Daily Voting News For August 25, 2008
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Today’s featured article is a warning from Greg Gordon of McClatchy News in which he points to the fact that the recent
disclosure of flawed software in Premier/Diebold machines points directly to a system of testing and certifying voting
systems that was broken. Gordon points out, “NASED watched over the issuance of "qualified" reports from Independent
Testing Laboratories, but with little control over the testing. The vendors secretly negotiated payments with the labs,
helped design the tests, got to see the results first and only shared the codes driving their software with three NASED
technical experts who signed non-disclosure agreements.”
All it took was a disclosure by Premier/Diebold that all of their voting systems of the past ten years have potentially
lost votes and the media has woken up to the issue. Of course, some election officials are just too wedded to their
vendors. Officials in South Carolina and West Virginia proudly proclaim that while states around them are doing the
right thing by changing from DRE voting to paper based systems they are going to stand firm behind their paperless
voting systems, ignoring the facts in doing so. ...
Featured - National: Warning on voting machines reveals oversight failure LINK
National: Opinion - Casting doubt on a voting plan LINK
National: How Design Can Save Democracy LINK
National: Diebold Admits Their Tabulator Software Doesn't Count Votes Correctly LINK
National: Uncounted: Documentary Explores U.S. Election Fraud LINK
National: No chad, but questions still hang over voting LINK
National: Voting Machines Can Never Be Trusted Says GOP Computer Security Expert LINK
National: Commentary: How Electronic Voting Could Be Secure and Why It Isn't Good Now. LINK
National: MSM comes out against computerized voting, finally LINK
National: Diebold/Premier 'fesses lost OH votes LINK
National: From Black Box Voting: You can help safeguard our elections LINK
National: Troops may lead in online voting LINK
National: Election experts warn of November storm LINK
Alaska: Division of Elections Clarifies Absentee Voting Instructions Error LINK
Colorado: El Paso County - Few glitches during primary elections, review reveals LINK
Connecticut: A win for state veterans and voting LINK
Florida: A hefty trail of paper: 90 tons of ballots piling up in Palm Beach County alone LINK
Florida: Pasco County - First and foremost: Will the optical scan machines work? LINK
Illinois: DuPage County confident of no past election problems
Equipment vendor acknowledged software glitch in Ohio votes LINK
New York: Proposed Mitigation for GEMS (and other EMS) Vote Deletion LINK
New York: Monroe County seeks election inspectors LINK
Ohio: Look for big voter turnout in November LINK
Ohio: Editorial - Hold Company Accountable LINK
Ohio: PERSPECTIVE: Spat over Ohio voting law about politics LINK
Ohio: Ohio elections officials preparing for 80% turnout in November LINK
South Carolina: State bucks trend, keeps voting machines
SC election officials have faith in systems LINK
Tennessee: Touch screens on way out in TN
Optical-scanning voting machines to be in use by 2010 LINK
Pennsylvania: Guest column: Voter ID laws are a national catastrophe LINK
Pennsylvania: Westmoreland County - Elections inspector gets role in documentary LINK
West Virginia: W.Va. counties sticking with touch-screen voting, despite troubles elsewhere LINK
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John Gideon
Co-Executive Director
VotersUnite.Org
www.votersunite.org
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