A former Massachusetts House speaker accused of lying during his testimony in a voting rights lawsuit plans to plead guilty to obstruction of justice. Under the deal, Finneran won't face prison time, and will drop the three perjury counts,
A laboratory that has tested most of the nation’s electronic voting systems has been 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 conducti
For each of the 1022 reports, we determined the machine type or types referenced in the report and categorized the incident into one or more of 13 categories. We divided the machine types into three basic classes:
Georgia state officials are claiming that Kathy Rogers, the recently resigned Director of outgoing Secretary of State Cathy Cox's State Elections Division, is going to work for Diebold. Rumors have been swirling ever since in the state where D
Stone's video-taped shot-from-the-hip "bet" to local advocate Maxine Ewig, allowing that he would arrange with a programmer to "set up an appointment with one of our machines and...verify that they can manipulate that machine,
"I'd like to challenge that programmer," Stone says, "and I'd like to set up an appointment with one of our machines and I'd like him or her to verify that they can manipulate that machine. And I'm gonna bet a thousand
A federal panel voted yesterday to begin developing a national standard that could result in the gradual phasing out of the paperless electronic voting machines in use across the Washington region and in many parts of the country.
The Federal Election Commission took steps to encourage politicians and contributors to report their own possible violations of campaign finance laws by offering them significantly reduced fines.
Paperless electronic voting machines used throughout the Washington region and much of the country "cannot be made secure," according to draft recommendations issued this week by a federal agency that advises the U.S. Election Assistance Co
People for the American Way just released the following update on the latest goings on in the FL-13 battle where their lawsuit has now been joined by the court with Democratic candidate Christine Jennings own suit. Both are calling for a revote.
The state of Alaska which had been fighting tooth and nail to keep from releasing their database of how voters voted back in 2004, is at it again. Now, despite a court order, the state is refusing to release the new 2006 database, according to a pres
Heller pled guilty yesterday in an agreement with Los Angeles prosecutors, after his arrest earlier this year on felony charges related to his release of attorney-client privileged documents he obtained while working as a temporary word-processor at
Even though I knew that every conceivable obstacle to conducting a post-election audit of the electronic voting machines was inserted into Arizona's Election Reform Bill, I thought that maybe we might have a go at accountability. Sadly, it was no
Cast your ballots on manually counted paper ballots or don't vote at all in 2008. I'm joining the call for a total boycott of the 2008 elections unless the only ballot of record is a durable paper ballot that is manually counted.
Citing the disputed vote in a Florida congressional district, a Democratic lawmaker urged Congress to require a paper trail for electronic voting. Rep. Rush Holt said the inaccuracy of electronic touch-screen voting machines "poses a direct thre
Lawyers for Democratic House candidate Christine Jennings threw down the gauntlet, asking a state court to secure electronic voting machines and data used in the election. The move would preserve the equipment in Florida's Sarasota County for scr
Non-voters swept all national, state, and local races, garnering a nationwide non-vote landslide of 59.6% among registered voters. In addition, about 30% of Americans eligible to vote remain unregistered.
Electronic voting machines made by ES&S, the largest supplier of voting systems in the country, failed across the country on Election Day.
WALDENBURG, Ark. - Randy Wooten figured he'd get at least one vote in his bid for mayor of this town of 80 people — even if it was just his own.
Arizona apparently has 258,000 ballots which have not been counted yet. They also had NO MECHANISM in place for counting them. Most of these are (ironically enough) the so-called "Early Ballots" {Still Voting?}
The Senators nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of victories danced in their heads. And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just seen on the 'Net that touchscreens were crap.
"Hancock said he is concerned about the security of ballots transferred from precincts to the county elections department and that the audits are not conducted immediately at the polls."
(Kudos to Wendy McElroy) Here's a site that updates where all the problems with voting machines are taking place, and the specific problem or problems.
In Hilarious Statement, Company Claims Documentary — Which They Haven't Seen — Has Facts Wrong…But They're Referring to a Completely Different Documentary!
The number one story,... that will start the day after the election. Still Voting?
Haas has announced that he plans to defy the SoS order to count such paper ballots as "normal ballots" by refusing to count them at all until the Thursday after the election. Also instructed poll workers to not inform voters of their right
[funny] Years ago when I worked at a big bank, one of the hot issues was that many customers didn’t trust our new-fangled ATM machines. Amazingly, this fear had almost nothing to do with the fact that I worked in the ATM department.
After a week of early voting, a handful of glitches with electronic voting machines have drawn the ire of voters, reassurances from elections supervisors -- and a caution against the careless casting of ballots. Several South Florida voters
The U.S.'s new voting systems are only as good as the people who program and use them. Which is why next week could be interesting.
Just 10 days before Americans vote in midterm congressional elections that could result in a historic shift of power, the federal government is investigating whether anti-American Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez may control the company
