Daily Voting News For January 13, 2008
Daily Voting News For January 13, 2008
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
I have editorialized quite a bit lately about the "mash-up" in Colorado. Secretary of State Coffman has made a mess of a
court ordered recertification of voting machines. The state hired consultants and test labs to test the machines. The
results from those tests were that none of the systems used in the state met state requirements for voting systems.
Coffman then decertified every system except the Premier/Diebold system and immediately people pointed out that the
lobbyist for the vendor is also Coffman's advisor for his planned run for Congress. Then Coffman began to "flip-flop" as
he began telling counties to retest the machines themselves or just to appeal his decision and he would change his mind.
Then, this past week, the state legislature, including the Senate Majority Leader Ken Gordon, began talk of new
legislation that would make it easier for the state to certify their voting systems. Essentially the legislature wants
to protect Coffman from any further lawsuits about voting machine certification. Ken Gordon, by the way, ran against
Coffman for Secretary of State in 2006. It is truly unbelievable that these politicians are cutting corners with
elections. They don't seem to care if the voters use secure, accurate, accessible voting machines. They do seem to want
to protect themselves from voter's lawsuits. I would argue that the voters should stand and vote these bums out of
office but it's hard to do when the voting system is corrupt....
CO: Columnist - Greenlee: Not every vote should be counted LINK
Colorado: Editorial - Priority No. 1: retest voting machines LINK
Colorado: Opinion - Hand-counting of election ballots is the tried-and-true method LINK
Florida: Paperless voting machines get last try LINK
Illinois: Hancock County - Illinois County Asks for Federal Investigation of ES Pushback as Strongarm Voting Machine Company Up to Same Old Tricks in Land of Lincoln... LINK
New Hampshire: Doth The Courant Protest Too Much? LINK
New Hampshire: Diebold Voting Machine 'Glitches' Reported in Stratham, NH Failure Caused Officials to Hand Count
Ballots, While Questions Remain About Details of the Problems LINK
New Hampshire: Diebold Voting Machine Failures Found Across State During New Hampshire Primary Election Officials
Confrim that Employees from LHS Associates, Diebold's Sole Programmer, Vendor, and Service Provider in NH, Were Allowed
to Access Vulnerable Optical-Scan Systems Throughout Election Day LINK
New York: Costly stopgap looms in voting-machine changeover LINK
Ohio: Opinion - Don't Scrap Voting Machines in Ohio LINK
Ohio: Voting centers seem like a good idea but could be a problem LINK
Ohio: Cuyahoga County - Cuyahoga elections director Platten racing toward March primary LINK
Ohio: Hamilton County - New ideas may test voters LINK
Ohio: Lucas County - Editorial - Making votes count LINK
Ohio: Tuscarawas County - Electronic vs. paper: Choice of ballots will cost county money LINK
Pennsylvania: Northampton County - County weighs voting options Five companies vying to supply county with electronic
machines. LINK
South Carolina: South Carolina officials see no problems with touch-screen voting machines LINK
Tennessee: Sevier County - Chancellor denies injunction LINK
Washington: Reckless Plan: There is No Plan 'B' LINK
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John Gideon
Executive Director www.votersunite.org