Today’s featured article is a warning from Greg Gordon of McClatchy News in which he points to the fact that the recent disclosure of flawed software in Premier/Diebold machines points directly to a system of testing and certifying voting systems that was broken. Gordon points out, “NASED watched over the issuance of “qualified” reports from Independent Testing Laboratories, but with little control over the testing. The vendors secretly negotiated payments with the labs, helped design the tests, got to see the results first and only shared the codes driving their software with three NASED technical experts who signed non-disclosure agreements.”
All it took was a disclosure by Premier/Diebold that all of their voting systems of the past ten years have potentially lost votes and the media has woken up to the issue. Of course, some election officials are just too wedded to their vendors. Officials in South Carolina and West Virginia proudly proclaim that while states around them are doing the right thing by changing from DRE voting to paper based systems they are going to stand firm behind their paperless voting systems, ignoring the facts in doing so. …
- Featured – National: Warning on voting machines reveals oversight failure
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/staff/greg_gordon/story/50485.html - National: Opinion – Casting doubt on a voting plan
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/08/24/2008-08-24_casting_doubt_on_a_voting_plan.html - National: How Design Can Save Democracy
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/how-design-can-save-democracy/?ref=opinion - National: Diebold Admits Their Tabulator Software Doesn’t Count Votes Correctly
https://bradblog.com/?p=6309 - National: Uncounted: Documentary Explores U.S. Election Fraud
http://www.northstarwriters.com/ct113.htm - National: No chad, but questions still hang over voting
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/washington/story/289F2129FDEA0E54862574B00011686C?OpenDocument - National: Voting Machines Can Never Be Trusted Says GOP Computer Security Expert
http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=18097 - National: Commentary: How Electronic Voting Could Be Secure and Why It Isn’t Good Now.
http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=18099 - National: MSM comes out against computerized voting, finally
http://www.opednews.com/articles/MSM-comes-out-against-comp-by-Kathy-Dopp-080824-472.html - National: Diebold/Premier ‘fesses lost OH votes
http://blogs.computerworld.com/diebold_premier_fesses_lost_oh_votes - National: From Black Box Voting: You can help safeguard our elections
http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/08/from-black-box-voting-you-can-help-safeguard-our-elections/ - National: Troops may lead in online voting
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=56981 - National: Election experts warn of November storm
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_10299855 - AK: Division of Elections Clarifies Absentee Voting Instructions Error
http://www.sitnews.us/0808news/082408/082408_voting.html - CO: El Paso County – Few glitches during primary elections, review reveals
http://www.gazette.com/articles/election_39703___article.html/voter_ballots.html - CT: A win for state veterans and voting
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/opinion/ci_10294919 - FL: A hefty trail of paper: 90 tons of ballots piling up in Palm Beach County alone
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/local_news/epaper/2008/08/24/papertrail0825.html - FL: Pasco County – First and foremost: Will the optical scan machines work?
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/local/article784498.ece - IL: DuPage County confident of no past election problems
Equipment vendor acknowledged software glitch in Ohio votes
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-dupage-elex-aug25,0,7530999.story - NY: Proposed Mitigation for GEMS (and other EMS) Vote Deletion
http://e-voter.blogspot.com/2008/08/ny-proposed-mitigation-for-gems-and.html - NY: Monroe County seeks election inspectors
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080825/NEWS01/808250328/1002/NEWS - OH: Look for big voter turnout in November
http://www.crescent-news.com/news/article/4286742 - OH: Editorial – Hold Company Accountable
http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/513457.html?nav=511 - OH: PERSPECTIVE: Spat over Ohio voting law about politics
http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/cleveland/index.ssf?/base/politics-2/1219637948113100.xml&storylist=cleveland - OH: Ohio elections officials preparing for 80% turnout in November
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Ohio_elections_officials_preparing_for_80_0825.html - SC: State bucks trend, keeps voting machines
SC election officials have faith in systems
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20080825/NEWS/194/1083/news01&title=State_bucks_trend__keeps_voting_machines - TN: Touch screens on way out in TN
Optical-scanning voting machines to be in use by 2010
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/aug/25/touch-screens-on-way-out-in-tn/ - PA: Guest column: Voter ID laws are a national catastrophe
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20089304&BRD=1675&PAG=461&dept_id=18168&rfi=6 - PA: Westmoreland County – Elections inspector gets role in documentary
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/news/westmoreland/s_584729.html - WV: W.Va. counties sticking with touch-screen voting, despite troubles elsewhere
http://www.dailymail.com/News/200808250080
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