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WA State Seeks to Use Military and Overseas Voters as Internet Voting Guinea Pigs
Guest Blogged by Ellen Theisen of VotersUnite.org
Even though reports from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), and dozens of computer security experts who strongly and unanimously warn of insurmountable threats to the privacy and security of ballots cast over the Internet, the ...
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Fox 'News' 'Report' on Stimulus, Replicated from GOP Press Release, Typos and All
Via Media Matters...During Fox "News'" Happening Now show this morning, host Jon Scott claimed "the Senate is expected to pass the $838 billion stimulus plan -- its version of it, anyway. We thought we'd take a look back at the bill, how it was born, and how it grew, and ...
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'Daily Voting News' For February 09, 2009
Premier/Diebold has filed a lawsuit against SysTest Labs. The voting machine vendor claims that SysTest’s loss of EAC accreditation in the middle of testing on the newest Premier voting system has wreaked havoc on Premier’s business. This should be an interesting suit. “Even though reports from the National Institute ...
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EXCLUSIVE: The New Voter Fraud Complaint Filed in CT Against the GOP's Ann Coulter
An official state investigation is now underway into multiple voter fraud charges against Rightwing author and one-time attorney Ann Coulter in Connecticut. The investigation began after a complaint was filed with the state's Elections Enforcement Commission on January 29, 2009.
The BRAD BLOG has exclusively obtained a copy of that one-page ...
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Mississippi Republicans Push For Disenfranchising Polling Place Photo ID Restrictions
Guest Blogged by Steve Heller of VelvetRevolution.us
The Mississippi State Senate has made an unusual move; they've pulled legislation that they passed on January 15 requiring that voters show a photo ID before being allowed to vote, stripped all amendments out of it, and passed the new legislation.
The previous version had ...
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'Daily Voting News' For February 07 and 08, 2009
Not much in the news this weekend. Of course more from Minnesota and the Senate recount/court case. That will be going on for awhile more I’m afraid. ...
National: Following Up with Steve Heller, formerly known as the "Diebold Whistle-blower" http://www.opednews.com/articles/Following-Up-with-Steve-He-by-Joan-Brunwasser-090207-338.html
CA: Orange County - D.A. considers 211 cases of possible voter ...
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VIDEO: Geraldo's Sextuplet Mayhem!
We'll call it the Sunday Funnies. Geraldo did a segment on his Fox "News" Saturday freak show, in response to the California "Octo-Momma Drama", featuring an interview with a Florida family who recently had sextuplets. The attempted interview just gets funnier and funnier as it goes along, and as the ...
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If He's Even Lost 'Prickly City'...
And Gallup has still more difficult news for old Rush...
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'Daily Voting News' For February 06, 2009
“…he didn't see anything wrong with asking to work for Premier Elections Solutions, despite still managing a public office that owed the company $2.2 million.” So claimed Buddy Johnson the former Supervisor of Elections of Hillsborough Co. Florida and often mentioned in this space. Also being reported, “Johnson spent about ...
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Feeney Catches a Break: Appellate Court Limits Allowable Evidence in Federal Investigation
From Washington Post:
A federal appeals court has dealt a blow to the investigation of a former congressman in a ruling that could also limit probes of other lawmakers, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
The order, which has not been made public, came during the grand jury investigation of ...
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Help Save 18,000 Marriages in California
Last December, following the passage of Prop 8 in California, Ken Starr (yes, that Ken Starr) filed a legal brief with the CA Supreme Court, on behalf of the so-called "Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund", seeking to nullify the legal marriages of 18,000 same-sex couples in the state.
Arguments will be ...
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'The Ballot Universe': Where We Are as Week 2 Ends at the U.S. Senate Election Contest in MN
To quote myself from coverage earlier this week, in case you hadn't read it all the way to the end: "Had Democrats ever fought as hard for every single vote as Republicans always do in any election that even approximates being close, President Gore or President Kerry would likely have ...
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'Daily Voting News' For February 05, 2009
Today’s news finds articles from Minnesota where the recount trial continues on. Now the justices are trying to decide whether they can allow Franken to take the Senate seat on an interim basis. It looks like there will be no final decision this week or maybe even this month. ...
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$13 Million Settlement for Victims of L.A.'s 2007 'May Day Melee'
It was nearly two years ago that the L.A. Police Department, in full riot regalia, fired rubber bullets and tear gas on an otherwise peaceful May Day immigration rally in MacArthur Park. We covered the stunning "May Day Melee" fairly extensively, as it was breaking here at the time. The ...
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Super Tuesday a Year Ago? Really?
First Read reminds us that Super Tuesday was one year ago today. That's amazing.
Our first thought: it seems like just days ago. Our second thought: it seems like years ago. Third thought: both.
We'll just have to chalk it up to either a paradoxical warp in the Time Space Continuum, or ...
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'Daily Voting News' For February 04, 2009
The long expected auditor’s report on Hillsborough Co Florida is out and, as we suspected, former supervisor of elections Buddy Johnson has some explaining to do. The auditors found that he overspent his budget by close to a million dollars and he misused some funds. Is their an indictment in ...
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Judge Rules Against Saving Ballots from Contested Pima County, AZ, Election
Guest Blogged by David Safier of Blog for Arizona
If a judge’s ruling in Pima County, Arizona, stands, ballots from the long-contested 2006 Regional Transit Authority (RTA) election will be destroyed, and there will never be a definitive answer as to whether or not the election may have been rigged, as ...
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VIDEO: Brad on Our Broken Electoral System on 'The Gregory Mantell Show'...
Not long after last November's general election, I was invited back to appear on The Gregory Mantell Show to discuss issues of Election Integrity. This time it was just myself and Gregory, on everything from touch-screens that don't work to tabulator hacks to Oprah Winfrey's lost Presidential vote. (The video ...
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'Daily Voting News' For February 03, 2009
The recount trial is still ongoing in Minnesota. It’s hard to tell whether there will really be any changes or if this is all just a waste of time and tax money. Time will tell, I guess....
National: EVT/WOTE '09 Call for Papers
2009 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/
Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE ...
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Filibuster Math: Dems Should Not Seat Gregg's Replacement (Until Franken is Seated First)
Presuming President Obama's nomination of NH's Republican Sen. Judd Gregg as Commerce Secretary will be confirmed by his fellow Senators, and presuming the Democratic Governor of NH keeps his backroom "deal" and appoints a Republican to fill Gregg's vacated seat, then Democrats in the Senate ought to take advantage of ...
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