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…
DoJ Voting Rights Fight Reboots…LTE: Just say no to Internet Voting – “as a programmer, I must caution you. Not only do programmers make mistakes, some of them can be bought.” Lisa Pease, electronic voting activist…Hawaii lacks funds to send Rep. to Congress…“Absentee voting is the new growth market for election fraud,” said Richard Hayes-Phillips…
Editor note: our apologies, voting news was not published yesterday due to incidents out of our control. Normally you can expect voting news to be published 5 days a week. Thank you for your patience.New study asks: “Burning question for California: Was Prop 8 Straight”…Ballot-look-alike mail stirs up controversy in Oregon…I guess they couldn’t afford…
A MN Court says the public may view 2008 absentee ballots…With a 94% cut in its budget, Hawaii’s Office of Elections can’t pay for any election in 2010…Do Voters Deserve Same Protections As Small Businesses, Schools, and Non-Profits?….Barrow asks Michigan Attorney Gen to investigate alleged voter fraud in Detroit…Paul Gronke finds “Even MORE on newspaper…
Federal Prosecutors: Kentucky Officials Manipulated Clay County Elections for Decades …Barrow seeks investigation into handling of Detroit election…Nassau (NY) switches vote-machine contractors… 9th Circuit throws out Wash. ban on felon voting…New Year’s resolution: Register to vote (or update your registration)…. Brad Friedman of Bradblog visits former Diebold now ES&S HQ in Texas and finds that…
In New York we learn that one vendor’s lobbyist was involved in a vote rigging scandal. Meanwhile one vendor claims they will provide more jobs than the other vendor…. Massachusetts weighs the pros and cons of same day registration….Oregon is considering adopting online voter registration.. All this and more in today’s voting news below… CA:…
Good by 2009, hello 2010! Happy new year! Best wishes to all readers. In Georgia, “Group calls on Perdue to appoint independent as interim Secretary of State”…New York Daily News reports on $ spent by voting vendors: Dominion spent $64,000 this year and ES&S has spent $193,000… It almost didn’t happen: The Department of Defense…
As we post the news on the last day of year 2009, we take a moment to honor John Gideon (1947-2009), the editor of the original “Daily Voting News”. John founded the “Daily Voting News” February 6, 2004 . John’s tireless work brought increased awareness of voting machine problems around the country. The “DVN” was…
Florida rules leave too many voteless. FL’s “no match no vote” rule allows clerical errors to disenfranchise voters….Open source voting machines—an opportunity for Hawaii…Want to know about problems with Voting By Mail?…Money in politics? Congressional candidates raised $1.42 BILLION IN 2007-2008…The Role of Twitter in the Iran Elections of 2009 All this and more in…
“Bad Business” says Florida paper about ES&S/Diebold voting machine monopoly…New York voter surprised to hear that election clerk declared him deceased….In Maryland “Will state pull the plug on new voting machines?”…Legislation filed for early voting in Missouri, 30 other states already have early voting…Ohio legislators consider Senate Bill 8 which would impact voter registration, early…
Is a Secret Ballot a Right? The answer is NO according to Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan: “While plaintiff attempts to suggest to the court that there is a fundamental right to a secret ballot, no such right exists.”…ES&S/Diebold/Premier faces federal hearings and 14 states have launched investigation into the merger or monopoly……CT IRONY #4:…
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…
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…
WA SOS to introduce bill in 2010 to “allow overseas and military residents to return their ballots by fax or e-mail.” …A three-judge panel has ruled that Dallas County election officials violated federal law when they did not inform the Department of Justice about changes in the way straight-party votes are counted on electronic voting…
Pennsylvania Case Challenging the Use of Electronic Voting Machines Now Moves Toward Trial: “We now look forward to moving this case toward trial,” says Mary Kohart, a partner at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, one of the lawyers representing the voters. “There is overwhelming evidence showing that electronic voting machines are unreliable and insecure for…
Big news: The Department of Defense has agreed to formally designate all military installation voting assistance offices as official “voter registration agencies”. The move “will provide these brave Americans and their families with ‘motor voter’-style registration assistance on military installations, where they spend most of their time,” Cornyn said. Schumer called the change “a bold…
