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• Federal Judges Halt Use of ES&S Touch-Screen Voting Systems in Dallas

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  Straight-party ticket voters have long been getting screwed by touch-screen voting systems, whether they knew it or not, in election after election, as the systems have failed in various ways in states around the country for years. But, for a modicum of good news on that front, finally, last week a panel of federal ...
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• Will We See Redistricting Reforms In 2010?

  
  Progress Illinois - — Authority: 572
  If there is one thing that the Illinois Senate legislativeredistricting committee has exposed since initiating public hearingslast July, its the undemocratic nature of our legislative mappingsystem.  Heres our quick summary of how the current system works: In 1981, 1991, and 2001 lawmakers tried to tackle ...
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• DoJ Now Investigating Diebold/ES&S Merger

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  On Thursday we reported that Floridas AG office was investigating the recent acquisition of Diebolds voting machine unit by its larger/largest "competitor", ES&S, for possible violations of anti-trust statutes in the state. Today, the New York Post reports that the U.S. Dept. of Justice is also actively ...
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• Florida AG Probing ES&S/Diebold Merger for Anti-trust Violations

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  From the Herald/Times [ emphasis added ].... TALLAHASSEE --- Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is conducting an anti-trust investigation of a voting-machine company merger that would create a near-monopoly over the levers of democracy in Florida and much of the United States. McCollums office has issued at ...
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• Brad Appearing at Q&A Following Screening of Murder, Spies & Voting Lies in St. Louis Tuesday

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  Ill be appearing for a Q&A in St. Louis next Tuesday (12/15 @ 7:30pm), after a screening of Patty Sharafs award-winning documentary, Murder, Spies & Voting Lies: The Clint Curtis Story featuring both myself, and our reporting here at The BRAD BLOG on the Republican computer programmer turned vote-rigging ...
  2 weeks ago

• FCC Comments re Internet Voting

  
  Voting Matters Blog — Authority: 106
  Yesterday was the deadline to submit comments to the FCC regarding  the use of the internet for voting as well as other broadband issues.  The context was a nationwide push to extend broadband access to under-served areas of the country, an effort similar in scope to the rural electrification program of the 1930’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• NY-23: Officials Were Warned, Over and Again, of E-Voting Pilot Program Pitfalls

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  My latest special to the Right-leaning Gouverneur Times of Upstate NY details multiple "urgent" warnings that state and federal officials received over the last year from multiple election advocacy groups concerning the dangers and pitfalls of the states e-voting pilot program which came crashing down on voters ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why We Love Twitter

  
  Why Tuesday? — Authority: 103
  That’s me on the big screen (in Los Angeles) having an iChat about Why Tuesday? and American voter participation with Diana Laufenberg’s high school juniors (in Philadelphia) last week. You can read more about our chat, and how we met on Twitter, on Diana’s blog . Here’s a preview: Last Tuesday (how ...
  3 weeks ago

• Another constitutional convention town hall

  
  Political Blotter — Authority: 478
  Alameda County Supervisors Nate Miley and Scott Haggerty are partnering with the Bay Area Council , Repair California and the Alameda County Citizens for Seniors and Persons with Disabilities to convene the county’s third Constitutional Convention Town Hall from 6 to 9 p.m. this Monday, Dec. 7 in the Dublin ...
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• NY-23 E-Vote Failures Merit Full Hand-Count in Response

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  John Conklin, the Director of Public Information for New York States Board of Elections has now issued a statement in response to the Gouverneur Times article by Nathan Barker last week, alleging a "VIRUS in the VOTING MACHINES" [ caps in original headline ] which, the paper says, "tainted the results" of the ...
  5 weeks ago

• VOOGLE… Cool Idea!

  
  Why Tuesday? — Authority: 103
  NEW YORK, NY – Predictions of low voter turnout were abound prior to Election Day 2009. Perhaps it is day we vote. Or possibly it is the way we vote. Most agree that our voting system needs a seriously overdue upgrade. Nearly two years ago, Why Tuesday’s wise co-founder, Norman J. Ornstein put forth , “If ...
  5 weeks ago

• NY-23 and the E-Voting Virus

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  On Thursday, Nathan Barker of upstate New Yorks Gouverneur Times --- a far-Right online publication ( featuring columns by the likes of Michelle Malkin, Oliver North, Chuck Norris and all the rest of the wingnutters) --- filed a lengthy, and somewhat breathless report alleging a computer virus had infected several ...
  5 weeks ago

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