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Daily Voting News For January 16, 2009
Tuesday, 20 January 2009, 2:09 pm | John Gideon
VotersUnite.Org is really two dedicated voters who care about how our votes are counted and who does the vote counting. We aren’t the types who find it easy to ask for money but it is a necessary evil that we have to take on occasionally. More >>
'Daily Voting News' For January 12, 2009
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 2:10 pm | John Gideon
It seems as if every year brings a new battle. This year some in state election administrations are going to be pushing internet voting as if it was a good idea. They will ignore all of the scientific evidence to the contrary. The simple fact is that the internet ... More >>
Daily Voting News For January 8, 2009
Friday, 9 January 2009, 1:26 pm | John Gideon
The media is being fairly silent today. Hillsborough Co Florida is still in the news with some reports that there may be a million dollars of more that are missing. The county is trying to do an audit while, at the same time, an outside audit is being ... More >>
'Daily Voting News' For January 7, 2009
Thursday, 8 January 2009, 4:57 pm | John Gideon
A bulk of this evening’s news is again from Hillsborough Co Florida where more is being revealed about the audit of the supervisor of elections financial dealings and, of course, the Minnesota senatorial recount where Coleman has taken to the courts ... More >>
'Daily Voting News' For January 6, 2009
Wednesday, 7 January 2009, 4:37 pm | John Gideon
As expected the Minnesota senatorial recount is going to court. If you have been reading this space for the past couple of weeks you know that auditors have been asked to review the financial records of Buddy Johnson’s Hillsborough Co Florida ... More >>
'Daily Voting News' For January 4 and 5, 2009
Wednesday, 7 January 2009, 11:18 am | John Gideon
“There can be little doubt that, of the issues springing from elections held since President Bush signed the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), two are among the most significant. Those issues are failures of voting systems to be accessible and ... More >>
'Daily Voting News' For December 27 to 29, 2008
Tuesday, 30 December 2008, 3:49 pm | John Gideon
Over a week ago Sequoia issued a press release and a blog item that were misleading in their content. In both cases the headline intimated, amongst other things, that Princeton Professor Andrew Appel was ordered by a New Jersey judge to apologize to ... More >>
'Daily Voting News' For December 25 and 26, 2008
Monday, 29 December 2008, 10:05 am | John Gideon
Today we have more from Maryland where the state’s Attorney General has filed a claim against Premier/Diebold to force the vendor to pay for the problems the state’s voting machines have encountered. If every state would do the same thing the vendors ... More >>
Daily Voting News For December 18, 2008
Friday, 19 December 2008, 1:59 pm | John Gideon
“Pennsylvania voters challenging the continued use of unverifiable electronic voting machines in their state won another major round on Tuesday when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a ruling allowing their case to proceed toward trial. The state’s ... More >>
Daily Voting News For December 17, 2008
Thursday, 18 December 2008, 3:22 pm | John Gideon
Hillsborough Co Florida outgoing election chief, Buddy Johnson, wanted $2.3M from the county to cover election cost overruns from the Nov. election. Stupidly Johnson did not bother showing up to appear before the county supervisors so they could ask ... More >>
Daily Voting News For December 16, 2008
Wednesday, 17 December 2008, 1:41 pm | John Gideon
A large majority of the news today is from Minnesota where they are still trying to count the votes and figure out just who is the man going to DC. ... More >>
Daily Voting News For December 15, 2008
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 1:48 pm | John Gideon
The news has not been written yet but I am hearing from New Jersey that the bill that would have forced the state’s voters to continue to use Sequoia Advantage DREs with no paper audit trail was defeated in one house of the state legislature ... More >>
'Daily Voting News' For December 10, 2008
Thursday, 11 December 2008, 4:05 pm | John Gideon
'Daily Voting News' For December 10, 2008 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org More >>
'Daily Voting News' For December 09, 2008
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 2:46 pm | John Gideon
This evenings DVN includes more from Humboldt Co. plus a video of the outrageous arrest of an Election Integrity Advocate in Broward Co. Florida. And why is it that many in the New Jersey legislature don’t want any transparency in their elections? ... More >>
'Daily Voting News' For December 08, 2008
Tuesday, 9 December 2008, 5:14 pm | John Gideon
There is not a lot of election’s related news today. The discovery that Premier/Diebold allowed counties to use software that they, the vendor, knew was not accurate is still in the news. There are two blog items leading tonight’s short list that discuss ... More >>
'Daily Voting News' For December 06 and 07, 2008
Tuesday, 9 December 2008, 9:43 am | John Gideon
'Daily Voting News' For December 06 and 07, 2008 Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org More >>
Daily Voting News For December 5, 2008
Friday, 5 December 2008, 1:42 pm | John Gideon
The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) was signed into law in Oct. 2002. Amongst other things HAVA required the formation of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) and provided some mandates, in Title III of the law, for federal elections including ... More >>
'Daily Voting News' For December 03, 2008
Thursday, 4 December 2008, 3:06 pm | John Gideon
Here is the news for the day. ... National: EAC Seeking Public Input on '08 Election LINK More >>
'Daily Voting News' For December 02, 2008
Wednesday, 3 December 2008, 1:36 pm | John Gideon
Other than a report of problems in one Georgia county with their electronic voter database the news has been quiet. Results of this election should be known this evening and reports of counting problems, if there are any, will dribble out over the next ... More >>
'Daily Voting News' For December 01, 2008
Wednesday, 3 December 2008, 11:11 am | John Gideon
The Minnesota recount is still on-going. Tomorrow the polls open for election day in Georgia for the re-vote for their Senate race. There was also a TRO sought by the Democratic Party in the recount of the Texas House District 105 race as part ... More >>
