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'Daily Voting News' For February 14 and 15, 2009
“Replacing trusted people with computers doesn't make the problem go away; it just moves it around and makes it even more complex. The computer, software, and network designers, implementers, coders, installers, maintainers, etc. are all trusted people. See any analysis of the security of electronic voting machines, or some of ...
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RNLA Issues Fact-Free Fund-Raising Letter Claiming 'Desperate' Franken is 'Stealing U.S. Senate Seat'
If the Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) ever had any actual legitimacy, self-respect, or credibility as a professional organization -- and I think they used to have all three -- they have now, officially, thrown any last pretense of any of that down the drain, and have come out of ...
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'Daily Voting News' For February 13, 2009
For all of you paraskevidekatriaphobiacs or triskaidekaphobiacs this may not have been a very good day. For all the rest, hope you had a Happy Friday the 13th. The chances of Norm Coleman taking back his lead over Al Franken in the Minnesota Senatorial race have taken a long ...
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BREAKING: Court Excludes 'Huge Number' of Ballots in MN's U.S. Senate Election Contest
[Updated several times at bottom of article.]
A late Friday finding from the 3-judge panel presiding over the Coleman/Franken U.S. Senate election contest in Minnesota has limited the number of previously rejected absentee ballots that may be reviewed for possible counting.
The 17-page order [PDF], issued late today, will likely come as ...
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Riverside County, CA, Refusing to Bill E-Voting Vendor for Cost of Manual Tally
With the entire state of California facing a massive budget crisis, and most, if not all, of its counties facing shortfalls this year, Riverside County's Registrar of Voters, Barbara Dunmore, is refusing to collect at least $160,000 from Sequoia Voting Systems for the cost of manually counting paper trails produced ...
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Conyers Subpoenas Rove For Third Time
U.S. House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) has subpoenaed Karl Rove today, yet again (the third time, for those keeping score at home), to give sworn, public testimony before the committee on February 23rd concerning the politicization of the U.S. Dept. of Justice during the Bush Administration.
Today's subpoena was sent ...
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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.
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years the...
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'Daily Voting News' For February 12, 2009
VoterID has been accepted by the Mississippi state House. No surprise for a ‘Red-State’. Meanwhile a House legislative committee in Minnesota has voted against a VoterID bill. Once that decision was made, the sponsor of the bill made accusations of voter fraud in the Senate race. He needs to ...
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'Senate Contest Shows Fraud,' Says MN Republican Legislator After His Photo ID Law Flops
Might we suggest these Republicans get their lies straight before going public?
From Republican State Representative Tom Emmer's press release today, on the defeat of his restrictive Photo ID voting bill in the MN legislature this morning:
"The U.S. Senate recount has given us evidence of twenty-five precincts in Minnesota where more ...
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Unfortunate Turn of Phrase of the Moment...
In a short item on Michael Steele -- the recently-elected, first African-American chair of the RNC -- and his requested resignation of all 100 members of the committee, in order to presumably rebuild it from scratch, rightwing blogger Matt Lewis' coverage at AOL, uses an unfortunate turn of phrase [emphasis ...
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VIDEO: Colbert's Probing Look at Glenn Beck
From last night's Colbert Report: "In the milky way of punditry, there are white dwarfs and there are flaming balls of gas...But tonight I'm proud to announce there's a new worm hole to a parallel world. Glenn Beck has a new show on Fox News and it is great!"
Colbert's probing ...
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'Daily Voting News' For February 11, 2009
"Pre-eminent computer scientists have come to a scientific consensus that the (e-voting) technology is a bad idea," elections attorney and member of the commission Paul Hultin said at a Colorado Election Reform Commission meeting on Tuesday. This statement was made while the commission recommended that the state get rid of ...
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Court Awards Votes to Franken in Coleman's U.S. Senate Election Contest in MN
While Norm Coleman may believe that "God wants [him] to serve," the voters of MN, and a ruling yesterday from the 3-judge panel presiding over his U.S. Senate election contest, still seem to indicate otherwise.
Yes, at it turns out, something actually happened during Coleman's ongoing trial yesterday, and it resulted ...
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Obama: 'The Lesson I Learned'
At Monday night's prime-time press conference (transcript) at the White House, President Obama was asked by NPR's Mara Liasson what he'd learned from his "experience with the stimulus" package, in regard to "future challenges" he will face, legislatively.
The key part of his answer: "I suppose what I could have done ...
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'Daily Voting News' For February 10, 2009
Scantegrity, a registered non-profit organization, has announced a collaborative effort with Takoma Park Maryland to hold a primary and general election on an open-source voting system with both conventional paper and cryptographic audit trails. I’m sure there will be a lot more on this later....
National: Thousands of Americans Abroad Got ...
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God Backs Norm Coleman, Says Norm Coleman
Speaking on wingnut radio Friday, MN's former Republican Senator Norm Coleman announced: "God wants me to serve."
No explanation was offered, however, for why God seems to have given more votes to his challenger, the apparent winner of the U.S. Senate race there, Democrat Al Franken.
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