WaPo: Fear Mongers (Scare Voters From Registering)

(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 […]

[read post] | By on August 5, 2008 - National, Other Editorials, Skulduggery and Errors

EVT ’08 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop

Last week I attended EVT ’08, 2008 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workship, in San Jose. <program and papers> It was pleasing to see a UConn paper on memory card testing accepted and presented. Their work has been previously covered here. Over the next few days I will cover a couple of the other papers presented. […]

[read post] | By on August 4, 2008 - Chain of Custody, Electronic Vulnerability, National, Post-Election Audits

Times: Feinstein Bill is Bad – First, do no harm!

Update: Senator Feinstein replies to The Times with letter to the editor – that is, with excuses to counter the substance of objections to the bill <read> Another right on editorial from the New York Times, A Bad Electronic Voting Bill <read> Some have faith in the “‘hearings” held last week, that were packed with […]

[read post] | By on August 3, 2008 - Electronic Vulnerability, National, Other Editorials

Connecticut Fails Lastest Holt Standard

Hats off again to Representative Rush Holt. Once again he offers emergency legislation to protect our vote. Even this streamlined bill is unlikely to pass. We admire Representative Holt for not giving up. We encourage him to persevere until we have election integrity. Meanwhile Senator Feinstein supports a phony, star-wars expensive, delaying plan. Here in […]

[read post] | By on August 2, 2008 - Chain of Custody, CT, CT Law, National, Post-Election Audits

Lou Dobbs Gets It – Deseret News Does Not

We don’t always agree with Lou Dobbs, but he has nailed it on electronic voting and the Feinstein/Bennett bill. Amazingly the Senator goes against her state and also claims she really cannot do anything but this “compromise” bill. She could do nothing, it would be much much better than this bill. Video: <watch> Meanwhile in […]

[read post] | By on August 1, 2008 - Electronic Vulnerability, National, Other Editorials

The Times, they are a Learning

A new editorial on the New York Times lays out the case for election integrity and credibility in: A Tale of Three (Electronic Voting) Elections <read> Electronic voting has made great strides in reliability, but it has a long way to go. When reformers push for greater safeguards, they often argue that future elections could […]

[read post] | By on July 31, 2008 - Electronic Vulnerability, National, Other Editorials, Post-Election Audits

Partisan Consultant Behind The Congressional Firewall

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 […]

[read post] | By on July 30, 2008 - National, Skulduggery and Errors

Feinstein to Voters: Waste $, jeopardize Democracy.

Update: Take Action: E-Mail our Senators to oppose S. 3212 <read and send> This is especially important because Senator Dodd is on the committee and the hearing is this week! The well intentioned but flawed 2002 Help America Vote Act launched the large scale move to electronic voting. Many states have paperless DREs (Touch Screens), […]

[read post] | By on July 27, 2008 - Costs, Electronic Vulnerability, National, Post-Election Audits

Audio: Voice Of The Voters – Connecticut Update

Update: Audio is now available of the Nutmeg State update on Voice of the Voters. The Connecticut segment is about 2/3 of the way through just after the weekly update by John Gideon <Audio> We look forward to more state updates over the coming weeks. So far, Connecticut is the best of the litter. but […]

[read post] | By on July 24, 2008 - CT, National

Witness To A Crime

I have just completed reading Witness To A Crime, by Richard Hayes Phillips. The result of three years of persistent, detailed investigation of the 2004 election in Ohio. This book proves several times over that the election was stolen. From the book: “it is unlikely that 14 voters in one precinct in inner-city Cleveland were […]

[read post] | By on July 24, 2008 - National, Skulduggery and Errors