Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Yesterday the New York Times reported:
Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews. Although Republican activists have repeatedly said fraud is so widespread that it has corrupted the political process and, possibly, cost the party election victories, about 120 people have been charged and 86 convicted as of last year.
Why is it that the main-stream media can report this yet the supposedly bi-partisan Election Assistance Commission refuses to release a report that says the same thing?
Also late yesterday San Diego Co, CA announced that they had hired Michael Vu to be their assistant registrar of voters. Vu resigned under fire from his last job as the election director of Cuyahoga Co, OH where two of his employees were convicted of election fraud for pre-counting precincts in a scheme to cherry-pick precincts to be recounted with no problems. Vu still refuses to believe that the employees did anything wrong. Perhaps Michael Brown will be San Diego county’s next emergency preparedness director?
And today voters in Pennsylvania won a suit brought by the state who attempted to stop a suit brought by 26 voters. The original suit challenges the use of electronic voting machines “that provide no way for Electors to know whether their votes will be recognized” through voter verification or independent audit.
Those voting news stories, and many others on a busy day, all lined below…
NAtional: In 5-Year Effort, Scant Evidence of Voter Fraud LINK
NAtional: Howard Dean: Stop Playing Politics with Voting Rights LINK
NAtional: Hinchey, Serrano Urge Non-Partisanship, Greater Transparency at Election Assistance Commission LINK
NAtional: When the Government Is Watching the Voters, Shouldn’t the Voters Be Closely Watching the Government? LINK
NAtional: End secret vote counts – a story for everyone LINK
CA: Editorial – Editorial: California knows how to vote LINK
CA: San Diego County hires Vu as assistant registrar LINK
CO: Douglas County – What’s the best way to improve voting procedures? LINK
FL: Insider Emails Reveal Florida’s Voter Registration Database Was Plagued With Problems in 2006
New Computerized System was Rife with Bugs, Unexplained Errors and Party-Flipping According to Newly Revealed Documents… LINK
GA: Secretary of State Karen Handel Issues Report on Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail 2006 Pilot LINK
GA: 75,000 voter registration cards found in trash bin in Atlanta LINK
IN: Johnson County – The results are in: County voting system passes test LINK
MD: Columnist – Legislators act to keep vote count accurate LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County – Chairman agrees to resign from Cuyahoga Co. elections board LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County – Bennett quits elections panel LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County – Brunner moves to fill board seats LINK
PA: Court Recognizes Pennsylvania Voters’ Right to Reliable, Secure 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 BradBlog.Com**
Yesterday the New York Times reported:
John, the link you provided caught my eye:
(Your Link, emphasis added).
If that is so, then the advocates of DRE’s need to take a second look, and the HR 811 legislators need to check out the court’s reasoning on this matter.
And speaking of voting 🙂 the Senate began to correct some of the “intelligence” problems in the regime.
The bill S 392 is not threatened by filibuster now, pursuant to the vote yesterday (94-3) to shut down any potential filibuster. Only three neoCons voted for filibuster: Coburn (R-OK), Grassley (R-IA), and Kyl (R-AZ).
The president has threatened to veto it, so we must watch the floor vote to see if this could be the first veto override in a decade or so.
We really need to take on the San Diego Board of Supervisors. They shown more and more that they look to be controlled by certain entities in who they hire (Mikel Haas, and now Michael Vu), and other actions that they are allowing to take place against the interests of many residents (the “fast tracking” of Blackwater moving in to the Potrero Hills foothills with their huge training facility there), etc.
And it was a questionable fake “Democratic Voters Guide” endorsing Ron Roberts with an otherwise Democratic endorsement slate back in the primaries last year that kept Richard Barrera from contesting him in a mostly Democratic Voter district for even the general election (where he might have won with Mikel Haas’s controversial actions growing after that primary which could have focused more attention on this race then if he were still running).
The Repubican Party, through techniques like these has had control over the Board of Supervisors in monopoly form for the last 10 years, and it is actions like these I think that we can expect as long as voters allow this sort of manipulation to continue with scrutiny.
We need to measure out collectively all of their damaging actions so that the community can start realizing that they are a big part of the problem now and do something about it, both in conteseting them now, and in replacing someo of them in the next election to restore some accountability in that body.