Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Voters in Ohio, as well as all other states, will have the 1-866-OUR-VOTE hotline manned and ready to provide assistance. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that involves the private bar in providing legal services to address racial discrimination, and Proskauer Rose LLP, an international law firm with more than 700 lawyers in the United States and Europe, have joined forces with other law firms and voting rights groups as part of Election Protection – a program to protect the right of every eligible Ohio voter to cast a meaningful ballot and have that vote counted in the upcoming November 7 election. / Now Sequoia and Smartmatic say that they voluntarily submitted themselves to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) investigation. Quite frankly what does it matter whether an unreliable voting system is put out by a company owned, in part, by Chavez or another group of Venezuelans? The system is still just as unreliable. / Sequoia also has a problem with a new law suit in Nevada where a citizen activist is suing for the loss of her vote in 2004. / …
NAtional: Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law & Proskauer Rose Partner to Assist Ohio Voters LINK
NAtional: Teamsters Sponsor Voter Hotline on Election Day to Combat Voting Malfeasance LINK
NAtional: Smartmatic and Sequoia Voting Systems Announce Voluntary CFIUS Filing LINK
NAtional: Voting machines firms confirm fed probe LINK
NAtional: Smartmatic Announces It Is Undergoing CFIUS Review LINK
NAtional: Venezuelan defends ownership of U.S. voting machine firm LINK
NAtional: Rep. Maloney – Smartmatic Announces It Is Undergoing CFIUS Review LINK
NAtional: Opinion – Remember to Vote, Hope It Counts LINK
NAtional: Voting should be effortless, not chaotic LINK
NAtional: Avi Rubin – Voting: Low-Tech Is the Answer LINK
NAtional: John Fund – Absent Without Leave LINK
NAtional: Election Day blunders could escalate LINK
NAtional: Election Officials and Election Activists LINK
NAtional: A way to restore confidence LINK
NAtional: Diebold 3Q earnings show nearly 12 percent improvement LINK
NAtional: A vote of no confidence LINK
NAtional: Electile Dysfunction? It’s Time We Face Up To Our Two-Pronged Democracy ED Problem LINK
NAtional: Rage against the machine LINK
NAtional: Former Secretaries of State, Election Experts Available to Comment on What New Voting Laws Mean for Eligible Voters Across the Country LINK
NAtional: New Technology, Human Error Puts Elections Under Microscope LINK
AL: Secretary of State’s office owes counties for election machines LINK
AR: Carroll County – Free at last: voting machines get new innards, lease on life LINK
CA: San Diego County Registrar Sends Pre-Programmed, Election-Ready, Hackable Diebold Touch-Screen Voting Machines Home With Pollworkers on ‘Sleepovers’ More Than Three Weeks Prior to Election! LINK
CO: Denver – Group Anticipates Long Lines On Election Day
Former Election Commissioner Concerned About Long Lines LINK
FL: Midterm Elections-Early voting in Florida shows machine problems, votes for Democrats registering Republican instead! LINK
FL: Showdown at the Early Voting Place LINK
FL: Miami – MIAMI HERALD: Touch-Screen Votes Hopping from Democrats to Republicans in South Florida! LINK
FL: Pinellas County – Elections chief not worried about possible ties to Venezuela LINK
GA: Opinion – Wave of the future won’t prevent voter manipulation LINK
GA: McIntosh County – McIntosh voting officials see early ballots as a test LINK
IL: Chicago/Cook County – Chicago welcomes voting machine probe LINK
KS: Electronic voting machines may add to election inaccuracies LINK
MA: State lags on voting machines for disabled LINK
MD: Opinion – Voting machinery LINK
NE: Cherry County – In Cherry County, no more election-day thumb twiddling LINK
NH: Nashua – Voting booth offering options LINK
NV: Washoe County – Reno citizen activist sues provider of electronic voting machines LINK
OH: Voter-ID law back in effect LINK
OH: Court revives voter-ID measure
Attorney for plaintiffs might take their case to U.S. Supreme Court LINK
OH: OHIO MELTDOWN ’06: New Last-Minute Reversal in Buckeye State’s Voter ID Laws Plunges State of Elections Into Chaos! LINK
OH: Ohio Voter ID Law Reinstated – For Now LINK
NEtherlands – Dutch government scraps plans to use voting computers in 35 cities including Amsterdam LINK
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One day, somebody is going to have to go through and count how many articles John Gideon compiled and posted which detailed the death of the American voting system.
They’ll never be able to say you didn’t try, John.
Thanks!