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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 17, 2008
McCain's Absentee Ballot Mailer Fiasco Spreads - Could Disqualify Some Voters 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.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Voting News: Online Voting - All That Glitters Is Not Gold. Does your vote count in Georgia? "Who agrees online voting is not secure? Pretty much everyone who isn't trying to make money on it...They dishonor the troops fighting to secure our freedom by failing to adequately secure a precious part of that freedom - their votes - in order to turn a profit." writes Dan McCrae of Florida Voters in "Online Voting: All That Glitters Is Not Gold"...Jeff Rayno on Georgia's paperless voting machines: "Did your vote count?
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, September 21, 2008
New: Fake Voter Registration Letter in Florida Misleads Voters 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.
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, March 20, 2010
Why Maryland STILL Does Not Have Paper Ballots How did Maryland end up with E-Poll Books instead of paper ballots? Maryland passed a law to require paper ballots in 2010, and in 2006 (then) Gov Ehrlich allocated $28.5 million for optical scanners. So what went wrong? Two words: Linda Lamone. See timeline on how funds for MD optical scan were diverted, where those funds came from, how those funds were spent on e-poll books, and reliability issues of poll books.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 1, 2010
Voting News: Voter roll flaws impact 1 in 10 voters. Voters sue to count 12, 563 RivCo ballots Study of Los Angeles County CA and Florida voter rolls finds 10%+ of voters records had flaws that could prevent voters from casting a ballot..Butler County OH may settle suit w/Premiere over failure that caused 200 votes to go uncounted...Final judgement -ES&S must sell some assets...The USACM Releases Issue Brief on Military and Overseas Internet Voting..
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 16, 2010
Voting News: WV 1st in military internet voting. Boise U internet election voided. DC voting rights. ACORN's epitaph A bill has been revived that would give District of Columbia representation in Congress...Will there or won't there be a special election NY's 29th?...The economy is causing cuts in elections in Tennessee...West Virginia will be first state to hold internet election for overseas military.Boise State University's internet election was voided after a "glitch" resulted in 109 blank ballots. Epitaph for ACORN-Done in by friends?
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 20, 2010
Voting News: Dominion buys Premier-Diebold. US experts hack India EVM. Smartmatic flaw stuns officials Michigan Atty Gen: "Voted ballots...are public records.."..Revolving door in PA swings toward Internet Voting..Anti-Trust: Dominion acquires Diebold assets from ES&S...San Francisco unsure how many wrong ballots issued...Delaware City ends "poll tax"...US experts 'hack' India e-voting machines...Philippines Rep. Locsin blows top over Smartmatic election return flaws...Which UK polls disenfranchised voters?
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Voting News: Vote flipping in Indiana, Maryland, Penn. 10,000 calls to 866OURVOTE 866-OUR-VOTE received over 10,000 calls today. Top states include CA, GA & PA. Some in today's news. Would you believe Alabama didn't have enough pens, so used pencils to mark ballots, causing probs? ..MD Diebold touchscreens flip votes from GOP to DEM!..CA awaits millions of mail ballots..probs with epoll books,paper poll books, power outages,locked up ballots,polling place moves, machine shutdowns, vote flipping, scams...
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 1, 2010
Voting News: Beware Absentee Ballots. Judge nixes Sarasota audits. OR online primary hype Absentee ballot fraud & corruption inquiries in Bell CA., Bladen Co NC, & Troy NY...Atty Bill Risner seeks to depose Iron Mountain over Pima Co AZ election materials...A judge overrules Sarasota voters on election audits that would make sure the tallying machines work correctly...Facts v hype in "The So-Called Online Internet Primary in Oregon"...Election snafu trips up Columbia voter..Citizens United ruling may help WV Coal
SHARE More Sharing        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.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Voting News: Voters Sue Garland, Arkansas Election Officials. Validity of Election Challenged Voters filed suit against Garland Co Arkansas. Garland Co had 2nd highest turnout yet voters were turned away due as polling places were cut from 40 to 2. Those changes were illegal says SOS. "They've tried this before," said attorney Ben Hooten who filed lawsuit on behalf of disenfranchised voters..Scanners at all 55 Nevada Co CA polls failed..Santa Clara has about 100K ballots yet to count..Mahoning Ohio to cut 37 precincts.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 13, 2010
Voting News: Wikileaks, Estonia's internet election and 'Lessons Learned'. Editor's Note Maryland Report -" Scanners Cost Less than DREs..EAC has $2,000,000 in grants for voting system pre-election logic & accuracy testing & post-election audits...Wikileak describes actual attacks on a Estonia's first internet election in "SUBJECT: ESTONIA'S CYBER ATTACKS: LESSONS LEARNED"...Yesterday we ran article that said US voting machine expert Alec Halderman was deported upon arrival in India. The article was wrong...
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, June 11, 2010
Voting News: Was SC Dem Primary punked? 20,000 Riverside CA mail ballots wont count Experts have already uncovered some 'curious' findings in the South Carolina Democratic Primary data says Rawl's campaign mgr. Were SC paperless touchscreen machines the problem? Was there a cross over vote? Were 3 candidates "plants"? Or did low info voters elect unknowns?...California voters concerned about vote by mail- 20,000 mail ballots for Riverside DA election missed deadline, won't be counted.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Voting News: Garland Arkansas election debacle. Problems in CA, NV, NJ, NV, SC Garland County cluster#@%* primary..Some GOP ballots wouldn't scan in Sacramento CA...Polls open late in San Jose CA..Some problems with eSlate voting machines in Orange Co CA but paper ballots saved the day...Some Venice CA voters disenfrachised when precinct was without poll books, voting machines, ballots...NJ Voting Machines Left Unattended, Despite Court Order...Some delays in Greeneville SC...
SHARE More Sharing        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...
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 25, 2010
The Arizona Jaime Cuervo "Papers Please" Law and Voter Suppression The groundwork for a coup can be successfully laid through identity politics and racism. They called it Jim Crow in the South. This "papers please" law is much like North Carolina, 1898 all over again. History repeats itself with Jaime Cuervo in Arizona. Challenging voters, voter caging, and voter suppression have now gotten 1,000 times easier in Arizona thanks to the "papers please" law.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 28, 2010
Voting News: E-Voting 'a hopelessly dangerous concept'. NC GOP threatens suit over vote flipping New database on state recount & audit laws...Verified Voting new map of voting tech in US...IL Dems botch absentee early voting push..NC GOP threatens suit over touch-screen voting machines..NY voter cross fingers...SC voting machines not reliable says Computer Science Prof Dr. Duncan Buell ...NM & VA voter reg. databases bogged down...9 voting machines unattended overnight in NW Lehi,UT polls... Slate: Faith Based Voting..
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 7, 2010
Welcome to the Banana Republic of the USA where we still have Enron style elections Verified Voting Foundation reports that in the 2010 Primaries we will have more recounts than recountable elections! Future state, local and presidential contests are at risk because many states still have paperless electronic voting, poor chains of custody or poor election practices, flawed voter registration databases, voter caging, deceptive mailers, & voter suppression. The latest threat,1000 times worse: Internet Voting.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Voting News: Bridgeport CT refuses election audit. Recounts everywhere, what are the laws? Murkowski wins Alaska Sen Race.Miller did not concede.."Bridgeport Embarrasses Itself Once Again, Refusing to be Audited"...Will California ever finish counting absentee ballots?..Who Stole Election Day? (Early voting)..Election fraud charged in Madison,Yancey Co NC..Photo ID proposed in OK & TX, to propose in NC, with LWV filing suit in OK.. Cuomo Seeks Expedited Senate Recount...
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, September 16, 2010
Voting News: New voting machines, angry New Yorkers. New arrest over India EVMs "Voting System Failures: A Database Solution"...MD officials blame voting machine failures on poll workers..The latest target of New Yorkers' ire: new voting machines, which perplexed them, broke down and ate their primary election ballots...N.Jersey Military/Internet voting pilot bill..Vote probs in DC, MA, MD...Pune India engineer held, cops say gave EVM to researcher..Why other countries have scrapped electronic voting..
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Voting News: SEC charges Diebold with fraud. McAllen voter fraud case falls apart. India election officials panic Diebold Accused by SEC of Fraudulent Acctn..California GOP will shift to caucus if open primary passes..Passaic County NJ elections sec charged in $384K ballot postage theft..Mahoning Co OH may cut 40-100 polling places..Hinds TN voting machine probs..McAllen voter fraud case disintegrates..New "Protect Our Elections" promotes natl election protection laws..India's Panicky Election Commission orders Storage Audit of EVMs..
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 10, 2010
Voting News: Dangers of Internet Voting Confirmed. Foreign $ in US Elections? Verified Voting's Pres.interviewed by Fox D.C. about DC Internet Voting Pilot. In spite of experts saying otherwise, DC's BoE still thinks they can make internet voting secure. Really? Then Google & DoD may wish to hire DC officials to teach them how. The video testimony is up on YouTube, making it easier to share on Facebook & blogs...Early voting centers at colleges teach students...Pakistan to pilot electronic voting...
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 29, 2010
Voting News: Imposter on Florida ballot. Why the Disclose Act matters. Birther Bills "I've learned over the last 9 years that there are basically three types of oversight of election in our country; one is Candidate, the 2nd is Party and the 3rd is Public oversight. I've learned that the first two suck, because the issue becomes political and partisan." ~ John Brakey of AuditAZ...Does the Disclose ACT fix Citizens United? There's an imposter on Florida ballot...Birther bills - AZ kills theirs, TX mulls one...
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 16, 2010
Alice in Internet Voting Wonderland: No hanging chads? No audits or recounts either! No chads? And no audits no recounts. Finland learned the hard way in 2008 when internet votes were lost and a court overturned that election. Must we learn everything the hard way? Filthy lucre is pushing another bad idea for elections, perhaps the worst one ever, internet voting. Our votes for sale to a $1.5B industry.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 7, 2010
Voting News: Garland Arkansas election fiasco. Ballot error in NJ Primary. Summit OH ballot fail 100s of Garland County Arkansas voters turned away from polls Saturday...California to vote on election reform props 14 & 15 on June 8th...Saugatuck MI botched recount..82 un-scannable absentee ballots in Summit Ohio...Ballot error may taint NJ CD-11 DEM Primary..."Naughty Diebold directors get pwned"...India EVMs go Bollywood...The Ills of Privatized Elections..World watches as Dutch vote with pencil...
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 4, 2010
Voting News: CA,CO mail ballot holdup. CT ballot fiasco. AR, PA voting machine fails. MN recount? Alameda Cnty CA has 122, 000 ballots to count. Other CA counties still counting mail ballots...Weld, & Arapahoe Cnty CO still processing mail ballots...Bridgeport CT ballot shortage fiasco leaves gov race un-decided...Reduction of polling places in Paulding, GA & Collins caused long lines &, long waits for voters...More vote flipping in NC, PA...Sumter SC touchscreens shutdown...MN braces for potential recount...
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 29, 2007
New: Voting Machine Companies to Congress - ALL YOUR VOTES BELONG TO US 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.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, December 12, 2010
Voting News: India deports US voting machine expert. Bridgeport recount finds errors. Editor Note! 10 yrs after Bush V Gore: "HAVA has been misinterpreted and misused from the moment of its passage." ~ Joe Richey, Colorado SOS Elect. Best Pract.Commission..CT Post: Recount shows widespread miscalculations. "If you cast a photocopied ballot in last month's gubernatorial election in Bridgeport, there's a 1 in 4 chance your vote was miscounted." ..India: US prof behind EVM study deported on arrival...
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Voting News: Michigan recount uncovers ballot probs. Internet voting in age of Cyber War 1000s of ballots in Huron & Tuscola Cnty Michigan weren't secured properly so cant be recounted...NC Statewide IRV contest faces recount..MY City, How Do You Lose Nearly 200,000 Votes? "This calls into question the whole validity of the process." -- Sam Roberts..India missing 4,000 electronic voting machines..Dr. Barbara Simons on internet voting...All out Cyber War over Wikileaks shows risk of using internet for elections..
