Article: 'Daily Voting News' For March 03, 2008

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

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