Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
“By the 2008 presidential election, voters around the country are likely to see sweeping changes in how they cast their ballots and how those ballots are counted,” write Ian Urbina and Christopher Drew in today’s NYTimes, “including an end to the use of most electronic voting machines without a paper trail.” / The totally partisan EAC Commissioner Donetta Davidson has been named “Chairman” of that commission. “Ms. Davidson, speaking in her role as EAC commissioner, has publicly advocated for paperless electronic voting machines and opposed legislation that would require that electronic voting machines provide an independent means of verifying the accuracy of electronic vote totals. In addressing the recent TGDC meeting, Commissioner Davidson specifically urged the committee not to adopt a resolution that would require a voter verified paper audit trail for direct recording electronic voting machines.”…
NAtional: Changes Are Expected in Voting by 2008 Election LINK
NAtional: Donetta Davidson Named Chairman of the Election Assistance Commission LINK
NAtional: Security concerns plague e-voting LINK
NAtional: U.S. election panel OKs testing of e-voting machines LINK
NAtional: The Press Catching Up With Koehler on E-Voting Problems LINK
NAtional: Exclusive: Rep. Holt Say His Election Reform Legislation Will Require ‘Voter-Verified Paper Ballots’ LINK
CA: Riverside County — Columnist – Down for the Count LINK
CT: Registrar of voters: phone-in voting too slow LINK
CT: State’s New Vote System Earns High Marks LINK
CT: Audit finds new optical scan voting machines accurate, reliable LINK
FL: Opinion – Have a backup plan for close elections
Our Opinion: Paper Trail Would Verify Count, Boost Voters’ Confidence LINK
FL: FL-13 – Jennings gets Dean’s help in bid for revote LINK
FL: Fl-13 – Vote challenge unlikely to be resolved before Congress meets LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Dems top Republicans in no-vote dispute in Dist. 13 LINK
GA: Paper-trail rule is a voting victory LINK
IN: Microvote Sues State LINK
MD: Maryland official reverses stance on e-voting bill
Law requiring paper trail now likely to gain legislative OK LINK
MN: Florida election snafu could herald 2008 meltdown LINK
NY: Touch Screen Voting Machines Feel Wrong to Many LINK
OH: OH-15 – After hand recount, Pryce’s lead over Kilroy still as it was LINK
PA: Delaware County – Resolution targets new voting machine flaw LINK
RI: Editorial – Ballots need manual review for accuracy LINK
TX: Waller County abolishes elections office LINK
UT: Salt Lake County – Mayor Corroon says upkeep of Electronic Voting Machines Costing “Million and Millions” LINK
VA: Auditing Elections
City Council votes to support General Assembly efforts to create a paper trail for voters. LINK
VA: Editorial – Paper trail needed for voting confidence LINK
WY: No barriers to voting LINK
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“By the 2008 presidential election, voters around the country are likely to see sweeping changes in how they cast their ballots and how those ballots are counted,” write Ian Urbina and Christopher Drew in today’s NYTimes, “including an end to the use of most electronic voting machines without a paper trail.” / The totally partisan EAC Commissioner Donetta Davidson has been named “Chairman” of that commission. “Ms. Davidson, speaking in her role as EAC commissioner, has publicly advocated for paperless electronic voting machines and opposed legislation that would require that electronic voting machines provide an independent means of verifying the accuracy of electronic vote totals. In addressing the recent TGDC meeting, Commissioner Davidson specifically urged the committee not to adopt a resolution that would require a voter verified paper audit trail for direct recording electronic voting machines.”…
“You got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules” (Bob Dylan).
I hope the unvalidatable diebold scanners go too!
Otherwise someone missed the cluetrain.
There’s no way any honest, caring person who wants true democracy and who is in possession of even half a brain could be an advocate for ANY kind of electonic voting system.
Those machines are nothing but pieces of rubbish and should be scrapped immediately.
Or, better still, donate them to high schools so that the students can learn from them while having fun hacking them and conducting mock elections.
At least that way the students, who are your future voters, will realize that the only way to go for honest transparent elections is………
PAPER BALLOTS, HAND COUNTED…!!
I cannot believe that a Congressperson, (a person who drafts laws) does not know about Blacks Law Dictionary. When I negotiated contracts for teachers,(and I am a lowly teacher) I always looked up words in Blacks so that I knew how an arbitrator would interpret a clause in the contract. To have a Congressman (worse,, his/her staff) draft a law without referring to Blacks is beyond belief.
This is legal language 101. No wonder we cannot develop an authentic voting system that is upheld in courts.
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I am going to the protest about the stolen 2006 election.
I was wondering if Mark Foley is going to make any comments about this past election?
I was wondering if Jan Schneider will show up?
Why can’t most people seem to grasp that when someone sells you a piece of junk you can return it and get your money back? What is wrong with this picture? Instead of moaning and groaning about how much money we’ve spent, we should be demanding full refunds, with interest, on these demonstrably unsecured and unreliable products, and then spending a fraction of the refunds on paper (hemp, of course) ballots and pencils, and citizens’ hands and minds and eyes to do the counting. No need to outsource the vote counting for enormous bucks – we’ll come up with plenty of volunteers to do it for nothing. But first of all, We Want Our Money Back! What part of that is so hard to understand???
Czaragorn #9 (“What part of that is so hard to understand?”).
It is easy to understand … except that the electronic voting machines are purchased from honesty-challenged used car salesmen types.
“As is where is”.
And since the election warlords are using “OPM” (other people’s money), and are evidently retired used car salesmen types too, they see this as business as usual.
And as pointed out in post number one, since gansters are in power and lawbreakers have been making the rules, they don’t see any problem.
Where is the Papantonio/Kennedy qui tam lawsuit? This will focus the spotlight on the breach of contractual promise/agreements – expectations of delivery of performance standards based upon fraudulent premises by the electronic voting machine vendors. If this case is proven – a refund for this faulty equipment seems to be the next recourse for the taxpayer. Can some meaningful headway be made on this case before 2008 – this could be the catalyst for corrective actions and change – to restore integrity to our voting process.
Why has this issue gone silent ?
I was going to go see Robert F. Kennedy Jr. give a speech at a local venue here, but found out you had to pay to get in. All tickets had been sold out a week before I found out. The speech was pretty extensively covered in the press as covering environmental issues, but I doubt they would have covered any Diebold lawsuit discussion.
Of course, any real newspaper serving the people of Utah would have been dying to find out about a lawsuit that would affect it’s citizenry so intensely, but consider the fact that this week, the editor of the second largest newspaper in Utah hired the brother of congressman Chris Cannon to be it’s new editorial chief, despite the fact that he has no experience in the field. He says he’ll be unbiased.
The top newspaper in Utah was controversially sold to Dean Singleton, a newspaper baron with no ties to Utah as the former owners had, who forced his staff to endorse “president” Bush in 2004.