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April 15, 2010
Voting News: Vendor certifies Aspen election. Does EAC really want comments on internet voting?
By Joyce McCloy
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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Outsourcing democracy - 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. The EAC then quickly issued a "correction" adding a miserly 15 more days...Is it worth $1 M for special election to fill NY 29th seat for just a few months?...Jeremy Epstein to give talk in UK "Internet Voting: Threat or Menace"...Philipines optical scanners 10% failure rate....National
"FEC commissioner faces disbarment complaint after Raw Story report"
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0413/progressive-network-calls-disbarment-fec-commissioner/ The progressive non-profit network Velvet Revolution has filed a disciplinary complaint against Federal Election Commissioner Caroline Hunter with the DC Court of Appeals, asking that she be debarred for providing "misleading statements" under oath.
New MIT paper ranks IRV lowest of all alternative voting methods (pdf doc)
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/RivestShen-AnOptimalSingleWinnerPreferentialVotingSystemBasedOnGameTheory.pdf
"Money Talks But it Isn't Speech"
http://electionlawblog.org/archives/015712.html
FOIAchat Friday - Sunshine Review and WIkiFOIA are launching a new FOIA friday chat on twitter to encourage conversation about FOIA records.
http://openrecords.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/foiachat-friday/
International
PCOS machines in Philippine automated elections: failure rates, error rates
http://rverzola.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/pcos-machines-in-philippine-automated-elections-failure-rates-error-rates/ According to the news, two of the twenty PCOS machines in Hongkong stopped working for a while. That is a 10% failure rate.
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