Election Integrity News
Maryland Attorney General Gansler Announces $8.5 Million Claim Against Voting System Manufacturer
State Seeks to Recover Costs Incurred to Provide Voters an Accurate, Reliable, and Secure SystemAttorney General Douglas F. Gansler today...
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Minnesota: A Recount to Count On
This editorial appeared in the Pioneer Press (http://www.twincities.com/opinion/ci_11277905?nclick_check=1) and is reposted with permission.As nonpartisan election integrity advocates with front-row seats...
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Pennsylvania State Supreme Court Allows Voting Rights Case to Proceed
State?s Highest Court Denies Pennsylvania Secretary of State
Permission to Appeal Lower Court Ruling in Voters? Favor
Case Challenging the Use of...
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New Jersey: A Vote for Optical Scan
This editorial appeared in The Times of Trenton (http://www.nj.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-0/122934154096780.xml&coll=5).Today, the state Legislature is expected to consider a bill to remove...
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Statement of U.S. Representative Rush Holt To the New Jersey Senate State Government Committee
Chairman Scutari, Vice Chair Weinberg, and honorable Members of the New Jersey Senate State Government Committee, thank you for giving...
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Statement of U.S. Representative Rush Holt To the New Jersey Senate State Government Committee
Chairman Scutari, Vice Chair Weinberg, and honorable Members of the New Jersey Senate State Government Committee, thank you for giving...
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Discerning Voter Intent in the Minnesota Recount
This article was posted...
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Why Minnesota's Recount Process is a Model for the Country
With a celebrity candidate and record-setting expenditures the race to represent Minnesota in the US Senate captured the nation?s attention...
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New Jersey Poised to Reverse Verifiable Elections Law
Voters to be Let Down Again Legislation introduced today in the New Jersey Assembly threatens to undo a commitment to...
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U.S. Elections -- It Takes a Village
This article was posted to Wired.com's Threat Level Blog (http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/11/democracys-volu.html) and is reposted here with permission of the author.
For
years the...
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'Daily Voting News' For January 4 and 5, 2009
“There can be little doubt that, of the issues springing from elections held since President Bush signed the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), two are among the most significant. Those issues are failures of voting systems to be accessible and accurate and the confusion over the proper use ...
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Franken Declared 'Winner', But Final Certification Will Likely (and Appropriately) be Delayed
-- Brad Friedman, The BRAD BLOG
The state canvassing board in Minnesota has now certified Al Franken (D) as the winner over incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman (R) in the race for the U.S. Senate. Barring a successful legal challenge by Coleman, Franken will have won the seat by an astoundingly close ...
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U.S. Election Assistance Commission Further Delays Federal Mandates
Guest Blogged by John Gideon and Ellen Theisen, VotersUnite.Org
There can be little doubt that, of the issues springing from elections held since George W. Bush signed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002, two are among the most significant. Those issues are failures of voting systems to meet the ...
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POLL: Will Reid Stick to Guns on IL Senate Nom?
Majority leader Sen. Harry Reid and the rest of the Senate Democrats have long said they'd refuse to seat anybody that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich appointed to fill Obama's seat.
But as of yesterday's Meet the Press, Reid stated that "he's always ready to negotiate."
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'Daily Voting News' For January 02 and 03, 2009
I guess the best I can say about today’s DVN is that it is a little bit of this and a little bit of that....
National: Opinion - Blackwell: Obama justice
Race, judges and future elections http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/31/obama-justice/
National: IRV: A Grain Of Truth, A Ton Of Bulloney http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=1435
IN: Grant County - County looks ...
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'Daily Voting News' For December 30, 2008 to January 1, 2009
We would like pass on our hopes that you have a wonderfully successful year in 2009. There will be struggles and there is certainly a lot of work to do including with elections. VotersUnite.Org will spend this year doing all we can to decrease vendor control over elections and hold ...
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Here's to You & 2009...
As we near our fifth(!) anniversary (1/24) at The BRAD BLOG,
We thank you, and wish you all a very Happy New Year,
And pray that 2009 brings the dawn of a much brighter day...
-- Brad --
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Anderson & Kathy on CNN: Funniest New Years Eve Show Ever!
Seriously. It's hysterical. If you happen to catch this in time to turn it on, do. Kathy Griffin is hysterical. (And psst...I voted right after her in line on November 4th, and she asked me how she should vote. I'm sure she disregarded my suggestions.)
Nice to see CNN with ...
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Tom Tomorrow's 2008 Year in Review: Part Two...
Part One was here. Part Two follows...
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The BRAD BLOG Named as 'Finalist' for 2008 Weblog Award
As The BRAD BLOG hobbles wrist-wrecked and flu-fallen towards the finish line of a particularly harrowing and exhausting year, we're heartened by a very nice distinction, being named as Finalist in the 2008 Weblog Awards.
We hadn't even realized we were in the running, until the list of nominees was announced ...
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10,000 Election Simulation proves effectiveness of UBS ballot count validation system. 
