Today I'd like to introduce you to the two
men who leapt forward to assist me (Ellen) in continuing
Daily Voting News on an interim basis while we work on
getting a permanent plan in place: John Washburn and Dave
Klein. Their brief bios, which they wrote, not only tell a
bit about them but should also give you a sense of where
some of the flavor of the DVN intros are coming from.
..
John Washburn has been working in
the software field since 1985; as a software developer from
1985-1994 and as a software tester from 1994 to the present.
He fully slipped down the rabbit hole and into the
wonderland of elections and election integrity in December
of 2004. At that time he was attempting to reconcile simple
elections numbers (for example, number of ballots counted to
number of ballots distributed to voters) for the November 2,
2004 general election. The inability to examine election
records or reconcile election numbers once he had the
records set him on the three paths he has walked since; open
records activism, election auditing by citizens, and the
testing and certification of voting machines.
Dave Klein dreamt as a
child of having some form of involvement with election
administration and integrity; however, living in Ohio in
2004 undid years of therapy that had ended those nightmares.
In 2006, he applied for a job offering whatever assistance
he could provide to new SOS-elect, Jennifer Brunner, and to
his great surprise, she accepted. From 2007-2008, he served
as Elections Research & Operations Specialist at the Ohio
Secretary of the State’s Office directing and leveraging
expert scientific, analytic, and technical
resources.
The transition to this form of public
service was natural given his educational background and his
prior private-sector work, which included implementing best
practices/systems to support optimal customer-service at
Limited Brands. A graduate of the University of Texas at
Austin, he received a National Science Foundation Fellowship
to attend graduate school at Ohio State University where he
studied persuasion, emotion, statistics, psychometrics,
experimental methodology, and social neuroscience.
Supporting his wife's pursuit of her dreams, in
the fall of 2008 he left the big-stage election drama of
Ohio and moved to Minnesota, an election Eden. Or so he
thought. He now serves on Minnesota Citizens for Election
Integrity Organizing Committee and on the advisory boards of
NSF ACCURATE and the Ohio Center for Election Excellence.
And now onto the voting
news.
Georgia: Henry County Woman Investigated
for Illegal Voting LINK
Illinois:
Legally affected parties have five days to contest the new
election results LINK
(From the article:
More than a month after April's municipal elections it turns
out not all the votes were counted)
Michigan:
Flint mayoral race remains between Walling, Clack after
recount LINK
New York: State
voting machine mandate all the 'rage' LINK
Somaliland:
Somaliland strives to distinguish itself in troubled region
LINK (Fingerprint required for
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