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Daily Voting News For October 19, 2008
Sunday, 19 October 2008, 1:20 pm | John Gideon
17 days until Election Day. Along with early voting we are getting reports of early vote switching. The ES&S iVotronic machines in Jackson Co. West Virginia are reportedly swapping voters selections from one candidate to another. VotersUnite has done some ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 17, 2008
Saturday, 18 October 2008, 5:33 pm | John Gideon
18 days until Election Day. Today was a day for court decisions. Finally a judge in New Jersey has released the Princeton University report on the state’s Sequoia Voting Machines. Earlier Sequoia had released their response to the report. After ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 16, 2008
Friday, 17 October 2008, 2:28 pm | John Gideon
In a small but notable victory Vermonters for Voting Integrity were able to prove to the voters in Calais, VT that it was a good thing to stand up against the Secretary of State’s office and vote down the use of Diebold machines. More >>
Daily Voting News For October 13, 2008
Tuesday, 14 October 2008, 12:57 am | John Gideon
22 days until Election Day. In what may be a program unique to Connecticut, UConn ‘s VoTeR Center performs a pre-election audit of the memory cards for the state’s Premier AccuVote Optical-Scan tabulators. More >>
Daily Voting News For October 12, 2008
Monday, 13 October 2008, 2:36 pm | John Gideon
Election officials across the country are beginning to make the same statements they make before every election. In order to try to give the voters some confidence they are talking about how they are ready. More >>
Daily Voting News For October 7, 2008
Wednesday, 8 October 2008, 1:05 pm | John Gideon
Several days ago, in this space, we recommended that voters who have the ability to vote “straight party” do not exercise that right. More >>
Daily Voting News For October 5, 2008
Monday, 6 October 2008, 1:14 pm | John Gideon
Today we have four “Featured” articles. These four were selected together because they were all in the “Tennessean” newspaper; one of the largest newspapers in the state of Tennessee. More >>
Daily Voting News For October 2, 2008
Friday, 3 October 2008, 4:55 pm | John Gideon
The latest testing results from Palm Beach Co Florida seem to clearly point to problems with the voting machines. It wasn’t the only problem the county had in the primary but it seems to have been a large part of it. Tomorrow (Friday) there will be a hearing ... More >>
Daily Voting News For October 1, 2008
Thursday, 2 October 2008, 3:44 pm | John Gideon
In one of our ‘Featured’ articles CBS Evening News has raised the “Red Flag On Purging Voter Rolls”. This article reports on a just released report from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law on voter roll purges. ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 29, 2008
Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 1:28 pm | John Gideon
In a clear victory for Ohio voters a federal judge and the State Supreme Court all agreed that voters can register to vote and vote all on the same day within a week-long period during early voting. The courts found that Secretary of State Brunner had, ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 28, 2008
Monday, 29 September 2008, 12:59 am | John Gideon
In our featured article today we again get information about the shut-down of the Social Security Administration’s databases for maintenance. As related in the article by Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center for Justice this shut-down is important because ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 27, 2008
Monday, 29 September 2008, 12:38 am | John Gideon
Over 25 years ago one well-known political hack said this about voting, “I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 26, 2008
Monday, 29 September 2008, 12:26 am | John Gideon
Forty-one states have voter registration deadlines between Oct. 6 and Oct 20. One of the tools that states need is the online system provided by the Social Security Administration (SSA) that allows states to match Social Security Numbers on voter ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 25, 2008
Friday, 26 September 2008, 12:12 am | John Gideon
Why is it that some election officials in swing-states have decided to discourage voting by college students? The answer seems obvious; they know how a majority of them will vote and they don’t want that. According to our “Featured” article ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 24, 2008
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 3:39 pm | John Gideon
The election nightmare may be over in Palm Beach Co Florida. After seven recounts, machine and hand, the election for a county circuit court seat has been certified. The losing candidate, of course, is considering legal actions. Still not explained ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 24, 2008
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 3:20 pm | John Gideon
This morning a judge in Florida authorized Palm Beach Co. to do another recount. That is they are going to recount the recount of the recount of the original count. In this machine recount the county hopes to find 159 ballots in 54 precincts in which ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 22, 2008
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 1:16 pm | John Gideon
Early voting has begun, as of today, in Georgia, Kentucky, Virginia, and South Carolina. Colorado doesn’t begin early voting until October 20 and it is probably a good thing because the ballot is so long that the voters guide is 144 pages long. Palm ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 21, 2008
Monday, 22 September 2008, 12:44 am | John Gideon
This from our “Featured” article: “Three weeks after the election and several recounts the canvassing board advises that they can’t come to a final answer today. The board is done with the manual count but there are some issues with the computers ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 20, 2008
Sunday, 21 September 2008, 2:17 pm | John Gideon
The unbelievable is still happening in Palm Beach Co Florida. The county counted, re-counted by machine all previously machine counted ballots and recounted by hand all under and over voted ballots. The recounts showed that thousands of ballots were ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 19, 2008
Sunday, 21 September 2008, 1:53 pm | John Gideon
It is now a bit fun watching some previously silent news organizations fall all over themselves as they suddenly recognize that our election process is seriously flawed. Today CNN reported, and many smaller organizations picked up the report, that the ... More >>
