28 Articles

Tuesday, August 18, 2009
8/17. Hack Intercepts NEDAP Voting Machine Signal, NEW Research Database on US Voting Systems, Disclose Aspen Ballots?
A new voting machine hack, intercepts NEDAP voting machine signal. Online Poll: Should Aspen's ballots be disclosed for an independent audit? There's a new Research Database on the U.S. Voting System and Voting Technology by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. NC Verified celebrates 4 yr anniversary of paper ballot law.

Monday, August 17, 2009
8/17 Voting News. Why the "new hack" matters. CA SOS Boen at Open Source, Double Voting in Online Election, Videos
More articles on the "new hack". 2 excellent videos: Video of Computer scientist Hovav Shacham explaining what the new hack is and why it matters. Video of California SOS Bowen at OpenSource World event. CA's SOS used cloud computing to handle peak election night loads on the SOS website. Alabama lawmakers defend voting the machines of others. A group pushes for Vote By Mail in Idaho. Double voting in onine election.

Friday, August 14, 2009
8/12 Voting News. Diebold quietly patches flaw, TX election database down, Tenn again, Hack $ cheap!
Diebold Quietly Patches Security Flaw in Vote Counting Software. Ballot dispute: The Aspen Colorado City Council refuses to release ballots for an independent review while the Aspen Times supports it. Texas elections databases and other parts of the SOS computer system have been down since last week. The GA SoS asks again for the U.S. Justice Dept to approve strict matching for voter reg. Kenya wants to go paperless in 2012

Friday, August 14, 2009
Voting News 8/9. New voting hack, Internet voting in defense bill, Tennessee lawyering up, Apsen transparency
New hack demonstrated on electronic voting machines. (video) Internet Voting whackamole as Defense Authorization bill allows pilot. Tennessee hot mess: The dispute over voting machines may head for the courts. Tenn. Secretary of State detained voting activist as a terrorist. Aspen voters still seek ballot images from May. Bad economy pushes eletion changes.

Thursday, August 13, 2009
Prevent Election Fiascoes in Tennessee - Enact Paper Ballot Law NOW
(1 comments) A perfect storm is brewing for Tennessee voters for the 2010 election. Tennessee is set up for an election debacle, thanks to the states' reliance on paperless electronic voting. Currently 93 out of 95 counties in Tennessee use these machines. Unless the Secretary of State Hargett takes swift and certain prompt action, thousands of votes will be at risk in the 2010 election.

Sunday, August 9, 2009
Voting News 8/7.Voting machines for sale, Fed Bills gain sponsor,Calls for TN official to implement paper ballot law
In Tennessee, State Rep Odum calls on State's top election official to do his job - implement the paper ballot law. Microvote voting machines for sale in Indiana, Newark Ohio selling punch card machines. Some 866OURVOTE applauds Kansas' move to allow online voter registration. New Mexico's SOS wants people to register now to officials time to process. Election bills including the Holt bill gain sponsors. India EVMS hackable?

Friday, August 7, 2009
Voting News 8/6. TN County missing voting machine, PA group needs audit help, NVRA Diebold certified
The bad economy impacts elections. WVa approved early voting but provided no funds for it. PA activists need volunteers to audit their paperless elections. Woodbury County, IA dropped plans for Vote Centers in face of lawsuit. A TN County learned they were missing 1 voting machine and 3 card readers. Vote Centers are being mislabled as "convenience voting".Tennessee still fighting over their paper ballot law.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009
8/4 Voting News. EAC goes YouTube, NY Sticker Shock, Ohio helps voters, Bad ideas for elections spread
What next, the EAC on Twitter? New York Counties discover costs of switching to voting machines while EVoter Education Project addresses security issues, Economy pushes polling place closures and push for more mail voting. Kansas voters can register to vote online, India's voting machines hacked in test, bad ideas for elections spread around the world.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009
8/3 Voting News. Dominion takes NY, USPS pushes Vote By Mail, TX county ditching paper, Pa wants levers
Sequoia/Dominion has succeeded in getting its machines in most New York Counties. The National Association of Letter Carriers) wants the the Postal Service to aggressively push “vote-by-mail” initiatives. PA wants to keep levers, a felon in enfranchisement case may head to the US Supreme Court... Galveston County Texas will ditch paper ballots. MS GOP launces voter ID campaign

