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Daily Voting News For November 6, 2008
Friday, 7 November 2008, 10:23 am | John Gideon
Tabulating is still going on around the country and there are a lot of reports of problems with memory cards, software that is slow, over use of provisional ballots and voting system failures. More >>
Daily Voting News For November 5: Morning Edition
Thursday, 6 November 2008, 3:07 pm | John Gideon
This morning there are some articles that were from last night after I sent the evening edition. Anything I entered this morning is strictly about problems with voting machines and tabulation of votes. Except for something that I feel needs to be in DVN that ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 5: Evening Edition
Thursday, 6 November 2008, 3:02 pm | John Gideon
As we suspected tabulation of ballots has revealed problems with voting systems from all of the vendors. Hillsborough Co Florida is rethinking their contract with Premier/Diebold for $6M after having big problems counting votes. Manatee Co Florida also had a problem ... More >>
Daily Voting News For November 4: Evening Edition
Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 1:41 pm | John Gideon
Provisional ballot usage has become a big issue this election. Many voters don’t want to use them and who can blame them? Many voters need to use them as the only way they can vote. More >>
Daily Voting News For November 3: Morning Edition
Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 12:31 pm | John Gideon
Election day is tomorrow Well, here we are. Tomorrow is the day we have been building toward. Today much of the news is articles of reassurance from election officials across the nation. More >>
Daily Voting News For November 3, 2008
Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 10:23 am | John Gideon
Election day is tomorrow Fulton and Clayton Counties, Georgia have decided that they will have enough time at the polls for all voters who want to vote to do that. More >>
Daily Voting News For November 4, 2008
Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 9:58 am | John Gideon
This is it. The day we have been waiting for. Problems began first thing this morning with machine failures in New Jersey. There were also reports of memory cards failing on AVS Winvote machines in Fairfax Co Virginia. More >>
Daily Voting News For November 2, 2008
Monday, 3 November 2008, 1:36 pm | John Gideon
2 days until Election Day. I recommend that everyone watch the video that is our ‘Feature’ article this morning. This is what our election officials think of the voters? More >>
Ban Visits Kathmandu, Lauds Nepal's Peace Efforts
Monday, 3 November 2008, 10:20 am | John Gideon
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today lauded the “historic” progress made by the people of Nepal to restore peace and stability and reaffirmed the commitment of the United Nations to continue to support those efforts. More >>
Climate Change Places Increased Burdens On Women
Monday, 3 November 2008, 10:17 am | John Gideon
Efforts to achieve gender equality around the world must be accelerated, UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro told a gathering of women leaders in Seoul, while also highlighting the special burden climate change places on women. More >>
Urgent Funds Needed For Uprooted Palestinians
Monday, 3 November 2008, 10:14 am | John Gideon
The United Nations agency tasked with aiding Palestinian refugees today called on donors to urgently respond to the $43 million appeal it issued last month for funds to help some 27,000 people displaced from a Lebanese refugee camp last year. More >>
UN To Assist Thousands Of European Refugees
Monday, 3 November 2008, 10:12 am | John Gideon
The United Nations Refugee Agency and Council of Europe Development Bank have partnered to find durable housing, education and health solutions for thousands of European refugees, displaced people and returnees. More >>
Daily Voting News For November 1, 2008
Monday, 3 November 2008, 10:06 am | John Gideon
3 days until Election Day. Just a comment to those who want to dismiss ‘vote-flipping’ as voter error. All kinds of people go to the polls to vote. They are highly educated and high-school dropouts. Rich and poor. More >>
Daily Voting News For October 30, 2008
Friday, 31 October 2008, 9:22 am | John Gideon
5 days until Election Day. A deal was struck last evening in Colorado with the Secretary of State. 20,000 voters who were illegally purged from the state’s voter rolls will now be allowed to vote using provisional ballots. More >>
Daily Voting News For October 28, 2008
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 11:17 am | John Gideon
7 days until Election Day. The NAACP and Advancement Project have sued the VA Governor and the state’s top election officials for failing to provide enough resources to accommodate expected record turnout next week. More >>
Daily Voting News For October 24, 2008
Friday, 24 October 2008, 12:40 pm | John Gideon
12 days until Election Day. This morning there were two press releases from Pennsylvania. The links were broken so I have re-posted those articles to the top and added ‘tinyurls’. Hispanic voters in Nevada are getting calls to tell them they can vote over the phone. ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 23, 2008
Friday, 24 October 2008, 12:23 pm | John Gideon
12 days until Election Day. There is just too much news to fit into one email today so there will be one edition this morning (Pac time) and one at the normal time. We will be doing that through the election as the amount of news grows. So far today ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 22, 2008
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 2:32 pm | John Gideon
13 days until Election Day. Today we have more vote switching reports from Tennessee. There are also reports that the “Ballot-On-Demand” printer may be the root of the problems in some Florida counties. It seems that if the blank paper is not put ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 21, 2008
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 2:33 pm | John Gideon
14 days until Election Day. New York state officials have either purged or made inactive over 1.6 million voters. That is a huge number and with that large a number there will certainly be problems. Georgia’s Secretary of State is doing all she can to ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 20, 2008
Monday, 20 October 2008, 12:50 pm | John Gideon
16 days until Election Day. Yesterday we reported vote flipping on ES&S iVotronic DREs in Jackson Co West Virginia. Today we have a report from Putnam Co that votes are flipping on their iVotronic machines. More >>
