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Daily Voting News For June 2, 2008

Published: Tue 3 Jun 2008 06:16 PM
Daily Voting News For June 2, 2008
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
I’m back after a much needed rest and with a freezer re-stocked with fish. Today, in catch-up mode, I am running some of what I think are important items from the last week. In two cases these items come from VotersUnite. One is a recount of public hearings here in Washington state with regards to an upgraded voting system to count the “Ranked Choice Voting” ballots in one county’s upcoming primary and general elections. We were very pleased with the openness and willingness of state and local election officials to work with us and listen to our concerns, and then to act on those concerns. I would also like to give a plug to a book review done by my associate, Ellen Theisen, for a book called “Cassandra, Chanting”. The book is an excellent piece of fiction and I recommend it to anyone who has any interest in elections and electronic ballots. The author is “Anonymous” but they are part of the NIST team so their concerns should be all of our concerns. This fiction could easily be fact and we may never know it. Also please note the call for help from Arizona. Activists there have a ton of data given to them by the courts but they need technical help wading through it....
NAtional: Cassandra, Chanting: Fiction or Non-Fiction? LINK
Arkansas: Failure of ES Touch-Screen Voting System 'Should Not Have Been Possible,' Says Arkansas Official Where Election Outcome Was Reversed LINK
Arizona: Database Geek Wanted: Programmer Needed to Help Pima County, AZ, Election Advocates Sort Through Largest Stash of Diebold Data Ever! LINK
California: Los Angeles County - What’s the matter with Los Angeles When It Comes to Elections? LINK
Florida: Activists Target Internet Voting LINK
Florida: Miami Dade County - Activists Fear Problems With New Election Machines
700 Tests Planned For New Machines In Miami Dade LINK
New Jersey: Editorial - Prudent jurist LINK
New Jersey: Ocean County - Official tells about voting glitch LINK
New Jersey: Union County - Missing name casts shadow on vote
Counties to be alerted about possible glitches in machines' software LINK
New Mexico: Audit questions election spending LINK
Washington: Up the Rabbit Hole: A Day of Transparent, Participatory Democracy in Washington State LINK
**"Daily Voting News" is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in "Daily Voting News" may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or Scoop.**
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John Gideon
Co-Executive Director
VotersUnite.Org
www.votersunite.org
"To encourage citizen ownership of transparent, participatory
democracy." The Creekside Declaration March 22, 2008

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