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Voting News: KS vote flipping. NASS-overseas vote must be recountable! DISCLOSE Fails State Election Officials: Recountable Process A Must for Overseas Voters. (internet voting not recountable). Aetna, Humana, Other Insurers Mull New Group to Influence November Races"...Candidate reports touchscreen vote flipping in Johnson County Kansas...Michigan Sleuths Find Link Between Dem Party Official and the Ballot-Qualified Tea Party...Bell, CA police/election fraud investigation...
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 23, 2010
Voting News: Florida voter alert! After India EVM expert arrest. Dan Rather on voting machines CTVoter on reforms intended to tweak turnout -"Fighting the last [election]war -" Be careful what you ask for!" Florida Voter Alert: 2008 Absentee Voters May Have Problems at Polls...Dan Rather on Chris Matthews today, "Electronic voting machines still alot of problems..."...India electronic voting machine update: The "story' behind Hari Prasad's arrest and its aftermath..
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 24, 2010
Voting News: Touchscreens in 2 NC Counties flip votes from GOP to DEM. 866-OUR-VOTE Chuck Tyson, chair of Craven Cnty NC GOP about touchscreen machines:"They never work, they're late reporting, they screw up, they ain't worth a damn and we ought to go back to paper ballots," ....Call 1-866-OUR-VOTE to get help & report problems...Security Fears Mount as E-Voting Comes of Age: "I think these systems can be compromised," says Pam Smith, Pres of Verified Voting. "It might not happen this year..
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 9, 2007
OVERTHROWING OF DEMOCRACY -From Within - "Pseudo Activism" 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?
SHARE More Sharing        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
SHARE More Sharing        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!
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, June 4, 2010
Voting News: Monroe Co Arkansas impossible election results. Want to Email Your Ballot? Email Ballot security Diebold manipulated numbers -" Fraud investigation continues -" Voting: Not in question...Dorr MI Township miscount caused by missed maintenance, dirt buildup in scanners...List of Dead Lincoln WV Voters Wrong...Vote by Mail Spreads, But Doesn't Help All Voters..The hidden zinger in Cal Prop 14..Rio Arriba County NM vote tally problems...Czech Republic "Free beer if you vote" campaign draws young voters...
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 30, 2010
Voting News: VA Election Site IT outage. Kathy Dent recount flap. AK's 11,200 iffy mail ballots CT "State recanvass law inadequate for close elections"...Over 20,000 Alaska Mail Votes still to be counted, 11,200 are 'question' ballots...Sarasota FL Election Sup Kathy Dent accused of influencing election in recount...Virginia's State Board of Elections still affected by IT outage that began last week in a data center run by outsourcer Northrop Grumman...Harris County TX gets more electronic voting machines...
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 17, 2010
Voting News: "Whiteygate" and blackbox voting. New Hanover NC vote flipping 'no conspiracy' Chicago official blames vendor Dominion for misspelling Rich Whitley's name as "Rich Whitey" on IL gubernatorial ballot. Whitley asks: "Why is something as vital to our society as the integrity of the vote being left to a private, for-profit contractor?"..New Hanover NC BoE Chief says 'no conspiracy' causing touchscreens to flip votes. Yet voters were disenfranchised. This would not happen with paper ballots & optical scanners
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Voting News: NM SoS fires critics. Moldova voter roll hacked. Military Voters get your ballot! Lawyers' Committee Condemns DOJ and Georgia's Maneuvers to Preclear New Registration Procedures..Hinds Co MS to buy 300 used optical scanners for $350 ea..NM SOS fires whistleblowers....WA SOS office straight talk on military vote. Military voters get your ballot now. Military get reduced FedEx rates to send your ballot back. Hacker attacks Moldova voter rolls, causes confusion...
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Voting News: E-Voting, E-Nightmare. 3rd NC County has vote flipping. Canada internet vote fiasco on iTunes: Dan Rather's "Digital Democracy in Doubt"...TX vote flip video is on internet again..3rd NC county reports vote flipping..VerifiedVoting on Vote Flipping & Touch Screen Calibration...NH voters beware internet voting scam...S Carolina voting system needs overhaul..Report vote probs by cell phone 866-OUR-VOTE. Serous system failures in Canadian muni internet voting..Ahmedabad India leaders sue to stop internet voting
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 22, 2010
Voting News: Internet Voting - A Real Possibility? iPhone App for reporting voter fraud Where's My Ballot? There's Still Time for Overseas Voters in 2010...Report Voter Fraud: There's an App for that...Comprehensive Map of US Voting Equipment Released...Routt County Colorado must copy mailed ballots after error..There's an iPhone app to report voter fraud, how about one to report voting machine failures or voter disenfranchisement?... Internet Voting -- A Real Possibility? Podcast with Jeremy Epstein...
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 8, 2010
Voting News: OH student records Vote flipping on iPhone. Paper vs. Plastic Voting in Houston California STILL counting absentee ballots..CT,NM, NY having post election audits...Computer scientist...Young, Russo file complaint to end electronic voting in Rhode Island...Dan Wallach describes voting experience & struggle to get paper ballot in Houston TX..Parties scramble as recounts loom in several House races..Congrats to Prof Ed Felton,e-voting expert for appt as Chief Technologist to FTC
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 29, 2010
Voting News: AZ, FL, TN vote probs. Harris TX voting equip burned up. EVM expert bailed out "With less than seven weeks before early voting starts for the general election, the clock is ticking for Tennessee's election officials' efforts to get it right." ...Broward's Disappearing Ink Before Election Day & Early Voting...MORE Lee Co FL ballot problems...Toast: Harris County Texas' 10,000 eSlate electronic voting machines...DOD denies 4 states military ballot waiver..Australia's hung parliament...Hari is out of jail!
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 8, 2010
Voting News: Florida must fix voting system flaws. NY 1 Person NO Vote? SC must ditch e-voting Florida Voters urge Secretary of State to address threats to next month's elections: 14-17 Counties have defective firmware chip that causes errors in results reports. 16 Counties have problem causing optical scan machines to freeze or shut down.. SC needs paper ballots says Eleanor Hare, Computer Sci Prof w/Clemson. Boycott of India EVMs looms...
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Voting News: Aspen ballot image kerfluffle. Microvote v Indiana. Dont eat your ballot Aspen ballot images are secret - depending on who asks for them."The judge, newspapers, Internet, GrassRoots and citizens have pictures of ballots the judge says must be preserved and locked in old ballot boxes..." even the voting vendor had them. But try suing for them! The Philippines having voting machine trouble. Venezuela military tells voters "Don't eat your ballot"... All this and more in todays news below...
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 17, 2010
Voting News: Voting machines burn in Rt 22 PA fire. KY debuts paper ballots. Philippines voting machine sleepovers Watch Yuma AZ vote count live via webcam...Use iPad to register to vote in Santa Clara Co CA..."Too much" voter assistance in Forsyth Co NC?..90 Kentucky counties debut paper ballot systems in Tues Primary..Absentee/Early Voting Method: Raise Questions and Risks...No Voting Rights in Indian Country USA...Smartmatic Technician Takes Home 65 PCOS Machines...Internet voting watch in Prince Edward Co Canada and to Gujarat India..
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 24, 2010
Voting News: Email balloting risks midterm election to hacking. Hanging Chads - 10 years later 16 states to let overseas voters email voted ballots in midterm elections. Cybersecurity experts warn this subjects election to hacking & rigging..GA's voter reg process disenfranchises valid voters..Mark Halvorson has "straight talk about Minnesota's elections."..Chicken costumes banned at Nev. polls..PBS Radio interviews Dan Wallach, activist Marybeth Kuznik,& John O'Grady, NY. Were Philippines flash cards rigged?
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 5, 2010
Voting News: SC Voting machine lawsuit heads to court. Target 'sorry' political donations offend NC taxpayers overcharged for election ballots?...Some problems with Michigan polls but state has paper ballots...South Carolina Federal voting machine case clears first hurdle...The Federal Voting Assistance Program has opened a 24X7 call center to assist overseas military voters...Target President and CEO "genuinely sorry" that their political donations offend...
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, June 5, 2010
Welcome to the Banana Republic of the USA where we still have Enron style elections Verified Voting Foundation reports that in the 2010 Primaries we will have more recounts than recountable elections! Future state, local and presidential contests are at risk because many states still have paperless electronic voting, poor chains of custody or poor election practices, flawed voter registration databases, voter caging, deceptive mailers, & voter suppression. The latest threat,1000 times worse: Internet Voting.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 22, 2010
Voting News: Osceola CO Florida voting machines shaken too hard? E-voting 'vulnerable' Osceola CO candidate cites irregularities. "While absentee ballots were being scanned, election workers shook the machines vigorously and often, at times even banging the wall with them.".. Tues night Brad Friedman interviews Ohio Sec of State Jennifer Brunner...NYT: What the Secret Donors Want..No internet voting for Singapore:"The internet platform while convenient is vulnerable to power outage, hacking and service attacks"
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Voting News: Montgomery CO PA exempt from election code? New Mexico not so secret ballot Concerning the issue of internet voting -"Who are you going to believe? Scientists or Vendors?" asks CT Voter...Van Hollen, 'Corporate Candidate' Murray Hill Spar Over Political Rights of Businesses... Secret ballot? Not for everybody (in New Mexico)...There's a Constitutional Amendment Campaign to Undo Citizens United in the works...Are Montgomery County PA voting machines exempt from accountability?...
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 26, 2010
Voting News: New York, Colorado vote tabulator troubles. Internet Vote hacked - for Palin? Alaska GOP repudiates Joe Miller vote count allegations...Open Records request for Georgia election data denied...Minnesota starts recount of gubernatorial election Monday..Was internet vote for 'Dancing with the Stars' rigged?. In real internet elections Canadian citizens in Township of Huron-Kinloss council worried more about system crashes or not getting to vote rather than tampering..CO & NY vote tabulator troubles...
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, October 22, 2007
The Voting Literacy Test of the 21st Century 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.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 21, 2010
Voting News: New York Dems mull recount in 60th. CA GOP challenges provisional ballot signatures Update on 2 "lost" voting machines in NY..Dems mull recount in New York's 60th District: "Make no mistake, this is really bad. The state put into law that there has to be a paper trail precisely so that when there are irregularities of exactly the type we're seeing in this race we can ensure that the votes are counted properly." ~ Sen-Elect Mike Gianaris & attorney overseeing count..Better way than photo ID? ....
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 14, 2010
Voting News: SC Primary 'This whole election is unbelievable.' Aspen DA election probe "as of Friday "at least 50 of California's 58 county election offices had more than 1 million ballots that had to be verified before they could be counted." according to SoS Debra Bowen..10% of Yuma Co AZ absentee ballots rejected...Aspen voters to finally get some answers re May 5 09 election..Cuyahoga taxpayers may get stuck with legal fees in 2004 recount rigging case.."extremely unusual incidents" cited in SC Dem Primary
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 23, 2010
Voting News: Touchscreens flip votes in N.Carolina, Texas. NY City flubs ballot instructions Voting absentee by mail? Check postage!..Riverside CO CA starts 24 hour work days processing absentee ballots for Nov 2 election...Touchscreen voting flipping in Craven County NC, also in Dallas and Collin County TX..New York City's Nov 2 ballots instructions may disenfranchise voters...Beware hinky vote by mail applications sent out in NY ...Open Source Non profit group Trust the Vote comments on the DC internet voting hack
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 13, 2010
Voting News: Shelby TN investigation Diebolded. Internet voting 'nothing to deter attacker.' Ron Rivest Internet Voting Risks report: "There is nothing to deter attacker -" Adv can attack anonymously over the Internet until he succeeds."...Candidates of Lee Co FL fiasco want do-over..."Hawkins County (TN)election glitch awards a different commissioner"...'Election Day From Hell' is a poll worker account of Shelby Co TN election...Review of Shelby Co TN election records thwarted by cnty agreement with 'Diebold'...