Monday, May 25, 2009
New Yorkers Sold Down the River, Pilot Will Put Uncertified Voting Machines in 45 of 60 Counties
The New York State Board of Elections has voted to aid voting machine vendors. by allowing "pilots" of uncertified voting machines. This pilot will put nearly 1 million votes at risk. In case you didn't know, pilots are Trojan Horses, they are a way of sneaking the camel's nose into the tent. Then in a bit, the entire camel takes over the inside of the tend.

Saturday, December 13, 2008
Instant Runoff Voting touted as way to eliminate recounts
(4 comments) Supporters of instant runoff voting are touting the method as a way to eliminate election recounts, according to a recent op-ed in a Minnesota paper. The argument is that if the state used IRV, the Franken/Coleman contest would not need a recount. Sorry, but getting rid of a key component of election transparency isn't a good idea. Further,the claim that IRV "totally eliminates the need for a recount" is flat out false

Monday, December 1, 2008
3rd bug found in Pierce County Instant Runoff Voting System
Pierce County Washington is up to "software bug number 3" in their new Instant Runoff Voting system. We blogged earlier this year about two other major software bugs in Pierce County's IRV voting system, first in June and then in September of 2008. Now there is a report of a third software bug in Pierce County's instant runoff voting software. This time the issue is the software can't handle more than 200,000 votes at a time..

Thursday, October 30, 2008
Warning NC Student Voters: ARE YOU REALLY REGISTERED TO VOTE? These students weren't!!!
WARNING TO NC VOTERS! College Students are at HIGH RISK of not being on the voter rolls. ALL voters should check their voter registration. You must be registered to make your vote count! If your name isn't on the voter rolls, your last chance to register is now through Nov 1. Check! Vote! Be Sure! Vote EARLY!

Friday, October 10, 2008
Ohio-duh steals Flori-duh's Butterfly Ballot Design
Ohio may go down in history this November when 12 counties use a butterfly ballot. The design is hauntingly similar to the one that made Florida notorious in November 2000. The problem - the design is a modern day butterfly ballot, splitting the presidential contest over two columns on their paper ballots for this November's election.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Florida's No Match-No Vote Law Violates Equal Protection
Florida's last minute and selective enforcement of Florida's "No Match No Vote" law violates the Equal Protection clause of the 14th amendment. The law is only being applied to a certain class of voters - the newest voters - only those registering after Sept 8. The 10.7 million voters who registered before September 8 will not be held to the same standards that have already affected 7000 new registrants...

Sunday, September 21, 2008
New: Fake Voter Registration Letter in Florida Misleads Voters
(2 comments) Florida voters receiving phony voter registration letters. The purpose is to confuse voters, not cage them, The forms have misleading & incorrect information that could mess up voters' registration if sent in. The Obama campaign must take action themselves, there's no time to wait for "investigations" that go nowhere.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
"We have you registered as a Republican"
Confusing McCain mailers target senior Dems in Florida, lead voters to question their voter registration status.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
McCain's Absentee Ballot Mailer Fiasco Spreads - Could Disqualify Some Voters
(1 comments) Reports from around the country advise that John McCain's campaign has sent confusing or incorrect absentee ballot request forms to voters in ten states at least. Affected so far are Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon (reported by blogger, not confirmed) Minnesota, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin so far.

