14 Articles

Thursday, November 20, 2008
Another moose caught in the headlights: New ethics complaint against Sarah Palin.
(4 comments) Kick that pitbull while she's down. Will another Republican Darling bite the dust... sand... SNOW? A new ethics complaint filed against Sarah Palin invokes comparisons of Palin with another Republican Darling, former Secretary of State Katherine Harris. Dark hair, lipstick, ambition, ethics... failing upwards, and both were used badly. They may have much in common after all.

Saturday, November 15, 2008
U.S. patients suffer more medical errors. If you don't personally know how prevalent medical errors are, you will.
(9 comments) U.S. patients suffer more medical errors. Fifty-four percent of U.S. chronically ill patients didn't get recommended care. If you don't personally know how prevalent medical errors are, you will. One person's five year ordeal of medical missteps ends.

Saturday, November 1, 2008
SysTest Labs: Why it matters to you as a voter, as a conpiracy.
(3 comments) Dubious victor in botched election hired SysTest to "prove" voting machines didn't scrap 18K votes. SysTest, the same company that certified the machines first place. SysTest, it matters. If you vote, SysTest could be responsible for ensuring your vote counts ... or not. An unsettling stream of election failures on ES&S DREs, just 1 of 15 vendors tested by SysTest casts more doubt on our already troubled elections.

Friday, October 31, 2008
Election Conspiracy at the Moosylvania Gazette
(1 comments) The Moosylvania Gazette theory of election conspiracy and why it's easier to believe all that vote fraud ruckus is just more fodder from the lunatic fringe of poor losers wasting taxpayers' money than it is to consider the possibilities of a big bad voting conspiracy.

Thursday, October 23, 2008
Conspiracy, coincidence, or skullduggery?
(4 comments) When is a coincidence too much of a coincidence to be one? One tilted election? Two? Four? And how many players constitute conspiracy? Connell, George W., Jeb, Hagel, Harris, Mortham, Feeney, ES&S, Ohio, Florida... McCain... 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006. All within one degree of separation. Consider also ES&S, liable for failures in 34 states, tallied 50% of the votes in the last four major U.S. elections. Coincidence? You decide.

Saturday, August 30, 2008
New machines, new election, & Sarasota's still can't count our votes.
A recap of this Tuesday's election in Florida sounds eerily familiar. Sarasota can't count votes. Only this time there's paper to prove it. And this time they can't blame the voters for Florida's failed voting systems.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The "He Did It / She Did It" Business Model for Elections
(1 comments) Advocates of paper ballot technology are "fuddy-duddy, itchy-witchy thinking, nervous Nelly, skittish souls over 40." Exciting e-debate elicits another look at the "he did it / she did it" business model. No matter the voting method, until we develop sound business practices, and standards for recognizing flawed election results that insist on prompt corrective action, we cannot ensure all votes will be counted correctly.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
GAO D-13: Voters with Secret Decoder Rings Get Votes Counted
Catawampus touch screens remain high on the list as one cause of 18,000 lost votes in Sarasota's District 13. After waiting over a year for a comprehensive evaluation of calibration on Sarasota's ES&S iVotronics DRE/touch screens, it appears none will be forthcoming.

Thursday, February 7, 2008
GAO Sarasota D-13: Blood on the floor, bullet in the head, where did that smoking gun go?
GAO. Not the machines? Then what? Logic, reason, numbers tell a different story. If we are to accept a finding that machines were not the cause of Sarasota's missing 18K votes, then do we also assume 89K Florida voters across the state walked up to the iVotronic touchscreens & decided not to vote for Atty General? Or do we observe the blood on the floor, the bullet in the head & perhaps wonder, where did that smoking gun go?

Wednesday, January 30, 2008
It's the Voters' Fault. The DOG ATE MY BALLOT and Other URBAN LEGENDS!
As Florida Secretary of State downgrades Florida's voting nightmares to urban legend and people problems, voters wonder if he knows who won 2006's Congressional District-13 and if he's found those lost 18,000 votes. If you don't know you've got a problem, you can't fix it.

Thursday, December 20, 2007
Is your vote worth 10 minutes? 20? An hour? Apparently not in Florida
Federal judge rules against the voter registration law which has disenfranchised 14,000 should-be voters and Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning balks. Browning says Florida's law is perfectly consistent with the Help Americans Vote Act and is appropriately enacted.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
A closer look at the GAO's Florida District 13. No smoking gun...Not if but when and how often. Could Red be next?
No smoking gun needed to know we've been shot. GAO findings include a series of events that individually reveal an apparent lapse in sound business practices. Together they are troubling. For it's no longer a question of IF the voting system falter, but WHEN. Next time these hotshot machines could take aim at a red target. None of us, not red, blue, independent, or indifferent should accept this chipping away at Democracy.

Thursday, October 18, 2007
Will your vote count? New playstation...same vendor. Will ES&S win another election?
ES&S wins Florida. Voters lose.

Thursday, September 13, 2007
How to steal an election...How do we stop it?
(4 comments) One voter, one vote...every time. Our election process is broken. It's not just the voting machines or the paper trail. We must go back to business basics, consider the whole problem before grabbing for perfect solutions. This article responds to Nancy Tobi's 9/09/07 comprehensive coverage of Bruce O'Dell's NH testimony.