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 3, 2010
Voting News: A Citizen's Audit of S.Carolina's Voting System. Is there 'a ghost in the machine?' "Citizen's Audit of South Carolina's Voting System October 2010".."Unlocking IRV in Aspen"...Florida Case Puts Focus on Issue of Absentee Ballot Fraud...Hawaii's eGov website listed wrong date for Nov General Election...2nd-tier parties sue New York State Election Board...Reminder-Monday is last day for half the states to register, visit Rock the Vote for help..India EVMs-"Is there a ghost in the machine?"..
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 7, 2010
Voting News: CA has 1 M uncounted mail ballots. AK to hand count write ins. CT gets bad advice AK to hand count 83,000 write-in votes...CA still has est 1-1.4 M ballots to count..Newspaper-Listening to voting vendor, suggests unsafe sophisticated voting system to Connecticut...ES&S apologizes to Alabama probate judges for problems arising when ES&S sent pencils instead of pens to polling places...Georgia's Tammy Adkins Becomes the New Alvin Greene...MS dis-functional elections..Hand recount called in a NY Assembly Seat
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 8, 2010
Voting News: Fairfax VA now English only voting forms. Webb Co TX disabled denied secret ballot? Online Voter Reg Debate Aspen Transparency Litigation: What's being hidden and why?...Kinston, NC voters challenge Section 5 of Voting Rights Act....von Spakovsky Votes to End Fairfax County VA Distribution of Voting Materials in Languages other than English...Advocacy group filed a complaint against Webb County,TX saying voters with disabilities do not have access to a secret ballot...British democracy: no better than Uzbekistan's
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Voting News: Pitkin CO touchscreen woes. Foul play in TN vote? Free Xpress for military ballots Pitkin CO failure of DREs results in hours of delay and "hand count"...Lee CO FL deserves new election...Precinct mixup in Fulton GA...Not clear how NC will tally 1st statewide IRV judicial contest..VotePA Calls For Withdrawal of Challenges to Candidates...OH SOS announces multi $M settlement with Premier/ES&S.."When a Memphis election goes off without a hitch, that will be the shocker"...More on MOVE and military vote...
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Voting News: Waukesha WI clerk keeps vote data on her PC, El Paso CO invites public oversight "WI's Waukesha County Clerk to Keep Elections Results on Her Personal Computer Really, really dumb...What part of 'public official' & 'public elections' to these sorts of folks not get???" ~Brad Friedman...Contrast to: "Coloradans For Voting Integrity Citizen Volunteers Audit Primary Election Ballots in El Paso County, CO." Robert Balink, El Paso Cnty Clerk, & Liz Olson, MGR--Election Dept, welcomed the citizens audit
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Voting News: Maricopa AZ election protection suit filed. TN and WA election websites crash Citizens file emergency suit to force Maricopa AZ Elections Dept to follow law...FL Voters Coalition collecting observations on poll closings nxt Tues...Tenn State Election website crashed 5 times on election day, delays Dyer Cnty results...WA election returns crash state computers...1,100 Snohomish Cnty WA voters get ballots within hours to vote..90 yrs ago the 19th amendment was ratified, giving women the right to vote..
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Instant Runoff Voting touted as way to eliminate recounts 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
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Voting News: Election hangover,Bush V Gore legacy. N.Carolina still counting IRV contest Champaign Ill Cnty Clerk compares return rate of emailed vs snail-mailed blank overseas military ballots....MN GOP candidate Emmer to withdraw some ballot challenges..Steven Schlesinger,atty for Johnson(D) count..said New York's new optical scanning machines "suck," and estimated 40 percent failed a required audit..Report: Barriers to Voting Access at 3 out of 4 NY Poll Sites..Election Hangover-The real legacy of Bush v. Gore
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Have Third Parties Been "Punked" By Instant Runoff? 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
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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..
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Voting News: New York Voting machine problems. The 'sovereign' power of voting machines "Voting machines have acquired the sort of 'sovereign' power that only voters should enjoy in a true democracy. What would you call it but a travesty of democracy where the people are relegated to the background and the unverifiable machine records (which can be wrong, manipulated) become the sole basis for declaring elected representatives?" ~ G.V.L. Narasimha Rao, a leading election analyst & political commentator in India
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Voting News: 1 in 10 MN mail ballots rejected. DOJ on MOVE Act Waivers, military vote The Dept of Justice responds to Sen Coryn on MOVE ACT Waivers..Mechanics of Atlantic City NJ absentee ballot fraud revealed in investigative report. Defendant admits:"I just have the people bring the ballot to me, and I fill them out."..Another Year, Another Crisis At The NYC Board Of Elections...CTVoter on "Faith in Technology: Drilling, Driving, and Voting"..How Secure are Military IT Systems?..
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Voting News: Minnesota recount a long feisty process. Just How Bad Was Bush v. Gore? Saguache County CO election problems the result of computer errors...Recount of Bridgeport CT ballots under way..Indiana's newly elected SoS is accused of "Voter Fraud" because his voter registration has incorrect address...Minnesota 'Happy Recount Day': First day is the start of a long and sometimes feisty process..NYC Election board stuck in time warp - voters get outdated voting guides...
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Voting News: UK Election Nightmare. Glitches in OH,TN. ACLU to FL Gov Crist: veto HB 131 The UK's parliamentary election was a Florida style election nightmare. Thousands of UK voters turned away from polling stations. Shortage of ballot papers, not enough poll workers, & inaccurate poll lists were just some of the causes. "Here we are giving an example which would shame countries that are just starting their democracies." ~ David Dimbleby with BBC...Fed lawsuit filed to block CA special election.
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Voting News: Touchscreen vote flips 'a known class of problems..' New Dan Rather e-vote report 'Dan Rather Reports' new investigative report on E-Voting Tues Oct. 26th @ 8pm...Tech-Savvy College Students wanted as Poll Workers..Early voting by itself depresses the vote?...Texas E-Voting Suit Reveals Frailties of the Ballot Box..CNN asks Does Your Vote Count?.. Vote flipping: "This is a known class of problems with touch screen voting machines." ~ Alex Halderman, computer scientist @ U. of Michigan...
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Voting News: NY ballot fraud ring. Hacker makes ATMs spew cash. OR online 'primary' 4%turnout Voting rights lawsuit in Alambama over Bingo machine confiscation...DNA Evidence Sought in NY Absentee Ballot Fraud Case...Cryptographers speak of threats, voting, and Blu-R...Oregon Ind Party internet primary 'electon' yields only 4% turnout...Think internet voting is as "safe as online banking"? Read researcher's Hack Can Make ATMs Spew Money...
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Voting News: TN e-poll book blocks 3,000 voters. Rivest-Risks of Internet Voting negate benefits "I'm sorry you can't vote," .Up to 3,000 Shelby Co Tennessee voters were turned away and some were offered provisional ballots...A Victory in Florida For Tighter Cyber Security?...The US is going to help Nigeria conduct its presidential election in 2011...The Oregonian wants the SoS to be "open" to internet voting...What do experts say? "The risks of 'internet voting' more than negate any possible benefits.."~ Ron Rivest.
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Voting News: TN Election fiasco. Internet voting? 'Pleash just help me inshert..key in the lock' Broward Co FL mulls $22M facility but $0 for ada voting equipt..Cuyahoga OH told print bilingual ballots or be sued...Can this be true? Carroll Cnty MD to use paper ballots nxt election..."What are best practices for internet voting?" to me sounds like "Pleash jush help me inshert the key in the lock, (hic), and I'll be on my way"" ~Prof. Ron Rivest (MIT)at NIST's UOCAVA workshop..India EVM debate boils over in Washington...
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Voting News: Widespread Diebold failure in Utah Co UT. Columbia CO NY orders full hand count hey had ballot shortages: Auburn Lake Trails, CA & Ellsworth village,WA insufficient paper ballots created lines & long waits..MN Recount to start Nov. 29 & end Dec. 14..Columbia County NY began hand count of ballots yesterday. Election Commissioner Virginia Martin wants check against machine tally...ES&S sofware failures in Sumter SC blamed on "human error". Tuesday ALL Diebold machines failed in Utah Co Utah...
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Voting News: NC Judge rules for GOP on touchscreen voting. E-vote probs not conspiracy theory Judge Rules in Favor of NCGOP on Touch-Screen Vote Flipping. NCGOP atty Tom Farr:"What I heard in the argument today was, the problem with the touchscreen voting machines are the fault of the voters, not the State Board and we have to preserve the integrity of the State Board and its reputation. And that's more important than making sure that voters had their ballots counted accurately..." Vote probs?Call 1-866-OUR-VOTE...
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Voting News: Bee Co TX "FINDS" 182 ballots. KY convicts 8 of vote buying. Internet Voting Debate YouTubed WVA officials tout internet voting for military as safe: "it will take multiple keyholders to get to this information" WV folks must not have read about Clay CO KY vote buying coop where "candidates banded together..." ...MUST SEE Dr. Andrew Appel internet voting pres on YouTube. Hawaii picks voting machines. Nassau Co NY sues over voting machines. All this and more in today's voting news below.
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Instant Runoff Means Touch Screen Tricks in North Carolina 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?
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Voting News: Diebold ATMs hacked. Buying Justice in PA. Voting machines stoke Filipinos fears Is a Colorado election bill trying to do too much?...Buying of Pa. judicial elections troubling...Fort Bend County TX Reports Problems With Electronic Poll List...The ACLU of Virginia accused Gov. Bob McDonnell of reinstating a "literacy test" in Virginia for non violent ex-felons...New Voting Machines Stoke Filipinos' Fears...Diebold ATMs are hackable too - BofA Insider to Plead Guilty to Hacking (Diebold) ATMs...
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Voting News: NY ballots fine print. 1600 Hawaii ballots missing contest. Internet Voting Pt 3 CTVoter on Common Sense Election Integrity...Sarasota election sup Kathy Dent shrugs of another lawsuit, since taxpayers foot the bill...Troops votes at risk: NJ lawmakers have two bills for internet/military voting...TN Paper V Plastic debate heats up...Fox anchor accuses WA State of trying to disenfranchise military..Virgin Islands e-voting suit..VerifiedVoting Internet Voting Part 3...
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Voting News: Suing Sarasota Election Sup - the Sequel. Shelby Co TN lawsuits update Shelby Co AL continues fight against voting rights act..AZ fake green pty candidates stay on ballot for now..Another election down, another accusation of misconduct against Sarasota Supervisor of Elections Kathy Dent..Hawaii voters take note: many polling places have closed..MD early voting yields only 2% turnout, costs $3.4M...Ballot access would clutter ballot say NC officials..Harris Co TX mulls non partisan election chief
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Voting News: HAVA scary Halloween. In DC internet voting test, hackers were the GOOD guys In D.C.'s Web voting test, the hackers were the good guys...HAVA Scary Halloween: Ten years older and deeper in debt, yet far from credible elections.."Ballot boxing: The problem with electronic voting machines" interview w/natl experts..THE UNDEAD UNDEAD VOTER CLAIM...Overdone "undervote" warning in 67 Illinois cnties using Diebold scanners..NC voting machines hearing today...Google tools to help you vote...866-OUR-VOTE..
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Voting News: Internet Voting, totally owned. TX Court hears evoting lawsuit radio interview with Dr. David Jefferson, Livermore Natl Laboratories, computer scientist and cyber security expert and VerifiedVoting.org's Internet Voting expert with NEW UNREPORTED BOMBSHELLS on breath-taking D.C. Internet Vote Hack...NY BOE survey finds thousands of voters have 'major issues' with new machines...Paper Trail for E-Voting Machines Goes Before TX Supreme Court...
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Voting News: SC Lawmaker: probe Primary, 2 other races. Monroe KY vote buying conspiracy Sen Clyburn suspects a "plant": Alvin Greene,unknown & who did not campaign, won the SC Dem primary for US Senate. Unemployed Greene paid a $10,440 filing. Greene received 100,233 votes. Vic Raul did campaign, is an ex-judge, has served 4 terms in the state leg received 69,771..Garland Co AR voting lawsuit dropped...Indictments in Monroe Co.KY vote buying scheme..CT voter asks: "How's that votie integrity thing goin' for us?"
