Daily Voting News For March 30, 2008
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Last weekend a diverse group of members of the Election Integrity community met in Palo Alto, CA. One of the group’s
jobs was to write a mission statement. This statement became known to them as the “Creekside Declaration” and was
recently memorialized by Chicago Tribune Columnist Robert Koehler, a participant in the meeting, in his column. The “Creekside Declaration” gives the mission of that small group, and I would argue all of us who work on elections
integrity issues, as; “Mission: To encourage citizen ownership of transparent, participatory democracy.”
Back from New Orleans so today I will catch up on a few of the big stories that took place while I was gone and catch
up with the latest.
Did you think that no one uses punch cards any longer? You were wrong. One of the last, Ada Co Idaho has decided to
change over to optical-scan because their punch-card machines and tabulators are just getting too old....
NAtional: Keep the Republic LINK
National: The Creekside Declaration... LINK
National: Justice Dept. Staff Cleared in Election Report Inquiry LINK
National: Whistleblower: Voting Machine Company Lied to Election Officials About Reliability of Machines LINK
National: Federal Fraud Complaint Against Voting Machine Company Unsealed LINK
National: Editorial - Fix census plan LINK
California: California review of the ES AutoMARK and M100 LINK
Idaho: Ada County Drops Punch Cards LINK
Kansas: House approves voter ID/primary bill LINK
Ohio: The Mysterious Case of Ohio's Voting Machines LINK
Pennsylvania: Fayette County - Fayette election officials consider how to record certain votes LINK
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John Gideon Co-Director and Information Manager VotersUnite.Org http://www.votersunite.org