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Daily Voting News For October 26, 2006
Friday, 27 October 2006, 2:41 pm | John Gideon
Lou Dobbs has taped a one-hour "Democracy At Risk" special to be aired at various times on CNN this coming Sunday. Be sure to tune in. / The Washington Post has found that new system boards were installed in Diebold voting machines used in Maryland. More >>
Daily Voting News For October 25, 2006
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 4:54 pm | John Gideon
"The use of electronic machines to count ballots cast in last year's municipal elections was a fiasco, Quebec's chief electoral officer said Tuesday. The machines weren't quicker, more economical and more accurate than manual counting" said Quebec, Canada's ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 24, 2006
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 11:00 am | John Gideon
Officials on Chicago, Illinois acknowledged that for the last five or six years it would have only taken a few keystrokes for a knowledgeable computer user to obtain the personal information for more than half of the 1.3 million identities in the ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 23, 2006
Tuesday, 24 October 2006, 3:17 pm | John Gideon
Beginning this week, and every Wednesday, I will be doing a regular 5-minute Voting News report on WNJC 1360AM, Philadelphia's Renaissance Radio Station at 8PM Eastern. The program is "Voice of the Voters", with Mary Ann Gould, and it runs from 8PM to ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 22, 2006
Tuesday, 24 October 2006, 2:53 pm | John Gideon
"Thirty states now allow no-excuse absentee voting, and most of them also allow voters to cast early ballots in person at county clerks’ offices or satellite polling places." / I love this opening to an article: "On a warm Friday afternoon last May, ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 21, 2006
Sunday, 22 October 2006, 2:04 pm | John Gideon
'Although most of the attention has focused on paper trails and how vulnerable the machines are to hackers, a professor at Ohio State University and one of his former students are questioning the haphazard way these machines are bought and distributed.' ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 20, 2006
Sunday, 22 October 2006, 1:18 pm | John Gideon
Alachua Co Florida elections people have admitted that not all votes in an April 11 city election were considered. They have also admitted that one voting machine had an error and that absentee ballots were not put into "secrecy folders". More >>
Daily Voting News For October 19, 2006
Sunday, 22 October 2006, 12:46 am | John Gideon
Utah has announced a change in election rules that will require a minimum audit of 1% machines in each county. A 3% audit will be done for congressional races and 5% for smaller elections. These are minimum requirements. This is a good first, baby-step ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 18, 2006
Thursday, 19 October 2006, 2:49 pm | John Gideon
A federal appeals court will hear a complaint against the Indiana Voter ID law today. / 'As the new [federal] testing and certification program is developed in response to input from public interest organizations, computer security experts, and concerned ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 17, 2006
Thursday, 19 October 2006, 11:40 am | John Gideon
The worst county for elections in the US, Cuyahoga Co. Ohio has taken another step into the realm of the absurd. The county wants to get their votes tabulated as quickly as possible and they apparently aren't worried as much about accuracy so they are ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 16, 2006
Tuesday, 17 October 2006, 2:50 pm | John Gideon
Testing of Liberty Voting machines in Ireland; in July this year, the commission issued a second report revealing flaws in the software central to the system. It found the software could be manipulated to change the outcome of a vote and said ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 15, 2006
Monday, 16 October 2006, 3:10 pm | John Gideon
You have probably noticed that as we get closer to the general election the amount of voting related news is growing. I expect that very soon the amount of news will force me to make a modification to the way 'Daily Voting News' is sent out. More >>
Daily Voting News For October 13 & 14, 2006
Monday, 16 October 2006, 12:29 am | John Gideon
"A broad coalition of more than 50 election integrity groups and individuals sent letters today to all 50 governors, secretaries of state and directors of elections calling upon them to provide emergency paper ballots for the November midterm elections: More >>
Daily Voting News For October 12, 2006
Friday, 13 October 2006, 1:41 pm | John Gideon
Ottawa Co. Michigan got $40,000 worth of new ballots from the printer, after copies had been proof-read by county staff. Unfortunately the ballots have 'public' in six places on the ballots and one of those 'public's is missing the 'l'. Ballots will ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 11, 2006
Friday, 13 October 2006, 1:17 pm | John Gideon
Ever in control of the situation, Diebold is late in delivering absentee ballots to counties in Maryland. Many of the voters who have recently requested absentee ballots, heeding the advice of the governor and some elections officials, may not ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 10, 2006
Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 4:25 pm | John Gideon
Sequoia has done a good job in an attempt to misrepresent the facts in the Brennan Report. They seem to have twisted the facts in order to deceive potential customers in New York. Read more in the NY section / "There is something you can do NOW, even ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 9, 2006
Tuesday, 10 October 2006, 1:32 pm | John Gideon
'The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and its partners are currently recruiting volunteers for the 2006 national Election Protection program. Election Protection, the nation's largest non-partisan voter protection coalition, is led ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 8, 2006
Monday, 9 October 2006, 3:24 pm | John Gideon
Even R. Doug Lewis, executive director of the Election Center, an association of election officials realizes the November election is going to be a problem. "We've made some valiant attempts ... (but) there are going to be some problems. Things ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 6 & 7, 2006
Monday, 9 October 2006, 1:12 pm | John Gideon
For the amount of problems the EAC has faced in its short history one would think that it would be important that the President would fill openings on the commission with people who have experience and who meet the requirements mandated by the Help ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 5, 2006
Monday, 9 October 2006, 10:14 am | John Gideon
Another voting system has been hacked and the hackers claim they could even change the software to a chess game. Liberty Systems, which is being marketed in the North East including heavily in New York, was hacked by a team of Dutch IT professionals. More >>
