 November 2006, 3:14 pm | John Gideon
There must be a stop to corporate involvement in the elections process. Reports like those coming from Delaware Co, Indiana where the vendor sells, maintains, programs, and tests the equipment and then does on tabulation, are all too prevalent. An attorney ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 16, 2006
Friday, 17 November 2006, 3:47 pm | John Gideon
If a recount in Sarasota Co, Florida fails to award Democrat Christine Jennings a seat in Congress, she has a final recourse: The newly Democratic-controlled U.S. House. A little-known provision in the U.S. Constitution gives the House the final ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 15, 2006
Thursday, 16 November 2006, 3:09 pm | John Gideon
Officials in Denver Colorado estimate that as many as 18,000 voters walked away from the polls without voting in the Nov. 7 general election. These are disenfranchised voters just the same as those voters who have been removed from voting registers ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 14, 2006
Wednesday, 15 November 2006, 8:23 pm | John Gideon
One friend in the activist community asked me this morning if we are making the case enough that unverifiable/unverified DREs give some the "temptation to cheat". Based on the close elections this year (eight House races are still not decided and ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 13, 2006
Tuesday, 14 November 2006, 9:43 pm | John Gideon
Will the main stream media (MSM) continue to report on voting issues as they did in the long lead-up to the election? My guess is that they won't. Oh, there will be some follow-up on local issues but the networks and the cable news channels will ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 12, 2006
Tuesday, 14 November 2006, 10:59 am | John Gideon
As should be expected by anyone who follows elections as closely as we do, the news today is again full of articles from Sarasota Co., Florida where the counties paperless ES&S voting machines failed to register over 18,000 votes for a 13th Congressional ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 9, 2006
Monday, 13 November 2006, 11:38 am | John Gideon
It took over 24 hours for Cook Co. Illinois to count their votes. That's with their brand-new Smartmatic clone Sequoia voting machines. County Clerk David Orr conceded that the hardware and software being used should be re-examined. / One of the striking ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 10-11, 2006
Monday, 13 November 2006, 12:36 am | John Gideon
A large majority of today's news comes from Sarasota Co., Florida where the voters won a referendum vote to require the county to provide a voting system that has paper and is verifiable. Unfortunately the voters spoke at the same time the machines decided ... More >>
Daily Voting News, DAY AFTER ELECTION Nov. 8 '06
Thursday, 9 November 2006, 3:40 pm | John Gideon
'Hey! Let's take all of our polling sites and consolidate them into a few large, super poll sites. Then we have thousands of voters vote in the same location on the same machines. More >>
Daily Voting News For ELECTION DAY Nov. 7, 2006
Wednesday, 8 November 2006, 2:12 pm | John Gideon
David Tom, elections manager, county of San Mateo: "I feel very secure in the machines and how they work. We do a lot of testing on these machines and we're absolutely 100 percent sure these machines will work the way they do." Huh?? / “We can expect ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 5 & 6, 2006
Tuesday, 7 November 2006, 2:28 pm | John Gideon
The full, un-redacted SAIC report has finally been released today. / Today marks the 58th anniversary of the "Polk County Massacre" in Tennessee. / The news for the past week, today and surely tomorrow has been rife with 'feel-good' articles about ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 4, 2006
Monday, 6 November 2006, 5:30 pm | John Gideon
The good folks in Luzerne Co. Pennsylvania are starting to wake-up and realize they may be spending a bit more of their tax money than they expected. Their contract with ES&S does not cover maintenance fees for next year. The tax payers will be expected ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 3, 2006
Monday, 6 November 2006, 3:28 pm | John Gideon
The complete, unredacted SAIC Report is finally in the process of being released by someone on the inside. There will now be a mad crush of people who will want to read the report. Diebold's worse nightmare. / Here's a five-step plan guaranteed ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 2, 2006
Monday, 6 November 2006, 1:44 pm | John Gideon
'Lawyers for the state and groups that opposed Ohio's voter identification rules claimed victory Wednesday in a settlement that suspends the law for absentee voters and clarifies and expands it for voting in person.' / Hart Intercivic has been under ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 1, 2006
Thursday, 2 November 2006, 3:48 pm | John Gideon
Remember – 1-866-Our-Vote / In an attempt to stop HBO from airing the documentary 'Hacking Democracy' which starts tomorrow evening and runs for the whole month at various times, Diebold has made threats and pointed out mistakes that they feel are ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 31, 2006
Wednesday, 1 November 2006, 2:40 pm | John Gideon
"Voice of the Voters" 1360AM OR on the Internet at WNJC or click from our website saveourvote.com; Wed. evenings at 8PM EST. Avi Rubin will be tomorrow evening's guest. / ""They erroneously assumed these machines are like computers," Bear said of the ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 30, 2006
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 3:56 pm | John Gideon
Voters in Ohio, as well as all other states, will have the 1-866-OUR-VOTE hotline manned and ready to provide assistance. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that involves the private bar in ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 29, 2006
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 11:28 am | John Gideon
"The federal government is investigating the takeover last year of the manufacturer of electronic voting systems used in Denver and Arapahoe County by a small software company that has been linked to the leftist government of President Hugo Chavez of ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 28, 2006
Monday, 30 October 2006, 12:08 am | John Gideon
"Broward Supervisor of Elections spokeswoman Mary Cooney said it's not uncommon for screens on heavily used machines to slip out of sync, making votes register incorrectly. Poll workers are trained to recalibrate them on the spot -- essentially, to realign ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 27, 2006
Monday, 30 October 2006, 12:01 am | John Gideon
The West Virginia SoS is recommending to Kanawha Co. that they run all paper ballots twice to ensure the machines are counting accurately. The county is refusing to take that step which will ensure accuracy of the vote count. More >>
