Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Today’s news includes a lot of articles, opinion pieces, and editorials about the upcoming (January 09) Supreme Court hearing regarding Indiana’s restrictive Voter ID law. This case could decide whether you and I will be required to get a voter ID in the future.
A Civil Grand Jury in Monterey Co California actually interviewed four county election officials and toured the election office and then they found that the county should just go ahead and use their Sequoia Advantage voting machines because they are secure. They did not interview any computer scientists, members of the Election Integrity community, or members of the Secretary of State staff. Whether this Grand Jury has the ability to tell the county to ignore state directives is an unanswered question but we will keep an eye on this….
- NAtional: High court to consider Indiana law on voter ID
http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080106/NEWS03/801060306/1002/LOCAL - NAtional: Opinion – BALLOT BURDEN: Court should rule photo ID requirement unnecessary
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080106/COL32/801060564/1068/OPINION - NAtional: Voter ID issue remains controversial
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080106/NEWS010504/801060374/1001/news - NAtional: State’s voter ID law under scrutiny of high court
http://www.jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080106/NEWS/801060362/1152/NEWS - NAtional: High Court to consider voter ID law
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1574&dept_id=532215&newsid=19172600&PAG=461&rfi=9 - NAtional: U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Voter ID Case This Week
http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2008/01/05/news/010608lrvoterid.txt - NAtional: Papering over OptiScam Problems
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rady_ana_080106_papering_over_optisc.htm - NAtional: Commentary on NYTimes: Can You Count On These Machines?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_dave_ber_080105_commentary_on_nytime.htm - NAtional: New York Times Magazine on E-voting
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2706&Itemid=26 - NAtional: GOP Already at Work to Keep Obama Voters From the Polls
http://www.alternet.org/story/72748/ - CA: Are Americans ready for reality-style voting? Not yet
http://www.fresnobee.com/columnists/boren/story/300862.html - CA: Kern County — Columnist – Henry column: Time to pop bubble, crawl into the future
http://www.bakersfield.com/102/story/327030.html - CA: Monterey County – Jury backs voting machines
County urged to resume their use
http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_7895801 - CA: Napa County — Editorial – The move to vote by mail
http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2008/01/06/opinion/editorial/doc47805c49b754c030223769.txt - MT: Ohio Report Faults Montana Voting Machines
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2705&Itemid=113 - NC: Alamance County – Elections director: Count will be accurate
http://www.thetimesnews.com/articles/machines_9128___article.html/paper_county.html - NJ: New Jersey’s Post-Election Audit Bill and Its Importance to Our Nation
http://e-voter.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-jerseys-post-election-audit-bill_02.html - OH: Will Ohio overhaul its voting systems?
Legislators will deal with secretary of state’s bombshell proposal this week.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/01/06/ddn010608legis.html - OH: EVEREST: The Truth About Electronic Voting Machines
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_teresa_b_080106_everest_3a_the_truth_a.htm - SC: SC officials plan to use voting machines banned by other states
http://www.charlotte.com/205/story/434711.html - Guam: GEC releases unofficial final results, no changes to races
http://www.kuam.com/news/25949.aspx - Guam: Was GEC’s tabulation error technical or human? (ES&S)
http://www.kuam.com/news/25953.aspx
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Come on…not even a little simmer from ‘bradites’ over Monterey (2:1 Democrats) giving the finger to Bowen?
Love Lois’ commentary too..
(Brother of Former SD ROV – four facts..anything not added by me are unproven falsehoods)
OSMedia,
your not getting away with that dis-information here quite so easily.
I used to live in Carmel, and hang out in Monterey. What I saw while I was there was a bunch of old, retired rich people (my family included), they know nothing about electronics or physics, and so if there was a citizen grand jury picked from the people there, and if ANYTHING gets too technical they would be clueless. The only thing they care about is the weather reports, the best golfing spots, the best places to eat. And the younger people there don’t care about politics, they only care about surfing, wave reports, and “valley go home.”
The people need to be protected from these jackals who are selling devices that tabulate votes electronically. These are laws of physics, the law of the land can only go against physics so far. Sure they can judge these (UN VALIDATABLE) machines are secure, but that doesn’t make them secure.
I forgot, there are also the hippies, but they pretty much drugged up, with the exception of the few that have found by getting cleaned up and creating small creative business they can do better than wandering the white sand beaches.
Also the name Sequoia itself is appealing to folks that live there. It’s a disarming name, like the giant sequoia’s in the canyons they live in.