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Voting News: India E-voting expert arrested. TN voters deserve answers. Australia Bush v Gore? India's arrest of Hari Prasad: "So as governments do to whistle blowers and those who bring uncomfortable facts, they have arrested the Indian member of the research team in an effort to determine the source of the voting machine and to intimidate."..Sarasota FL voting machine meltdown proves value of paper ballots..TN "needs to join the 21st century..and move to a verifiable,auditable paper trail/ballot."
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Voting News: WV Coal, corruption and campaign finance. Clay KY vote buying-more arrests? Ezra Klein of the Washington Post writes about coal, corruption, campaign finance reform and yesterday's mining tragedy in West Virginia. Klein says Blankenship, leader of the Massey coal mine "has more or less purchased the state's government. He's certainly bought the state Supreme Court...." Klein says that some sort of reform is needed in this case...Citizens in Clay County Kentucky wait to see who is arrested next.
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Voting News: The Color of Money. Alabama election computer accessed impropery? The time has come to move toward public campaign financing at the Federal level, also, so as to prevent future amazement that a candidate like Alvin Greene had a chance to win because there was a more level playing field." ~ VotingMatters...Alabama Officials Investigate Possible Improper Access, Tampering Into ES&S Voting System...Replacing Okla.'s 18-year-old voting machines eyed...Don't blame the machines in SC?..
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Voting News: MORE Tenn. election fiascos. New Lee FL mail ballot probs. Wallach's 'The Wørd' 100 Blount TN voters were given the wrong ballot. Davidson TN vote totals changed when uncounted voting machine was found. Shelby TN was in news last week when e-poll books blocked thousands of voters, an investigation is underway...Candidate's envelopes cause major problems for Lee Cnty Florida voters..18 Members of Congress Call On Atty Gen Holder to Ensure Integrity of Voting Systems..24x7 help for Military Voters
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Voting News: N Carolina Touchscreens flip votes. Will internet voting cause election debacle? Chicago's voting machines mis-spelled Green Pty candidate's name as "Rich Whitey'..Touchscreens flip votes in New Hanover CO NC..Vote PA needs your help in fight for paper ballots...."Overseas and military voters have unprecedented options for requesting, receiving and casting their ballots in 2010." says Pres of Overseas Vote Foundation..Is it possible commit election fraud even without being in a voting booth? (Yes)..
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Voting News: NY SD 7 recount battle rages on. NC instant runoff wipes candidate's 100K lead Judge says no to recount of NY Sen Dist 7. Nassau Dems expert Prof. Philip Stark was not allowed to testify but some remarks were read into the record: "The potential for error in this contest is large: In total, the 242 unaudited machines could hold enough error to account for the apparent margin 186 times over. Sixty-six of the 242 unaudited machines could hold enough error to account for the apparent margin."
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Voting News: DC internet vote hack test? Thoughts on NY Primary. Visit 'Electionland' DC offers public "test" of internet vote system...Bo Lipari has some thoughts & recommendations on New York's primary..Houston Voting Machine Fire Update and Shouting 'Voter Fraud' in a Crowded Midterm Election..Visit Electionland to register to vote, find polling place & sign up for election reminders.."the threat of the Citizens United ruling to our democracy goes far beyond the narrow definition of corruption."
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Voting News: Paper Ballots, Common Sense. Teacher pay online vote fiasco. Afghan vote violence Common Sense:The Indispensable Role Of Voter Verified Paper Ballots..(NOT)Counting Votes in Shelby CO Tennessee..Why No Central Database Of E-Voting Problems?..Internet voting fiasco-Spam filter prevents Palm Beach Co teachers from casting online ballot on new contract...Unlimited Political Speech For Corporations That Don't Say Pledge Of Allegiance..Violence & fraud mar Afghan election..Burma Excludes Thousands From Voting
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Help Our Military Voters - Debunk Rumors and Tell Truth About Military Voting in 2010 Misinformation about the military vote has spread like wildfire on several conservative message boards. These rumors,if believed would increase disenfranchisement of overseas military, instead of reduce it. Posts to message boards like "Not Again Military Voters to be Disenfranchized Sean Hannity ..." may be well intended but incorrect. To help our military to vote, we must give them the truth!
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Voting News: New York warned of 'Electoral Chaos'. Sarasota Fl - Recounts belong to the voters On Sarasota FL: Tom Lyons says "Recounts belong to the voters" and not a tired candidate or election supervisor...New York Warned of 'Electoral Chaos' in Transition to Electronic Voting: In the Wednesday hearing.."It seems to me that these new machines are more prone to fraud on a mass scale than a lever machine,"~Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs...Harris County Texas Update on the dueling vote fraud press conferences...
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Voting News: Creating elections we can trust - Columbia Co New York, Humboldt & Yolo CA Kudos to Humboldt Co CA Registrar Carolyn Crnich, Yolo Co. CA Registrar Freddy Oakley, for adopting innovative methods to increase transparency & public involvement in elections..Big applause to Columbia Co NY Election Commish Virginia Martin for hand counting the votes..redibility of Minnesota's election process vindicated.. Nassau SD 07 audit to expand..Tom Green Co TX: "1,545 local ballots found." ...
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Voting News: New York City BoE finds 200,000 more votes. Bridgeport CT recount chugs on Losing KY mayor sues,says voting machines set with wrong time..NYC finds 200K votes...Internet voting a good idea? See UK article: "China is waging cyber warfare on Britain..they're carrying out most cyber attacks remotely, mining information that is stored on servers in the UK,from all over the world " making anything from the national grid to the banking system vulnerable."..Putin criticizes US elections...
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Voting News: Broken voting machine seals in Putnam TN raise doubts. Clash over recount for NY 1st In Alaska, Miller awaits the military ballots..Another bad idea for elections in the Ohio Dayton Daily News: "Unused paper ballots are big waste for Ohio". The Dayton DN editors should read the New Haven Register editorial: "Scrimping on ballots proved foolish"...Tennessee GOP requests investigation of possible voting machines tampering in Putnam Co...Clash over vote recount for NY 1st CD...
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Voting News: Travis Texas recount 'shines light on election problems'. Minn recount slammed Seriously? Politico piece slams MN recounts, says they should be harder to get..Meanwhile judge rules against Dems quest for Nassau recount in Johnson-Martins NY 7th Sen race. Johnson to appeal..Value of recounts learned in TX HD 48: "That recount has become like turning over a big rock to see all the unpleasant things that live in the darkness beneath it, and what it has revealed about voting in Travis County is not pretty."
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Voting News: Risk limit audits for CA? Judge halts MI voter purge. Benton TN purge contd Should bounty on party registrations be illegal?...Proposal to make voting mandatory riles up tiny Ridgway,CO...Judge halts Michigan voter purge program..Chamber will fight campaign finance reform...Puerto Rico considers DRE/touchscreens for 2010...Concerned Filipinos push for manual counting...Iraq post election candidate purge may change results..
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Voting News: SC-Greene voters blues. 1000s of CA mail ballots dont count. HAVAs real scandal A Greene voter admits: "I had just never heard of either of these guys and it never occurred to me that anything like this could happen or my vote and that...our votes would contribute to South Carolina being the butt of a joke again.."...Iowa mispent $575K of HAVA funds."But the real scandal was the money that was 'properly' spent on touchscreen voting machines that have since been scrapped."says Jerry Depew, IowaVoters.."..
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Voting News: Shelby CO TN certifies flawed election. Are election audits worth it? Pac-Man II Bell, CA may give ballot control to county after investigation into massive corruption and election fraud...CTVoter: "Greenwich Audit: Is it worth $1,200?"...Shelby Co TN election board voted 5-0 to certify flawed election, blaming all problems on a single "human error". Some lawsuits in the works and TBI is investigating..see "Pay 2 Play - Democracy's high stakes"..Probe into Philippine's May poll irregularities ongoing..
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Voting News: Internet voting a national security question. Unredacted AVC Edge report Computer scientist Dan Wallach News8 Austin TV: "Texas Supreme Court to weigh in on e-voting".....Computer Scientists, Election Integrity Advocates Question Feasibility of "Digital Democracy":"If I'm going to steal an election, I probably won't mess with these little pilots.."I'm going to wait until there's this groundswell for Internet voting." ~ Dr. Barbara Simons..Court permits release of unredacted report on AVC Advantage.
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The Facts About Photo ID for Voters as North Carolina and other states consider it Requiring voters to present a photo ID at the polls sounds like a good idea - but it is everything we hate about government: a complex and expensive nonsolution to a problem that doesn't exist...At issue is not "voter ID" but rather the matter of imposing photo ID restrictions at the polling place...
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Voting News: The Game of Electoral Fraud. Michigan ends voter purges. Riverside ballot limbo The ACLU defends the Voting Rights Act in Alabama...Riverside Co CA delays certification of election results..Judge pleads not guilty of Monroe Co KY vote buying scheme...Michigan Agrees To Stop Unlawful Voter-Purge Programs...Mail ballot fraud charged in Passaic Co NJ...For Clean Campaigns: DISCLOSE and Amend...Kenya launches online registration program for inmates...Was Oprah online voting contest rigged?
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Voting News: ES&S Trade Secrets Trial. The 1st Corporate Ad. CT audits election. Why ACORN fell. First political ads bought by corporation....Former ES&S employees on trial for using "copyrighted software" to help state & local govts run elections...Citizens ask Aspen Times to "demand government transparency, not defend the government in demonizing the reformers"...FAIL: NY Times Runs Inaccurate 'correction' for ACORN 'Pimp' hoax coverage...Prison Based Gerrymandering....all this and more in news below....
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Voting News: Judge says Test NY voting machines. Wilkinson GA election meltdown Denver Co's ballot tracking system malfunctioned and told 190 voters that their completed mail ballots had been received. The problem? The voters hadn't even received the ballots in the first place... Wilkinson CO GA's server crashed and also had memory card problems...Judge Wants New York's Voting Machines Tested...Levers could be scrapped... Wisconsin election office says no to obscene platform on ballot...
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Voting News: CNN analysis of US election accuracy. NY Primary vote problems update ACLU faults Pima county AZ for invalidating 18% of 2008 provisional ballots..Candidate for California SOS has voted once in his life.. NYC Elections Chief Attacks Reports of Primary Day Chaos..Vote Centers for Ohio?..Dave Schechter, CNN Senior National Editor has a wide ranging analysis of today's election systems and challenges... FVAP blogs on military vote updates.
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Voting News: Audit -Maryland Elections Board 'sloppy'. Show Me State's Trust Us Elections With 13 years of Lamone's leadership, a state audit found so many flaws in the BoE's oversight of local boards & financial management that Lamone will have to file quarterly progress reports. The audit report cites "deficiencies", "lax oversight", "sloppy" internal controls, " flaws in monitoring voter registration databases","short $2 million." DOJ urged to save SC election records. GA sues Feds over voter ID...
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Voting News: Double voting caught in NC. Norfolk VA touchscreen trouble. Philippines memory card recall The May 2010 Primaries: A Look at Voting Systems...A Forsyth Co NC voter cast 2 ballots in 1 day during early voting. Officials cancelled the xtra vote. PA voting machines concerns: "Whenever you have a system where only two minutes of access can provide a switch in the voting software, it's a very tough problem,"~Richard King, VoteAllegheny..The Black Box of Corporate Money..Internet voting spreads..Postal vote fraud in UK?
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Voting News: New York 7th SD recount quest about precedent. Alaska judge rules for state Alaska Judge rules for state, against Miller. What does it mean? ..Johnson to appeal NY 7th Senate District loss: "The procedures governing these new voting machines are uncharted territory..What happens here could very well govern how all future close elections are decided. That is why I intend to take my request for a full hand recount to a higher court.." ~ incumbent Craig Johnson (D)..
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Voting News: Video Cure for Internet Voting. Ireland voting machines to be traffic cones? DC's Board of Elections detected the hack of their internet voting system BECAUSE Professor J. Alex Halderman & U. of Michigan students wanted the hack detected. "A real attack might be completely invisible and could have run on undetected much, much longer...". Halderman's team also changed the BoE password to protect it foreign hacker attempts..Files stolen from NM's SoS whistleblower..
