'Daily Voting News' For August 18, 2008

 

The Executive Summary of a new report from VotersUnite.Org, and our Featured article, begins: “As we approach the 2008 general election, the structure of elections in the United States — once reliant on local representatives accountable to the public — has become almost wholly dependent on large corporations, which are not accountable to the public. Most local officials charged with running elections are now unable to administer elections without the equipment, services, and trade-secret software of a small number of corporations. &&& If the vendors withdrew their support for elections now, our election structure would collapse.&&& However, some states and localities are recognizing the threat that vendor-dependency poses to elections. They are using ingenuity and determination to begin reversing the direction.”

 

Featured - National: Vendors are Undermining the Structure of U.S. Elections

http://www.votersunite.org/info/reclaimelectionssumm.asp

 

National: Election Integrity – How We Lost It and How States are Getting It Back

http://www.progressivestates.org/content/886/election-integrity-how-we-lost-it-and-how-states-are-getting-it-back

 

National: November's Spectre Rising...

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6283

 

National: Planning to E-Vote? Read This First

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=electronic-election-day

 

National: States Still Struggling With Voting Machines

http://www.propublica.org/article/states-still-struggling-with-voting-machines-818/

 

National: States Abandoning Touchscreen Voting Equipment

http://uspolitics.about.com/b/2008/08/18/states-abandoning-touchscreen-voting-equipment.htm

 

National: Banish: Lever Machines, DREs & Opticscans-Support Ballots as Objects

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Banish-Lever-Machines-DR-by-Phyllis-Huster-080817-749.html

 

NY: New York’s Backdoor To The Ballot Box

http://e-voter.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-yorks-back-door-to-ballot-box.html

 

OH: Ohio Election Officials Whistle Past the Graveyard of 2004

http://thejournal.epluribusmedia.net/index.php/state-news/ohio-news/147-ohio-election-officials-prepare-for-success-in-2008-by-whistling-past-the-graveyard-of-2004-election

 

PA: Luzerne County - Report praises Luzerne for voting-machine finesse

http://www.standardspeaker.com/articles/2008/08/18/news/hz_standspeak.20080818.a.pg5.hz18_cvelection_s1.1885236_loc.txt

 

WI: Election to test statewide registration databases

Records critical to ballot casting

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080818/GPG0101/808180512/1207/GPG01

 

**Articles and commentary included in “Daily Voting News” may not all reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or its allied organizations. The articles are all included for the information of the subscribers of “Daily Voting News” though we realize that the subscribers may not agree with the opinions given in all articles or in the commentary**

*******************************************************************
If you receive Daily Voting News directly from John Gideon and VotersUnite and wish to unsubscribe, please send an email to jgideon@votersunite.org requesting that you be removed from circulation. If you get the email forwarded from someone else you must contact them to be unsubscribed.
*******************************************************************