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(2 comments) SHARE Friday, April 23, 2010 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
SHARE Thursday, March 11, 2010 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..
SHARE Wednesday, August 25, 2010 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...
SHARE Thursday, May 13, 2010 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...
SHARE Wednesday, May 19, 2010 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..
(13 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 24, 2008 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.
SHARE Tuesday, May 25, 2010 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
SHARE Tuesday, March 30, 2010 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....
SHARE Tuesday, August 24, 2010 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...
SHARE Friday, August 14, 2009 Voting News 8/9. New voting hack, Internet voting in defense bill, Tennessee lawyering up, Apsen transparency
New hack demonstrated on electronic voting machines. (video) Internet Voting whackamole as Defense Authorization bill allows pilot. Tennessee hot mess: The dispute over voting machines may head for the courts. Tenn. Secretary of State detained voting activist as a terrorist. Aspen voters still seek ballot images from May. Bad economy pushes eletion changes.
SHARE Tuesday, May 18, 2010 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...
SHARE Wednesday, October 20, 2010 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..
SHARE Friday, November 12, 2010 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
SHARE Monday, September 27, 2010 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."
SHARE Thursday, November 18, 2010 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...
SHARE Tuesday, June 1, 2010 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?
SHARE Wednesday, October 6, 2010 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..
SHARE Tuesday, September 28, 2010 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...
SHARE Friday, May 28, 2010 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.
SHARE Friday, July 16, 2010 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...