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Daily Voting News For January 3-9, 2007
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 10:46 pm
Article: John Gideon
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Did you think that Florida is the only
state that still has questions about voting machines and
results? If you answered yes you were wrong. As in Florida
Ohio has thousands of unexplained undervotes and concerns
from candidates as to whether they really lost their
elections. / "The evidence presented indicates that
electronic voting in its current form is systematically
flawed and will require significant corrective measures to
remedy the problems that have been exposed," concludes the
23-page report issued by Voter Action, VotersUnite.Org and
VoteTrustUSA....
- National: E-Voting Failures
in the 2006 Mid-Term Elections
A sampling of problems
across the nation LINK - National:
Report Exposes Excessive E-Voting Machine Malfunctions in
Mid-term Elections LINK
- National:
Lawmaker to take seat provisionally LINK
- Florida:
FL-13 - Jennings appeals ruling in contested congressional
seat LINK
- Florida:
Sarasota County – Editorial - District 13: Wrong ruling LINK
- Florida:
Sarasota County - Newspaper links age, 'undervotes' LINK
- Florida:
Sarasota County and the Debate Over “Paper Trails” LINK
- Louisiana:
House panel to review 3 challenges to elections of GOP
lawmakers LINK
- Mississippi: Winston County - Smooth electronic
elections expected in 2007 races LINK
- New York:
Editorial - Delay voting machine shift
New York shouldn't
scramble to adopt untried system before 2008 election LINK - Ohio:
Missing votes in Ohio call races into question LINK
- Ohio:
eVoting Exit Strategy 2007 LINK
- Ohio:
Overview of Major Expert Studies on Voting Systems LINK
- Ohio:
Franklin County - Squire requests out-of-county judges LINK
- Texas:
Electronic voting led to errors, report
says
Malfunctioning machines and late poll openings among
complaints 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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Daily Voting News For January 4, 2007
Guest
Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
"A laboratory that has tested most of the
nation's electronic voting systems has been temporarily
barred from approving new machines after federal officials
found that it was not following its quality-control
procedures and could not document that it was conducting all
the required tests" according to the New York Times and the
EAC forgot to mention it. Ciber Inc., apparently up until
last summer, was one of three Independent Test Authority
(ITA) labs that were allowed to hire themselves out to
voting machine manufacturers for inspection and testing and
ultimate certification of those voting machines. Ciber,
along with SysTest and Wyle, held a very lucrative position
in what has become the boondoggle of certifying of voting
systems. They get test procedures written by the vendors and
a hefty check from those same vendors and, apparently in
Ciber's case, they don't do the paperwork or testing
required and pass the voting systems on to the
voters....
- National: Report Exposes
Excessive E-Voting Machine Malfunctions in Mid-term
Elections LINK
- National: U.S. Bars Lab From Testing Electronic
Voting LINK
- National:
U.S. halts electronic vote tests by lab-newspaper LINK
- National:
NY Times Front Page Stunner: Feds Shut Down E-Vote 'Testing'
Lab Last Summer For Failure To Follow Procedures, Lack of
Evidence That All Required Tests Were Perfromed! LINK
- National: Electronic voting machine tests halted LINK
- National:
Two Media Releases Issued On the Conditional Seating of U.S.
House Candidates LINK
- California: Company that Certified Diebold Voting
Machines in California Loses Federal Certification Because
of Lax Procedures LINK
- California:
Orange County - Probation Given to Two GOP Operatives Found
Guilty of Switching Democratic Voter Registration Forms to
Republican LINK
- Colorado:
Montrose County - Montrose still studying election problems
LINK
- Connecticut: Connecticut test of voting devices
charts new course LINK
- Florida:
Report details 'failure' of e-voting systems LINK
- Florida:
FL-13 – Opinion - Time to move on
Jennings should
accept court ruling LINK - Florida:
FL-13 - The Newest Florida "Voting Fraud"Fraud LINK
- Florida:
FL-13 - Voters' reports are still evidence LINK
- Florida:
FL-13 – Opinion - Running out of time LINK
- Florida:
FL-13 - Jennings wants re-vote, Buchanan sworn in LINK
- Florida:
FL-13 - The Loser Who Won’t Concede LINK
- Florida:
FL-13 - Jennings wants re-vote, Buchanan sworn in LINK
- Florida:
FL-13 - Statement on the Provisional Seating of Vern
Buchanan LINK
- Florida: Sarasota County - Professor testifies for
defense in Sarasota voting lawsuit LINK
- Florida:
Sarasota County - Vote-machine ruling appealed LINK
- Florida:
Sarasota County - Jennings appeals ruling on code access LINK
- Florida:
Sarasota County - GOPer's Wife Had Voting Troubles LINK
- Louisiana:
Challenge to McCrery election is 1 of 3 House may consider
LINK
- Montana:
Sheridan County - Dems plan recount of ballots LINK
- New York:
Paper ballots vs. touch screen voting LINK
- Ohio:
Groups fault electronic voting machines LINK
- Pennsylvania: Electronic voting errors detailed in
area counties LINK
- Texas:
Kolkhorst bill would require ‘paper ballot’ LINK
- Texas:
Anderson County - Lawsuit filed in Precinct 2 race LINK
- Wisconsin:
Editorial: Voting holiday would go nicely with poll-worker
recruitment project 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.**
***************"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.**
************* Daily
Voting News For January 5, 2007
Guest Blogged by
John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
States are now beginning to question whether
their voting systems were originally inspected and tested by
Ciber and whether the quality of that testing should be
questioned. / Meanwhile the EAC has sent their commissioners
out to handle damage control. Commissioners are denying the
existence of negative reports against Ciber and denying that
Ciber has any problems beyond what they think is normal for
an accreditation process. They, however, are not explaining
why two other labs were accredited almost immediately and
why Ciber's process has taken 5 months longer and is still
not complete. / Another key member of the House of
Representatives has weighed in on the disputed Florida
Congressional election, saying that not only the litigants
but the House itself would benefit from more open discovery.
