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'Daily Voting News' For November 29 and 30, 2008
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 11:13 am | John Gideon
The good folks in Minnesota are still recounting votes in the Senate race. There will be a lot of heated discussion over how voter intent is decided by officials and my guess is that the courts are going to have to decide the winner and loser. ... More >>
'Daily Voting News' For November 26, 2008
Thursday, 27 November 2008, 4:12 pm | John Gideon
The “Daily Voting News” staff [all one of us] is going to take tomorrow off to enjoy family and friends. We will be back on Friday. We hope you all have a great Thanksgiving and have an opportunity to enjoy family and friends. A three judge panel ... More >>
Daily Voting News November 26
Thursday, 27 November 2008, 2:03 pm | John Gideon
A three judge panel of the 6th US Court of Appeals in Ohio has ruled unanimously that a lawsuit filed by the League of Women Voters in the aftermath of the 2004 general election can continue in US District Court. More >>
'Daily Voting News' For November 25, 2008
Thursday, 27 November 2008, 11:51 am | John Gideon
Prior to election day we, VotersUnite.Org, counseled voters to not use straight-party voting. We put it on our website and I wrote about it in these spaces. Straight-party voting as it is used in Texas is rife for misunderstanding and mistakes by the voters. ... More >>
Daily Voting News November 25
Wednesday, 26 November 2008, 1:21 pm | John Gideon
Thousands of Georgia absentee ballot requests have been denied because the voters did not sign the requests. Many of the requests are via a post-card provided by the RNC and the signature block is supposedly hard to find on the card. More >>
Daily Voting News For November 24
Wednesday, 26 November 2008, 10:45 am | John Gideon
Thousands of Georgia absentee ballot requests have been denied because the voters did not sign the requests. Many of the requests are via a post-card provided by the RNC and the signature block is supposedly hard to find on the card. Over 7,000 requests ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 23
Monday, 24 November 2008, 3:10 pm | John Gideon
The Minnesota Senatorial race is still the source of most of the news. The Minneapolis-St Paul StarTribune seems to have some of the best coverage of the recount. More >>
'Daily Voting News' For November 22 and 23, 2008
Monday, 24 November 2008, 2:27 pm | John Gideon
The Minnesota Senatorial race is still the source of most of the news. The Minneapolis-St Paul StarTribune seems to have some of the best coverage of the recount. The link in the article below has not changed over the past few days but the story is constantly ... More >>
'Daily Voting News' For November 21, 2008
Monday, 24 November 2008, 11:22 am | John Gideon
The recount in Minnesota continues to dominate the news. Franken is inching closer to Coleman’s vote total but there are still a lot of votes to count and then a steadily growing number of challenged ballots that will have to be cussed and discussed. ... More >>
'Daily Voting News' For November 20, 2008
Friday, 21 November 2008, 2:16 pm | John Gideon
For those of you who are closely watching the Minnesota senatorial recount there is a live blog that is dedicated to reports from the ground in the state. You can go here and keep up-to-date.... More >>
'Daily Voting News' For November 19, 2008
Friday, 21 November 2008, 11:48 am | John Gideon
We have another report today from Connecticut and the UConn memory card tests that are done in that state regularly. These are Premier/Diebold memory cards and 9% of the cards inspected failed for various reasons including that some contained additional ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 17, 2008
Tuesday, 18 November 2008, 2:31 pm | John Gideon
The subject of the moment seems to be Internet voting. The media isn’t reporting about it yet but the mailing list groups are all abuzz with concerns about Internet voting and, in my opinion, they should be concerned. More >>
Daily Voting News For November 16, 2008
Monday, 17 November 2008, 2:09 pm | John Gideon
I hate to disappoint those who like to read my lead-in to the news but I really can’t think of anything worthwhile to write today. This may be one of the last days when we in the Pac. More >>
Daily Voting News For November 13, 2008
Friday, 14 November 2008, 2:54 pm | John Gideon
In the face of a large number of problems with unverifiable, inaccurate, and unreliable voting systems the state of New Jersey is on the verge of making another decision to put off any requirement for a voter verified paper ballot. More >>
'Daily Voting News' For November 11, 2008
Wednesday, 12 November 2008, 3:40 pm | John Gideon
Late this afternoon came an announcement from Washington DC that they have, again, found voting counting/reporting anomalies in the Sequoia voting system. There is not a lot to report yet except that there will be a public hearing on Friday. The ... More >>
'Daily Voting News' For November 10, 2008
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 11:03 pm | John Gideon
Many pundits and talking heads of all stripes are summing up this past election as if it was all over. Depending on who their audience is they are claiming that it was all a success and that there were no long lines or they are telling us that there ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 9, 2008
Monday, 10 November 2008, 6:52 pm | John Gideon
In this space in the Nov. 07 DVN I mentioned that ES&S software was responsible for flipping votes in Crawford Co Kansas. That statement was incorrect. The county did their own ballot programming for the first time. They made a mistake in ballot rotation ... More >>
'Daily Voting News' For November 07, 2008
Sunday, 9 November 2008, 6:25 pm | John Gideon
Today we have reports that ES&S software actually flipped votes in three races at one polling place in Crawford Co Kansas. We also have reports that ES&S software incorrectly reported results in one race in Polk Co North Carolina. The long count ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 9, 2008
Sunday, 9 November 2008, 6:19 pm | John Gideon
It looks like there is strong talk about holding Premier/Diebold at fault for the problems in Hillsborough Co Florida. I’m not convinced that anything will be done except posturing by local officials. Premier claims they warned the county with an ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 6: Evening Edition
Friday, 7 November 2008, 3:27 pm | John Gideon
Voters in New York have just taken part in the last election for their beloved lever voting machines. Those machines will be replaced by a voting system from one of the vendors who has provided the machines that failed across the country. More >>
