Articles in Category: Voting System Certification (Page 7)

Exclusive: Diebold ‘Nukes’ Humboldt County!

Terminates all contracts - including voter registration system - following California county's discovery, disclosure of major flaws in Diebold/Premier voting systems...

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Parke Bostrom,
3/25/2009 -
1:42 pm PT

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The ‘Baghdad Bobs’ of the E-Voting Industry

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Brad Friedman,
3/22/2009 -
1:43 pm PT

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‘Daily Voting News’ For March 19, 2009

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John Gideon,
3/19/2009 -
4:19 pm PT

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Diebold Admits Audit Logs in ALL Versions of Their Software Fail to Record Ballot Deletions

Startling admission made during public hearing in CA to consider decertification of the company's voting and tabulation software...

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Mitch Trachtenberg,
3/17/2009 -
11:06 pm PT

33 Comments

Top Federal Election Reform Priorities

A draft summary of what I see as the most important, most doable, federal election reform priorities for 2009...

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Brad Friedman,
3/10/2009 -
5:49 pm PT

59 Comments

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

German High Court: E-Voting Unconstitutional

The democracy the U.S. helped to create in Germany gets it, while, as usual, the U.S. itself remains largely clueless and/or indifferent to the need for transparency in its own...

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Brad Friedman,
3/4/2009 -
10:42 am PT

14 Comments

‘Daily Voting News’ For March 03, 2009

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

1 Comment

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

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

‘Humboldt Transparency Project’ Reveals Diebold, U.S. Federal E-Voting Scam

Hundreds of Lost Ballots, Illegal Voting System, and the Boondoggle Behind Billions of Federal Dollars Spent on Voting Machines That Don't Work All Illustrated by Simple Citizen Oversight, Free Open-Source Voting System in One California County...

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Brad Friedman,
12/8/2008 -
3:28 pm PT

15 Comments

‘Daily Voting News’ For November 01, 2008 ““ Evening Edition

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John Gideon,
11/1/2008 -
4:21 pm PT

2 Comments

Vote-Flipping Diebold Machine Removed, Quarantined in CO

Karen Long, Adams County Clerk Takes Action After Voter Sees Vote Flip Repeatedly to Republican Candidate in State With Long History of E-Voting Failures

Watchdog Group Issues Press Release Calling for No 'Recalibration', Immediate Removal, Impounding of Such Machines...

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Brad Friedman,
10/30/2008 -
11:33 am PT

13 Comments

‘In Bed With Voting Vendors’: Details Revealed on the Abrupt Resignation of CO’s Election Director

Holly Lowder Had Taken Up Residence With Contractor Who Provided Registration Roll Software to the State

Neither the Sec. of State, nor the Husband of the Election Chief Knew About the Relationship, Even as Other Such Relationships Have Been Encouraged by Federal Legislation...

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Brad Friedman,
9/6/2008 -
1:04 pm PT

6 Comments

Colorado’s State Election Director Resigns

No Official Explanation Yet for Holly Lowder's Sudden and Unexpected Departure, Just 60 Days Prior to Presidential Election in a Very Important 'Swing State'

...But We Have a Few Well-Informed Guesses...

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Brad Friedman,
9/5/2008 -
10:31 pm PT

14 Comments

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Articles in Category: Voting System Certification (Page 7)

Terminates all contracts - including voter registration system - following California county's discovery, disclosure of major flaws in Diebold/Premier voting systems...

Startling admission made during public hearing in CA to consider decertification of the company's voting and tabulation software...

A draft summary of what I see as the most important, most doable, federal election reform priorities for 2009...

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...

The democracy the U.S. helped to create in Germany gets it, while, as usual, the U.S. itself remains largely clueless and/or indifferent to the need for transparency in its own...

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...

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...

Hundreds of Lost Ballots, Illegal Voting System, and the Boondoggle Behind Billions of Federal Dollars Spent on Voting Machines That Don't Work All Illustrated by Simple Citizen Oversight, Free Open-Source Voting System in One California County...

Karen Long, Adams County Clerk Takes Action After Voter Sees Vote Flip Repeatedly to Republican Candidate in State With Long History of E-Voting Failures

Watchdog Group Issues Press Release Calling for No 'Recalibration', Immediate Removal, Impounding of Such Machines...

Holly Lowder Had Taken Up Residence With Contractor Who Provided Registration Roll Software to the State

Neither the Sec. of State, nor the Husband of the Election Chief Knew About the Relationship, Even as Other Such Relationships Have Been Encouraged by Federal Legislation...

No Official Explanation Yet for Holly Lowder's Sudden and Unexpected Departure, Just 60 Days Prior to Presidential Election in a Very Important 'Swing State'

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