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Voting News: Touchscreens recycled as PacMan games.Verified Voting Internet Voting Pt 1 Florida Voters Coalition encourages citizens to observe poll closing procedures...Shelby Co TN blames technician for election fiasco, local DEM party launching own investigation...J. Alex Halderman has found a good use for touchscreen machines - reprogram them as PacMan consoles...Mason County WV to volunteer overseas vote for internet vote experiment...Part I of Verified Voting's new series on concerns with Internet Voting...
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Press Release: Prestigious Pinocchio Award Goes to Maryland Elections Chief Linda Lamone "Maryland's top elections chief deserves to be recognized for her ability to spin her state's expensive, buggy, paperless voting machines as accurate, reliable, and affordable in spite of the facts." said Joyce McCloy, Director of the North Carolina Coalition for Verified Voting. McCloy went on to say that: "These misleading claims have been used in other states, but nowhere as successfully as in Maryland.
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Voting News: Colorado poll watchers need binoculars? Time for a Recount New York Election not truly over till 11/30 in California...Coloradoans need binoculars to observe processing of mail ballots..CT lawmaker drafts bill requiring 1 ballot per reg. voter..Ga. wants new voters to prove citizenship...100,000 Maryland 'Relax' Election Day Robocalls Violated Law..Missouri election robo calls used fake caller IDs..Montana eyes vote by mail..Several NC contests to be recounted...Key New York Races Undecided.
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Voting News: CalTech on voter roll gaps. NY Group - test all scanners. The Hacker advantage "Huge Variation in "Unmailable" Voter Registration Materials"...Colorado SOS Seeks to "Protect" Ballots from Owners' Inspection...NY groups want outside test of Dominion scanners...The Disclose Act in Senate...WV will test internet voting on overseas military again..Do they know that "a fundamental truth of cyber-security: attackers always have the advantage."~ Aldo Vasquez...
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Voting News: NY's ballot quirks. Shelby Tenn. elections - 'There must be reforms.' GOV2.0 elections Benton Co AR election official secret mtg..Potential mess looms in NC Judicial election..Columbia NY 100% hand count audit..Shelby TN screw-up cast doubt on entire process & demands reform...Why we need open source...The sordid world of electronic voting. Deep problems with Afghan vote..
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Voting News: Maryland needs to switch to paper ballots. A Decent Proposal - for voting machines "if Maryland is truly concerned about election results that are not only verifiable but also available much more quickly on election night, we would move as quickly as possible to the optical scan voting system mandated in the law passed by the General Assembly in 2007." ~ Rebecca Wilson, SAVEourVotes.org ..Shelby County Tennessee Election Commission, Democrats prepare for trial over voting irregularities..A decent proposal..
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Voting News: 866-OUR-VOTE. NY fusion lawsuit, disabled access probs . AZ lawsuit update Ruling in AZ election case...Disappearing Voters -No Penalties for Failing to Correctly Fill Out & Deliver Voter Reg.Forms...NC vote vendor does NOT want to break law..NY city disabled complain-voting places inaccessible, no ballot-marking devices..3rd party lawsuit against NY Fusion..Wisconsin Group alleges voter suppression..Why Your Toaster Works Better Than Your Voting Machine..1-866-OUR-VOTE is back..Vote buying in Kenya.
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Voting News: GA AG wont sue over citizen checks. Lucas OH poll workers intimidated. I-Vote comments due Georgia AG refuses to file suit over voter citizenship checks...Provision to kill Home Rule from Florida law was defeated in legislature. This protects hard fought, highly touted Sarasota County chartered election audits... 450 Republicans in Clermont Co. will have to re-vote...Lucas Co. OH BOE investigating poll worker intimidation...The legislative response to Citizens United & what's next...Internet vote comment deadline
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Antitrust & Your Vote. Clay KY vote buying by the mighty. Palm Beach Paper Ballots save day. ACORN funding ban stricken The resignation letter of Former NM Elections Director Salazar is now online. The letter outlines allegations against SoS Herrera & Dep SoS Trujillo: ethics violations, cronyism, political activity at the office, concerns about chain of custody of voting machines, and retaliation....WHO didn't buy votes in Clay County Kentucky?...Voters in UK and Canada wake up to risks of internet voting. All this and more in today's news..
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Voting News: New York 7th SD - give up or count the votes? Internet vote co hiring on Craigslist Palm Beach County Commissioners dodge touchscreen question..NY Sen DEM spokesman says Craig Jackson won't concede 7th SD yet:"anything less than the counting of every vote is a slap in the face to every voter."...Lucas Co. recount continues after flub.. Audit shows Vt. ballot machines accurate..Internet Vote company "EveryoneCounts" hiring off of Craigslist...Hackers took down 36 Pakistan govt websites..
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Voting News: Why Pac-Man voting hack matters.FL vote problems. Citizens United aftershocks Broward FL elections sup Dr. Snipes neglects to tell voters about polling place change..The BRAD BLOG Informs NBC's Chuck Todd That Ballots Are Not Actually Counted by Humans...Pac-Man for president: Hack highlights e-voting flaws.University researchers remind people that electronic voting machines are still easy to manipulate ..'Too close to call' Australian election result..Afghan vote runs up against fear, disenchantment...
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Voting News: Montgomery Co PA votes dont add up. Iowa caught in HAVA audit. Stolen India EVN is TV star Montgomery Co PA has a systemic problem with paperless electronic voting plus poll books that don't add up. "There are too many unanswered questions about why the numbers of voters signed in and the number of votes cast are so different at so many polling places. In fact...the county is required to act in such instances."~ atty Michael Churchill..IOWA spent $2.5M HAVA on WHAT? IL, NY, NE & CA under investigation too...
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Voting News: Pennsylvania SOS hired by Internet Voting Co. AR, CA, KY and PA ballot problems Verified Voting on May 18 primaries: "Despite signs of progress, today's primaries in Arkansas, Kentucky, Oregon, and Pennsylvania show how much work remains to verify the vote."..Paper ballots save day in Faulkner Co AR..San Francisco ballot mix: 1000 got wrong ballot, 1317 got dupes..178 Fayette Co, PA voters voted twice..A KY man charged with vote buying..Not enough ballots in Boone PA...Sadsbury PA touchscreen problem..
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Is Instant Runoff Voting Hurting Minorities in Takoma Park Maryland? 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.
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Voting News: Unrecountable 2010 elections. WV fraud charges? Need forensics! FFEC to Crist: veto HB131 The 2010 Primaries: More Recounts than Recountable Elections...Doug Jones on the erosion of the secret ballot: "If we allow a weakened right to a secret ballot, how can we ask other countries to set higher standards, and what will we do if the crooks do end up in control of our elections?"...FFEC Urges Crist to Veto Elections Bill HB 131...Absentee Vote Fraud in Charleston, WV? Need Forensics!..Why India's EVMs must go
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Voting News: NM SOS email dump TMI, Sarasota FL Election Merry Go Round. Manning up on elections NM SOS Herrera's office email dump included private medical records of former employee (and war vet) who alleged corruption against SOS. It is time to "Man Up" on election problems in Florida says Lani Massey Brown... More on Aspen Colorado's efforts to punish a voting activist and media circus...Is Open Source a Glass Ballot?...All this and more in today's news below....
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Voting News: DOJ approves GA voter check system. Rutherford TN election official fired Brennan Center report: "Voting After You Move: A Guide"...Hawaii cuts 97 polling places..Tennessee mis-fires: The Rutherford TN election chief was fired for not having early voting on 1 Saturday, but has anyone been fired for the Shelby Co fiasco where e-poll books blocked thousands of voters?...Deputies of "Houston Votes" submitted thousands of fraudulent voter registration apps...
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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.
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Voting News: AR touchscreens flip votes. KY Election fraud claims. 1000s in PA could vote twice BRAD BLOG's Election Integrity Backgrounder for 'Super-ish Tuesday' 2010... Excuses don't help: Votes flipped on Carroll Co Arkansas touchscreens...Sen Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) gets provisional ballot...Wrong ballot sent to thousands of Sonoma Co CA voters....Voter supression & fraud alleged in KY elections...1000s of Pennsylvania voters registered to vote in 2 counties...Philippines: Polls not fair, not honest, not peaceful...
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Voting News: Dust settles on voting machine failures. Beware the Perils of Internet voting Arizona Pot smokers "edgy': Prop 203 still undecided..Colorado SoS to investigate Saguache County election after discovery of uncounted absentee ballots...Minnesota Recount part 2? Fewer absentee ballot rejections in 2010 vote...Spokane WA County Ballot Copying -- Problem?..Six House Races Remain in Limbo..Africa election commission mulls EVMs for "ensuring free elections"..Beware the Perils of Internet Voting says Kyle Geske
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Voting News: "Halderman's Hackers" - How safe, online voting? Vote by mail - 1 in 5 ballots 'lost' "Halderman's Hackers": How Safe is Online Voting?..A study of 2008 election shows a "lost rate" of 20% for vote by mail ballots...Small Improvements & New Problem in Connecticut Post-Election Audits..Travis County officials OK change to paper ballot after 2012..WA State Under Fire for Emailed Overseas Ballots..Afghanistan rules 1.3m parliamentary votes invalid.. Security of India's electronic voting machines is questioned..
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Voting News: Experts slams D.C. Internet Voting Plan as unsafe. Ottawa's internet voting bugs Hampden MA may end hand counting ballots..Benton Co MI Sup paid up to $40 + case of beer for votes..Ottawa voters blocked by "captcha" bug & some registered voters told they weren't on the list...Experts pan D.C. Internet vote plan: "Return of marked ballots over the Internet is something we simply don't know how to do safely. Exercises such as this are counterproductive, because they will provide a false sense of security."
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Voting News: Florida law wrongs disabled voters. GAO on AZ,ME public finance. Do-over in Philippines? Florida enacted HB 131 which harms disabled voters by delaying the replacement of touch screen voting machines until 2016. In spite of some good lawmakers efforts, the Florida legislature failed to clean up election code that disenfranchises many valid voters.."Investigations of Aspen's many election irregularities are are notoriously unpopular." ~ Harvie Branscombe.Does public financing really make a difference?
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Voting News: Internet voting faces the music. SC voting machine bugs. Ireland trashes EVMs About the DC Internet vote hack, Dr. David Jefferson says "Let there be no mistake about it: this is a major achievement, and supports in every detail the warnings that security community have been giving about Internet voting for over a decade now."..The U. of Michigan team changed cast ballots to write-ins like HAL 900 of "2001: A Space Odyssey" ...MAJOR writeup about SC's voting machines. Shelby TN election prob testimony..
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Voting News: Travis TX judge nixes paper ballots. Philippine source code disclosure ordered DoD Announces Absentee Voting Week..The Persistence of Partisan Election Administration..Shelby County TN expands whistleblower law, but leaves out reference to elections..Overseas Vote Foundation AK, MI, VI overseas voters: Want to #vote in Nov.? Oct. 3 is your Registration deadline...Court orders Philippine Elections Commission to Disclose source code used in May elections...
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Voting News: Palm Beach to 'retry touch-screen voting'? NC election protest cites vote flipping Brad Friedman writes "Why Joe Miller is right to call for a 'hand count' in Alaska's Senate Race"...Clarification - Bridgeport Questions its Legal Authority to Revisit Balloting"...Bad news: "Palm Beach County Elections Chief Susan Bucher wants to retry touch-screen voting" & she promises to lobby legislature to bring back touchscreens...Touchscreen vote flipping cited in a demand for new election for North Carolina...
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Voting News: WV overseas internet election-54 votes for 5 counties, cost about $75,000 Hale Co Alabama officials worry absentee mail ballot fraud is back...Vote totals were off, Caroll Co Arkansas officials recounted the votes after a power surge that may have skewed the election day results..Allegations of fraud and irregularities fly.in Lucas Co Ohio...1 York Co PA voting machine froze but official says nothing wrong...Murky mail-in ballot methods in Fort Worth TX..WV internet vote cost about $1,333 per vote.