Sunday, August 31, 2008
They're Back! Women's Voices Women Vote Sowing Confusion Again With "Registration Drive"
(2 comments) The DC non profit "Women's Voices Women Vote" is at it again confusing voters & burying election officials in unneccesary paperwork. WVWV did this to 26 states in the 2008 and in 2007 - pumping out registration forms seemingly willie nillie to 6 & 14 yr olds, deceased persons, registered voters, even to Rosemary Rodriguez. One way to disenfranchise voters is to "gum up" the system that enfranchises them.

Thursday, August 21, 2008
Have Third Parties Been "Punked" By Instant Runoff?
(12 comments) Third party members and alot of people have just been seriously punked by Instant Runoff Voting. It may take them a few years to figure it out, but it will be too late then. IRV hurts third parties. Just look at the history of IRV in real life

Thursday, July 24, 2008
Is Instant Runoff Voting Hurting Minorities in Takoma Park Maryland?
(13 comments) The latest talking point of Instant Runoff Voting advocates is that IRV "can empower communities of color". Well "the truth is out there" right there in Fair Votes' own back yard. It turns out that Takoma Park Maryland, the home base for IRV, has Zero NADA minority representation. "All of its elected officials are white." And voter turnout flat out sucks.

Saturday, July 19, 2008
Instant Runoff Means Touch Screen Tricks in North Carolina
(6 comments) Fads trump election transparency.(electronic voting?). Since North Carolina passed its paper ballot law, its been harder to mess up the vote. So here comes Instant Runoff Voting, which is hardly transparent. NC tested IRV in 2007, and found a "creative" 100 plus steps method to count IRV on touchscreens.This may get a test again in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Why bother working for verified voting when it gets undone so easily?

Sunday, May 4, 2008
Update on Robo Calls in NC - Investigation Heats Up - African Americans Key Victims
(2 comments) The investigation into the illegal robo calls targeting African Americans in North Carolina is expanding. Although NC's Atty General has said the calls are illegal, high profile voting advocates are shying away from the "politically incorrect" story. They are not comfortable reporting since the scam benefits a democratic candidate for president. I guess its only voter fraud if republicans are tied to it. Double standard?

Monday, October 22, 2007
The Voting Literacy Test of the 21st Century
(6 comments) IRV, the Voter Literacy Test of the 21st Century. Today's barriers to voting are becoming more sophisticated and promoted sometimes by people we trust and respect. Why would we allow a voting method that we know will disenfranchise certain segments of voters from the get-go? This is not moral.

Friday, June 22, 2007
Politicized DOJ Issues License to Purge Voters to North Carolina
The DOJ wants to purge 10% of North Carolina's votes. They sent a "license to purge" to our top election officials. More votes are lost by deliberate voter supression than any other method. North Carolina election officials turned down the "invite to purge", but will your election officials? See the memo from the DOJ, and how incorrect information was used to build a case to purge.

Monday, April 9, 2007
OVERTHROWING OF DEMOCRACY -From Within - "Pseudo Activism"
(1 comments) Overthrowing Successful Activism 101 - Or Maintaining the status quo of failing election systems. Since 2003, Congressman Rush Holt has worked to get legislation to protect the elections of all 50 states. National groups and activists have been key to this effort. Now that HR 811 gets closer to passing, has a "pseudo activism" or counter-effort emerged?

Thursday, March 29, 2007
New: Voting Machine Companies to Congress - ALL YOUR VOTES BELONG TO US
(1 comments) The Voting Machine Lobby reacts to amendments to the Help America Vote Act. In the Vendor Lobby's letter to congress, it becomes clear: Amendments to HAVA will hurt voting machine companies, the audits will provide an inconvenient truth, and the ban on toilet paper ballot will stick us with lots of unsold inventory. Vendors are not ready to give up their private control of our elections.

Monday, January 22, 2007
Laying to Rest Fraudulent Fraud Rumors Damaging to Election Integrity
(5 comments) Rumors still swirl around the Internet that the wrong winners were picked in both the FL 13's and NC 08's congressional races.