Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Of course today’s news is overwhelmingly about the “California Decisions”. After this weekend we will probably hear a lot more from the county officials and the vendors. Diebold appears to have had a press release ready to roll out upon the decision from Secretary of State Bowen. They seem to have decided that terminology changes needed to be made so they are now calling their DREs “touch-screen voting solutions”. I’m not sure what they are trying to solve by the use of their machines. We now know it’s not security problems or accessibility. …
NAtional: Diebold voting machines vulnerable to virus attack LINK
CA: Paper Ballots For California! — Secretary of State Announces De-Certification /Re-Certification Plans For E-Voting LINK
CA: California Secretary of State Debra Bowen Decertifies Diebold, Hart InterCivic and Sequoia Voting Systems–Late Submitted ES&S System “InkaVote Plus” Used in Los Angeles to be Reviewed LINK
CA: Statement of Diebold Election Systems on California Secretary of State’s Top-to-Bottom Review of Voting Systems LINK
CA: State curtails e-voting
L.A. system decertified; restrictions on two others LINK
CA: California orders voting machines to have tighter security LINK
CA: Electronic voting decertified LINK
CA: Bowen places tough restrictions on voting systems LINK
CA: State decides to secure electronic voting machines
Secretary of State orders more precautions be taken against tampering, and withdraws support of the InkaVote Plus machines used in Southern California. LINK
CA: State decides to secure electronic voting machines LINK
CA: Elections chief gives OK to vote machines
Despite security concerns, she clears them for use in February LINK
CA: California Restricts Voting Machines LINK
CA: California Restricts E-voting LINK
CA: California voting machines decertified LINK
CA: Inland Empire Voters May Go Back To Paper Ballots LINK
CA: California Severely Limits Electronic Voting LINK
CA: California moves to lock down e-voting systems
Controls on three companies’ offerings; ES&S decertified LINK
CA: Santa Clara County — Ballot Questions LINK
FL: FL-13 – D-13 probe stalled by recess in Congress LINK
FL: FL-13 – Voting inquiry finds reasons to dig deeper
GAO investigators say no ‘smoking gun’ was found in District 13 election LINK
IL: Peoria County – Petition to remove officals withdrawn
Group trying to oust two election commissioners search different options LINK
MS: Benton County – Candidate for Benton Co. Sheriff charged with voter fraud LINK
OH: Voter ID Standards Still Up In The Air LINK
OH: State makes changes to provisional ballots LINK
OH: Opinion – Don’t Go Back To Paper Ballots LINK
OH: Franklin County – New machine should better track ballots LINK
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Of course today’s news is overwhelmingly about the “California Decisions”. After this weekend we will probably hear a lot more from the county officials and the vendors. Diebold appears to have had a press release ready to roll out upon the decision from Secretary of State Bowen. They seem to have decided that terminology changes needed to be made so they are now calling their DREs “touch-screen voting solutions”. I’m not sure what they are trying to solve by the use of their machines. We now know it’s not security problems or accessibility. …
I can tell you WHY they change the name DRE to touch screen whatever the fuck.
Cause it’s HARDER to keep up with, it’s HARDER to type.
It’s High time we stick to the original names of things.
Enough of this shit.
Speaking of voting for the demise of democracy …
In the bill passed Saturday, the republicans in the House all (except Johnson (IL) and Jones (NC)) voted to give Bush what he demanded: warrantless wiretaps of americans.
These House democrats entered the preznit blush hall of shame:
(House Vote).
It is a day of infamy, and it portends the final days of what was once american democracy.
It is not the system that counts, it is the people in the system. And those democrats in the House listed above, and all republicans save two, are pure and simple traitors to the 4th Amendment.
From the “destroy the constitution in order to save it” department.
House Vote Update:
It was the blue dog democrats who caved in and advocated the violation of the 4th Amendment.
There is a very good expose and rant at DailyKos which supports the view that the US Democracy is now inevitably passing away.
As you know, DailyKos is very “moderate” compared to us here at Bradblog.