http://www.opednews.com/articles/South-Carolina-Proves-Stat-by-Garland-Favorito-100724-239.html Alvin Greene was declared the winner based on a near landslide 60-40% margin in Election Day electronic voting results. However Vic Rawl actually won the mail-in paper ballot absentee voting by a solid 55-45% margin. The near 30% total point differential among the two candidates is unheard of in South Carolina election history and perhaps, nationally as well.
TN: Election commission to move voting machines to main office* (microvote DREs)
Commission to ask for use of old library building(Lost voting machine & memory cards)
http://crossville-chronicle.com/local/x1896331391/Election-commission-to-move-voting-machines-to-main-office ...Cumberland County... Election Commission Chairman Calvin Smart recommended the voting machines be moved from the Community Complex to the election commission's office for a "more secure" location.
Smart reported that after inventory was taken on the equipment it revealed that one machine was missing, three card readers were missing and 12 tally cards were missing.
WI: Inflammatory Language Rejected From Wisc. Ballot
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/24/politics/main6709122.shtml Independent Candidate for State Assembly Fights to Use Slogan "Not the Whiteman's b*tch" on Ballot
Schneier on Security - Internet Worm Targets SCADA
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/07/internet_worm_t.html
Stuxnet is a new Internet worm that specifically targets Siemens WinCC SCADA systems: used to control production at industrial plants such as oil rigs, refineries, electronics production, and so on.
National
can i still vote if my voter registration says inactive?
http://www.where-do-i.info/can-i-still-vote-if-my-voter-registration-says-inactive/
10 States Add Campaign Finance Laws
After Supreme Court's Citizens United Ruling, Disclose Act Stalled in the Senate
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/campaign-finance-laws-emerge-states-disclose-act-stalled/story?id=11234998&page=1
Remembering the Women Who Brought Us the Vote
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Remembering-the-Women-Who-by-Elayne-Clift-100724-707.html ...stories of the 168 women who went to prison simply because they wanted to be counted as full-fledged citizens of the country in which they'd been born. Here are some of those first-hand accounts...
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