Daily Voting News For May 21, 2008
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Is anything but a take-over by Hart Intercivic going to save Sequoia Voting Systems? The Sequoia president, Jack Blaine,
seems to have been caught, again, trying to deceive officials. This time he may have been less than truthful when
providing testimony and written responses to members of the Chicago Board of Elections and a concerned city alderman.
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NAtional: Exclusive: Voting Machine Company Chief Lied to Chicago Officials About Ownership, Control of Company LINK
National: Pedometers and Other Black Boxes LINK
Arkansas: Crawford County Electronic Voting Machines Caused Counting Delay LINK
Arkansas: Izard County - Miller to be new judge LINK
Arkansas: St Francis County - Ark. board sends vote monitors to St. Francis County LINK
California: Tehama County - Voting machines pass test LINK
Colorado: Jefferson County - Jeffco voters can opt for paper ballots
Decision means most in state can make that choice LINK
Florida: Sarasota County - Defending free elections
Sarasota group battling state over accuracy of electronic voting. LINK
Iowa: Black Hawk County - County OKs purchase of new voting machines LINK
Kansas: Editorial - Sebelius used veto pen wisely LINK
Kansas: Crawford County - County to get funding aid for election software LINK
North Carolina: Dare County - Frisco voting precinct error prompts protest LINK
Oklahoma: Good reasons to reject voter ID LINK
Tennessee: Instant Runoff Voting Could be in City’s Future LINK
West Virginia: Printers slow voting machines LINK
Netherlands - Netherlands says "nee" to electronic voting LINK
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John Gideon
Co-Executive Director
www.votersunite.org
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democracy." The Creekside Declaration March 22, 2008