She’s back. Election Sup. Kathy Dent still fighting Sarasota’s 2006 charter ordered election audits. Dent has taken on the voters, the FL Supreme Court & lawmakers. Now Dent wants the Circuit Ct to explain the Sup.Court ruling…Florida Gov Crist name is last on ballot…Possible vote buying in Bladen Co NC…Columbia Co. NY fights to keep…
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the proposed UOCAVA Pilot Program Testing Requirements. We appreciate the invitation for public input to such an important initiative. In this letter we confine our comments to the broad outlines of the pilot program and core precepts to which we believe any pilots should adhere. The Verified Voting Foundation has benefited greatly from prominent experts whose professional work duties include achieving U.S. national security objectives within digital networks and computer communications. This expertise leads us to set forth this core understanding: Federal election security is a fundamental component of U.S. national security. Applying this principle, we submit that election security should not be compromised for convenience or transmission speed. Internet voting (which for purposes of these comments we define as transmission of voted ballots over the public Internet) is in a security class by itself. In comparing Internet transmission of voted ballots to paper absentee ballot voting, we agree with the oft-made point that voting systems for UOCAVA voters should not be held to a higher security standard than domestic absentee voting. Nor should UOCAVA voters be required to use a system that is less secure than those used by voters back home.
“I’ve learned over the last 9 years that there are basically three types of oversight of election in our country; one is Candidate, the 2nd is Party and the 3rd is Public oversight. I’ve learned that the first two suck, because the issue becomes political and partisan.” ~ John Brakey of AuditAZ…Does the Disclose ACT…
“Our research proved something which we really never doubted: with some preparation anyone with even momentary access to paperless voting machines can own the country.” ~ Rop Gonggrijp after examining e-voting machines used in India…Investigators to monitor KY polls…TN House Leader Odom solicits probe of Benton voter purge …Supreme Court Weighs Petition-Signers’ Anonymity…Is section 5…
Today marks one year since the passing of John Gideon, editor of the original Daily Voting News. Ellen Theisen describes John: “I would say he was a watchdog in the truest sense. He watched Congress, the EAC, WA state legislature and SoS, as well as election related events around the country. Then when he sensed…
California bill to pilot risk limiting audits has bi partisan support…Should bounty on party registrations be illegal?…Proposal to make voting mandatory riles up tiny Ridgway,CO…Maryland now has $ to run fall elections…Judge’s ruling stops voter purge programs that illegally purge about 77K eligible Michigan voters a year… GOP to file suit for N.Y. 29th special…
Georgia AG refuses to file suit over voter citizenship checks…Provision to kill Home Rule from Florida law was defeated in legislature. This protects hard fought, highly touted Sarasota County chartered election audits…About 450 Republicans in Clermont County will have to re-vote…Lucas Co. Ohio BOE investigating poll worker intimidation…The DISCLOSE Act-the legislative response to Citizens United…
If fraud or error occurs in Arizona elections, there’s very little that can be done: “The ease-of-cheating problem becomes magnified when combined with the impossibility of challenging any computerized rigged election in Arizona.” ~ Bill Risner, chair of advocacy group AUDIT AZ…Aspen,CO Election Commission to review May 2009 election complaints in May 2010…SC House to…
AZ House panel OKs Clean Elections repeal…Students registered to vote in Alamance County run into trouble at polling stations…TN Rep Odom calls for investigation into Benton Co voter purge: “I know firsthand that some of these voters have been registered to vote in Tennessee for more than 48 years,” wrote Rep. Odom… TX Atty Gen…
Arapahoe County, CO man gets 12 mail-in ballots…Gun control proposal kills DC voting rights bill…Update on Clay Co KY vote buying scheme…New Albany, MS man sentenced in vote buying scheme, 7 others pled guilty, 7 await trial….NY State Board of Elections violates section 5 of the Voting Rights Act due to changes in overvote notification…TN…
