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Daily Voting News For September 18, 2008
Friday, 19 September 2008, 2:47 pm | John Gideon
As you will notice the amount of news has been growing as we get closer to November. The media is beginning to look at election related issues; voting systems, voter registrations, vote caging and other schemes aimed at disenfranchising voters. Our ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 17, 2008
Thursday, 18 September 2008, 3:30 pm | John Gideon
We’ve been telling you that voter registration issues are going to be important this year. Even voters who have been registered for years and who have voted in recent elections may find out, when they go to the polls in Nov., that they are not eligible ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 16, 2008
Wednesday, 17 September 2008, 3:25 pm | John Gideon
SAVE R VOTE is a group of election watchdogs in Riverside Co California. Yesterday the group gave the county Board of Supervisors a report that they wrote after pouring over more than 10,000 documents for the past three months. Their report included ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 16, 2008
Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 1:45 pm | John Gideon
Last Friday a group of volunteers for a non-partisan veteran’s organization went to a Veterans Administration facility in San Francisco to meet with veterans and to provide them with an opportunity to register to vote. Just a couple weeks ago ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 13, 2008
Monday, 15 September 2008, 1:04 pm | John Gideon
Voter registrations and voter registration data bases have been a huge problem during the primary elections. There is no reason to believe that they will not be a huge problem in November. One of the only ways to ensure a voter is registered is for ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 12, 2008
Monday, 15 September 2008, 12:48 am | John Gideon
In today’s featured article the Brennan Center for Justice and the Advancement Project have reported that thousands of Florida voters may be disenfranchised by a last minute decision by the Secretary of State, Kurt Browning, to enforce a “no ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 11, 2008
Friday, 12 September 2008, 6:58 pm | John Gideon
In early reporting of the Washington DC primary one Sequoia memory cartridge reported what appeared to be thousands of write-in votes that officials say did not exist. Of course, these inaccurate results created chaos at the elections headquarters. ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 10, 2008
Thursday, 11 September 2008, 5:44 pm | John Gideon
A couple days ago in this space I mentioned a newly posted video and report from the good folks at UC Santa Barbara with some of their findings from their work on the Calif. Top-To-Bottom Review. This report has gotten a lot of press and the video ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 9, 2008
Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 4:55 pm | John Gideon
After months of pressure from state election officials, voting rights groups, veteran’s organizations, members of the US Senate, and citizens, the Dept. of Veterans Affairs has decided that it will be alright for veterans who live in VA facilities or are ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 9, 2008
Tuesday, 9 September 2008, 12:50 am | John Gideon
In this space we have mentioned voter registrations many times and asked that everyone check with their state to ensure they are still on the voter rolls. Now the EAC has added their voice with ours. The EAC has also provided a new tool to give the voter ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 7, 2008
Monday, 8 September 2008, 12:26 am | John Gideon
Today’s featured article is, again, from Palm Beach Co Florida. The quotes in this article make it clear that failing elections supervisors are going to blame the transition from DRE voting systems to optical-scan voting systems for any failures they encounter ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 6, 2008
Monday, 8 September 2008, 12:01 am | John Gideon
In this space yesterday I mentioned that the Colorado state Election Director, Holly Lowder, had resigned and no reason had been given at that time. It seems that an investigation shows that she shared an address and phone number with a vendor of ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 5, 2008
Sunday, 7 September 2008, 9:43 pm | John Gideon
Palm Beach Co had first responders joining with election officials and other volunteers out searching polling places looking for 2,500 lost ballots. Meanwhile the state has certified the state-wide primary election except the one judicial race that has ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 4, 2008
Friday, 5 September 2008, 1:08 pm | John Gideon
Readers will recall that as of yesterday Palm Beach Co Florida officials had lost well over 3,000 ballots sometime between the primary election and an election recount. Earlier today there were announcements that over 2700 ballots had been found. Late ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 3, 2008
Thursday, 4 September 2008, 1:36 pm | John Gideon
Just as an example of how screwed-up are Florida election laws yesterday Indian River Co.’s Canvassing Board approved the primary election results. Hopefully the reader will recall that Indian River had over 5000 ballots that were counted twice because ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 2, 2008
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 11:44 am | John Gideon
The news from Palm Beach Co Florida is not getting any better. The official recount is complete as required by the state. By state law they have exactly one week to count ballots, rectify any problems, do any required recounts, and certify that everything ... More >>
Daily Voting News For September 1, 2008
Tuesday, 2 September 2008, 12:03 am | John Gideon
A friend and fellow Election Integrity activist and Florida voter reminded me that in this space yesterday I neglected to mention that the two counties I discussed, Indian River and Palm Beach, were the only two customers in the state for Sequoia ... More >>
'Daily Voting News' For August 30 and 31, 2008
Monday, 1 September 2008, 12:56 am | John Gideon
True to form Florida is in the midst of another election nightmare. Is it a few less than honorable election officials in a couple counties; or, is it the simplistic process the state uses for certifying and accepting voting systems for use; or, is ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 29, 2008
Monday, 1 September 2008, 12:39 am | John Gideon
Last week Premier/Diebold admitted that their GEMS software used in as many as 34 states may have failed any number of times over the last 10 years. The admission comes from their actions in Ohio but no jurisdiction in any of the 33 other states ... More >>
Daily Voting News For August 28, 2008
Friday, 29 August 2008, 12:56 am | John Gideon
It is never easy asking for funding but it is something that non-profit groups have to do occasionally. VotersUnite.Org is not a project of Pew or one of the big-money organizations and we don’t want to be. We like being able to make our own decisions ... More >>
