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Daily Voting News For March 25, 2009

Thursday, 26 March 2009, 2:11 pm
Column: John Gideon

Daily Voting News For March 25, 2009


Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

In our ‘Featured’ article Greg Gordon of McClatchy News reports on a presentation given during an Election Assistance Commission hearing last month. The presentation was given by an ex-CIA official concerning the use of electronic voting machines in foreign elections and the concerns about the machines’ vulnerability to tampering. The official said at one point in his presentation, “"You heard the old adage 'follow the money’. I follow the vote. And wherever the vote becomes an electron and touches a computer, that's an opportunity for a malicious actor potentially to . . make bad things happen."...

  • Featured - National: Most electronic voting isn't secure, CIA expert says LINK

  • Alabama: Military voting report released LINK

  • Florida: Editorial - Elections bill a threat to transparent voting LINK

  • Kentucky: Clay County - Kentucky Fried Clickin' LINK

  • Kentucky: Clay County - Serious election fraud in Kentucky LINK
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  • Maine: Bill retools write-in candidate laws LINK

  • Minnesota: The Coleman-Franken recount: Can it be over soon? LINK

  • Minnesota: Coleman appeal could play constitutional wild card LINK

  • Minnesota: Coleman says election case shouldn’t end up in the Supreme Court LINK

  • Missouri: Options to make voting easier being considered LINK

  • New Jersey: Newark campaign worker is indicted on election-fraud charges LINK

  • New Jersey: Dutchess County - Red Hook poll site may not change until May LINK

  • Ohio: Cleveland State University research helps find problems in election machines LINK

  • Tennessee: Voter empowerment measures on calendar for House Sub-committee LINK

  • Tennessee: TN voter registration could require citizenship proof LINK

  • Tennessee: Voting Machine "Pants Down" Until 2012? LINK

  • Texas: Possibly faulty voting machines still used by Collin County (NOTE: This is the home of Premier/Diebold, McKinney Texas) LINK

  • West Virginia: Bill would sink touch-screen voting 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-Executive Director
    VotersUnite.Org
    www.votersunite.org

    "To encourage citizen ownership of transparent, participatory
    democracy." The Creekside Declaration March 22, 2008

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