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
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
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John Gideon
Co-Executive Director
VotersUnite.Org
www.votersunite.org
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