Florida Atty Gen investigates voting-machine company merger: “Florida counties are negotiating their contracts now to prepare for the 2010 elections,” McCrea said. “They can suffer the potential damages for dealing with a monopoly now. So intervention needs to happen now.”~ Dan McCrea, president of the Florida Voters Foundation…Hawaii may be able to use HAVA funds…
Too broke to hold elections? Hawaii considers vote by mail for upcoming special election. New Mexico’s Secretary of State says will have to borrow money to hold upcoming primary…More concern in Illinois about special state law that requires undervote notification- the machines make an audible noise if a voter leaves certain contests blank….Madison KY switches…
Lampooned: Aspen’s chronic election problems via YouTube video. The portrayal of the ballot box just outside the mayor’s office during “early early” voting was outrageous yet true…Calibration issues with Montgomery County Ohio Diebold touchscreens but the vendor will “fix” them for free…No machines, no money, no state election director: .Hawaii can’t afford a special election…NH’s…
In answer to the question “With existing technology, is it possible to enable and ensure safe and secure voting online today?”, Verified Voting responded, “in a word, no.” It is likely that no one in the country has studied the subject of internet voting more intensely than David Jefferson, senior scientist at Lawrence Livermore National…
Still think internet voting is a great idea? The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has set up a bi-partisan taskforce on cybersecurity to evaluate potential online threats and provide recommendations for action to the US intelligence community….Although the US is struggling to prevent online threats, there’s a 50 state whack-a-mole agenda to promote internet voting/non…
The Election Center, a group that promoted the use of paperless voting, will meet Jan 7 & 8 to discuss voter reg, provisional ballots, and “the continued push to eliminate or restrict use of DREs” (The Election Center is a group that advises election officials while accepting donations from voting vendors)…Voter Action letter to Senate…
We apologize, there was no voting news sent out yesterday due to blogging burnout. We’ll make it up to you. “What happens when inmates control the asylum?” – A look at redistricting reform by William and Mary Election Law Society…NVRA Analysis by American Constitution Party is flawed, says Champaign County Clerk… “Claymates” can rest easy…
“Does it really make sense to splurge a huge sum of money on e-counting when we know a manual count would be cheaper, let alone easier to verify and more trusted by voters and politicians alike?” ~ Jason Kitcat, Green city councillor in Brighton & Hove, London…Missouri troops can continue to vote by email?…Bo Lipari’s…
The most troubling story today is that Hawaii is proposing 100% internet voting. Internet voting was bust in Honolulu Hawaii this May – voter turnout was only 6.3 percent.. Experts say that internet voting can not at this time be made secure or transparent….Meanwhile, a reminder! The FCC wants comments on internet voting by Thursday,Dec.…
Experts David Dill, Jeremy Epstein and Joe Hall weigh in on Sequoia’s source code disclosure….…LA County has a report on efficacy of eliminating polling places for Vote By Mail…Hawaii election chief resigns, elections dept might not have funds or planning to implement 2010 elections…Scotts Co Iowa studying accuracy and efficiency of e-poll books….IRV poll of…
Arizona Election Transparency Project is seeking graphic ballot image scanning to protect against and expose fraud…Should the city of Aspen release the ballots from the spring City Council election to anyone who wants to see them?(the ballot images, which are already recorded)…Hawaii’s Chief Election Officer Cronin resigns, Hawaii plan would slash number of polling places….Judge…
A chance for Floridians to redraw rigged districts…Husband of NJ state Sen. Teresa Ruiz indicted for absentee ballot fraud…Some Muscogee County GA voters given provisional ballots because of e-poll book problems…Madison County KY Judge-Executive Kent Clark on switch to paper ballots: “It’s quicker, it’s easier and it’s honest,”…“If there are any questions (about voting results…
Humboldt County CA’s Nov 3 ballots are now publicly viewable…Meanwhile, the struggle goes on in Aspen – a poll shows over 66% want ballots released to the public….So you think e-voting is as safe as using an ATM? Then consider this: “Hacking ring steals $9 million from ATMs globally”… Bo Lipari’s testimony about New York’s…
Benton county citizens fight to keep their paper ballots….A new Florida corporation calling itself “Voter Verified Inc” files patent infringement against ES&S (and Diebold/Premier)…Bloomberg Spent $102 Million to Win 3rd Term yet won by fewer than 5 percent points…Complaint filed with Westchester County NY Board of Elections when two candidates names were missing from ballot…