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Harvey Wasserman on New Ohio Voting Report: “The 2004 Election Was Stolen? Finally We Have Irrefutable Confirmation”

By Luther Weeks on December 17, 2007

Harvey Wasserman on Democracy Now! covers the gamut of issues in Ohio and the implications of the Ohio Report on top of reporting and research over the last several years. <listen> The Ohio Report adds to the overwhelming evidence from the Brennan Center for Justice, The Carter-Baker Commission, the Conyers Report, California Reports, and from […]

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Ohio Report: Eliminate Precinct Count Optical Scan

By Luther Weeks on December 14, 2007

Report recommends votes central count optical scan voting <read> Update: The Free Press discusses the report and we point out implications for Connecticut. Read after the following update. Update: Microsolve Executive Summary Report <read> To summarize, if you are concerned about the safety of your medical records or credit card information – the threat to […]

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LHS Drops Support For 41 Mass Communities

By Luther Weeks on December 12, 2007

Worcester Telegram: Election technology needs update, Vendor won’t service city’s current system <read> City Clerk David J. Rushford said LHS Associates of Methuen, the company that provides technical support for the cityâ€™s election system, has indicated it will cease providing such support for the generation of Accu-Vote System machines used by the city as of […]

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Diebold Attempts To Avoid Election Transparency Laws

By Luther Weeks on December 11, 2007

In a last-minute filing, e-voting equipment maker Diebold asked a North Carolina court to exempt it from tough new election requirements designed to ensure transparency in the state’s elections. Diebold obtained an extraordinarily broad order, allowing it to avoid placing its source code in escrow with the state and identifying programmers who contributed to the […]

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Stamford Times: Advantages of new voting machines uncertain

By Luther Weeks on December 7, 2007

Fortunato said it is too early to tell whether the new machines will save their owners money. Ballots for the optical scan machines cost 50 cents each but older model lever-action machines required costly maintenance. “I think maybe at the end of next year, after you have the primary in August and election in November, […]

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Audit 54% of the Vote?

By Luther Weeks on December 5, 2007

Last Monday, with less than 90 percent of the vote counted and the opposition leading by just 50.7 percent to 49.3 percent, President Chavez congratulated his opponents on their victory. They had defeated his proposed constitutional reforms, including the abolition of term limits for the presidency. … An extremely large random sample – about 54 […]

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Secretary of State Questions Electronic Voting

By Luther Weeks on December 3, 2007

Electronic voting systems …still aren’t good enough to be trusted with the state’s elections, … she admitted having doubts as to whether the electronic voting systems will ever meet the standards she believes are needed … “I don’t rule out the ingenuity of some computer science student now in the eighth grade,” but what’s available […]

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TalkNationRadio: Memory Card Junk Data and LHS Replacement – Integrity of Testing Procedures in Doubt

By Luther Weeks on December 2, 2007

UConn is charged with testing a random sample of memory cards sent to registrars to be used in the election. If the actual cards used are replacements sent by LHS after the random card is sent to UConn, then there is no guarantee that the cards tested by Dr. Shvartsman were the same as those […]

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Bysiewicz To Consider Elimination Of Manual Recounts

By Luther Weeks on December 1, 2007

Last year the Legislature passed PA 07-194 mandating audits of the optical scan machines. Last year, Secretary of the State, Susan Bysiewicz promised advocates that regulations would mandate that recounts be manual counts and did not need to be included in the law. Now with less than half the mandated audits complete, according to the […]

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Voting Machine Mess Can’t Just Be Fixed by Congressional Bills

By Luther Weeks on November 28, 2007

Excellent article by Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute.Â It is not just progressives that understand the problems with electronic voting. In addition to outlining some of the problems, Mr. Ornstein also articulates very well the business reasons why voting machines and ATM’s are different, not just in their function but in the market […]