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Voting News: Hackers invade Colorado SOS site. SC Voting machines "buggy...exploitable' Still trust the internet with your votes? Hackers invade Colorado SOS site...NY Ballot case now seeks DNA...Paper please: "The citizens of South Carolina deserve better than buggy, unstable and exploitable elections." says Dr.Duncan A Buell...Hearing Set for North Carolina Ballot Access Case...Is your ballot really secret?...Voter Registration in a Digital Age...
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Voting News: A 'toxic' idea for Florida elections. CT Post, advocates to recount Bridgeport election Palm Beach CO Commish Karen Marcus wants to lobby for return to touchscreen voting. FL Voters Coalition Pres Dan McCrea:"We all understand the pretty picture that is painted of a clean electronic push-button election that's over and gives everybody an early night and reliable results..It remains fantasy with today's technology."..Illegal 6-foot barrier blocks CO poll watchers..Bridgeport recount on Mon...
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Voting News: AZ may repeal clean elections. TX AG probe Dallas mail ballot fraud. Citizens United bill gains support AZ House panel OKs Clean Elections repeal...Students registered to vote in Alamance County run into trouble at polling stations...TN Rep Odom calls for investigation into Benton Co voter purge... TX Atty Gen to investigate Dallas Co absentee ballot fraud ..In Defense of Caroline Hunter...Fed campaign bill to address Citizens United gains bi partisan support...Internet voting on the rise in Canadian municipalities....
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They're Back! Women's Voices Women Vote Sowing Confusion Again With "Registration Drive" 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.
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Voting News: VA Gov plans literacy test for ex-felons. TN to fix retroactive voter purge Illinois SBE open source campaign finance reporting software to save state money...Will Sarasota voters ever get their audits?...TN Proposes Bill to fix voter purge that impacted long registered voters...What next, a poll tax? VA Gov in hot water over nonviolent felons' rights...Probs with the New Challenge to Section 5 of Voting Rights Act...Facebook joins UK voter reg drive. Sudan day 2 of first election in 25 years...
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Voting News: Vote by Mail fallout. Dead Lincoln WV voters NOT dead. Pakistan mulls e-voting Diebold manipulated numbers -" Fraud investigation continues -" Voting: Not in question...Dorr MI Township miscount caused by missed maintenance, dirt buildup in scanners...List of Dead Lincoln WV Voters Wrong...Vote by Mail Spreads, But Doesn't Help All Voters..The hidden zinger in Cal Prop 14..Rio Arriba County NM vote tally problems...Czech Republic "Free beer if you vote" campaign draws young voters...
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Voting News: AZ election lawsuit begins. Hawaii cuts 97 poll sites. Mail ballots dont help turnout Citizens' suit against Maricopa Co AZ election office begins Sept 10..LA Co voters prefer that new voting system use paper ballots...Election watchdog report challenges Scott Brown election in Mass..NM SoS Herrera troubles: 4 election chiefs quit so far, Herrera fired 2 whistleblowers last week & SoS office swept for bugs..Virgin Isl voting machine lawsuit dismissed..The Ugly face of India Election Commission....
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Voting News: D.C. halts test of internet voting pilot. Shelby Co TN election trial starts Monday DC Board of Elections & Ethics suspended the public examination of internet voting pilot...NY Sen Elections Committee held hearing on the recent primary. Lawrence Norden with Brennan Ctr for Justice makes recommendations...Judge won't dismiss lawsuit against Shelby County TN Election Commission - "You might want to start preparing for yet another election, Shelby County."..India police to question 3rd person over EVMs...
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Voting News: Calloway KY Co picks optical scan. More WV cntys. mull troop internet vote test After an "internet pilot" for 5 WV counties, with total of 54 ballots cast out of 68 requested, the Putnam Co WV clerk now believes internet voting is safe, and wants his county to volunteer. Did anyone explain what happened to those missing 14 votes?..Martin FL gets ballot tracking system for mail ballots...Former GA SOS Handel hit with ethics complaint...Ohio SOS Office gets YouTube Channel...
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Voting News: Philly Enq-Electronic voting can be foiled. Sarasota FL Voters should voice ire over Dent's actions Proposition 16 on California's June ballot was "written and bankrolled by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for the benefit of PG&E." Anchorage split precinct ballot mixup affects 160 votes...Montgomery Co KY switching to paper ballots in time for the primary election May 18. "That way there is no doubt about how a ballot was cast and who won or lost," PA paper warns of e-voting dangers....
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Voting News: Damn the science view riles internet voting critic. EAC i-voting plan breaks law. UK election-No Diebold! "Damn the science,Damn the integrity; If it feels good do it!" attitude riles CTvoterscount.org about comments in NYT Internet voting story..The EAC broke law in proceeding w/Internet voting system guidelines says Voter Action...Rep Rush Holt intros 2 new promising election bills...'Citizens United was a shot across the bow'...UK Electoral Commission 'lacked grasp of reality'...
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Voting News: Sarasota Election Sup silence on issues. NH town bans e-voting. Ventura on e-voting. Colombia hack contd "Silence isn't golden for election issue" ~ Tom Lyons, Herald Tribune. Kathy Dent failed to announce that she would not conduct the mandated election audits. One of many omissions: Dent left an GOP primary state Senate race off some absentee ballots that had been mailed...Update on Colombia election hack... All this and more in todays voting news below
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Voting News: NYC war against the machines. Bridgeport CT recount 'will take as long as necessary' Is challenge to AK write-ins a 'literacy test'?..Bridgeport: Luther Weeks, executive director of the Connecticut Citizen Election Audit Coalition, said the recount beginning Monday will take as long as necessary, but will probably end this week.....W&M School of Law writes on "Optical Scanners, Punch Cards, and Levers: New York City's Continuing War Against the Machines"..Massive Chinese Net Reroute Exposes Web's Achilles Heel
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Feds, TBI called on TN election. FL mail ballot fiasco. '3 Idiots' and India elections Prof. David Wagner "There is no known way to audit Internet voting. UOCAVA votes might fall 'under a cloud of suspicion.'"..Lee Co FL Ballot blunder could keep votes from counting; .. Did someone intentionally load the wrong poll data onto Shelby Co TN electronic poll books?..David Dill: "all voting systems that have been claimed to be secure have been proved to be insecure.".."'3 Idiots' determine Indian election results"..
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Voting News: 1 in 10 Cuyahoga voting machines fail. GA troops i-voting guinea pigs. Violence fears for Sudan elections Georgia passed bill to use overseas military as guinea pigs in an internet voting experiment...MO. House approves voter ID's, early voting...10 percent of Cuyahoga County Ohio's ES&S DS200 voting machines fail pre-election tests...200+ letters already sent to ex-felons in Virginia telling them to write a "personal letter to the Governor" to get voting rights restored. Violence & fraud expected in Sudan & Philippines elections
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Voting News: Shes baack..Crist last on FL ballot. Illegal tweet on UK vote She's back. Election Sup. Kathy Dent still fighting Sarasota's 2006 charter ordered election audits. Dent has taken on the voters, FL Sup Court & lawmakers. Now Dent wants the Circuit Ct to explain Sup.Court ruling..FL Gov Crist name is last on ballot...Possible vote buying in Bladen Co NC...Columbia Co NY fights to keep levers...Tenn. passes bill to block voter purge..Gordon Brown's twitter czar illegally tweeted results...
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Voting News: Virginia State Election server still down. DC internet vote experiment delayed 13 candidates file for statewide contest for NC appeals court, to be tallied by IRV and counties don't yet have procedures...DC to delay internet voting experiment that uses overseas troops as guinea pigs. DC has advertised this pilot as "Digital Vote By Mail Service", but it still is internet voting, inherently insecure...NASS Designates September National Voter Registration Month...
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Voting News: ATMs AND Voting Machines are hackable. Obama admin on the military vote Bob Fitrakis asks "Why is it, on this anniversary of Bill Moss' passing, that we can readily accept people are hacking into ATM machines, but ignore the fact that people are also hacking Diebold, ES&S and other electronic voting machines and stealing more than money..Obama admin pushes back hard on charge that it's not protecting military voters...Vote buying scheme in Perry Co KY...
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Voting News: Sarasota Group- investigate Kathy Dent's no-audit decision. ACORN to end? Election integrity v costs A Sarasota Fl. group wants investigation of Election Supervisor Kathy Dent's decision not to audit school tax referendum results... ACORN announces plan to 'Bring Operations to a Close' 1 day after NYT editor admits being wrong on ACORN coverage... Al Kolwicz argues to keep polling place voting: "...it is vital that election cost is not awarded a higher priority than election integrity and voter confidence."
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Voting News: Sarasota Election Sup wastes taxpayer $ to block audits. GA Gov wants suit for citizenship checks Did mail-in voting enhance turnout in Dallas TX the wrong way?...Why is everything digital except the voting system?...Arrogance in action: Sarasota Florida Elections Supervisor Kathy Dent is wasting the taxpayers' dollars suing the county & state to fight the charter ordered, court upheld election audits. Dent claims she needs "clarification"...Voting machine flap: Dog ate my ballot...von Spakovsky responds to TPM...
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TO The UK ABOUT YOUR 2010 ELECTION MELTDOWN - ACT IN HASTE, REPENT IN LEISURE THE UK 2010 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION WAS A FLORIDA/OHIO STYLE ELECTION NIGHTMARE, WITH THOUSANDS TURNED AWAY FROM THE POLLS. "Here we are giving an example which would shame countries that are just starting their democracies." ~ David Dimbleby with BBC. IS THE UK SET TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE THE US DID? The UK media is already urging the UK to ditch paper ballots for electronic voting instead of addressing the real problem...
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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
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Voting News: Fix New York voting machine flaw. Tanner: Why Voter ID won't fly in Texas ACLU Intervenes In Georgia Voting Rights Act Challenge...The Progressive Network wants audit of South Carolina election results...New York's new voting machines could disenfranchise thousands if not fixed. "What's striking about this problem is that it is easily avoidable. Election jurisdictions are able to control whether the machine 'warns' voters, or not." ~ James Hicks, EVIC...
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Voting News: Is internet voting secret & safe? Vote help 866-OUR-VOTE. Where 2 vote - vote411.org "If we can bank by ATM, why not vote by the Internet?"~ CTVoter explains... Fox news: Internet Voting Arrives -But Is It Secret and Safe?...Chuck Tyson, Craven County NCGOP Chair on NC's touchscreen problems: "I think every vote cast should get to the right party no matter what party they put the vote for," ..."Dead Voters" and the early vote...Call 1-866-OUR-VOTE for help. See vote411.org to find your polling place...
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Voting News: Sarasota officials try to kill election audit. Aspen strikes out at transparency activist. Rove right? It is a tough week for election transparency and the activists who work so hard for it. Sarasota FL officials try another tactic to kill the charter mandated election audits that citizens asked for. The city of Aspen CO is going after election activist who sought to have ballot images made public...Levitt: "Karl Rove is right about local elections"... More in todays news below...
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Voting News: NC GOP sues over touch-screen problems. Beware bogus online ballots in CT, NH A Decade After Florida Fiasco,Voting Remains a Hodgepodge...Paperless e-voting a concern this election..Nearly 1 in 4 voters in Tues elections will use e-voting systems with no paper records..Voters in Connecticut & New Hampshire beware of bogus online ballots...N.Carolina's GOP Party filed suit over touch-screen vote flipping...Internet voting 'an electronic disaster' in Stratford, Canada..Probs voting? 866-OUR-VOTE
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Voting News: More vote buying in KY. Berkeley WV votes counted twice. Indian EVMs ate votes Another KY vote buying scheme, this time in Perry Co...Berkely CO WV's early voted ballots counted twice...Aspen CO claims to have spent $75K+ to keep citizens from viewing ballot images of May 5 2009 election...The EAC internet voting pilot test requirements are too weak says Joel Rothschild, Chief of Staff of the Federal Voting Assistance Program...
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Voting News: Web attack stumps Butler OH BoE. Voter ID in MO,SC? Florida in Britain? After the attack on Butler County Ohio's BoE website,the director of info services will check the web servers & sites to determine if they are secure...Paperless touchscreen machines once were "the wave of the future" until causing lost votes, switched votes,undervotes & contested elections. Now 30 Canadian municipalities will try the "new" wave of the future-internet voting...Criminal complaint r/e Aspen election...
