The Voting News Daily: Diebold $100M e-voting contract in Brazil, An unhealthy monopoly, Internet voting quagmire
Correction: Headline on Dec 23 should have said investigation into DETROIT’s election, not Chicago. We corrected that headline here.
Diebold’s sale to ES&S an “Unhealthy Monopoly”and meanwhile Diebold still selling voting machines – in Brazil?
Internet voting: Wood Co. WV has volunteered to test voting project that “would allow overseas, military absentee voting online”. Meanwhile the “FCC Wanders into the Internet Voting Quagmire” writes The Open Source Digital Voting Foundation…Is the internet secure for voting? Recent media reports that “Hackers’ attacks rise in volume, sophistication..U.S. defense officials revealed in April that hackers have stolen thousands of files on one of the military’s most advanced fighter aircrafts.”…
All that, some videos, podcasts and more in today’s voting news below…
CA: Republican Party Sues to Overturn San Diego Law Making it Illegal for Parties to Contribute to Candidates for City Office
http://www.ballot-access.org/2009/12/24/republican-party-sues-to-overturn-san-diego-law-making-it-illegal-for-parties-to-contribute-to-candidates-for-city-office/
CA: Learn all about Voting by Mail! YouTube Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzkmgZPBRY4
Created by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters. From signing up, to completing and returning your ballot, to how your ballot gets verified and counted – this overview will explain how Voting by Mail is Easy, Convenient, Safe, and Secure.
For Tagalog, Vietnamese or Spanish, visit this link
http://www.youtube.com/user/sccvote
CO: Public Radio – KAJX – reports on Aspen election satire (podcast and blog)
http://aspenelectionreview.blogspot.com/2009/12/kajx-covers-better-bad-news-lampoon-of.html
CO: Election questions (lte by Harvie Branscomb electon integrity activist)
http://bit.ly/6QSiwg What might a citizen risk by asking questions? From my perspective, two voluntary commissioners were recently dismissed following an unjust smear campaign that prevented their pursuit of election quality improvements. It appears to me that their principal error was to ask difficult questions.
CO: Aspen City Attorney Jim True and Mayor Mick Ireland separately respond to my letter (Harvie Branscomb)
http://aspenelectionreview.blogspot.com/2009/12/aspen-city-attorney-jim-true-and-mayor.html
FL: An unhealthy monopoly
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/story/1396762.html
12.24.2009. OUR OPINION: McCollum right to conduct anti-trust inquiry into voting-machine owners’ merger.
The only people who benefit from monopolies are their owners. For the rest of us, monopolies mean being powerless because we have no choices.
GA: Three Complaints Filed Against Georgia Sec. of State Inspector General
http://electiondefensealliance.org/GA-Inspector-General-complaints
The complaints filed against the Inspector General’s office allege that investigations involving electronic voting machine defects and controversies were improperly handled.
NH: EDA Exit Polls Generally Match 2008 Election Results, But Find “Wide Disparities” in NH Vote Counts
http://electiondefensealliance.org/EDA-Exit-Polls-2008
TN: The Logic of Voting WREK radio show (podcast)
http://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/31396
Wednesday Dec. 23th noon-1pm Voting activist Bernie Ellis, who joined us previously to talk about how high tech voting machines aren’t always the best solution, returns to our show. He will provide us with an update on what is going on in Tennessee regarding this important issue.
TX: Boerne may face challenge of single-member voting districts
http://boernestar.com/articles/2009/12/26/news/doc4b364cd062fa5729254884.txt
December 26, 2009 Residents challenging the Boerne City Council’s recent decision to create single-member council districts say it violates the city charter and the Texas Constitution.
TX: Texas Democratic Party Finally Gets Relief Against Vote-Counting Machines
http://www.ballot-access.org/2009/12/22/texas-democratic-party-finally-gets-relief-against-vote-counting-machines/
December 22nd, 2009 The ruling does not say these machines violate the Constitution. Rather, it says that when Dallas County started using that type of machine in 1998, that was a voting procedure change and it should have been submitted to the U.S.