On Thursday, the incoming Chairwoman of the House
Administration Committee, which has the responsibility for
evaluating any House election contest, submitted a letter to
the Florida First District Court of Appeal expressing
concern with the inability of the Plaintiffs to pursue their
claims....
- National: Electronic Voting
Machine Tests Halted LINK
- National:
Feds Failed to Warn on Flawed E-Vote Lab LINK
- National:
Vote-test crew under fire LINK
- National:
Feds: Voting system is not doomed LINK
- National:
Fifteen Republicans Squeaked by in 2006, Analysis Shows LINK
- National:
Press Release - Election Experts Offer 14 Recommendations
for Federal Legislation LINK
- California:
Bowen plans full review of voting machines LINK
- California:
New CA Secretary of State Bowen to Review Every Voting
System in Use From 'Top to Bottom', Will Consider
Decertification of Machines Approved by Predecessor
McPherson! LINK
- California: Riverside County - California County
Official Who Dared 'Hackers' to Manipulate Voting System
Gets Desperate! LINK
- California:
Riverside County - State official petitioned on e-voting
challenge LINK
- California:
Riverside County - State's OK sought in test of e-voting LINK
- Florida:
'No vote' choice would be on ballots under new bill LINK
- Florida:
FL-13 - Vote Still Contested As Congress Convenes LINK
- Florida:
FL-13 - House Encourages Florida Court to Allow Access to
E-voting Source Code, Hardware LINK
- Florida: FL-13 - ES&S vote machines skipped a step
[FL-13] - promised at Election website LINK
- Florida:
FL-13 - UPDATE: New U.S. House Administration Comm. Chair
Sends Letter to FL Court, Gives Notice Concerning Release of
Touch-Screen Voting Machine Source Code in Jennings/Buchanan
Election! LINK
- Florida:
Martin County - Voters: We want a paper trail LINK
- Florida:
Sarasota County - Ciber Inc. at center of touch-screen
controversy LINK
- Indiana:
Posner on Photo ID: The Unbearable Cleverness of Being Wrong
LINK
- Maryland:
Election tech company under scrutiny LINK
- Michigan:
Oakland County – Editorial - Clerks deserve applause for
questioning voting machines LINK
- New York:
New York State May Suspend Tests of New Voting Machines LINK
- New York:
Firm that tests voting machines not accredited; state cites
inadequacies LINK
- West
Virginia: Jefferson County - Election woes prompt state
audit 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.**
************* Daily
Voting News For January 6, 2007
Guest Blogged by
John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
The EAC seems to be hiding a lot with regard
to their not giving interim accreditation to Ciber for
testing voting systems. One commissioner says there is no
report that led to the lack of accreditation by the EAC.
Part of that interim accreditation is an inspection of the
labs facilities and procedures. An advisor hired by the EAC
did that inspection. How can there not be a report? Maybe
it's not the final report. Maybe it's an interim report. No
matter what it is called there must be a report. The
government does not run without reams of paper. Why is the
EAC obfuscating? What are they not telling us and
why?...
