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Daily Voting News For October 4, 2006
Friday, 6 October 2006, 3:11 am | John Gideon
A group of voters in Alameda Co California has stepped-up with help from VoterAction to file a lawsuit against the use of the Sequoia voting system in Nov. / VoterAction is also active in Wisconsin where they 'asked state regulators today to revoke approval ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 2-3, 2006
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 11:30 pm | John Gideon
A patched E-Poll Book will be tested by Diebold and elections officials in Maryland on Tuesday. Past reports in the Baltimore Sun have stated that the poll books have never been used before then Diebold admitted that they were used in Georgia's primary ... More >>
Daily Voting News For Sept 30 & Oct. 1, 2006
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 1:51 pm | John Gideon
Diebold responds to criticism from Avi Rubin. Diebold's Radke claims the e-poll book problems were just a minor 'glitch' though reports are that it took three software patches to correct this minor 'glitch'. / Louisiana is conducting an election today ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 28-29, 2006
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 12:15 am | John Gideon
Maryland Gov. Ehrlich feels so negatively about his state's use of e-voting machines that he is actually using an automated phone message to encourage his supporters to vote absentee in Nov. / Overseas e-mailed ballots from the military are handled ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 27, 2006
Friday, 29 September 2006, 9:06 am | John Gideon
Diebold has now divulged that there were three software problems with the e-poll books used in Maryland in the primary a couple weeks ago. These poll-books were federally certified. More >>
Daily Voting News For September 26, 2006
Thursday, 28 September 2006, 11:12 am | John Gideon
Two Senators have introduced a bill in the Senate that will reimburse counties for paper ballots if they are provided along with DRE voting machines in precincts. This bill was begun as an idea from a blogger and shows the power of the blog. More >>
Daily Voting News For September 25, 2006
Tuesday, 26 September 2006, 12:12 am | John Gideon
MicroVote seems to be in trouble in Indiana again. They have still not settled with the state on violations from the primary earlier this year that could bring fines of $300,000 per incident. Now they have admitted disabling the straight-party feature ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 24, 2006
Monday, 25 September 2006, 2:46 pm | John Gideon
From an article on the Colorado lawsuit; "Whenever you hear an assertion from an election official of why you should trust their machines," [Expert witness Dan] Wallach said, "inevitably it boils down to 'because they are federally certified." More >>
Daily Voting News For September 23, 2006
Monday, 25 September 2006, 2:27 pm | John Gideon
Most of today's news is on the Colorado court decision. This was a resounding win for the voters of the state. The state's DREs will be used in Nov. but they will be decertified immediately after and may not be re-certified. Great job by the legal ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 22, 2006
Monday, 25 September 2006, 1:57 pm | John Gideon
San Mateo Co California planned on using all Hart eSlate machines at polling sites. They are concerned about the voters and poll workers not having enough time to get acclimated to the machines so they will now have just one machine and ask the voters ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 20, 2006
Friday, 22 September 2006, 10:37 am | John Gideon
CNN's Lou Dobbs, "When voters lose confidence in our elected representatives, we can vote the bums out. But what is the recourse if American voters lose confidence in our electoral system?" / Pima Co. Arizona had 4 DRE and 3 Optical-scan machines ... More >>
State Dept. Daily Press Briefing September 21, 200
Friday, 22 September 2006, 12:42 am | John Gideon
THAILAND Reported Ban on Political Activities by the Coup Leaders US Calls for Swift Return to Democratic Rule Timetable for Elections Whereabouts of Thai Prime Minister Review of US Assistance Programs US Contacts with Thai Government and Coup Leaders More >>
Daily Voting News For September 21, 2006
Friday, 22 September 2006, 12:39 am | John Gideon
In Maryland Diebold TS voting machines, the same machine recently hacked by Princeton University, were left in polling places on election night and, in some cases, for days after the election with all memory cards and paper tapes still inside the machines. More >>
Daily Voting News For September 19, 2006
Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 3:42 pm | John Gideon
Today is primary day in Washington and Massachusetts. / The Sebastian Co. Arkansas clerk will be telling the SoS that ES&S iVotronic voting machines are NOT accessible. / Boulder Co. Colorado expects to have long lines in Nov. due in large part to the ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 18, 2006
Tuesday, 19 September 2006, 2:26 pm | John Gideon
The Princeton Report is being reported on, favorably, all over with demonstrations on CNN and Fox and recent articles in US News and World Reports, Information Week, and the UKs SC Magazine. Verified Voting Foundation has an excellent article with ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 17, 2006
Monday, 18 September 2006, 3:24 pm | John Gideon
The fallout from the 'train wreck' in Maryland this week will not go away for awhile I'm afraid. There will surely be more calls for firings, and there should be. Heads should definitely roll but will the real people who are responsible be the ones to ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 15, 2006
Monday, 18 September 2006, 11:52 am | John Gideon
Milwaukee officials are counting every ballot by hand in order to find out how many ballots were really cast in Tuesday's election. They presently report 35,000 more ballots counted than cast. There is presently no plan to count any races. / The gentleman ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 16, 2006
Monday, 18 September 2006, 11:52 am | John Gideon
Diebold has now admitted that Maryland was the first state to use new 'e-poll books' and that they had no reasons yet why the machines were crashing throughout the day (three machines over 40 times in one polling place). Of course their first response ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 13, 2006
Thursday, 14 September 2006, 1:02 pm | John Gideon
Today the Brennan Center released another report. This report congratulates Congress for implementing the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and taking us forward. However, the executive director said, "the way it is being implemented by many states, combined ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 12, 2006
Thursday, 14 September 2006, 11:21 am | John Gideon
Since when is "it's close enough" a good response when talking about our elections? Since when is "the problems identified won't change the results so we are going to ignore the problems" a good response when talking about our elections? Since when ... More >>
