'Daily Voting News' For March 05, 2009

 

A Premier Election Solutions spokesman, Chris Riggall, has finally spoken about the California Secretary of State’s report on the discovery of violations of the accuracy standards required by federal law and violations of the voting systems standards. In our featured article Riggall shrugs off their violations by minimizing the report. ”I think it's fair, from our perspective, to say that the report editorializes in a number of ways that don't reflect the sort of even-handedness that one would like to see,” Riggall said, adding that he sees the software error simply as a “contributing factor” to Humboldt County's inaccurate election results. “To say it caused it and to solely attribute that discrepancy to the software is, in our judgment, not accurate and not objective.”  I say balderdash. Diebold knew they had a problem back in 2004 and they issued “work arounds”. If they had a problem and knew it why did they not recall the software and provide good software in its place? Why did they not provide warnings and instructions in their operator’s manual? Why did they only send an email with a two paragraph attachment that didn’t even have the company’s logo on it? What did/does the company have to hide? How many elections nationally were affected before Diebold discovered the problem? How many elections were affected after Diebold sent their unofficial “work around”?

 

CA: Humboldt County - SOS report: Numerous 'deficiencies' in elections software

http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_11841759

 

CA: California finds e-voting software had errors, data deletion functions

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Standards+and+Legal+Issues&articleId=9128985&taxonomyId=146&pageNumber=1

 

CA: Report: Premier/Diebold Voting Machines Deleted Ballots

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/jonathanwerve/2009/03/report-premierdiebold-voting-m.php

 

CO: Editorial - Modern times, modern ballots

This is the 21st century. The Election Reform Commission is wrong to move Colorado back to all-paper ballots by 2014.

http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_11837899

 

CO: Rep. Coffman first to face Colo. ethics panel

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=AP&date=20090305&id=9671676

 

GA: Voters would have to prove citizenship

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/03/05/met_513539.shtml

 

IL: Chicago board wants mail-in special elections

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-specialelectioncos,0,6719490.story

 

MN: Franken asks judges to toss Minn. Senate lawsuit

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/05/frankenmotion/

 

MN: Franken's team to ask judges to partially dismiss Coleman's case

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/03/frankens_team_t.php

 

MN: Senate recount trial: Mistakes were isolated, Franken team contends

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/40732432.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aU2EkP7K_t:aDyaEP:kD:aUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

 

MN: Franken asks court to throw out Coleman's case in U.S. Senate election trial

http://www.twincities.com/ci_11843079

 

MN: Franken Moves To Throw Out Coleman's Lawsuit Or At Least Some Of It

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/03/franken-moves-to-throw-out-colemans-lawsuitor-at-least-some-of-it.php

 

MN: Franken asks judges to throw out Coleman suit

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/40783667.html?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhUec7PaP3E77K_0c::D3aDhUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

 

MN: Poll: Voters think Franken won

http://minnesotaindependent.com/28254/minnesota-poll-voters-think-franken-won

 

MS: Fillingane hopes for Voter ID ballot initiative

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20090305/NEWS01/903050342

 

MS: Opinion - Voter ID: Supporters missed opportunity

http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20090305/OPINION01/903050316/1008/OPINION

 

NY: NY Still Lagging In Voting Machine Upgrades

http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/politics/94972/ny-still-lagging-in-voting-machine-upgrades/Default.aspx

 

NY: Schuyler County - Schuyler vote machine conversion costs more

Officials say new machines need up to $100,000 in software

http://www.stargazette.com/article/20090305/NEWS01/903050313

 

SC: Opinion - Photo ID bill unnecessary

http://www.heraldonline.com/opinions/story/1175612.html

 

TX: Senator wants feds to intervene in Voter ID debate

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6294115.html

 

TX: Opinion - Suppressing Your Vote in Texas

http://www.newspapertree.com/opinion/3527-suppressing-your-vote-in-texas

 

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