The US Dept of Justice readies lawsuit to undo voting machine merger…Libertarian candidate for Georgia SOS blasts Diebold machines and state-wide vote undercounts…Votes and Doubts in Detroit….Bill to Delay Tennessee Voter Confidence Act until 2012 Passes……Please check out the “Universal” Ballot Counter by Mitch Trachtenberg…For sale on Internet – Ukraine’s election votes…
All this and more in today’s voting news below….
CO: How Aspen Violated Colorado Ranked Choice Voting Rules
http://aspenelectionreview.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-aspen-violated-colorado-ranked.html
[Mike LaBonte, an election quality advocate from Massachusetts posted the following summary of one portion of his work related to the Aspen election…
GA: Libertarian Secretary of State Candidate David Chastain Blasts Georgia’s Infamous Diebold Electronic Voting Machines
http://bludgeonandskewer.blogspot.com/2010/01/libertarian-secretary-of-state.html
So it looks like our good old Diebold’s are dropping votes. Lots of votes. Which is a rotten shame considering that the votes were cast by citizens who went to the polls in good faith to perform their civic duty.
GA: SOS candidate informs Cobb group of state-wide vote undercounts
http://www.theweekly.com/news/2010/January/11/David_Chastain.html
…In December, Chastain spent a day in the research room of the State Archives studying election records from county referendums around Georgia. He focused on single-issue referendums where there is only one question on the ballot
IL: Voters will find fewer polling places as funds, judges become scarce
http://bit.ly/6yDcsm
January 10, 2010 DECATUR – Voters are going to be casting their ballots at a smaller number of polling locations, starting with the February primary election, Macon County Clerk Steve Bean said.
MI: Votes and doubts
http://metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14701
Barrow demands recounts, then an investigation. Here’s why.
Asserting that “probable cause exists” to believe that a criminal conspiracy involving “vote tampering, ballot box stuffing and electronic vote manipulation” occurred, Barrow has asked authorities at every level to investigate. Among those sent the complaint were state Attorney General Mike Cox, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy, Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land, U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade and the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
NJ: Essex County elections chief back to work after being charged in employee pay scheme
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/essex_county_elections_chief_b.html
January 11, 2010 NEWARK — Carmine Casciano, the veteran Essex County superintendent of elections, was back on the job today, just days after he was charged with official misconduct in a scheme to give paid days off to employees who worked on political campaigns.
TN: Bill to Delay Tennessee Voter Confidence Act Passes
http://www.liberadio.com/2010/01/12/bill-to-delay-tennessee-voter-confidence-act-passes/
The bill to delay the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act passes (mostly along party lines) in the Senate, 22-10. It now goes to the Governor for his signature…
TN: Republicans Delay Voter Confidence Act
http://blogs.nashvillescene.com/pitw/2010/01/senate_votes_to_delay_voter_co.php
…the Senate voted 22-10 to delay implementation of the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act until the 2012 elections.
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With great fanfare, Republicans and Democrats alike embraced this law in 2008 to eliminate the hazards of paperless, unverified electronic voting.
TN: What Would Jesus Do If He Were a Tennessee State Senator?
http://blogs.nashvillescene.com/pitw/2010/01/what_would_jesus_do_if_he_were.php
There is only one correct, moral, patriotic decision left to make. That is to keep the Voter Confidence Act intact and on-track for 2010.
