Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
In a press release Project Vote announced the release of a new report, “Representational Bias in the 2006 Electorate.” The report finds a continuing problem with the U.S. electorate: those who are registered and vote are not representative of the overall U.S. population eligible to vote. The proportion of the U.S. population that registers to vote and that does vote is highly skewed towards whites, the educated and the wealthy. Furthermore, young eligible Americans, particularly young minority males, and those who have recently moved, are disproportionately represented among those who do not participate in the U.S. electorate.
“This review of the survey data strongly points to the need for civic organizations and government officials (at all levels of government) to continue to expand access to voter registration,” says Hess. “For their part, governments should view bias in the electorate as a call to embrace voter registration as an affirmative responsibility through better implementation of laws relating to the registration of young, low-income and minority voters.” …
- NAtional: Media Release – Fewer Than Half of Eligible Minority and Low-Income Americans Voted in 2006, New Project Vote Report Shows
http://projectvote.org/newsroom/project-vote-news/project-vote-news.html?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=1246&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=180&cHash=edc2bc5ba3 - NAtional: Lynn Landes on “VoteRescue Radio – Where Citizens Count, One Vote at a Time”
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_vickie_k_071011_lynn_landes_on__22vote.htm - NAtional: Conyers Has More Questions For DOJ’s Tanner
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004452.php - NAtional: Conyers Issues Statement on News Reports Questioning DoJ’s 2004 Presidential Election ‘Investigation’ in Ohio
https://bradblog.com/?p=5159 - NAtional: Hackers could skew US elections
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12754-hackers-could-skew-us-elections.html - NAtional: DoJ’s John ‘Minorities Die First’ Tanner to Testify to House Judiciary Sub-Committee, as Washington Post Picks up BRAD BLOG Story on His Recent Controversial Comments
https://bradblog.com/?p=5158 - NAtional: Failing the Grade: Young People Face Strong Barriers at the Polls
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_project__071012_failing_the_grade_3a_y.htm - AL: Birmingham – Cooper cites U.S. voting law
Letter will urge election officials to count provisional ballots
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1192177530181150.xml&coll=2 - CA: Secretary of State’s Office to Hold Public Hearing to Determine Whether Vendor Sold Unauthorized Voting Machines to California Counties
http://www.sos.ca.gov/executive/press_releases/2007/101107_advisory.pdf - CA: E-Vote: Vendor May Have Sold Unauthorized Voting Machines to California Counties
http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/155466 - CA: Governor turns down right-to-vote bills
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/10/10/state/n171533D63.DTL&tsp=1 - CA: Solano County – Solano to learn status of 160 voting machines
http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_7158323 - IA: Des Moines – City’s Primary Cost Prompts Questions
http://www.kcci.com/news/14315648/detail.html - IN: Marion Co. voting machines tested and ready
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071012/LOCAL/71012023 - IN: Marion County – Indy Voting Machines Pass Early Election Test
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/14329318/detail.html - LA: Voters swarming to cast early ballots
Officials impressed by the turnout
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-9/1192172045268980.xml&coll=1 - NY: Nassau County ““ Opinion – A Total Waste of Money
http://www.antonnews.com/roslynnews/2007/10/12/opinion/ - OH: Bush’s Legacy on Voting Rights: A Story from Ohio
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004438.php - PA: Northampton Co. to use lever voting machines in Nov. 6 election
http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-55/1192219887151610.xml&storylist=penn - WA: Clark County – Visionary Voting Method
http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/2007/10/10122007_Visionary-Voting-Method.cfm - Switzerland: Quantum cryptography to secure ballots in Swiss election
Advanced form of cryptography uses photons to exchange encryption keys
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/101007-quantum-cryptography-secure-ballots.html - Switzerland: Swiss Votes to Use ‘Unbreakable’ Code
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20071011/D8S780P01.html
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With respect to the piece about quantum cryptography
Don’t miss this little detail:
“”Once the election is closed ““ at noon on Sunday, Oct. 21 ““ the sealed ballot boxes of all the polling stations are brought to the central counting station, where they are opened and where the votes are mixed with the mail votes. Counting them is then manually done at the central counting station. People counting the votes at this central station use computers to transfer the counts to the data center of the canton of Geneva,” Ribordy explained.”
Hand count rules!
Those who do the counting rule, not those who merely cast the votes.
Stalin used paper ballots and hand counts.
Don’t stop short of attaining honest election officials.