Daily Voting News For March 25, 2009

Thursday, 26 March 2009, 2:11 pm
Column: John Gideon

Daily Voting News For March 25, 2009

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

In our ‘Featured’ article Greg Gordon of McClatchy News reports on a presentation given during an Election Assistance Commission hearing last month. The presentation was given by an ex-CIA official concerning the use of electronic voting machines in foreign elections and the concerns about the machines’ vulnerability to tampering. The official said at one point in his presentation, “"You heard the old adage 'follow the money’. I follow the vote. And wherever the vote becomes an electron and touches a computer, that's an opportunity for a malicious actor potentially to . . make bad things happen."...

Featured - National: Most electronic voting isn't secure, CIA expert says LINK

Alabama: Military voting report released LINK

Florida: Editorial - Elections bill a threat to transparent voting LINK

Kentucky: Clay County - Kentucky Fried Clickin' LINK

Kentucky: Clay County - Serious election fraud in Kentucky LINK

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Maine: Bill retools write-in candidate laws LINK

Minnesota: The Coleman-Franken recount: Can it be over soon? LINK

Minnesota: Coleman appeal could play constitutional wild card LINK

Minnesota: Coleman says election case shouldn’t end up in the Supreme Court LINK

Missouri: Options to make voting easier being considered LINK

New Jersey: Newark campaign worker is indicted on election-fraud charges LINK

New Jersey: Dutchess County - Red Hook poll site may not change until May LINK

Ohio: Cleveland State University research helps find problems in election machines LINK

Tennessee: Voter empowerment measures on calendar for House Sub-committee LINK

Tennessee: TN voter registration could require citizenship proof LINK

Tennessee: Voting Machine "Pants Down" Until 2012? LINK

Texas: Possibly faulty voting machines still used by Collin County (NOTE: This is the home of Premier/Diebold, McKinney Texas) LINK

West Virginia: Bill would sink touch-screen voting 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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