The Voting News Daily: Detroit candidate calls for election investigation, Fixing our broken democracy, ACORN cleared again
Former Mayoral Candidate Tom Barrow called for official review of the Nov 3 mayoral election “when he discovered empty ballot boxes and numerous ballot boxes with security seals which been breached, disqualifying tens of thousands of votes …from being recountable… ‘computer tapes’, normally summarizing election results at the closing of the polls, had in fact actually been run hours before the closing of the polls indicating that the results were being electronically manipulated…”
The President appointed a Cyber Czar. Luther Weeks, CTVotersCount comments: “Our concern is with the disconnect that has otherwise intelligent people concerned with cyber security based on strong evidence, coupled with the almost simultaneous support for voting by Internet, email, and fax.”..
.Brad Friedman reports that “ACORN Cleared YET AGAIN of Wrongdoing”…
In Fixing Our Broken Democracy, Professor Stephen Unger writes: “The warning, ‘Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty’, applies regardless of the election mechanics used.”...
All this and more in today’s voting news below….
CA: California: somehow pols are evading the campaign finance laws. Who’d a thunk it?
http://www.votelaw.com/blog/archives/006343.html
FL: Chambless urges delay in voting machine switch
http://www.claytoday.biz/content/1848_1.php
Dec 23. GREEN COVE SPRINGS — Supervisor of Elections Chris H. Chambless has gotten local legislative support for proposing a deadline on changing voting equipment for physically challenged voters
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The Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections (FSASE) is asking that changing to the AutoMark system be delayed until 2016, thus allowing counties to continue using their current Americans with Disabilitities (ADA) voting system
FL: License renewal to require a lot more identification
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20091223/ARTICLES/912231002/1002
Getting a driver’s license will require a whole lot more ID
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The Department of Homeland Security reports that Real ID will improve security at federal buildings, nuclear facilities and aircraft, prevent people from fraudulently obtaining public benefits such as Medicare and Medicaid, prevent the hiring of illegal immigrants, prevent illegal firearm purchases and slow voter fraud.
IL: Military and Overseas Ballots in the Mail
http://blog.champaigncountyclerk.com/2009/12/22/military-and-overseas-ballots-in-the-mail
Champaign County Clerk I’ve written about the problems of ballot certification as it relates to getting ballots to military and overseas voters. Well today we mailed the last of the initial mailing of 484 ballots
MI: Election Investigation * (missing ballots, 50,000 absentee ballots disqualified)
http://www.tv20detroit.com/news/79988432.html
12/22/2009…Former Mayoral Candidate Tom Barrow is calling for an official review of the November third mayoral election. Mr. Barrow met with city officials at the Flynn Pavilion on Belle Isle to discuss allegations of voter fraud.
The concerns stem from missing ballots and signatures from several districts during the night of the election.
MI: Barrow Investigates City Elections *(suspicion results electronically manipulated)
http://bit.ly/8xWOoQ 21 Dec 2009. DETROIT, Mich. – Former mayoral candidate Tom Barrow has turned a routine recount of election precincts into a sweeping indictment of the entire conduct of elections in Detroit when he discovered empty ballot boxes
and numerous ballot boxes with security seals which been breached, disqualifying tens of thousands of votes in the November 3, 2009 general election from being recountable.
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Barrow’s team of lawyers, accountants and volunteers also challenged dozens of precinct’s whose election results “computer tapes”, normally summarizing election results at the closing of the polls, had in fact actually been run hours before the closing of the polls indicating that the results were being electronically manipulated and the numbers being shown not the final results.