The Voting News Daily: Voter Action challenges Diebold sale, Tennessee 2 step, NJ worries over e-voting
The group Voter Action is challenging the merger of Election Systems and Software and Diebold. “This transaction threatens the democratic process itself,” Voter Action’s letter states. “The ES&S/Premier acquisition is absolutely unique in its potential for disturbing U.S. election processes and results.” Meanwhile, Diebold is cutting jobs at touchscreen factory in Lexington NC. Could ES&S be ending the troubled Diebold voting machine line?
Indiana’s voter ID law still stands for the November election although that law was struck down by a State Appeals Court.
Tennessee Two Step – Tennessee Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey will introduce a bill to delay implimenting paper ballot law, thus risking that will be the next state to have a Florida-style election nightmare. Meanwhile SOS Hargett plans to find voting machines compliant with the law in time for 2010.
Now that its the 21st Century, isn’t it time to end the use of blended voting systems and give everyone a paper ballot? “Why should voters with disabilities continue to be forced to vote on segregated ballot systems that are far too complicated for the pollworkers to operate and that make us vulnerable to disenfranchisement because of poor machine reliability and inadequate training and/or poor attitudes on the part of the pollworkers?” ~ Noel Runyan, electrical engineer and computer scientist.
Citizens report: New York began end to end testing of voting machines yesterday – Bo Lipari gives a firsthand report with photos.
Meanwhile, the New York media whines about low turnout/high cost elections without accepting any responsibility of spurring voters’ interest in interesting voters in the elections.
CA. Runner sues Attorney General over ballot wording (measure in favor of voter id)
Runner blasts ‘biased’ summary of his initiative to prevent voter fraud
September 28, 2009 SACRAMENTO • State Sen. George Runner is suing California Attorney General Jerry Brown for crafting what Runner calls an “overtly biased” summary of a ballot measure the senator created to prevent voter fraud.
http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/sues-14749-attorney-wording.html
CA. Riverside County supervisors may discuss to discuss registrar’s response to audit
Sept 26. (podcast available) The audit, led by former District Attorney Grover Trask, said the election was successful but presented 36 recommendations for improvement. In her response, Dunmore says she has already heeded 31 of them and has partially implemented five.
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_registrar27.45a50a0.html
CA. Collection of my Electronic Voting Experiences on the Sequoia Edge II
by Noel H. Runyan September 24th, 2009 …the government should refuse to buy any more systems, unless they are completely redesigned and made reasonably useable…It took me 30 minutes to work my way through the ballot and make my selections. After that, I had quite a bit of trouble getting into the review mode, to get a full list of all my selections. When I did, it went on and on, for 23 minutes,
https://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id=6717
GA. ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Georgia Restriction on Absentee Voting
September 29th, 2009
http://www.ballot-access.org/2009/09/29/aclu-files-lawsuit-against-georgia-restriction-on-absentee-voting/
GA. Georgia Supreme Court Rules that Unauditable Elections are A-OK
September 28, 2009 …In our current world order, U.S. electoral management bodies (EMBs) have consciously chosen to ignore the science and rely on the electronic tally, preserving the ballots only for some potential future recount.