The 'No Fear' LOVEolution is greatly feared by 'The Empire'
Ernest HancockThere is great value in your coming to Ames, Iowa. After reading this article I hope you can agree.
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Voting - Election Integrity
Behind the Scenes - Iowa Straw Poll
Ernest HancockErnest Hancock shares some personal opinion and makes some predictions. We'll check back later to see how he did.
Internet vote-swapping legal, court finds
• ARS TechnicaImagine someone created a web site with the sole purpose of allowing voters in one state to "swap" preferred candidates with voters from another state: would such a site count as illegal vote-tampering? Several sites were promptly smacked d
Iowa GOP Won't Allow a Privately Funded Manual Validation of Diebold Computers
Ernest HancockMary Tiffany is the Iowa Communications director that I communicated with yesterday. Today I received offers to pay for a privately funded Manual verification if the count would be done immediately. I left Mary a message I would stop by,... THEN...
Iowa Poll made of Straw - Iowa GOP refuses to allow any Validation of Computer results
Ernest HancockIowa State GOP Communications Director, Mary Tiffany, made inquiries for me as to the details of the Iowa Straw Poll, and this is what will happen...
California just decertified Diebold vote computers. Iowa Straw Poll counted by?....
• BradBlog.com"VotersUnite!" applauds Secretary of State Bowen's decision to decertify voting systems in California
Ron Paul Supporters Denounce Iowa Diebold Use
• FreeMarketnews.comhttp://www.votefraud.org/ron_paul_stop_the_votefraud_page.htm - tells what happened at the Ames Straw Poll in 1995. One (A House without Doors) tells about the proven vote fraud against Pat Buchanan in the 1996 Iowa Presidential Caucuses, and how it
More California E-Voting Reports Released; More Bad News
• Freedom to TinkerYesterday the California Secretary of State released the reports of three source code study teams that analyzed the source code of e-voting systems from Diebold, Hart InterCivic, and Sequoia.
California Study: Voting Machines Vulnerable; Worse to Come?
• Freedom to TinkerA major study of 3 e-voting systems, commissioned by the California Secretary of State’s office, reported all 3 had multiple serious vulnerabilities. The study examined systems from Diebold, Hart InterCivic, and Sequoia; included a touch-screen mach
Diebold e-voting flaws could compromise elections (Iowa Straw Poll on these machines also)
• ComputerWorld.comOptical scan voting devices slated to be used in presidential primary elections in Florida next year are significantly flawed and could compromise the outcome of the contest, according to a report released yesterday by Secretary of State Kurt Brownin
Voting Machines Breached in 'top-to-bottom' Review - Allowed by Sec. of State in California
• WorldNetDaily'The veneer of security has evaporated': Hackers given shot at California devices
Companies say California voting-machine review is unrealistic
• San Diego Union-TribuneRepresentatives of three voting machine companies on Monday criticized a state study that found their machines could be breached by hackers, saying it had reached unrealistic conclusions.
Hackers able to penetrate security in voting machines
• San Francisco ChronicleState-sanctioned teams of computer hackers were able to break through the security of virtually every model of California's voting machines and change results or take control of some of the systems's electronic functions, according to a Unive
Green Party bashes the courts on election laws
• Times-LeaderAfter being bumped from the ballot, Romanelli, along with his attorney Larry Otter, was ordered to pay more than $80,000 in various court-related fees. Romanelli has resolved not to pay the fees, despite the threat that he could be jailed for contemp
"Hacking Democracy"
• Google Video (82 min.)The documentary exposes the dangers of voting machines used during America's midterm and presidential elections. Electronic voting machines count approximately 90% of America's votes. The technology is also increasingly being used across the
Potential Violations Of California Election Law Revealed CA SoS's 'Top-to-Bottom Review'
• Brad BlogThe results of California Secretary of State Debra Bowen's "top-to-bottom review" of electronic voting systems previously approved for use by her predecessor is still underway. But before any of the findings from her teams of security s
US Board Rejects E-Voting Test Lab Application
• IDG ServicesThe EAC voted to terminate Ciber's application for interim accreditation as a voting system test laboratory, the EAC announced Wednesday. Ciber failed to notify the EAC of key staff changes, required in the interim EAC program to accredit e-votin
Federal judge orders party registration, vote ID for Miss. primaries
• APU.S. District Judge W. Allen Pepper said political parties have a right to stop non-party members from voting in their primary elections. He said party registration and voter ID would do that.
US Attorney Resigns Following Conyers’ Request for BBC Documents
• by Greg PalastTim Griffin, formerly right hand man to Karl Rove, resigned Thursday as US Attorney for Arkansas hours after BBC Television ‘Newsnight’ reported that Congressman John Conyers requested the network’s evidence on Griffin’s involvement ‘caging voters.’
The Globalization of Electronic Election Theft
Ernest HancockFrom Ohio and California to Scotland and France, the disputes surrounding electronic voting machines have gone truly global.
Aaron Russo's "America: Freedom to Fascism" only $1
• Aaron RussoI just talked to Aaron and he is very excited about supplying you with this freedom tool. $10 for the director's cut and $1 for the released movie when you order 100. Over 60,000 have joined his effort online in every state. And "Go Ron Paul
Admin pursued aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout
• McClatchyFor six years, the Bush adminstration, aided by Justice Dept political appointees, has pursued an aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout in key battleground states in ways that favor Republican political candidates. The adminstration
BradBlog.com - Why Nobody Should Ever Have to Trust an Elections Official
Ernest HancockFormer Monterey County Registrar of Voters Heads to Jail on 43 Criminal Counts, Stole More Than $80,000 in Tax Dollars from County Once Told Us We Must Have 'Trust and Faith in Elections Officials, Or In This Case, Me'...
Diabold wants out of the election business
• AP[What's about to break?] Diebold saw great potential in the modernization of elections equipment. Now, analysts say, executives may be angling for ways to dump its e-voting subsidiary that's widely seen as tarnishing the company's reputat
All-mail elections may have place in CA future
• Orange County RegisterCall Stephan Weir a vote-by-mail convert and he'll take it as a compliment. Weir, who has served as Contra County's chief elections officer for the past 17 years and is currently president of the California Association of Clerks and Election
Black Box Voting report on touch-screen machines and influence-peddling
• PolitechThe road to voting computers was paved with good intentions. No one knew that some of the programmers for voting computers would turn out to be convicted embezzlers. No one realized the main sponsor of the HAVA bill—Rep. Bob Ney—would en
Florida governor wants to dump touch-screen voting
• ReutersFlorida Gov. Charlie Crist said he would propose abandoning touch-screen voting machines adopted after the disputed 2000 presidential race and replacing them with devices that provide a paper record.
Diebold Voting Machine Security Key Duplicated From Photo at Company's Own Online Store!
• BradblogJ. Alex Halderman, who had tried to keep the design of the key a secret for obvious reasons, revealed that a friend found the photo of the key on Diebold's website and discovered it was all he needed to create a working copy!
Supreme Court passes on e-voting paper trail suit
• www.computerworld.comWexler argued that the 15 Florida counties that use touch-screen voting systems that lack the ability to create a paper voting receipt are violating the law. That's because without this paper receipt, voting officials can't conduct a recount
Lowell Finley of VoterAction.org appointed 'Deputy SoS for Voting Systems Technology and Policy*
• BradBlog.comMajor E-Voting Critic, Attorney Named to Key Voting Systems Oversight Role by New CA Secretary of State.
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