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Daily Voting News For August 9-15, 2006
Thursday, 17 August 2006, 8:58 am | John Gideon
Fraus omnia vitiate, “Fraud vitiates everything” and when it may apply to Diebold it means a lot such as Diebold machines have no valid federal certification. / Diebold has announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission is now involved in a formal ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 5-7, 2006
Tuesday, 8 August 2006, 11:56 pm | John Gideon
Jan BenDor, a Pittsfield Township Michigan deputy clerk, is so concerned about the Diebold machines used in her township that she filed a formal complaint with the Washtenaw County Election Commission on Monday. Ten percent of machines failed in ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 2-4, 2006
Tuesday, 8 August 2006, 10:12 pm | John Gideon
Three disability advocacy groups have filed suit in California against the SoS and five counties for using voting systems that are not accessible, according to the groups. The list of systems includes AutoMark and Hart eSlate and Diebold TSx but ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 1, 2006
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 3:54 pm | John Gideon
"We are headed for a train wreck on Election Day," said Republican Tom Leatherwood, who is seeking re-election as Shelby Co. Tennessee register and is calling for more machines to be stationed countywide. More >>
Daily Voting News For July 31, 2006
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 9:35 pm | John Gideon
Upon examining the inner workings of one of the most popular paperless touch screen voting machines used in public elections in the United States, it has been determined that with the flip of a single switch inside, the machine can behave in a completely ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 30, 2006
Monday, 31 July 2006, 2:54 pm | John Gideon
The normal primary turnout in Shelby Co. (Memphis) Tennessee is right at 30%. That means that close to 110,000 voters will attempt to vote on 1300 Diebold TSx voting machines on an extremely long ballot that has as many as 141 races on it. More >>
Daily Voting News For July 28, 2006
Monday, 31 July 2006, 2:53 pm | John Gideon
Arizona readers responded to the Arizona Star editorial from July 24. The paper has passed some of the letters on to Pima County and staff will be responding on Sunday. / Early voting started on Thursday in Kansas with immediate problems with ES&S machines ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 29, 2006
Monday, 31 July 2006, 2:53 pm | John Gideon
A hearing will be held on Monday in Kern Co. California to investigate problems in the recent primary election. / "We had polling places that didn't open until several hours after they were supposed to, voting machines that didn't work at all, and hundreds ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 26, 2006
Thursday, 27 July 2006, 5:26 pm | John Gideon
A new report, from the National Research Council, is out and it "Blasts Cost, Inadequate and Compromised Testing of E-Voting Systems and Inappropriate Involvement of Voting Machine Vendors". More >>
Daily Voting News For July 24, 2006
Wednesday, 26 July 2006, 2:22 pm | John Gideon
One result of the exorbitant cost of purchasing and maintaining DRE voting machines is that counties must now find ways to save money. Texas will have a pilot project in Lubbock Co. More >>
Daily Voting News For July 25, 2006
Wednesday, 26 July 2006, 2:22 pm | John Gideon
In Parke Co. Indiana a candidate canceled his election complaint but only after the county agreed to address some issues including a thorough testing of voting machines and software before the election; an adequate number of voting machines to allow ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 22, 2006
Monday, 24 July 2006, 11:38 am | John Gideon
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has released their written opinion explaining the seven justices' March ruling that allowed electronic voting statewide last spring despite a local group's contention that voters should have decided for themselves. ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 21, 2006
Monday, 24 July 2006, 11:32 am | John Gideon
Today the release of two much awaited reports has been in the media. One report on the Arkansas and ES&S and the other report is on the failures in the primary election in Cuyahoga Co., OH. More >>
Daily Voting News For July 23, 2006
Monday, 24 July 2006, 12:36 am | John Gideon
David “None of the Above” Gatchell is challenging the Tennessee Election Commission in court to get his middle name listed on ballots. He is running for governor and US Senate. / Concerned voters in 15 Florida counties are closely watching Sarasota ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 20, 2006
Friday, 21 July 2006, 4:05 pm | John Gideon
While Tuesday's primary in Georgia was not a "train wreck" it certainly was not error free. There were many memory card, modem, and other equipment failures. There were also statements about "vote switching" on DRE touch-screens. All of those problems ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 19, 2006
Thursday, 20 July 2006, 1:40 pm | John Gideon
Today the House Science Committee held hearings on the voluntary voting systems guidelines (VVSG). "We've seen security defects that allow a single person with insider access and some technical knowledge could switch votes, perhaps undetected, and potentially ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 16-17, 2006
Tuesday, 18 July 2006, 12:48 am | John Gideon
It appears that the ballot format was changed in Tennessee in order to accommodate the voting system vendors. In changing the format officials may now be violating state law. / In a next step, after winning against the state of Georgia and their ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 15, 2006
Monday, 17 July 2006, 12:21 am | John Gideon
The Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States is now looking into the purchase of Sequoia by a Venezuelan owned company. / A grand-jury in Clarke Co., Georgia "expressed concern about "the overall security of the voting machines, the ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 14, 2006
Monday, 17 July 2006, 12:20 am | John Gideon
Daily Voting News For July 14, 2006 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org ES&S has still not solved their problem with a lack of ability to deliver purchased voting equipment to the counties who have spent their money ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 12, 2006
Friday, 14 July 2006, 10:09 am | John Gideon
Salt Lake County has 2 primary races to recount. The recount will be done in a couple hours according to news reports this morning. That means they will just run the tapes again and come up with the same answers. No real recount. Garbage in – Garbage ... More >>