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Voting News: I-Voting, direct democracy. 'Hack is Wack'. Sarasota Election Sup faces class action? Snoop Dogg fights cyber crime, see 'Hack is Wack'...Dr.Joseph Lorenzo Hall writes about Electronic Voting and Direct Democracy...Class Action Lawsuit Being Filed Against Sarasota Elections Sup Kathy Dent?. NJ wants military internet voting experiment...18,000 Wisconsin voters could be cut from rolls...
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Voting News: DC voting rights bill killed. New Albany MS Vote Buying Scheme. NY violates Voting Rights Act Arapahoe Co,CO man gets 12 mail-in ballots...Gun control prop kills DC voting rights bill...Clay Co KY vote buy scheme update...New Albany, MS man sentenced in vote buy scheme, 7 others pled guilty,7 await trial...NY State Board of Elections violated section 5 of Voting Rights Act...TN lawmakers spar over letters sent to 2000 Benton voters questioning their registration. Some voters registered to vote 50 yrs ago...
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Voting News: On Dept of Justice, Military Vote rumors. Sarasota SoE Dent's anti-audit 'timeline' McCreary CO KY considers switching to paper ballot optical scanners...Washington SOS explains "The story behind our military voting waiver request" and r/e FOX News story 'DOJ Accused of Stalling on MOVE Act for Voters in Military.' - "Elections officials say it isn't accurately portraying the Department of Justice or the Federal Voting Assistance Program officials on this issue." This is 45th anniversary of Voting Rights Act
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Voting News: 'new' voting machines turn up in Buffalo. Ballot removal for Minnesota? US Senate candidate Miller(R)wins delay on Alaska election cert...Palm Beach officials building their case for touchscreen voting, now claim its about disability access...Now That He's Been Elected, KS Sec. of State-Elect Kris Kobach Can't Find Any 'Voter Fraud'...Minnesota GOP lays groundwork to "remove" alleged phantom ballots. Ramsey County says suit should be rejected...2 'new' voting machines turn up in Buffalo..
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Voting News: Suit - NY voting machine flaw risks 1000s of votes. SC editorials FOR paper ballots Donna Brazil:"How can we put men on the moon and export democracy abroad, yet still be incapable of administering elections at home with indisputable integrity as to their outcomes? ..It's time to address this threat to our democracy."..Lawsuit over New York's new ballot machines - flawed overvote warning may disenfranchise 1,000s of voters..TX Gov. Ex-Aide Accused of Vote-Diversion Scheme..Cyber Warfare Could 'Paralyze' U.S.
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Voting News: India to get paper trail? DC Internet Voting Pwned - update. NY voter feedback poll D.C.'s internet "Voting System Pwned by Michigan Wolverines" in public test. What would experts find if allowed to "test" W.VA.'s military/internet voting system, or other states' email balloting?..The NY SBOE is conducting a voter feedback poll. So is the New York Daily news..Trial against Shelby Co TN Elections Commission starts Wed..Voting by mail? Check the postage!..Will The World's Largest Democracy beat US to full VVPR?
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Voting News: Glitches in IN,NC,OH,TX. Butler OH BoE website attacked. Internet voting risks Sending voted ballots over the public Internet "is in a security class by itself," ...and these ballots are vulnerable to attacks from a wide range of individuals, organizations, and even governments." ~ Verified Voting Comments to EAC on i-voting pilots...AZ mailer gives 27K voters wrong polling place... Voting machine probs in NC,IN,OH,TX...Should US vote by mail? ...Corp Candidate for Congress' voter reg rejected twice...
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Voting News: In favor of paper ballots,recounts. Internet Voting is 'an affront to democracy' "Pulling the Lever for Paper"..VA needs paper ballots by 2012 to avoid fiasco: "It's been a few years since Fairfax County got through an entire election cycle without a piece of voting equipment breaking down, a handful of votes vaporizing or an election result being delayed."..Internet voting is "an affront to democracy..It does not fulfill the requirement of one person, one vote and a guarantee of a secret ballot."..
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Voting News: Nassau NY sues to undo election law, keep levers. Wal-Mart top political donor. NC ballot access case Are Colorado Election officials making decisions behind closed doors?...Nassau County wants the New York Election Reform and Modernization Act of 2005 declared unconstitutional, wants the DS200 system decertified in New York State, and wants to keep the lever machines...Wal-Mart, UBS and Other Groups Added to OpenSecrets.org List of Top Political Givers...Too late the CA Atty Gen says ACORN did not violate the law....
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Voting News: 1 in 10 AZ voters get wrong info. The Kansas Report and voter purges. Nassau ordered to ditch levers While MI,MN,Humboldt CA & other cities ..reaffirm citizens' rights to oversight, "Aspen taxpayers are funding an expensive battle to fight election transparency. Aspen, of all places." writes Mike LaBonte in LTE...Mississippi to join several states in purge....Nassau County told ditch levers. Expert says India should ditch electronic voting...
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Voting News: Cuyahoga voting machines code flaw. Sarasota Officials hire atty to defend elections. Money is not speech. Good thing they have paper ballots. Cuyahoga Co Ohio's voting machines have a source code flaw causing some to "freeze" up. Cuyahoga uses DS200 optical scanners made by ES&S. A source code change is needed... FL Veterans for Common Sense to Crist -Veto poison pill bill!...Sarasota FL County Commissioners hire attorney to defend election audit charter from Kathy Dent...US concerned about transparency of Iraq election recount..
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Voting News: Brennan Ctr to vote vendors- report malfunctions. SC cnty stalls election FOIAs New CA law requires vote vendors to report problems...Bo Lipari's testimony on NY primary...Brennan Ctr letter asks vendors to self report probs...South Carolina Straight ticket warning..Charleston Co SC election office drags feet on FOIAS..Mary Mancini's "The Worst Legislation in Tennessee!"..Fox says 7 states violating the MOVE act, may disenfranchise overseas & military voters. FVAP says "To date, all states have..."
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Voting News: Spokane must duplicate 30,000 mail ballots. Some elections still too close to call Rep Tim Bishop wants hand count of 184,000 Long Island 1st dist ballots after vote swing. 10,000 absentee ballots uncounted...Was Stark CO, OH student's video report of touchscreen vote-flipping just an isolated incident? Brad Friedman reports...Spokane WA officials busy duplicating 30K ballots that were damaged, poorly marked or unreadable...Dust Settles on Election Results, But Not Troubles. 4 India EVMs smashed...
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Voting News: NY Count the ballots - 'best way to settle disputes.' Bridgeport Conn to have recount Indiana voter describes "Voting as a deaf blind person" ..Bridgeport Conn to allow recount...Colorado Sunshine law partly cloudy after Election Day..Palm Beach Election sup changes mind,will consider new modems instead of whole new voting system. Modems are $1,500 each??.Minn. canvas board launches recount, battle over rules...Nevada SoS says time to replace old voting machines..NYT: "It's time to count the paper ballots."
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Voting News: Experts decry US overseas internet vote plan. PA,KY unverifiable voting. UK student voters disenfranchised Flaws with EAC's Overseas/Military Internet vote plan:e-mail messages can be intercepted, Web sites can be hacked, and the secrecy of ballots is hard to ensure...DOJ asks court to compel Nassau compliance.."Here We Go Again (Again): 100% Unverifiable E-Voting Systems Set for Use in PA, KY, Elsewhere"..Ballot harvesting scheme in Jim Wells Co TX..Some UK student voters denied vote, treated as 2nd class citizens...
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Voting News: EAC issues advisory on ES&S system. Voter registration boom in Arizona, Ohio The Elections Assistance Commission - EAC issues advisory on ES&S Unity & DS200 opscan freeze/shutdowns... Lawsuit in LA County CA.: 37th Dist primary candidate Lee Davis said that her name was omitted from ballots in 300 precincts...Voter Registration in Arizona Explodes...Voter Registration at Ohio Public Assistance Agencies Skyrocket... Editors note: Like voting news? Please tell your friends.
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Voting News: Unsafe at any cost - Internet voting. Illinois special election a $30M travesty? Political Barriers to Military Voting...Unsafe at any cost -" Internet voting..New York Leveling the playing field for mail-in voting?..Keeping Tax-Subsidized Corporate Money out of Politics...Illinois Special Election A $30 million travesty?..FOI to Riverside County over vote count mess...Illinois special election for Burris seat would cost $30 Million to have winner serve a 4 week term..Internet voting challenged in Gujarat
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, June 18, 2010
Voting News: South Carolina's frail election system. VV best practices for overseas vote. India elections - PC or MAC? Bid to overturn South Carolina election is over. "The issues we raised about the lack of election integrity in South Carolina are real, and they are not going away unless people act. I assure you that I will continue to speak out about our frail and vulnerable election system in the months to come."~ Judge Vic Rawl..Gutting the Disclose Act..Mac or PC? Microsoft bids to run Gujarat India munis internet elections in Oct 2010...
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Voting News: Vendor certifies Aspen election. Does EAC really want comments on internet voting? The voting vendor TrueBallot Inc certified Aspen Colorado's May 5, 2009 election as "fair and accurate" on April 12, 2010 according to FOIA request...Jim Crow makes a comeback in Virginia...Voter Action charged the Election Assistance Commission with shortchanging comment period on Internet Voting.EAC then issued correction adding miserly 15 more days..Is NY29th spec election worth it? 10% of Philipines optical scanners fail.
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Voting News: Fairfax 'should junk electronic voting machines'. NY Election night-mare Miller campaign challenges mis-spelled write in votes for Murkowski in AK..IL Appeals court rejects Barrow's redo effort of '09 election...Philadelphia voter forced to swear on Bible before voting...Computer scientist Jeremy Epstein as a poll worker in Fairfax,VA."..one of the touch screen machines was crashing all day...If I had a laptop that crashed three or four times in one day, I'd get a new one."
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Voting News: Detroit ballot boxing. Few use WV overseas internet voting. Sack the UK Election Chief? "Sack the Chairwoman of the Electoral Commission." Iain Dale writing about UK's election fiasco...Online bank thefts more than doubled in 2009 but no one would try to steal an internet election right?..Hispanic TX district won by African American..Damaged memory cards delay tally of 76K precincts in Philippines..Internet Voting vulnerable to political pressure...
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Voting News: Can Internet Voting withstand public test? Can S. Carolina 'count on machines?' DC allowed public test of their internet voting system & shut it down after computer scientists took over the system. Other states that allow email or internet balloting for overseas voters should see if their systems can withstand a public test too..Sarasota FL's controversial Election Sup Kathy Dent may not run again...India e-voting researcher Hari Prasad is a winner of EFF Pioneer award..Afghanistan tosses 1000s of votes..
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 11, 2010
Voting News: Perry Co KY vote flipping. Epstein:"What happens when there's no recount possible?" Perry Co KY voting mach probs: voters would push button & wrong name lit up.."North Carolina Voting Machines Lessons Learned,Part Two" (not just NC)..Expert Jeremy Epstein on VA's paperless voting: "What happens when there's no recount possible?"..Veterans Day & MOVE Act..Audio reveals Afghan election fraud...33 Canada cities internet voting mess..Think internet voting is a good idea? See V for Vendetta hacks WSU...
SHARE More Sharing        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.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 26, 2010
Voting News: India's Electronic Voting Controversy. Suit seeks to void Shelby TN election Democrats ask court to void Shelby County Tennessee's August election. Vote-total discrepancies not mere error, suit alleges...On Australia's national cliffhanger: "It's not a good sign when the best way out may be a fresh election."...Verified Voting "On India's Electronic Voting Controversy". India's officials should address the voting machine vulnerabilities rather than punish experts who reveal them..
SHARE More Sharing        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.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 9, 2010
Voting News: Internet voting helps WHO? Groups clever strategy forces India to use paper ballots Internet security expert Eric Riscorla makes the case "Against internet voting pilots." Technologist Collin Lynch addresses claims that i-voting is convenient: "It bears mentioning that we have to ask, convenient for whom?" and points out that under-served groups are least likely to have easy access to a PC or internet..Groups in India found a way to force the use of paper ballots:run more candidates than EVMs can handle..