- National: Testing Lab Failure Leads
To Obfuscation By The Election Assistance Commission LINK
- National:
Experts say changes in e-voting likely to come LINK
- California:
State officials say testing proved machines accurate LINK
- Florida:
Voting system tester barred LINK
- Florida:
FL-13 - House Democrats continue challenge of Florida
congressman's legitimacy LINK
- Florida:
FL-13 - Dem objects to state ruling on District 13: Letter
expresses concern... LINK
- Florida:
FL-13 - House committee unlikely to rush District 13 voting
inquiry LINK
- Florida:
Sarasota County - Bennett proposes 'no vote' option LINK
- Mississippi: Lafayette County could become early
voting pilot project LINK
- Ohio: Butler County - Absentee voting strains board
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.**
************* Daily
Voting News For January 8, 2007
Guest Blogged by
John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
"There is by now no doubt that there are
serious problems with electronic voting machines: they fail
to record votes, and even flip votes from one candidate to
another. Election officials like to defend the machines by
noting that they have been certified by independent testing
labs. But the certification process has long been deeply
flawed, and last week there was even more disturbing news
that the leading testing lab has been unable to meet the
federal government’s standards." NYTimes Editorial /
Lowell Finley, the lead attorney for the non-partisan voting
machine legal watchdog organization VoterAction.org has been
named to be the new Deputy SoS for Voting Systems Technology
and Policy in California today. This is a huge piece of news
for all voters....
- National: Editorial -
Testing the Testers LINK
- National:
Are you a citizen? Prove it LINK
- National:
Report outlines midterm e-voting failures LINK
- National:
The Single Greatest Threat to the Media Reform Movement :
Electronic Election Theft LINK
- National:
Like Elections, E-voting Must Be Open LINK
- National:
Sale could ease doubt about elections LINK
- National:
Ciber Not Given Interim Accreditation, Part 1 LINK
- California:
Major E-Voting Critic, Attorney Named to Key Voting Systems
Oversight Role by New CA Secretary of State! LINK
- Florida:
Supreme Court will not hear Wexler's paper ballot trail
lawsuit LINK
- Florida: FL-13 - Bush vs. Gore it isn't, but it
still matters LINK
- Florida:
FL-13 – Opinion - Voters slapped
Let's look at voting
machines' DNA LINK - Florida:
FL-13 - E-voting flaws put Florida in spotlight again LINK
- Mississippi: Lafayette County - County mulling 'no
excuses' early voting LINK
- North Carolina: Editorial - Voting machines can't be
trusted LINK
- New York:
Opinion by Bo Lipari - Don't rush into new
machines
State's voting changeover should be moved from
'07 to'09. LINK - Pennsylvania: Northampton County - Voting snags put
heat on Northampton County elections office LINK
- Texas: Hill
County - Election Complaint Under Investigation LINK
- Wisconsin:
Campaign seeks poll workers
League says ranks are
dwindling 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.**
************* Daily
Voting News For January 9, 2007
Guest Blogged by
John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
“Voting machines are different from other
things bought by a government. In purchasing voting
equipment, election officials must rely heavily on the
integrity, honesty and reliability of the vendor selling
them this equipment."--Gary Greenhalgh, VP ES&S. The same
Gary Greenhalgh who was President of the Election Center and
worked for convicted felon Ransom Shoup of Shouptronic fame
and with MicroVote, another voting machine company with a
checkered past. / "The 2006 election was a success: Most of
the millions of Americans who cast their ballots did so with
confidence. Despite some isolated problems, exit polls
showed that in 98 percent of U.S. jurisdictions, the process
worked so well that voter confidence rose to levels not seen
since before Election 2000." This according to EAC
Commissioner and Chief Blower of Smoke, Paul
DeGregorio....
- National: VP at Election
Giant ES&S Threatens To Sue MadCowMorningNews LINK
- National: How to hold successful elections LINK
- National:
E-voting controversy overcasts its success LINK
- National:
The Ciber Report? The EAC Now Admits It Really Exists LINK
- California:
NEW: E-voting critic tapped as deputy secretary of state LINK
- California: New Bowen Deputy Forced Schwarzenegger
to Pay Millions LINK
- California:
CA-50 - Appeal Heard on CA50 Election Case LINK
- Colorado:
Logan County - Goodbye to a public servant
3-term county
clerk elects to leave office on her own terms LINK - Colorado:
Montrose County - Election judges’ report mixed LINK
- Florida:
Supreme Court refuses to hear paper trail suit LINK
- Florida:
Sarasota County - Florida Voters Challenge Judge's Shutdown
of Election Investigation LINK
- Iowa: Iowa
General Assembly Urged to Upgrade Election Procedures LINK
- Illinois:
Cook County - Part of vote blame on Orr
Election report
faults county clerk, technology firm LINK - Illinois:
Cook County - Panel: County clerk, voting-machine maker to
blame for glitches LINK
- New York:
Delaware County - Group plans forums on voting machines LINK
- Utah: Orem
to look at using old punch cards for elections 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.**
************* John
Gideon
Executive Director www.votersunite.org and
Member www.votetrustusa.org
