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Daily Voting News For September 23, 2007

Daily Voting News For September 23, 2007

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

In Nevada ex-Secretary of State and now Congressman Dean Heller likes to tell anyone who will listen why he dislikes HR-811 and all about the amendments he has added to the bill. He falsely claims to have “inserted” amendments that would exempt Nevada from the requirements of the bill and another that would require English-only instructions on the voting machines. Heller also falsely claims that Nevada is the only state that has established a paper-trail on its voting machines avoiding lawsuits. He then goes on to claim that passage of HR-811 would erase all of the advances made by the state; advances that were taken when he was SoS, by the way. It appears that Congressman Heller has no problem at all misleading his constituents and the local media who report his false statements. Congressman Dean Heller, today’s “Enemy of Democracy”....

  • NAtional: Which is the bigger threat to our nation - tainted pet food or computerized voting? LINK
  • National: We The People Foundation Initiates National “Clean Elections” Lawsuit LINK
  • National: "Hacking Democracy" Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism LINK
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  • National: Restoring Democracy - Election Reform or Band-Aid Solutions? LINK
  • California: Santa Cruz County - 'Round Two' for Gail Pellerin and Brad Friedman on Peter B. Collins Show LINK
  • Florida: Write-ins produce wrong results, loophole critics say LINK
  • Florida: Volusia County - Volusia replacing faulty cards in voting machines LINK
  • Mississippi: Wilkinson County - Judge to hear Wilkinson election dispute LINK
  • New Jersey: Columnist - Let's fix voting machines in a timely fashion LINK
  • Nevada: Heller supports Iraq policy, seeks to amend voting bill LINK
  • Ohio: Brunner Answers Republican's 23 Questions on Proposed Vote Machine Testing LINK
  • Utah: Editorial - Electronic voting: Don't try to fix what isn't broken 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 Scoop.**

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    John Gideon Co-Director and Information Manager VotersUnite.Org http://www.votersunite.org

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