Corporations in Democracy: “…Proposition 16 on California’s June ballot was “written and bankrolled by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for the benefit of PG&E.” ~ George Skelton of LA Times. Anchorage split precinct balloting mixup affects 160 votes…No one tells Sarasota Election Sup Kathy Dent what to do? …Montgomery Co KY switching to paper ballots…
A bill has been revived that would give District of Columbia representation in Congress…Will there or won’t there be a special election NY’s 29th?…The economy is causing cuts in elections in Tennessee…West Virginia will be first state to hold internet election for overseas military. What could possibly go wrong? Boise State University’s internet election was…
Outsourcing democracy – The voting vendor TrueBallot Inc certified Aspen Colorado’s May 5, 2009 election as “fair and accurate” on April 12, 2010 according to FOIA request…Jim Crow makes a comeback in Virginia…Voter Action charged the Election Assistance Commission with shortchanging comment period on Internet Voting. The EAC then quickly issued a “correction” adding a…
Georgia passed bill to use overseas military as guinea pigs in an internet voting experiment…MO. House approves voter ID’s, early voting…10 percent of Cuyahoga County Ohio’s ES&S DS200 voting machines fail pre-election tests…200+ letters already sent to ex-felons in Virginia telling them to write a “personal letter to the Governor” to get their voting rights…
Is a Colorado election bill trying to do too much?…Buying of Pa. judicial elections troubling…Fort Bend County TX Reports Problems With Electronic Poll List…The ACLU of Virginia accused Gov. Bob McDonnell of reinstating a “literacy test” in Virginia for non violent ex-felons…New Voting Machines Stoke Filipinos’ Fears…Diebold ATMs are hackable too – BofA Insider to…
Illinois SBE open source campaign finance reporting software will save state money and is flexible…Will Sarasota voters ever get what audits audits they voted for 4 yrs ago?… Tennessee -Proposes Bill to fix voter purge that impacted long registered voters…VA Gov McDonnell in hot water over nonviolent felons’ rights…Two Problems with the New Challenge to…
Did mail-in voting enhance turnout in Dallas TX the wrong way?…Election 2010: Why is everything digital except the voting system?…Arrogance and pride in action: Sarasota Florida Elections Supervisor Kathy Dent is wasting the taxpayers’ dollars and time suing the county and state to fight the charter ordered, court upheld post election audits. Now Dent claims…
Aspen Transparency Litigation: What’s being hidden and why?…Kinston, North Carolina voters challenge Section 5 of Voting Rights Act….von Spakovsky Votes to End Fairfax County Distribution of Voting Materials in Languages other than English…An advocacy group filed a complaint against Webb County,Texas saying voters with disabilities do not have access to a secret ballot…Advocates and Legislators…
NYT Concedes They Were Wrong? Paper Loses ‘Pimp’ Language Entirely in Latest ACORN Report. Also: ACORN not dead yet!…Florida Gov Crist vetos legislative money grab bill…189 MD voters may have voted twice in 2008, but prosecutor’s office can’t afford to investigate…Secret Funding of US Chamber’s Political Ads May Change…Although the United States likely has the…
Ezra Klein of the Washington Post writes about coal, corruption, campaign finance reform and yesterday’s mining tragedy in West Virginia. Klein says Blankenship, leader of the Massey coal mine “has more or less purchased the state’s government. He’s certainly bought the state Supreme Court….” Klein says that some sort of reform is needed in this…
Many long time voters in Benton County Tennessee may be purged from the voter rolls simply because they did not check off a box on their voter registration form that says they are a US Citizen. …The Dept of Justice had to instruct Alamance County DSS to comply with the 17 year old National Voter…
Are Colorado Election officials making decisions behind closed doors?…They want to keep the lever machines: Nassau County wants the New York Election Reform and Modernization Act of 2005 declared unconstitutional, and wants the DS200 system decertified in New York State…Wal-Mart, UBS and Other Groups Added to OpenSecrets.org List of Top Political Givers…Too late the CA…
Tano Tijerina has filed a lawsuit to block e-voting in the Webb Co TX runoff election. Atty Balli says the machines always create many problems in Webb County elections and his client wants to make sure each vote counts. Balli was successful in blocking use of e-voting in Webb Co’s Democratic primary. Avi Rubin on…