The Voting News Daily: Calls for Open Source voting systems, Diebold OSX WARNING, Afghanistan election disaster
SOS project call on Sen Schumer for Open Source voting machines… Pre-Election Diebold Op-Scan Failure in FL; ‘Reform’ or Legislative Obscenity? – WARNING on Diebold OSX optical scanner…California considers how to regulate electronic campaigning…DOJ spikes Georgia voter voter registration matching/citizenship checks again…Washington State OP: “Ballot secrecy is being eroded.”…Afghanistan: anatomy of an election disaster…Estonia automatically registers voters at 18 but also issues national ID, the latter controversial in the US…India goes to polls and 18 killed in violence, candidate alleges that e-voting machines were rigged…
All of that and more in today’s Voting News below…
CA: State watchdogs consider regulating campaigns’ electronic messages
October 19, 2009 Between tweeting, YouTube videos and text messaging, the age of the Internet means political candidates now rely on more than snail mail to reach voters, and California’s ethics watchdog agency is responding to the changing times.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/10/state-watchdogs-consider-regulating-campaigns-electronic-messages.html
CT: The Day: New London has problem with math
October 19, 2009 New London has problem with math…Actually it is more a problem of complexity and communications:
http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=2468
D.C: Voting Plan Could Be Attached To Defense Bill
WASHINGTON (AP) A plan to give D.C. residents a voting member of Congress could be attached to a defense funding bill.
http://wjz.com/local/DC.voting.plan.2.1253234.html
FL: Pre-Election Diebold Op-Scan Failure in FL; ‘Reform’ or Legislative Obsenity?…
Diebold’s Optical-Scan System FAILS in Sarasota, FL
County election director Kathy Dent’s ‘solution’ as bad or worse than the actual problem…as usual…
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Today, it’s our old friends in Sarasota, under the continuing and now-legendarily failed direction of Supervisor of Elections Kathy Dent and her latest failed voting system, this one an optical-scan system made by Diebold, featured in the Charlotte Sun’s “Scanning glitch in vote machine test”:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7472
FL: Scanning glitch in vote machine test * Premier’s OSX can’t read blue ink (Premier Release 1.20.2, Version 1 Gems 1.20.2 Accuvote OSX)
http://www.sunnewspapers.net/articles/pnnews.aspx?NewsID=70156&a=newsarchive3/101709/vn1.htm&pnpg=0
FL: Sarasota’s Diebold scanners flunk test, fail to read blue ink on ballots *
Saturday, October 17, 2009 VOTING NEWS BLOG
WARNING: Voters in jurisdictions that use the newer Diebold/Premier optical scanners OSX with 1.0.2 firmware should use black ink to mark their ballots. The machines may not read markings made with blue ink. The OSC also has trouble reading markings by a number 2 pencil according to other reports. This is an intermittent problem.
http://votingnews.blogspot.com/2009/10/sarasotas-diebold-scanners-flunk-test.html
GA: Voting Checks Rejected Again
ATLANTA — The U.S. Department of Justice has rejected Georgia’s voter verification process for the second time. Last May, the DOJ ruled the process has “a discriminatory effect” on minority voters.
http://www.gpb.org/news/2009/10/16/ga-voting-checks-rejected-again
GA: DOJ spikes Ga. voter citizenship checks again
ATLANTA — The U.S. Department of Justice has for the second time rejected Georgia’s system of using Social Security numbers and driver’s license data to check whether prospective voters are citizens.
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/ga/story/875653.html
IN: State voter ID law could go before Supreme Court
October 16, 2009 A The question of whether Indiana can require voters to show government-issued ID could be headed to the state Supreme Court.
State Attorney General Greg Zoeller filed a petition to bring it before the high court Friday, after the Indiana Court of Appeals declared the state’s voter ID law unconstitutional last month.