The Voting News Daily: ES&S Diebold heads to court, Tennessee seeks voting machine proposals, Election polling fraudulent?
ES&S Diebold shotgun wedding comes to a halt: Federal Judge Robert Kugler in Camden, NJ., agreed late Friday to hear a request for an emergency injunction that could halt Election Systems & Software’s Sept. 2 announced acquisition of Diebold Inc.’s Premier Election Solutions. “…when one considers ES&S’ reckless performance as an election provider the real issue is much more basic. Should we even do business with these people?” ~ Lani Massey Brown in “ES&S for Dummies, 2009..”
Huge news: Tennessee SOS is issuing a request for proposal to vendors for paper ballot systems and in January 2010 the TN GOP speaker will seek to delay the Public Confidence (paper ballot) law through legislative remedy.
Aspen’s non secret ballot election: “..if we don’t defend our constitutional rights we will lose them. I respect the fact that there are those in the community who disagree with me, and who prefer non-secret ballot elections.”~ Millard Zimmet, an attorney in Aspen, Colorado.
Unique idea: “To fix democracy, start with the voters.”
I-Report from Alameda Co polling place – no one willing to vote on DRE/touch-screen.
Lessons and more from Minnesota Recount: “The bottom line is, as much as it pains me to say it, we probably did this as well as it could be done,” said Fritz Knaak, a Coleman attorney who fought the recount battle from the beginning until his man lost. “There’s no crying need, coming from all of this, for massive reform — unless (the reform) is a runoff.”
A disgusted New York voter comments about both the new and old voting machines malfunctioning: “We need to be a good example for the world, not a joke. Fix the voting system.”
Polling Data questioned: “There is a substantial possibility — far from a certainty — that much of Strategic Vision’s polling over the past several years has been forged.”~Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com
How does Germany vote, what do their ballots look like, WHY did their high court rule that the use of electronic voting machines like Nedap ESD1 and ESD2 is unconstitutional? “In a republic, elections are a matter for the entire people and a joint concern of all citizens. Consequently, the monitoring of the election procedure must also be a matter for and a task of the citizen. Each citizen must be able to comprehend and verify the central steps in the elections.”
CA. Some Local Access Voting Stories *
September 24th, 2009 Last night I got a call from a livid Alameda County voter who called me about 6:30 PM, after he was told that he couldn’t vote on the Sequoia DRE unless they could find four other people to vote on the system. Note, our Sec. of State requires that five or more must vote voluntarily on the conditionally certified DREs. Completely oblivious to my friend’s embarrassment, the pollworker actually went down the line of voters asking for volunteers to vote and saying something like, “so that blind guy can vote on the voting machine”. No one was willing to vote on the DRE!