Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
The voting news today has been dominated, not by tomorrow's primary news, but by an attempted takeover of Diebold by the military industrial complex in the form of United Technologies which also owns Sikorsky Helicopter and jet-engine maker, Pratt and Whitney. Diebold received the offer for takeover and has rejected it so far. Remember Dwight Eisenhower's warning: "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."...
NAtional: Diebold Receives a Takeover Offer LINK
NAtional: Diebold Rejects Proposal From United Technologies LINK
NAtional: Diebold Stock Soars After $3 Billion Takeover Bid by Defense Contractor Conglomerate United Technologies LINK
NAtional: Diebold Rejects Bid as 'Opportunistic' LINK
NAtional: Editorial - A New Role for Defense Contractors?: Counting Votes LINK
CO: Editorial - Coffman's 'Never mind'
Were those two months of uncertainty really necessary? LINK
CO: Lawmakers Consider Plan To Use Paper Ballots LINK
CO: Paper ballot elections get first hearing at Capitol LINK
CO: San Miguel County - County voting machines recertified LINK
FL: Think you have the right to vote? Think again LINK
IN: Voting systems unable to handle high traffic LINK
NJ: Editorial - Election integrity at stake LINK
NY: Steuben County - New Steuben voting machines coming
County polling places will likely offer choice of levers or optical scan in September. LINK
OH: Ohio 'paper' vote system debuting with flaws, researchers say LINK
OH: Counties ready for ballots LINK
OH: State ruling gives county voters a choice of ballot options LINK
OH: Counting votes: It's no quick task LINK
OH: Primary puts Ohio, top election official Jennifer Brunner in spotlight
Most important primary in decades spotlights Brunner LINK
OH: People crowd polling sites to get votes in ahead of bad weather LINK
OH: More than 50,000 votes cast LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County - Election official: Cuyahoga is OK to go LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County - Elections Officials Hoping For Smooth Primary LINK
OH: Franklin County - Board of elections names new director LINK
PA: Elections officials getting ready for possible record turnout LINK
PA: Fayette County - Fayette ballot change may get boost LINK
TX: TX Citizen Exit Pollers Display E-Voting "Wheel of Glitches" LINK
TX: Confusion Rampant Over Texas 'Primacaucus' Rules LINK
WV: Officials stand behind voting machines LINK
**"Daily Voting News" is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in "Daily Voting News" may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or OpEdNews.Com**
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