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(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 25, 2010 Help Our Military Voters - Debunk Rumors and Tell Truth About Military Voting in 2010
Misinformation about the military vote has spread like wildfire on several conservative message boards. These rumors,if believed would increase disenfranchisement of overseas military, instead of reduce it. Posts to message boards like "Not Again Military Voters to be Disenfranchized Sean Hannity ..." may be well intended but incorrect. To help our military to vote, we must give them the truth!
SHARE Sunday, July 25, 2010 Voting News: Cumberland Co TN lost voting machine and cards. Vote Buying in Perry Co KY
Federal grand jury indicts 4 in Perry Co KY vote buying...Inventory of Cumberland Co TN voting equipment reveals that one voting machine, three card readers and 12 tally cards were missing. They don't say when that equipment disappeared...A recent FOIA on South Carolina's absentee ballots raises more questions about the results of the US Sen. Dem Primary. New internet worm targets systems such as oil rigs, refineries & more...
SHARE Friday, July 23, 2010 Voting News: Judge says Test NY voting machines. Wilkinson GA election meltdown
Denver Co's ballot tracking system malfunctioned and told 190 voters that their completed mail ballots had been received. The problem? The voters hadn't even received the ballots in the first place... Wilkinson CO GA's server crashed and also had memory card problems...Judge Wants New York's Voting Machines Tested...Levers could be scrapped... Wisconsin election office says no to obscene platform on ballot...
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 21, 2010 Voting News: Montgomery CO PA exempt from election code? New Mexico not so secret ballot
Concerning the issue of internet voting -"Who are you going to believe? Scientists or Vendors?" asks CT Voter...Van Hollen, 'Corporate Candidate' Murray Hill Spar Over Political Rights of Businesses... Secret ballot? Not for everybody (in New Mexico)...There's a Constitutional Amendment Campaign to Undo Citizens United in the works...Are Montgomery County PA voting machines exempt from accountability?...
SHARE Tuesday, July 20, 2010 Voting News: Online Voting - All That Glitters Is Not Gold. Does your vote count in Georgia?
"Who agrees online voting is not secure? Pretty much everyone who isn't trying to make money on it...They dishonor the troops fighting to secure our freedom by failing to adequately secure a precious part of that freedom - their votes - in order to turn a profit." writes Dan McCrae of Florida Voters in "Online Voting: All That Glitters Is Not Gold"...Jeff Rayno on Georgia's paperless voting machines: "Did your vote count?
SHARE Monday, July 19, 2010 Voting News: CalTech - little support for internet voting. Aspen's never ending election integrity war
"Having good elections takes public vigilance, but it shouldn't become a war." Mike LaBonte, election integrity activist...A CalTech study of Voter Opinions about Election Reform indicates: "Internet voting and voting-by-mail do not receive a great deal of support from American voters."...$10,440 in South Carolina vs. $0 in Vermont...8 States with Online Voter Registration
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, July 16, 2010 Alice in Internet Voting Wonderland: No hanging chads? No audits or recounts either!
No chads? And no audits no recounts. Finland learned the hard way in 2008 when internet votes were lost and a court overturned that election. Must we learn everything the hard way? Filthy lucre is pushing another bad idea for elections, perhaps the worst one ever, internet voting. Our votes for sale to a $1.5B industry.
SHARE Friday, July 16, 2010 Voting News: Hackers invade Colorado SOS site. SC Voting machines "buggy...exploitable'
Still trust the internet with your votes? Hackers invade Colorado SOS site...NY Ballot case now seeks DNA...Paper please: "The citizens of South Carolina deserve better than buggy, unstable and exploitable elections." says Dr.Duncan A Buell...Hearing Set for North Carolina Ballot Access Case...Is your ballot really secret?...Voter Registration in a Digital Age...
SHARE Thursday, July 15, 2010 Voting News: Cancel the Voting Machines? Lost Voters, Lost Votes. MontCo PA blames voters
"Cancel the Voting Machines?" The Brian Leher on NY voting machine problems..HuffPo running internet vote vendor Scytl's press release as an editorial. The "piece" touts internet voting as getting rid of hanging chads or any other problem. The piece doesn't mention Scytl's involvement in Finland's failed i-voting experiment in 2008..In 2008 an est 1.9M voters didnt cast ballot because they didnt know where to go...
SHARE Wednesday, July 14, 2010 Voting News: Vote or Vice? Internet voting $1.5 B industry. AZ Election evidence disappears
News reports say that internet voting is a $1.5 Billion industry. You didn't think it was being promoted for the good of voters, did you? Computer scientists say that internet elections are inherently insecure and ballots are non secret...Evidence Discovered Missing from Allegedly 'Fixed' AZ Election..Tulare County CA discovers 2,500 ballots not counted...Letter to editor: "New York's elections are being Floridized."...