SHARE More Sharing        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.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 27, 2010
Voting News: Double voting in Hoke NC? TX Voter ID again? Elections automation, a lemon? NC looks into possible double voting in Hoke Co..Good thing Bullitt Co KY has paper ballots since 4 memory cards went missing...Some candidates for Avon, IN Town Council will be doing a forensic review of election. ..CEIMN Dir. Some straight talk about Minnesota Elections...Hefty sum to rig India's EVM's?...Philippines Elections automation, a lemon?
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 25, 2010
Voting News: Cumberland Co TN lost voting machine and cards. Vote Buying in Perry Co KY Federal grand jury indicts 4 in Perry Co KY vote buying...Inventory of Cumberland Co TN voting equipment reveals that one voting machine, three card readers and 12 tally cards were missing. They don't say when that equipment disappeared...A recent FOIA on South Carolina's absentee ballots raises more questions about the results of the US Sen. Dem Primary. New internet worm targets systems such as oil rigs, refineries & more...
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Voting News: Sarasota officials evade election law. Colombian election hacked. GA e-voting oversight Sarasota voter advocates report that Election Supervisor Kathy Dent did not conduct charter mandated, court upheld, post election audits...Georgia Questioned on E-Voting Problems..New Mexico SOS scandal update...Idaho close to passing Voter ID...Hackers struck the Colombia's legislative elections...The New York Times still not reporting historic ACORN ruling...All this & more in today's voting news below...
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Voting News: John Gideon remembered. New Voting Rights Act challenge. Internet Voting update Today marks one year since the passing of John Gideon, editor of the original Daily Voting News. Brad Friedman has a special blog about John today - "Has Anybody Here Seen My Old Friend John?"...On the news front: Another challenge to Sect 5 of Voting Rights Act, this time from Alabama...Unilect lawsuit in PA...Hushed money...Key Canadian official tells House of Commons that the integrity of internet voting cannot be assured.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Voting News: US Burgers, Ballots, Bogus Polls. Diebold-ing Brazil. Mexico's Bullets and Ballots San Joaquin Co California may adopt 100% vote by mail, meanwhile 12,500 mail ballots in Riverside co, in limbo. Assemblyman Brian Nestande introduced AB 2642 to address mail-ballot problems...Indiana online voter reg starts July 1...New York voting machines need simple fix to save 1000s of votes...Supreme Court Reaffirms Ban on Soft Money...Burgers & ballots & election transparency as mainstream issue...Brazil buys Diebold
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 21, 2010
Voting News: SC invisible ballots. Canadian E-vote firm buys Sequoia. 'What IS my ballot, really?' Voting Without A Net In South Carolina -Alvin Greene's Controversial Senate Primary Upset Can't Be Checked Against Records That Don't Exist...On Heels of Diebold/Premier Purchase, Canadian E-Voting Firm Dominion Also Acquires Sequoia, Lies About Chavez-Ties in Announcement...A boost for Nassau's fight to keep lever voting machines...Texas vote fraud problem centers on absentee ballots...In "Dude, What Is My Ballot, Really?"
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Voting News: Montgomery PA voters thwarted by Sequoia machines. Why CT Finance Ruling Matters Old style ballot box facing electronic poll threat. "The most effective fraud is done by changing results after the count is done--how much easier is that going to be to do undetected when there is no paper trail to trip you up?" ~ Silvana Puizana.."2nd Circuit Reverses U.S. District Court, Says Constitution Permits Massive Discrimination Against Minor Parties and Independent Candidates in Public Funding." ~ Richard Winger.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Voting News: Hacking India's voting machines, a voting rights case to watch, Internet voting spreads "Our research proved something which we really never doubted: with some preparation anyone with even momentary access to paperless voting machines can own the country." ~ Rop Gonggrijp after examining e-voting machines used in India...Investigators to monitor KY polls...TN House Leader Odom solicits voter purge probe..Supreme Court Weighs Petition-Signers Anonymity..Sec 5 of Voting Rights Act at risk?..Internet voting spreads
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Voting News: Vote or Vice? Internet voting $1.5 B industry. AZ Election evidence disappears News reports say that internet voting is a $1.5 Billion industry. You didn't think it was being promoted for the good of voters, did you? Computer scientists say that internet elections are inherently insecure and ballots are non secret...Evidence Discovered Missing from Allegedly 'Fixed' AZ Election..Tulare County CA discovers 2,500 ballots not counted...Letter to editor: "New York's elections are being Floridized."...
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 12, 2010
Voting News: Ohio Vote Center Pilots SLASH polling places. Ireland e-voting mistake still costs Didn't we learn anything from the Garland Co Arkansas fiasco, where polling places were cut from 42 to 2? Ohio didn't: Montgomery, Clinton & Highland counties will drastically cut polling places and use vote centers instead.Montgomery Co. will go from 159 polling places to 4 vote centers. For people who can't easily get off work, or have transportation issues - voting just got harder. A single meltdown impacts more votes...
SHARE More Sharing        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.
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Voting News: Why can't I vote at my ATM? South Carolina's 'discredited' voting machines Connecticut good job w/ MOVE act to help overseas military vote...NY Sen passes law making voter suppression a misdemeanor...TX Co Commissioner pleads in absentee ballot fraud case...The DISCLOSE Act passes congress...Doe v Reed settled, U.S. Supreme Court Says, Usually, States are Free to Release Names and Addresses of Petition Signers for Public Viewing...Why can't I vote at my ATM?...
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Voting News: SC primary results stand. Electronic voting the Cheat Box. NJ perfect election storm South Carolina: Manning-churian Candidate? Alvin Greene nomination stands..Groups want Riverside officials to count the 12,563 absentee ballots that missed deadline...New Jersey faces a perfect storm - because they STILL haven't enacted their 2005 paper ballot law...Electronic voting, aka "the cheat box" has been rejected by Netherlands, Ireland, German, Italy...
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Voting News: Clay KY vote buying cont'd. Cost vs Ballot integrity. Fed $ for NM voting system upkeep "The integrity of our ballots should supersede other considerations." ~ Mary C. Eberle, Coloradans for Voting Integrity op-ed in favor of keeping precinct voting in Bolder County, Colorado....Harvie Branscombe has 2 OpEds in Colorado papers - one about judges decision to not hear the ballot image case in Aspen; and one about the vulnerabilities of vote by mail... All this and more in today's voting news below...
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Voting News: The scramble to save SC election data. Paper Please! GAO clears ACORN Verified Voting Calls for Recountable, Auditable Voting Systems Following South Carolina Primary...SC Progressive Network scrambles to preserve voting machine records..Lawmaker: Don't blame Greene...From the "making things worse" dept: Riverside County CA Sup's odd "solution" to county's problem in processing absentee ballots on time? Bring back touchscreen voting machines...Reports of absentee mail ballot fraud in NY & TX..
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Update on Robo Calls in NC - Investigation Heats Up - African Americans Key Victims 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?
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Voting News: No tangible record of the vote - DC overseas troops to email voted 'ballots' How do you recount electronic ballots? A Boone Co Kentucky Commissioner wants to do recount on the paperless E-Slate machines..House Action on Campaign Finance Bill Likely Thursday...Vendor Consolidation Continues: Dominion Acquires Sequoia..Are runoffs necessary?...Trading secret ballot for pin number and email ballot?
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Voting News: AZ ease of cheating. Map of US internet voting. Philippines ghost polling centers exposed If fraud or error occurs in Arizona elections, it is hard to correct: "The ease-of-cheating problem becomes magnified when combined with the impossibility of challenging any computerized rigged election in Arizona." ~ Bill Risner, AUDIT AZ...Aspen,CO Commission to review May 2009 election complaints ...SC House to debate voter id...Philippines ghost polling centers exposed. Verified Voting maps internet voting in US.
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Voting News: CalTech - little support for internet voting. Aspen's never ending election integrity war "Having good elections takes public vigilance, but it shouldn't become a war." Mike LaBonte, election integrity activist...A CalTech study of Voter Opinions about Election Reform indicates: "Internet voting and voting-by-mail do not receive a great deal of support from American voters."...$10,440 in South Carolina vs. $0 in Vermont...8 States with Online Voter Registration
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Voting News: Another e-voting suit in Webb Co TX. Avi Rubin-Taking back American Idol! Tano Tijerina has filed a lawsuit to block e-voting in the Webb Co TX runoff election. Atty Balli says the machines always create many problems in Webb County elections and his client wants to make sure each vote counts. Balli was successful in blocking use of e-voting in Webb Co's Democratic primary. Avi Rubin on Taking back American Idol! The news is light today but we'll be back tomorrow.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 15, 2010
Voting News: Cancel the Voting Machines? Lost Voters, Lost Votes. MontCo PA blames voters "Cancel the Voting Machines?" The Brian Leher on NY voting machine problems..HuffPo running internet vote vendor Scytl's press release as an editorial. The "piece" touts internet voting as getting rid of hanging chads or any other problem. The piece doesn't mention Scytl's involvement in Finland's failed i-voting experiment in 2008..In 2008 an est 1.9M voters didnt cast ballot because they didnt know where to go...
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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.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 15, 2010
VotingNews: ES&S Final Judgement. School $ to fund Hawaii spec election. Internet voting debate "Our leaders have slowly taken away our rights to control our elections as we mindlessly shirked our responsibilities of oversight, assuming that the government would substitute for us." ~ Marilyn Marks in response to judge's dismissal of case to review ballot images...A top UK election official is promoting internet voting, meanwhile there's a meeting in Munich to debate pros an cons of internet voting. All this & more below
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Antitrust not enough. MD paper ballots on hold. NM SOS mismanaged say former employees The "Un-Merger" is a step in the right direction. But there's more work to be done. Still at least 17 ways to steal or botch your next election...Ballot brouhaha in Aspen Colorado....Hans A. von Spakovsky appointed to Fairfax VA election board..."How can Florida, North Carolina and so many other states already have op scan, but we can't do it here in Maryland?"...all this & more in voting news below...
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Voting News: Risks of DC Internet Voting Pilot for military voters. Letter to Holder: ban DREs DC's Internet Voting Pilot for overseas and military voters: "In essence, every attack people have proposed on DREs is suddenly an attack on this system as well. Some of these attacks may be detectable but in general one can't recover from them. And the available evidence suggests that users are pretty oblivious to even fairly blatant attacks..."~ Eric Rescorla..."Protect Our Elections" ltr to AG Holder: Ban DREs!
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Prevent Election Fiascoes in Tennessee - Enact Paper Ballot Law NOW 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.
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Voting News: Birther run for CA Sec of State. Irrational Exhuberance for Internet Voting. Auto Voter Registration? Birther leader Orly Taitz to run for California SOS. If elected will investigate Obama birth cert... Wisconsin considers bill to automatically register drivers...CNN article indicates irrational exhuberance for internet voting. CNN expert? Lori Steel, CEO of internet voting company whose background is in finance. Of course Stell likes internet voting, she's selling it! All this and more in today's voting news below....
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Voting News: DC Internet vote risks update. The reality of cyber threats. Bingo $ and Ballots Eric Riscorla's update on DC's internet voting pilot finds more risks: "So while electronic ballot distribution is more secure than electronic ballot return, there still seem to be a number of potential attacks that would be more difficult to mount en masse with conventional paper-based ballot delivery." Cyber crime is the also one of the fastest growing and most lucrative aspects of illegal use of the Internet..
SHARE More Sharing        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?
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 21, 2010
E-Vote Vendors to NC: We Don't WANT to Break the Law! How often do you hear of a voting vendor saying they really really (really!!) do not want to break the law, but state officials are forcing them to? But that's exactly what's about to happen in North Carolina where the first statewide use of Instant Runoff Voting..could produce, according to some, a "train wreck" this November...there is actually no state or federally certified software to tally IRV on NC's voting systems..
SHARE More Sharing        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.
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Laying to Rest Fraudulent Fraud Rumors Damaging to Election Integrity Rumors still swirl around the Internet that the wrong winners were picked in both the FL 13's and NC 08's congressional races.
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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.

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