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Daily Voting News For July 13, 2006
Friday, 14 July 2006, 12:33 am | John Gideon
Tennessee law says "no voter who is voting without assistance may remain in a voting machine booth or occupy a voting compartment for more than five (5) minutes if other voters are waiting or more than ten (10) minutes in any event." More >>
Daily Voting News For July 11, 2006
Thursday, 13 July 2006, 10:43 am | John Gideon
San Diego Co. is charging between $0.76 and $0.95 per ballot for a possible recount but Orange Co. California charged $0.14 per ballot for a comparable recount last April. The county says the extra cost is to cover making other documents available. ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 10, 2006
Tuesday, 11 July 2006, 3:25 pm | John Gideon
Voters in at least one precinct in Mobile Co. Alabama were apparently given the wrong ballots on June 6. In precincts with split districts all voters were apparently given ballots for only one district. In one precinct 108 voters live in one district but ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 9, 2006
Tuesday, 11 July 2006, 12:22 am | John Gideon
While the GOP in Utah is demanding recounts in three races the state has to figure out how to do those recounts. If there is any doubt as to how the state is leaning you only need to listen to the Lt. Gov.'s spokesman, Joe Demma, who says "The area ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 8, 2006
Monday, 10 July 2006, 11:09 am | John Gideon
Daily Voting News For July 8, 2006 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org In a sharply worded ruling, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Melvin Westmoreland said Friday that Georgia's voter ID law "unduly burdens ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 7, 2006
Monday, 10 July 2006, 11:08 am | John Gideon
Recently Catherine Crier of CourtTV did a segment of her "Crier Wire" on elections and democracy. It is a must see. / The state of Indiana has now announced that they are sending their old voting machines to Benin in order to help to nurture democracy ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 6, 2006
Friday, 7 July 2006, 12:21 am | John Gideon
Three Utah counties face the possibility of having to do recounts from the state's recent primary-election. However, the state has no procedure on how to do recounts, when to use the vvpat and when not to use it. The Lt. Gov seems to want the vvpat ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 5, 2006
Friday, 7 July 2006, 12:21 am | John Gideon
A losing incumbent in Polk County Iowa has filed all necessary paper work and a surety bond in order to qualify for a contest of the election. This was based on a ballot-counting malfunction in Pottawattamie County that prematurely named nine losing candidates ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 04, 2006
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 11:12 am | John Gideon
A report from Ireland says, "The Independent Commission also says that the traditional paper method is moderately better in terms of secrecy and accuracy than the proposed e-voting system in its current form." The e-voting system is the same Liberty voting ... More >>
Daily Voting News For July 2, 2006
Tuesday, 4 July 2006, 10:10 pm | John Gideon
The Utah Lt. Gov. office is talking about requiring audits in Nov and in the future. The audit in Nov. may be done by the Lt. Gov. office itself. One can only wonder what transparency there will be. They will go to the state legislature to ask for ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 30, 2006
Saturday, 1 July 2006, 1:39 pm | John Gideon
A report by a grand jury in Boyd Co. Kentucky, which met for the last time Thursday, lists nine items for the next group to review, including that the vote count from the primary exceeded the reported number of total voters, the reason behind barring ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 28, 2006
Friday, 30 June 2006, 11:52 am | John Gideon
"This report is based on speculation rather than an examination of the record. To date, voting systems have not been successfully attacked in a live election. The purported vulnerabilities presented in this study, while interesting in theory, would ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 29, 2006
Friday, 30 June 2006, 12:49 am | John Gideon
On the subject of audits in Utah - The lieutenant governor's office will seek expert advice on the matter this summer and add the requirement administratively, said spokesman Joe Demma. "We could just randomly take 10 or 15 machines and audit the paper trail, ... More >>
'Daily Voting News' For June 20, 2006
Wednesday, 21 June 2006, 2:41 pm | John Gideon
"Candidates, prior to conceding, should obtain detailed vote count data that is normally with-held from the public and have it independently analyzed." A proposal from the National Election Data Archive ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 19, 2006
Tuesday, 20 June 2006, 2:52 pm | John Gideon
Arthur Anderson, famous for his broken campaign promise to have a paper trail in Palm Beach Co. Florida, has now come out in favor of the SoS proposed state voting system testing plan. No surprise there. / From Arkansas comes an article that gives ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 17, 2006
Monday, 19 June 2006, 11:15 am | John Gideon
There seems to be a new vendor on the block. Precise Voting is still at least a month away from ITA testing and federal qualification of their DRE voting system. What is amazing is that, according to their website, a vvpat printer is part of their ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 16, 2006
Monday, 19 June 2006, 11:09 am | John Gideon
Another slow news day today. The next primary is in Utah on 27 June with run-off elections in Mississippi and South Carolina. / Arkansas has started an investigation into the failures by ES&S in early voting, the primary and the run-off election. ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 18, 2006
Monday, 19 June 2006, 12:18 am | John Gideon
Quote of the Day - Doug Jones, a computer science professor and voting systems examiner in Iowa. "If we had sufficient transparency in our elections systems, the devil himself could build our voting systems and we could still hold honest elections."... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 14, 2006
Thursday, 15 June 2006, 3:44 pm | John Gideon
The hardest part in preparing the machines was setting up the audio. Try getting a computer to say 'Sprynczynatyk,' or 'Motschenbacher,'"said Burleigh Co., North Dakota County Auditor Kevin Glatt about their AutoMark's and referring to two candidates ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 13, 2006
Wednesday, 14 June 2006, 1:02 pm | John Gideon
A must read is an "Opinion" piece from a Miami Herald columnist, Fred Grimm. "Florida['s] first priority is to protect the vendors. We'll let California worry about the damn voters" says Grimm. / VotersUnite would like to applaud the decision by the National ... More >>
