Articles in Category: Election Reform (Page 115)

The EAC Lied, Lever Voting Machines (Almost) Died

Exclusive: Discredited federal E-voting oversight commission issued an incorrect 2005 'legal advisory' helping to keep NY on a collision course with democracy

But it's not too late to save the last transparent electoral system in the United States...

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Andi Novick,
3/2/2009 -
3:45 pm PT

22 Comments

BBV: New Holt Election Reform Bill Would Allow ‘Surreptitious Dismantling of Self-Government’

Election Integrity expert Bev Harris compares 'secret software' provisions, 'persistent' e-voting proposals to process that allowed for 'Corporate Personhood'...

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Brad Friedman,
2/25/2009 -
1:12 pm PT

13 Comments

‘Daily Voting News’ For February 24, 2009

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John Gideon,
2/24/2009 -
4:27 pm PT

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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

New Version of Holt’s Election Reform Bill Would Institutionalize Touch-Screen Voting, Secret Software

Bill 'improved' to require paper ballots, but they may be marked or printed by computer devices which offer most of the same dangers as current Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) devices...

Additional concerns remain in the previously-defeated, newly-rewritten draft version of the landmark legislation...

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Brad Friedman,
2/20/2009 -
12:54 pm PT

30 Comments

‘Daily Voting News’ For February 17, 2009

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John Gideon,
2/17/2009 -
4:17 pm PT

2 Comments

Uganda – A Shining City on a Hill?

What the U.S. could learn about election reform from Uganda. Yes, Uganda...

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Steve Heller,
2/17/2009 -
5:35 am PT

3 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

‘Senate Contest Shows Fraud,’ Says MN Republican Legislator After His Photo ID Law Flops

'Not a whiff of fraud here,' says Repub MN Senate contest attorney...

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Brad Friedman,
2/12/2009 -
1:21 pm PT

3 Comments

WA State Seeks to Use Military and Overseas Voters as Internet Voting Guinea Pigs

Though computer experts oppose it, legislation now proposed, fast-tracked in state House and Senate

Alarming trend seen elsewhere in nation...

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Ellen Theisen,
2/10/2009 -
12:50 pm PT

8 Comments

EXCLUSIVE: The New Voter Fraud Complaint Filed in CT Against the GOP’s Ann Coulter

New allegations of absentee ballot fraud in '02 and '04 follow on her multiple voter fraud crimes in FL in '05, for which she was never 'cleared,' as some media have inaccurately reported...

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Brad Friedman,
2/9/2009 -
1:25 pm PT

8 Comments

Mississippi Republicans Push For Disenfranchising Polling Place Photo ID Restrictions

Gov. Barbour insists on NO exemption for voters over 65 years of age...

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Brad Friedman,
2/9/2009 -
10:59 am PT

6 Comments

VIDEO: Brad on Our Broken Electoral System on ‘The Gregory Mantell Show’…

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Brad Friedman,
2/4/2009 -
12:26 pm PT

2 Comments

‘Can We Get a Do-Over? Or Some Help From the Supremes?’: Week 2 Begins at the U.S. Senate Election Contest in MN

Wherein we all guess what the hell Coleman's ultimate endgame may be, even as he makes it up while going along...

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Brad Friedman,
2/3/2009 -
12:36 am PT

14 Comments

Riverside County, CA, Still Counting Votes, in Secret, Months After Registrar Certified Election

County election boss claims there's no deadline for manual count of e-voting 'paper trails'

State SoS seems to disagree...

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Brad Friedman,
1/31/2009 -
2:26 pm PT

12 Comments

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Articles in Category: Election Reform (Page 115)

Exclusive: Discredited federal E-voting oversight commission issued an incorrect 2005 'legal advisory' helping to keep NY on a collision course with democracy

But it's not too late to save the last transparent electoral system in the United States...

Election Integrity expert Bev Harris compares 'secret software' provisions, 'persistent' e-voting proposals to process that allowed for 'Corporate Personhood'...

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...

Bill 'improved' to require paper ballots, but they may be marked or printed by computer devices which offer most of the same dangers as current Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) devices...

Additional concerns remain in the previously-defeated, newly-rewritten draft version of the landmark legislation...

What the U.S. could learn about election reform from Uganda. Yes, Uganda...

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...

'Not a whiff of fraud here,' says Repub MN Senate contest attorney...

Though computer experts oppose it, legislation now proposed, fast-tracked in state House and Senate

Alarming trend seen elsewhere in nation...

New allegations of absentee ballot fraud in '02 and '04 follow on her multiple voter fraud crimes in FL in '05, for which she was never 'cleared,' as some media have inaccurately reported...

Gov. Barbour insists on NO exemption for voters over 65 years of age...

Wherein we all guess what the hell Coleman's ultimate endgame may be, even as he makes it up while going along...

County election boss claims there's no deadline for manual count of e-voting 'paper trails'

State SoS seems to disagree...

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