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Insider Fraud In Kentucky

By Luther Weeks on February 22, 2010

The scheme involved duping people to walk away from the voting computer before they had finished their elections, then changing their choices…White said she also went into the booth with people who had sold their vote to make sure they cast ballots for the candidates who had paid.

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ES&S Diebold Purchase: Groups Endorse Remedies for Unlawful Concentration of Market Power

By Luther Weeks on February 17, 2010

We are deeply concerned about the public impact of ES&S’s purchase of Diebold’s Premier Election Solutions, Inc… Fortunately, the Federal Government has expedited its research into purchaser ES&S’s accelerated absorption of PESI assets into ES&S and the business goliath’s concerted attempt to achieve a de facto dissolution of PESI before the DOJ can act.

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Integrity and Credibility in Massachusetts

By Luther Weeks on January 18, 2010

Perhaps the election will be close, less than 0.5% with a very careful recount or a runaway for one side or the other. But otherwise the 1st casualty will be credibility. No matter who wins there are likely to be unsatisfactorily answered questions.

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CT IRONY #4: Machine Errors Result In Recounting By Machine

By Luther Weeks on December 27, 2009

What happens when an post-election audit discovers a large discrepancy in a race that could reverse the election result? A recanvass, defined as a modified optical scanner recount. Possibly some machine problems might be mitigated by such a recanvass, yet if there were an error in memory card programming or an error in the software it is quite likely the same discrepancy would be repeated.

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TIME: Galbraith: How the Afghan Election Was Rigged

By Luther Weeks on October 12, 2009

“Once fraud occurs on the scale of what took place in Afghanistan, it is impossible to untangle.”

We are lucky to hear from Mr. Gailbrath. Had he not been fired, he might have continued to keep quiet

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Verified Voting Statement on the Acquisition of Premier Election Solutions

By Luther Weeks on October 8, 2009

“it raises greater concerns about the security, transparency and cost of elections and creates a profound anti-competitive effect in the shrinking marketplace for voting systems…We can also expect to see substantial increase in vendor control over key contract provisions.”

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Diebold/ES&S: AntiTrust Investigation and Suit

By Luther Weeks on September 15, 2009

Senator Schumer requests investigation. Hart files suit.

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Songs Of Voting

By Luther Weeks on September 9, 2009

Plaudits For Audits, The Voting Machine Song, and They Lost My Vote.

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Largest Democracy Risks It All On Electronic Voting

By Luther Weeks on August 8, 2009

” In the absence of such certainty, the entire democratic process would be rendered a mockery. It is to ensure that democracy in its true sense is brought back that AIADMK decided to boycott the by-polls.’’

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Video: The Costs of Op-scan vs. DRE’s

By Luther Weeks on August 4, 2009

In Tennessee they are fighting for optical scan in the Legislature.  Election officials claim that the costs of  paper ballots, audits, and optical scanners is too much.  We hear similar complaints about the costs of paper ballots and audits in Connecticut as well. We recommend watching the video of a legislator as he explains reality […]

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