Articles in Category: Election 2008

E-VOTE BOMBSHELL: Diebold Tabulator Drops Votes, Allows Undetectable Audit Log Deletion

New CA SoS report confirms findings of 'Humboldt Transparency Project,' discovers even more egregious failures in widely-used Diebold voting counting system

One of the citizens who designed the software, responsible for the startling discoveries, offers his thoughts...

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Mitch Trachtenberg,
3/4/2009 -
1:40 pm PT

16 Comments

‘Daily Voting News’ For March 03, 2009

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John Gideon,
3/3/2009 -
4:10 pm PT

1 Comment

STEELE-ING MINNESOTA: New GOP Chair Joins Conspiracy-Theorist Choir Alleging ‘Franken Stealing Coleman’s Senate Seat’

Hysterical fund raising letter from Michael Steele charges MN's 'Democrat' Senator-elect's apparent victory a 'tragic injustice,' 'outrageous power grab'...

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Brad Friedman,
3/3/2009 -
2:40 pm PT

12 Comments

COLEMAN BUSTED FOR HIDING WITNESS, EMAIL

Franken team moves to strike Norm's claim of 100 'double-counted ballots' following revelation

UPDATE: Coleman fined by judges...

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Brad Friedman,
2/27/2009 -
4:36 pm PT

31 Comments

EAC-Ya: The Nation’s Federal Voting System Oversight Commission Refuses to Do Its Job, Answer a Simple Question

Maddening chain of email, querying the status of the Diebold failure discovered in Humboldt County, CA, illustrates the EAC's continued protection of e-voting vendors, at the expense of the voters

ALSO: CA said likely to decertify the flawed Diebold system, while the EAC fails to take any action at all...

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John Gideon,
2/23/2009 -
12:13 pm PT

21 Comments

Dead In Its Tracks: An Anatomy of Norm Coleman’s Failed Effort to Contest MN’s U.S. Senate Election

Sanctions are now warranted against the former Republican Senator, according to the legal analysis of a veteran attorney and political science scholar...

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Ernest A. Canning,
2/22/2009 -
2:05 pm PT

17 Comments

Coleman Flip-Flops Yet Again on Counting Rejected Absentee Ballots

But there's method, of a sort, to the certifiable madness...

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Brad Friedman,
2/20/2009 -
11:50 am PT

7 Comments

Coleman Attorney Says Election ‘Fatally-Flawed’

More evidence they may be preparing an appeal strategy to call for a 'do-over' in MN's U.S. Senate Election

UPDATE: 'Swiftboat' Ben Ginsberg declares trial a 'legal quagmire'...

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Brad Friedman,
2/18/2009 -
11:27 am PT

36 Comments

RNLA Issues Fact-Free Fund-Raising Letter Claiming ‘Desperate’ Franken is ‘Stealing U.S. Senate Seat’

Republican National Lawyers Association Says Goodbye to Any Credibility They May Have Once Had...

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Brad Friedman,
2/15/2009 -
6:05 am PT

24 Comments

BREAKING: Court Excludes ‘Huge Number’ of Ballots in MN’s U.S. Senate Election Contest

Late Friday ruling limits 'Ballot Universe' of those still under consideration for counting, to only those 'legally cast under relevant law'

Franken team pleased that at least 13 of 19 categories of previously rejected absentee ballots will not be counted...

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Brad Friedman,
2/13/2009 -
3:56 pm PT

15 Comments

Riverside County, CA, Refusing to Bill E-Voting Vendor for Cost of Manual Tally

At least $160k is billable to Sequoia Voting Systems, as per state requirements for use of touch-screen systems

Registrar Barbara Dunmore, one of worst in nation, fights on behalf of voting machine company, as county's $90 million budget shortfall grows...

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Brad Friedman,
2/13/2009 -
11:17 am PT

12 Comments

Court Awards Votes to Franken in Coleman’s U.S. Senate Election Contest in MN

Even as the Republican argues to include ballots of voters who forged signatures and ballots they previously rejected

Plus: A bit more to bring you up to date with the latest...

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Brad Friedman,
2/11/2009 -
2:23 pm PT

6 Comments

God Backs Norm Coleman, Says Norm Coleman

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Brad Friedman,
2/10/2009 -
1:05 pm PT

17 Comments

‘The Ballot Universe’: Where We Are as Week 2 Ends at the U.S. Senate Election Contest in MN

Plus: An interview with TheUpTake.org's Noah Kunin, live from Minneapolis...

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Brad Friedman,
2/7/2009 -
6:19 pm PT

12 Comments

Help Save 18,000 Marriages in California

VIDEO: Moving 'Don't Divorce...' campaign hopes to send message to anti-marriage bigots...

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Brad Friedman,
2/5/2009 -
8:16 pm PT

6 Comments

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Articles in Category: Election 2008

New CA SoS report confirms findings of 'Humboldt Transparency Project,' discovers even more egregious failures in widely-used Diebold voting counting system

One of the citizens who designed the software, responsible for the startling discoveries, offers his thoughts...

Hysterical fund raising letter from Michael Steele charges MN's 'Democrat' Senator-elect's apparent victory a 'tragic injustice,' 'outrageous power grab'...

Franken team moves to strike Norm's claim of 100 'double-counted ballots' following revelation

UPDATE: Coleman fined by judges...

Maddening chain of email, querying the status of the Diebold failure discovered in Humboldt County, CA, illustrates the EAC's continued protection of e-voting vendors, at the expense of the voters

ALSO: CA said likely to decertify the flawed Diebold system, while the EAC fails to take any action at all...

Sanctions are now warranted against the former Republican Senator, according to the legal analysis of a veteran attorney and political science scholar...

But there's method, of a sort, to the certifiable madness...

More evidence they may be preparing an appeal strategy to call for a 'do-over' in MN's U.S. Senate Election

UPDATE: 'Swiftboat' Ben Ginsberg declares trial a 'legal quagmire'...

Republican National Lawyers Association Says Goodbye to Any Credibility They May Have Once Had...

Late Friday ruling limits 'Ballot Universe' of those still under consideration for counting, to only those 'legally cast under relevant law'

Franken team pleased that at least 13 of 19 categories of previously rejected absentee ballots will not be counted...

At least $160k is billable to Sequoia Voting Systems, as per state requirements for use of touch-screen systems

Registrar Barbara Dunmore, one of worst in nation, fights on behalf of voting machine company, as county's $90 million budget shortfall grows...

Even as the Republican argues to include ballots of voters who forged signatures and ballots they previously rejected

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