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(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 4, 2010 Voting News: Monroe Co Arkansas impossible election results. Want to Email Your Ballot? Email Ballot security
Diebold manipulated numbers -" Fraud investigation continues -" Voting: Not in question...Dorr MI Township miscount caused by missed maintenance, dirt buildup in scanners...List of Dead Lincoln WV Voters Wrong...Vote by Mail Spreads, But Doesn't Help All Voters..The hidden zinger in Cal Prop 14..Rio Arriba County NM vote tally problems...Czech Republic "Free beer if you vote" campaign draws young voters...
SHARE Thursday, June 3, 2010 Voting News: Vote by Mail fallout. Dead Lincoln WV voters NOT dead. Pakistan mulls e-voting
Diebold manipulated numbers -" Fraud investigation continues -" Voting: Not in question...Dorr MI Township miscount caused by missed maintenance, dirt buildup in scanners...List of Dead Lincoln WV Voters Wrong...Vote by Mail Spreads, But Doesn't Help All Voters..The hidden zinger in Cal Prop 14..Rio Arriba County NM vote tally problems...Czech Republic "Free beer if you vote" campaign draws young voters...
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 2, 2010 Voting News: SEC charges Diebold with fraud. McAllen voter fraud case falls apart. India election officials panic
Diebold Accused by SEC of Fraudulent Acctn..California GOP will shift to caucus if open primary passes..Passaic County NJ elections sec charged in $384K ballot postage theft..Mahoning Co OH may cut 40-100 polling places..Hinds TN voting machine probs..McAllen voter fraud case disintegrates..New "Protect Our Elections" promotes natl election protection laws..India's Panicky Election Commission orders Storage Audit of EVMs..
SHARE Tuesday, June 1, 2010 Voting News: Florida law wrongs disabled voters. GAO on AZ,ME public finance. Do-over in Philippines?
Florida enacted HB 131 which harms disabled voters by delaying the replacement of touch screen voting machines until 2016. In spite of some good lawmakers efforts, the Florida legislature failed to clean up election code that disenfranchises many valid voters.."Investigations of Aspen's many election irregularities are are notoriously unpopular." ~ Harvie Branscombe.Does public financing really make a difference?
SHARE Friday, May 28, 2010 Voting News: WV overseas internet election-54 votes for 5 counties, cost about $75,000
Hale Co Alabama officials worry absentee mail ballot fraud is back...Vote totals were off, Caroll Co Arkansas officials recounted the votes after a power surge that may have skewed the election day results..Allegations of fraud and irregularities fly.in Lucas Co Ohio...1 York Co PA voting machine froze but official says nothing wrong...Murky mail-in ballot methods in Fort Worth TX..WV internet vote cost about $1,333 per vote.
SHARE Thursday, May 27, 2010 Voting News: Double voting in Hoke NC? TX Voter ID again? Elections automation, a lemon?
NC looks into possible double voting in Hoke Co..Good thing Bullitt Co KY has paper ballots since 4 memory cards went missing...Some candidates for Avon, IN Town Council will be doing a forensic review of election. ..CEIMN Dir. Some straight talk about Minnesota Elections...Hefty sum to rig India's EVM's?...Philippines Elections automation, a lemon?
SHARE Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Voting News: Unrecountable 2010 elections. WV fraud charges? Need forensics! FFEC to Crist: veto HB131
The 2010 Primaries: More Recounts than Recountable Elections...Doug Jones on the erosion of the secret ballot: "If we allow a weakened right to a secret ballot, how can we ask other countries to set higher standards, and what will we do if the crooks do end up in control of our elections?"...FFEC Urges Crist to Veto Elections Bill HB 131...Absentee Vote Fraud in Charleston, WV? Need Forensics!..Why India's EVMs must go
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 24, 2010 Voting News: Email balloting risks midterm election to hacking. Hanging Chads - 10 years later
16 states to let overseas voters email voted ballots in midterm elections. Cybersecurity experts warn this subjects election to hacking & rigging..GA's voter reg process disenfranchises valid voters..Mark Halvorson has "straight talk about Minnesota's elections."..Chicken costumes banned at Nev. polls..PBS Radio interviews Dan Wallach, activist Marybeth Kuznik,& John O'Grady, NY. Were Philippines flash cards rigged?
SHARE Friday, May 21, 2010 Voting News: 1 in 10 AZ voters get wrong info. The Kansas Report and voter purges. Nassau ordered to ditch levers
While MI,MN,Humboldt CA & other cities ..reaffirm citizens' rights to oversight, "Aspen taxpayers are funding an expensive battle to fight election transparency. Aspen, of all places." writes Mike LaBonte in LTE...Mississippi to join several states in purge....Nassau County told ditch levers. Expert says India should ditch electronic voting...
SHARE Thursday, May 20, 2010 Voting News: Dominion buys Premier-Diebold. US experts hack India EVM. Smartmatic flaw stuns officials
Michigan Atty Gen: "Voted ballots...are public records.."..Revolving door in PA swings toward Internet Voting..Anti-Trust: Dominion acquires Diebold assets from ES&S...San Francisco unsure how many wrong ballots issued...Delaware City ends "poll tax"...US experts 'hack' India e-voting machines...Philippines Rep. Locsin blows top over Smartmatic election return flaws...Which UK polls disenfranchised voters?
