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Unintended Consequences? Deliberate Voter Suppression?

By Luther Weeks on September 26, 2008

The Brennan Center and others are reporting that the Social Security Administration is shutting down its system for maintenance for three days, just when it is required for voter registration verification. <read> A recent alert by the Social Security Administration announces that the agency plans to shut down its databases for maintenance from October 11 […]

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The Perils of Dependent Investigation

By Luther Weeks on September 22, 2008

One of the prime objectives our Petition To Enhance Confidence In Connecticut Elections is “Requiring the Independent Audit Review Board”. Here is an example of the questions that can surround an investigation by an elections entity attempting to investigate itself, in Washington, D. C., from the Washington Post, Primary Vote Still Doesn’t Add Up: <read> […]

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Puma Arizona – Some Good News

By Luther Weeks on September 17, 2008

Things have not been looking good in Puma Arizona. But, some good news is that the Election Integrity Commission is acting to audit ballot security. This is what is supposed to happen with an independent board — when problems are found they are investigated and not ignored or explained away: <read> A Pima County Elections […]

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Election Observer Arrested – Taken Away In Handcuffs

By Luther Weeks on September 7, 2008

“The judge dismissed the case on motion of state’s evidence, because they hadn’t produced a prima faceia case,”

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Serious, Senseless, Nonsense in Palm Beach

By Luther Weeks on September 4, 2008

Update: As more details come out the story keeps changing. But the problem also gets larger. The latest is that 2500 ballots may actually be missing, the results of additional races in the same election may be questionable, and good old chain-of-custody issues may be more or as much as a problem as anything electronic […]

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RoundUp – Documented Failures & Real Risks

By Luther Weeks on August 31, 2008

Update: Another recent story: 1. Brad interviews Gov. Don Siegelman, former political prisoner and now a free man: Computers don’t steal elections – people steal them with computers: people don’t want to believe that elections are stolen in this country. They don’t want to believe that we go to war under false premises. And they […]

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Caught Between The Glitches and The Gotyas

By Luther Weeks on August 29, 2008

We have been covering a significant report by VotersUnite.org, Vendors are Undermining the Structure of U.S. Elections. , the report summarizes the bind Connecticut and other states are in: Violations of Federal Law Leave States in a Double Bind. The federal government fails to meet its HAVA deadlines for giving guidance to the states on […]

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Election Fraud In Bridgeport?

By Luther Weeks on August 15, 2008

Update 6 /17/2009: Head of CA GOP Voter Registration Firm Pleads Guilty to Voter Registration Fraud
Update: 10/07/2008: Election Enforcement Commission investigation opened
Update: Secretary Bysiewicz Responds

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WaPo: Fear Mongers (Scare Voters From Registering)

By Luther Weeks on August 5, 2008

(Without editorial comment, see Editor’s Note) WaPo Editorial, Fear Mongers, Virginia’s GOP tries to scare new voters away from the polls: <read> Republicans are increasingly anxious about retaining their hold on a state that GOP presidential candidates have carried since 1968. What is surprising is their utterly baseless charge of “coordinated and widespread voter fraud […]

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Partisan Consultant Behind The Congressional Firewall

By Luther Weeks on July 30, 2008

Should partisan consultants be totaling our elections? Be provided access behind our firewalls? Managing data for congressional committees? Especially committees involved in voting technology? Bob Fitrakis, The Free Press: Behind the firewall: Bush loyalist Mike Connell controls Congressional secrets as his email sites serve Karl Rove <read> One has to wonder about the implications of […]

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