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Daily Voting News For June 12, 2006
Tuesday, 13 June 2006, 1:30 pm | John Gideon
Utah's chief election's spokesman, Joe Demma, went to Mississippi to watch their elections because the two states are using the same voting machines, Diebold TSx. Demma will probably not be welcome in Mississippi again as he reported that "educationally, ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 10 2006
Monday, 12 June 2006, 3:20 pm | John Gideon
UniLect is trying to regain a foothold in the voting machine market after their equipment meltdown in Carteret Co., North Carolina in 2004. Oh, wait! It wasn't the machines fault it was the elections officials fault. More >>
Daily Voting News For June 11, 2006
Monday, 12 June 2006, 3:20 pm | John Gideon
"We can make lemonade but we can't count votes with a lemon."Ann Frisch of Oshkosh, Wisconsin in an LTTE.... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 9 2006
Monday, 12 June 2006, 3:19 pm | John Gideon
Alameda Co. California supervisors voted 3 to 2 to purchase Sequoia voting machines. Of the 3 yes votes one supervisor said "I have no idea what's happening here - I have no idea what you're talking about" before he voted 'Yes'. More >>
'Daily Voting News' For June 8, 2006
Friday, 9 June 2006, 12:35 am | John Gideon
Officials in Bucks Co., Pennsylvania hope to save a 'buck' by purchasing used, reconditioned Danaher 1242 voting machines. Will those machines be brought up to 2002 standards? More >>
John Gideon: 'Daily Voting News' For June 7, 2006
Thursday, 8 June 2006, 3:07 pm | John Gideon
Yesterday we had primary elections in eight states, yet all problems have not been settled in states that had primaries even a month ago. There are still residual problems being reported in Arkansas, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. How are these being addressed ... More >>
Daily Voting News For June 1, 2006
Friday, 2 June 2006, 2:36 pm | John Gideon
In defending his choice of hiring voting machine vendor talking-head Glenn Newkirk to review the Arkansas elections problems of the past few weeks, SoS Charlie Daniels actually referred to Dr. David Dill as a "conspiracy theorist". What a maroon! One ... More >>
E-Voting 2006: The Approaching Train Wreck
Tuesday, 11 April 2006, 12:30 am | John Gideon
Normally this space is taken with my ideas of what are the "Top 5" voting news stories for the week. Today I am going to use this space to talk about what I see as the beginning of a disaster in the making with our elections. This isn't the election ... More >>
Does ES&S Really Want To Sell Automark Machines?
Wednesday, 25 May 2005, 12:00 am | John Gideon
Elections Systems and Software (ES&S) has a marketing agreement with AutoMARK Technical Services (ATS) to be the sole purveyor of the AutoMARK voting machine. ATS can market the system, but pricing and contracts are all handled by ES&S. In March of 2004, ... More >>