SHARE Wednesday, May 19, 2010 Voting News: Pennsylvania SOS hired by Internet Voting Co. AR, CA, KY and PA ballot problems
Verified Voting on May 18 primaries: "Despite signs of progress, today's primaries in Arkansas, Kentucky, Oregon, and Pennsylvania show how much work remains to verify the vote."..Paper ballots save day in Faulkner Co AR..San Francisco ballot mix: 1000 got wrong ballot, 1317 got dupes..178 Fayette Co, PA voters voted twice..A KY man charged with vote buying..Not enough ballots in Boone PA...Sadsbury PA touchscreen problem..
SHARE Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Voting News: AR touchscreens flip votes. KY Election fraud claims. 1000s in PA could vote twice
BRAD BLOG's Election Integrity Backgrounder for 'Super-ish Tuesday' 2010...
Excuses don't help: Votes flipped on Carroll Co Arkansas touchscreens...Sen Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) gets provisional ballot...Wrong ballot sent to thousands of Sonoma Co CA voters....Voter supression & fraud alleged in KY elections...1000s of Pennsylvania voters registered to vote in 2 counties...Philippines: Polls not fair, not honest, not peaceful...
SHARE Monday, May 17, 2010 Voting News: Voting machines burn in Rt 22 PA fire. KY debuts paper ballots. Philippines voting machine sleepovers
Watch Yuma AZ vote count live via webcam...Use iPad to register to vote in Santa Clara Co CA..."Too much" voter assistance in Forsyth Co NC?..90 Kentucky counties debut paper ballot systems in Tues Primary..Absentee/Early Voting Method: Raise Questions and Risks...No Voting Rights in Indian Country USA...Smartmatic Technician Takes Home 65 PCOS Machines...Internet voting watch in Prince Edward Co Canada and to Gujarat India..
SHARE Friday, May 14, 2010 Voting News: More vote buying in KY. Berkeley WV votes counted twice. Indian EVMs ate votes
Another KY vote buying scheme, this time in Perry Co...Berkely CO WV's early voted ballots counted twice...Aspen CO claims to have spent $75K+ to keep citizens from viewing ballot images of May 5 2009 election...The EAC internet voting pilot test requirements are too weak says Joel Rothschild, Chief of Staff of the Federal Voting Assistance Program...
SHARE Thursday, May 13, 2010 Voting News: Montgomery Co PA votes dont add up. Iowa caught in HAVA audit. Stolen India EVN is TV star
Montgomery Co PA has a systemic problem with paperless electronic voting plus poll books that don't add up. "There are too many unanswered questions about why the numbers of voters signed in and the number of votes cast are so different at so many polling places. In fact...the county is required to act in such instances."~ atty Michael Churchill..IOWA spent $2.5M HAVA on WHAT? IL, NY, NE & CA under investigation too...
SHARE Wednesday, May 12, 2010 Voting News: Detroit ballot boxing. Few use WV overseas internet voting. Sack the UK Election Chief?
"Sack the Chairwoman of the Electoral Commission." Iain Dale writing about UK's election fiasco...Online bank thefts more than doubled in 2009 but no one would try to steal an internet election right?..Hispanic TX district won by African American..Damaged memory cards delay tally of 76K precincts in Philippines..Internet Voting vulnerable to political pressure...
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 11, 2010 Voting News: Damn the science view riles internet voting critic. EAC i-voting plan breaks law. UK election-No Diebold!
"Damn the science,Damn the integrity; If it feels good do it!" attitude riles CTvoterscount.org about comments in NYT Internet voting story..The EAC broke law in proceeding w/Internet voting system guidelines says Voter Action...Rep Rush Holt intros 2 new promising election bills...'Citizens United was a shot across the bow'...UK Electoral Commission 'lacked grasp of reality'...
SHARE Monday, May 10, 2010 Voting News: Experts decry US overseas internet vote plan. PA,KY unverifiable voting. UK student voters disenfranchised
Flaws with EAC's Overseas/Military Internet vote plan:e-mail messages can be intercepted, Web sites can be hacked, and the secrecy of ballots is hard to ensure...DOJ asks court to compel Nassau compliance.."Here We Go Again (Again): 100% Unverifiable E-Voting Systems Set for Use in PA, KY, Elsewhere"..Ballot harvesting scheme in Jim Wells Co TX..Some UK student voters denied vote, treated as 2nd class citizens...
SHARE Sunday, May 9, 2010 TO The UK ABOUT YOUR 2010 ELECTION MELTDOWN - ACT IN HASTE, REPENT IN LEISURE
THE UK 2010 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION WAS A FLORIDA/OHIO STYLE ELECTION NIGHTMARE, WITH THOUSANDS TURNED AWAY FROM THE POLLS. "Here we are giving an example which would shame countries that are just starting their democracies." ~ David Dimbleby with BBC. IS THE UK SET TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE THE US DID? The UK media is already urging the UK to ditch paper ballots for electronic voting instead of addressing the real problem...
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, May 7, 2010 Voting News: UK Election Nightmare. Glitches in OH,TN. ACLU to FL Gov Crist: veto HB 131
The UK's parliamentary election was a Florida style election nightmare. Thousands of UK voters turned away from polling stations. Shortage of ballot papers, not enough poll workers, & inaccurate poll lists were just some of the causes. "Here we are giving an example which would shame countries that are just starting their democracies." ~ David Dimbleby with BBC...Fed lawsuit filed to block CA special election.