Standards, Schmandards: Despite 79 Violations Federal Testers Recommend Certification for New Diebold/Premier Voting System

A Concrete Example of Why the Voting System Test Standards are All Form and No Substance...

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John Washburn,
7/2/2008 -
7:03 am PT

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‘Daily Voting News’ For July 1, 2008

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John Gideon,
7/1/2008 -
4:18 pm PT

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McFlipflop: McCain Surrenders His Principled Stand against Swiftboating

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Jon Ponder,
7/1/2008 -
2:17 pm PT

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Lawmakers Seem to Believe Bush Will Obey the New FISA Law For Some Reason

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Steve Heller,
7/1/2008 -
11:54 am PT

16 Comments

‘Daily Voting News’ For June 29 and 30, 2008

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John Gideon,
6/30/2008 -
4:16 pm PT

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Connecticut SoS Defies U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Visits VA Hospital to Register Veterans

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John Gideon,
6/30/2008 -
1:33 pm PT

5 Comments

Notorious GOP Adulterers in Senate, Vitter and Craig, Reintroduce Federal Marriage Amendment

A New Low in Republican Hypocrisy Has Been Reached...

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Jon Ponder,
6/30/2008 -
8:47 am PT

10 Comments

House Judiciary Subpoenas DOJ for Documents on CIA Leak, Selective Prosecutions

Comes Just 10 Days after House Oversight Committee Subpoenaed CIA Leak Documents

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Jon Ponder,
6/30/2008 -
5:28 am PT

10 Comments

‘Daily Voting News’ For June 28, 2008

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John Gideon,
6/28/2008 -
4:25 pm PT

1 Comment

AUDIO: Diebold Whistleblower Stephen Heller on the Peter B. Collins Show

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Brad Friedman,
6/28/2008 -
11:41 am PT

10 Comments

John McCain: Not so Good With The Telephone

GOP Candidate Talks for 20 Minutes Into Dead Handpiece...

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Arlen Parsa,
6/28/2008 -
11:36 am PT

4 Comments

‘Daily Voting News’ For June 27, 2008

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John Gideon,
6/27/2008 -
4:21 pm PT

1 Comment

Exclusive: Supreme Court Decision Derails Federal Fraud Suit Against Voting Machine Company

Complaint Against Hart InterCivic Withdrawn Following Adverse Ruling Limiting Whistleblower Claims

VIDEO/AUDIO: Brad on This Weekend's 'Ring of Fire' Discussing Latest Case Developments with Attorneys Papantonio and Schultz...

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Brad Friedman,
6/27/2008 -
12:35 pm PT

29 Comments

VIDEO: BUSHED! Rigging The Election-Gate

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Alan Breslauer,
6/27/2008 -
12:18 pm PT

3 Comments

Clint Curtis Testifies at Texas Legislature on the Ease of E-Vote Flipping

Florida's Whistleblowing Programmer Demonstrates for House Committee on Elections How Simple it is to Hack an Election

Predicts Texas, Like Florida, Will 'Get Rid of E-Voting'....

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Brad Friedman,
6/27/2008 -
11:28 am PT

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