'Daily Voting News' For March 30, 2008

 

Last weekend a diverse group of members of the Election Integrity community met in Palo Alto, CA. One of the group’s jobs was to write a mission statement. This statement became known to them as the “Creekside Declaration” and was recently memorialized by Chicago Tribune Columnist Robert Koehler, a participant in the meeting, in his column (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-koehler/keep-the-republic_b_93726.html). The “Creekside Declaration” gives the mission of that small group, and I would argue all of us who work on elections integrity issues, as; “Mission: To encourage citizen ownership of transparent, participatory democracy.”

 

Back from New Orleans so today I will catch up on a few of the big stories that took place while I was gone and catch up with the latest.

 

Did you think that no one uses punch cards any longer? You were wrong. One of the last, Ada Co Idaho has decided to change over to optical-scan because their punch-card machines and tabulators are just getting too old.

 

NAtional: Keep the Republic

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-koehler/keep-the-republic_b_93726.html

 

NAtional: The Creekside Declaration...

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5846

 

NAtional: Justice Dept. Staff Cleared in Election Report Inquiry

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/29/AR2008032901762.html?hpid=topnews

 

NAtional: Whistleblower: Voting Machine Company Lied to Election Officials About Reliability of Machines

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/whistleblower-v.html#more

 

NAtional: Federal Fraud Complaint Against Voting Machine Company Unsealed

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5847

 

NAtional: Editorial - Fix census plan

http://www.goupstate.com/article/20080330/NEWS/803300303/1022/OPINION01

 

CA: California review of the ES&S AutoMARK and M100

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1269

 

ID: Ada County Drops Punch Cards

http://www.fox12news.com/Global/story.asp?S=8089725

 

KS: House approves voter ID/primary bill

http://www.kansas.com/news/legislature/story/355334.html

 

OH: The Mysterious Case of Ohio's Voting Machines

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/the-mysterious.html

 

PA: Fayette County - Fayette election officials consider how to record certain votes

http://www.heraldstandard.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19436677&BRD=2280&PAG=461&dept_id=480247&rfi=6

 

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