SHARE Tuesday, July 13, 2010 Voting News: Montgomery PA voters thwarted by Sequoia machines. Why CT Finance Ruling Matters
Old style ballot box facing electronic poll threat. "The most effective fraud is done by changing results after the count is done--how much easier is that going to be to do undetected when there is no paper trail to trip you up?" ~ Silvana Puizana.."2nd Circuit Reverses U.S. District Court, Says Constitution Permits Massive Discrimination Against Minor Parties and Independent Candidates in Public Funding." ~ Richard Winger.
SHARE Monday, July 12, 2010 Voting News: Ohio Vote Center Pilots SLASH polling places. Ireland e-voting mistake still costs
Didn't we learn anything from the Garland Co Arkansas fiasco, where polling places were cut from 42 to 2? Ohio didn't: Montgomery, Clinton & Highland counties will drastically cut polling places and use vote centers instead.Montgomery Co. will go from 159 polling places to 4 vote centers. For people who can't easily get off work, or have transportation issues - voting just got harder. A single meltdown impacts more votes...
SHARE Friday, July 9, 2010 Voting News: Internet voting helps WHO? Groups clever strategy forces India to use paper ballots
Internet security expert Eric Riscorla makes the case "Against internet voting pilots." Technologist Collin Lynch addresses claims that i-voting is convenient: "It bears mentioning that we have to ask, convenient for whom?" and points out that under-served groups are least likely to have easy access to a PC or internet..Groups in India found a way to force the use of paper ballots:run more candidates than EVMs can handle..
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 8, 2010 Voting News: Florida must fix voting system flaws. NY 1 Person NO Vote? SC must ditch e-voting
Florida Voters urge Secretary of State to address threats to next month's elections: 14-17 Counties have defective firmware chip that causes errors in results reports. 16 Counties have problem causing optical scan machines to freeze or shut down.. SC needs paper ballots says Eleanor Hare, Computer Sci Prof w/Clemson. Boycott of India EVMs looms...
SHARE Wednesday, July 7, 2010 Voting News: Fix New York voting machine flaw. Tanner: Why Voter ID won't fly in Texas
ACLU Intervenes In Georgia Voting Rights Act Challenge...The Progressive Network wants audit of South Carolina election results...New York's new voting machines could disenfranchise thousands if not fixed. "What's striking about this problem is that it is easily avoidable. Election jurisdictions are able to control whether the machine 'warns' voters, or not." ~ James Hicks, EVIC...
SHARE Tuesday, July 6, 2010 Voting News: Unsafe at any cost - Internet voting. Illinois special election a $30M travesty?
Political Barriers to Military Voting...Unsafe at any cost -" Internet voting..New York Leveling the playing field for mail-in voting?..Keeping Tax-Subsidized Corporate Money out of Politics...Illinois Special Election A $30 million travesty?..FOI to Riverside County over vote count mess...Illinois special election for Burris seat would cost $30 Million to have winner serve a 4 week term..Internet voting challenged in Gujarat
SHARE Sunday, July 4, 2010 Voting News: DC Internet vote risks update. The reality of cyber threats. Bingo $ and Ballots
Eric Riscorla's update on DC's internet voting pilot finds more risks: "So while electronic ballot distribution is more secure than electronic ballot return, there still seem to be a number of potential attacks that would be more difficult to mount en masse with conventional paper-based ballot delivery." Cyber crime is the also one of the fastest growing and most lucrative aspects of illegal use of the Internet..
SHARE Friday, July 2, 2010 Voting News: Risks of DC Internet Voting Pilot for military voters. Letter to Holder: ban DREs
DC's Internet Voting Pilot for overseas and military voters: "In essence, every attack people have proposed on DREs is suddenly an attack on this system as well. Some of these attacks may be detectable but in general one can't recover from them. And the available evidence suggests that users are pretty oblivious to even fairly blatant attacks..."~ Eric Rescorla..."Protect Our Elections" ltr to AG Holder: Ban DREs!
SHARE Thursday, July 1, 2010 Voting News: Voter roll flaws impact 1 in 10 voters. Voters sue to count 12, 563 RivCo ballots
Study of Los Angeles County CA and Florida voter rolls finds 10%+ of voters records had flaws that could prevent voters from casting a ballot..Butler County OH may settle suit w/Premiere over failure that caused 200 votes to go uncounted...Final judgement -ES&S must sell some assets...The USACM Releases Issue Brief on Military and Overseas Internet Voting..
SHARE Wednesday, June 30, 2010 Voting News: EAC issues advisory on ES&S system. Voter registration boom in Arizona, Ohio
The Elections Assistance Commission - EAC issues advisory on ES&S Unity & DS200 opscan freeze/shutdowns... Lawsuit in LA County CA.: 37th Dist primary candidate Lee Davis said that her name was omitted from ballots in 300 precincts...Voter Registration in Arizona Explodes...Voter Registration at Ohio Public Assistance Agencies Skyrocket... Editors note: Like voting news? Please tell your friends.