Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
Vote-PAD has been accepted for use in Wisconsin after the state got a favorable opinion from the DoJ. California is now looking into contingency plans so they are not caught “with their pants down” if the Diebold interpreted code decision goes against the vendor. (Note: I have been told no decision has been made yet by the ITAs and EAC) The new Hart Intercivic was proven to have ‘bugs’ in testing in Illinois. New lawsuits are being added to the list in Pennsylvania and support for these lawsuits is growing. Action Alerts are being pointed toward legislation in NM, VA and WA. …
NAtional: Voting Systems Lawsuit Reaches U.S. Supreme Court LINK
NAtional: Diebold reports 76 percent decline in fourth-quarter earnings LINK
AL: Cherokee County – Changes coming for polling places LINK
CA: Bruce McPherson requests voting system contingency plans LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Grassroots groups seeks voting machine changes LINK
FL: Volusia County – Voting-machine costs may increase LINK
IL: Soon you can vote early … legally LINK
IL: State balks at approving Kane voting equipment (Hart Intercivic) LINK
IL: DuPage County – Election panel logs $10,000 on FOIA requests LINK
IN: Vanderburgh County – Some voting machines went unused. Training glitch revealed as county considers buying more machines LINK
KY: Caldwell County – County readies new voting machines for May primary LINK
LA: Election commissioner classes draw 500 N.O. voters LINK
MN: Pennington County – New voting plan approved (AutoMARK) LINK
NM: Not Paper Trail, Not Paper Record – Paper Ballot! LINK
NY: State already has a system in place that enables disabled people to vote LINK
NY: Vote-machine bonanza LINK
NY: Rockland County – Rockland trying to sort through election reforms LINK
OH: HB 3 Would Make It Harder to Vote, Harder to Ensure Accuracy, Harder to Recount LINK
OH: New voting machine requirements create castoff pile LINK
OH: Ohio poised to gut election protection LINK
OH: Changes in Ohio elections bill LINK
OH: Ottawa County – Voting precincts are dwindling LINK
PA: Op-Ed/Zogby Poll: Pennsylvanians Want Voter Verified Paper! LINK
PA: Counties begin verifying voter information LINK
PA: Butler and Cambria Counties – Voters sue officials (Similar suit to the one in Westmoreland County) LINK
PA: Cambria and Butler Counties – Lawsuit filed over voting system (Similar suit to the one in Westmoreland County) LINK
PA: Chester County – Don’t rush new voting system for Primary Day LINK
PA: Cumberland County – Wanted: Teens to help on election day LINK
PA: Luzerne County – New Voting Machines for Luzerne County LINK
TX: Attorney General tries to combat voter fraud LINK
TX: Grayson County – Elections just around corner LINK
UT: State should fund voting education LINK
UT: House says ‘yea’ to voting flexibility LINK
VA: Subcommittee Puts The Brakes On Verifiable Elections LINK
WA: New Bill Would Close Hole In State Audit LINK
WI: Wisconsin Approves the Vote-PAD Assistive Device LINK
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The Wisconsin news is very important…
Now, of course the national/state lawsuits in Arizona & Pennsylvania must go through. These voting machines from Diebold must be stopped and then removed, and finally somehow people will deal with Ohio.
But Votepad is gaining wide acceptance…This is very good.
The most important piece of news is the Lynn Lande’s lawsuit, she’s an independent and knows exactly what we’re going for here.
We need to follow these court battles into the supreme court, strike down the record, and force mandated changes in doing REAL instant-runoff voting ELECTIONS.
Once we have instant-runoff voting, the sky’s the limit to the THIRD PARTIES we can elect, and like VERMONT, change our entire government in all sorts of court approved/revolution ways…
We must end the two party system aka lobbyists. The third party is the WAY to do it!
Doug E
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