The Voting News Daily: “Let Freedom K-Ching”, Plug pulled on e-voting in Australia, OH, NY election glitches
Plug pulled on electronic voting trials in Australia, deemed “too expensive“.
Conversely, Bangladesh considers electronic voting trials to save money.
Meanwhile, in the US there were voting machine problems reported in NY and OH.
Internet Voting? “Given its current architecture and engineering, the Internet provides neither high assurance data security and integrity, nor reliable information transmission protected from denial of service and other attacks.”~ Candice Hoke, Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
The Diebold Deal – Common Cause calls on Justice Dept to investigate.
Citizens United v FEC: About Corporations -“Why should they have the political ‘free speech’ rights guaranteed for ‘we the people,’ rather than more narrow ‘commercial speech’ rights developed through centuries of litigation?” ~Bob Hall, executive director of Democracy North Carolina.
“There could be an argument made that that was the court’s error to start with… imbuing] a creature of state law with human characteristics.” ~Justice Sonia Sotomayor. “Let Freedom K-Ching” ~fake news man Stephen Colbert. “Perhaps this will be proof that contributors get the best government they can buy, and we can stop fooling ourselves about democracy.” Rep. Charles F. Weed, Keene NH.
US voter registration woes: “the system is problematic for all, but impacts young voters, military members, lower income voters, those who move, and voters of color more often than most.” ~ Jonah Goldman of the Voter Registration Modernization Committee.
AK. FEC Unanimously Dismisses Action Against Alaska Group, Citing as One Reason the Pending Citizens United Case
http://electionlawblog.org/archives/014464.html
HI. EDITORIAL Fix elections office
Sep 17, 2009 Hawaii’s next statewide elections are a year away, but serious questions have arisen about whether the agency assigned to facilitate the vote is up to the task. The state Elections Commission must determine if new leadership is needed to assure a smooth process that meets legal requirements.
http://www.starbulletin.com/editorials/20090917_fix_elections_office.html
MT. Gazette Opinion: Voters stamp approval on mail ballots
Sept 17. This year’s all-mail ballot, the first held for a Billings city primary, resulted in a turnout of 38 percent of registered voters. The 20,966 ballots voted in Tuesday’s election represents an 87 percent increase over the 11,161 ballots voted four years ago in the last primary with a mayoral election.
http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/editorial/gazette-opinion/article_510d1b4e-a332-11de-b30d-001cc4c002e0.html
NC. N.C. ACORN proud of record, state director says
September 18, 2009 RALEIGH — Embattled community organizing group ACORN has four offices in North Carolina, but none is known to have the kinds of problems that have drawn bipartisan criticism in Congress this week.
http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/09/17/article/nc_acorn_has_a_spotless_record_state_director_says
NY. District Attorney primary totals updated after voting machine malfunction*(uses Sequoia Imagecast) September 16, 2009 Washington County District Attorney Kevin Kortright picked up 97 additional votes after a malfunctioning voting machine in Whitehall was fixed Tuesday night, but that did little to close the gap against his opponent, Robert Winn. Winn, a former district attorney, received 76 votes after the machine was fixed.Election officials blamed a paper jam for the voting machine malfunction. The breakdown delayed the posting of results for District 5 in Whitehall until late Tuesday night.