Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
As related by Brad Friedman in today’s Huffington Post:
That story, and many others today, linked below…
NAtional: Blind, Disabled Voters Finally Call for ‘Immediate Ban’ on DRE/Touch-Screen Voting! LINK
NAtional: A New Look At The Election Process LINK
NAtional: Report Finds Disparity in State Approaches to Post-Election Audits LINK
NAtional: America Needs a Pro-Democracy Movement LINK
NAtional: Testimony for the House Administration Elections Subcommittee LINK
CO: State tackles local voting ills LINK
FL: Touch screens could be scrapped LINK
FL: Palm Beach County – Web firm to blame for glitch in results LINK
FL: Palm Beach County – Voting Problems Confuse Hopefuls LINK
FL: Palm Beach Co. vote display problems blamed on human error LINK
FL: Pinellas County – Roads, not computers, slowed down vote count LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Florida Democrats urge congressional action on election dispute LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Smooth Undervoting In Sarasota County LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Sarasota officials ignored warning about voting machines
An alert on glitches came ahead of recent election troubles but no one followed up. LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Memo warned of potential D-13 machine issues LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Election officials warned of glitch
A voting-machine maker told them users might see a delay — adding to controversy. LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Voting machine maker says time prevented fix LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Stunning News on the Fiasco Surrounding the November Election in Florida’s 13th Congressional District LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Memo surfaces about Sarasota election machines LINK
GA: DeKalb County – DeKalb voting machines moved to dry location LINK
MO: County Had Fewer Voting Issues In 2006 Than Others in State LINK
NC: Wilson County – Board of Elections requests more money LINK
ND: State elections trending to voting centers LINK
OH: Ohio Secretary of State Announces New Advisory Group LINK
PA: Is ballot position important in age of electronic voting? LINK
PA: York County – Candidates draw ballot order for May primary LINK
TX: Milam County – Counties forced to call joint elections LINK
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As related by Brad Friedman in today’s Huffington Post:
http://www.votetrustusa.org/ind...#038;Itemid=26
Meanwhile our dear friends at ACCURATE continue to operate on the assumption that it’s e-voting or no voting… and effectively spent the day telling the House Administration Elections Subcommittee just that.
This particular bit is on source code disclosure… and indicates that ACCURATE believes that, even though security through obscurity is a long-discredited concept, that citizens shouldn’t be allowed access to e-voting machine source code now because all EVM software in current use is so badly written that any disclosure to the public could trigger immediate attacks against the systems before the more overt flaws can be found and fixed…
… but…
… but ACCURATE also thinks it’s a viable option to continue using these admittedly badly flawed systems in secret because otherwise election officials would have to admit to the public that they’ve spent all their money, millions of taxpayer dollars, on worthless electronic crap…
.. and what ACCURATE did not mention to the committee is that by ACCURATE’s own logic the fatal flaws of e-voting can’t be fixed by technology or by new laws.
NAtional: A New Look At The Election Process LINK
Wow… Voter ID (with the usual non-existent “Voter Fraud Problem” excuse) turned into a national photo ID with fingerprints and e-voting mandated by law with electronic ballots as a backup for the… electronic ballots. And all e-voting machines wired to national databases to boot.
Ayup… someone’s not been doing their reading 😉
John,
The Florida dems are asking for a special task force to look into Florida election problems:
(Palm Beach Post).