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Judgement Day: Tennessee Voter Confidence Can and Must Be Implemented
Liberadio(!) —
Authority: 471
Tre Hargett is lucky it was Judge Perkins and not Judge Judy. All good news from a ruling last week that rejected a plea for the court to step in and “compel” Secretary of State Tre Hargett and State Election Coordinator Mark Goins to implement the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act, a.k.a. the paper ballot bill ...6 days ago -
NYC BOE Security Concerns on Optical Scan Voting
OntheWilderSide —
Authority: 509
Original LetterOctober 29, 2009Mr. Todd ValentineCo-Executive DirectorNew York State Board of Elections40 Steuben StreetAlbany, NY 12207-2108Mr. Robert BrehmCo-Executive DirectorNew York State Board of Elections40 Steuben StreetAlbany, NY 12207-2108Dear Mr. Valentine and Mr. Brehm:At the direction of the ...1 week ago -
Judgement Day: Tennessee Voter Confidence Can and Must Be Implemented
Liberadio(!) —
Authority: 471
Tre Hargett is lucky it was Judge Perkins and not Judge Judy. All good news from a ruling last week that rejected a plea for the court to step in and “compel” Secretary of State Tre Hargett and State Election Coordinator Mark Goins to implement the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act, a.k.a. the paper ballot bill ...1 week ago -
49 percent turnout in ‘peaceful’ Uttar Pradesh by-poll (Third Lead)
Thaindian News —
Authority: 718
Lucknow, Nov 7 (IANS) About 49 percent of the 4.9 million electors in Saturday’s by-elections in Uttar Pradesh turned out to cast their vote in 11 state assembly and one parliamentary constituency.Even as the state’s chief electoral officer Umesh Sinha described the poll as “peaceful and incident free”, a ...1 week ago -
Chhattisgarh records 50-55 percent voting (Second Lead)
Thaindian News —
Authority: 718
Raipur, Nov 7 (IANS) An estimated 50-55 percent of the over 200,000 electorate exercised their franchise in Chhattisgarh’s Vaishali Nagar assembly seat by-poll Saturday, officials said.Election officials said that voting was peaceful at most of the 221 polling booths.“Voting was largely peaceful except for a few ...1 week ago -
New York State: Mixed reviews for new voting machines
OntheWilderSide —
Authority: 509
KW: Here in my county, Suffolk, we had the regular, lever voting machines (though, there was an electronic one available for people with disabilities.) A Green Party State Committee person who experienced electronic voting this week was very dissatisfied, and wrote a rant on a green list-serve. I prefer simple, and ...1 week ago -
Enforce the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act
Liberadio(!) —
Authority: 471
Governor Bredesen signing the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act into law. Why? Because the touch-screen electronic voting machines we use now are broken . And how can Tennesseans get the secure and accurate elections they deserve while voting on broken voting machines? In a more in depth response to an Memphi Flyer ...1 week ago -
Today: Judge To Hear Arguments In Lawsuit to Compel Implementation of the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act
Liberadio(!) —
Authority: 471
With paper ballots you can have as much confidence in our elections as this man has in his ship. Davidson County Chancellor Russell Perkins will conduct a temporary injunction hearing today, Thursday, Nov. 5, in the lawsuit filed by Common Cause of Tennessee to compel state officials to implement the Tennessee ...1 week ago -
Information stored in EVMs cannot be given, rules court
Thaindian News —
Authority: 718
New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Setting aside a Central Information Commission (CIC) order, the Delhi High Court Thursday held that information stored in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) cannot be made public under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.Justice Sanjiv Khanna overruled the CIC order that asked the Election ...1 week ago -
Note to the Shelby County Election Administrator: The Voting Machines are Broken
Liberadio(!) —
Authority: 471
An article about the broken voting machines we use in Tennessee - from almost 2 years ago. Last week, the Memphis Flyer ran an editorial about the impact of the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act on touch-screen electronic voting machines by Rich Holden, the chief administrator for the Shelby County Election ...1 week ago -
TN Constitution: Elections Shall be Free and Equal, and the Right of Suffrage Shall Never be Denied to Any…Machine?
Liberadio(!) —
Authority: 471
Who did your ES&S touch screen electronic voting machine vote for? Secretary of State Tre Hargett is the person in charge of elections in Tennessee. His job is to: 1) Guarantee that our election process is secure 2) Give us working systems that accurately record each vote 3) Ensure that the right candidate ...2 weeks ago -
Kapor: “Disruptive Innovation” Could Fix U.S. Voting
Why Tuesday? —
Authority: 109
“Disruptive innovation” is what we need to fix America’s broken voting system, Mitch Kapor, the election reformer and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Lotus 1-2-3, said on Wednesday night in Los Angeles. Kapor made his remarks at an event sponsored by the Open Source Digital Voting ...3 weeks ago -
We are satisfied with EVMs: Navin Chawla
Thaindian News —
Authority: 718
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) The Election Commission Friday stoutly defended the Electronic Voting Machines, saying none of those criticising the reliability of the machines had been able to prove that they could be tampered with.“We are completely satisfied with the EVMS, but if anybody wants to come and demonstrate ...3 weeks ago -
Voting is sacred, not a company secret
My Point Exactly —
Authority: 132
So why do we entrust it to companies that try to prevent scrutiny of their work? Ars Technica has a disturbing report on the code used by one company peddling computerized voting systems, Sequoia: The Election Defense Alliance (EDA), an election integrity watchdog group, has launched a public review of the ...3 weeks ago -
Congress again in Maharashtra and Arunachal, question mark over Haryana (Roundup)
Thaindian News —
Authority: 718
Mumbai/Chandigarh/Itanagar, Oct 22 (IANS) The Congress came up trumps in the electoral sweepstakes Thursday retaining power in Maharashtra and Arunachal Pradesh but falling short of absolute majority in Haryana, leaving the main opposition BJP further weakened in the first popularity test since the general elections ...3 weeks ago -
EVMs not responsible for Haryana defeat: BJP’s Goel
Thaindian News —
Authority: 718
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) There is no one reason or one person responsible for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) defeat in the Haryana assembly elections, its general secretary Vijay Goel said Thursday contradicting a senior party colleague.“There is no one reason or one person responsible. We are looking at the ...3 weeks ago -
EVMs are ‘electronic victory machines’ for Congress: BJP
Thaindian News —
Authority: 718
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday blamed the electronic voting machines (EVMs) for its defeat in state elections, saying the EVMs had become “electronic victory machines” for the Congress.“The electronic voting machines are electronic victory machines for the Congress,” Naqvi ...3 weeks ago -
Sequoia evoting code reveals possible FEC rule violations
Ars Technica —
Authority: 755
The Election Defense Alliance (EDA), an election integrity watchdog group, has launched a public review of the accidentally leaked source code that powers Sequoia electronic voting machines. Though still in its initial stages, the review has already uncovered evidence indicating that the voting machines are programmed ...3 weeks ago -
Three-tier security for Haryana counting centres
Thaindian News —
Authority: 718
Chandigarh, Oct 20 (IANS) Fool-proof arrangements, including those for security, have been made for counting of votes Thursday for 90 assembly seats in Haryana held Oct 13.The counting would commence at 8 a.m. on Oct 22 at 90 counting centres, Haryana chief electoral officer Sajjan Singh said here Tuesday.Singh said a ...3 weeks ago -
More vote centers coming to Texas
Off the Kuff —
Authority: 148
I personally really like the concept of “vote centers” , which is basically Early Voting locations done on Election Day as well. I like them because it means you never have to worry about which polling place you need to go to, which in turn means it’s basically impossible to pull the old-fashioned ...3 weeks ago
