'Daily Voting News' For August 24 and 25, 2008

 

Today’s featured article is a warning from Greg Gordon of McClatchy News in which he points to the fact that the recent disclosure of flawed software in Premier/Diebold machines points directly to a system of testing and certifying voting systems that was broken. Gordon points out, “NASED watched over the issuance of "qualified" reports from Independent Testing Laboratories, but with little control over the testing. The vendors secretly negotiated payments with the labs, helped design the tests, got to see the results first and only shared the codes driving their software with three NASED technical experts who signed non-disclosure agreements.” &&& All it took was a disclosure by Premier/Diebold that all of their voting systems of the past ten years have potentially lost votes and the media has woken up to the issue. Of course, some election officials are just too wedded to their vendors. Officials in South Carolina and West Virginia proudly proclaim that while states around them are doing the right thing by changing from DRE voting to paper based systems they are going to stand firm behind their paperless voting systems, ignoring the facts in doing so.

 

Featured - National: Warning on voting machines reveals oversight failure

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/staff/greg_gordon/story/50485.html

 

National: Opinion - Casting doubt on a voting plan

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/08/24/2008-08-24_casting_doubt_on_a_voting_plan.html

 

National: How Design Can Save Democracy

http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/how-design-can-save-democracy/?ref=opinion

 

National: Diebold Admits Their Tabulator Software Doesn't Count Votes Correctly

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6309

 

National: Uncounted: Documentary Explores U.S. Election Fraud

http://www.northstarwriters.com/ct113.htm

 

National: No chad, but questions still hang over voting

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/washington/story/289F2129FDEA0E54862574B00011686C?OpenDocument

 

National: Voting Machines Can Never Be Trusted Says GOP Computer Security Expert

http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=18097

 

National: Commentary: How Electronic Voting Could Be Secure and Why It Isn't Good Now.

http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=18099

 

National: MSM comes out against computerized voting, finally

http://www.opednews.com/articles/MSM-comes-out-against-comp-by-Kathy-Dopp-080824-472.html

 

National: Diebold/Premier 'fesses lost OH votes

http://blogs.computerworld.com/diebold_premier_fesses_lost_oh_votes

 

National: From Black Box Voting: You can help safeguard our elections

http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/08/from-black-box-voting-you-can-help-safeguard-our-elections/

 

National: Troops may lead in online voting

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=56981

 

National: Election experts warn of November storm

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_10299855

 

AK: Division of Elections Clarifies Absentee Voting Instructions Error

http://www.sitnews.us/0808news/082408/082408_voting.html

 

CO: El Paso County - Few glitches during primary elections, review reveals

http://www.gazette.com/articles/election_39703___article.html/voter_ballots.html

 

CT: A win for state veterans and voting

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/opinion/ci_10294919

 

FL: A hefty trail of paper: 90 tons of ballots piling up in Palm Beach County alone

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/local_news/epaper/2008/08/24/papertrail0825.html

 

FL: Pasco County - First and foremost: Will the optical scan machines work?

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/local/article784498.ece

 

IL: DuPage County confident of no past election problems

Equipment vendor acknowledged software glitch in Ohio votes

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-dupage-elex-aug25,0,7530999.story

 

NY: Proposed Mitigation for GEMS (and other EMS) Vote Deletion

http://e-voter.blogspot.com/2008/08/ny-proposed-mitigation-for-gems-and.html

 

NY: Monroe County seeks election inspectors

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080825/NEWS01/808250328/1002/NEWS

 

OH: Look for big voter turnout in November

http://www.crescent-news.com/news/article/4286742

 

OH: Editorial - Hold Company Accountable

http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/513457.html?nav=511

 

OH: PERSPECTIVE: Spat over Ohio voting law about politics

http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/cleveland/index.ssf?/base/politics-2/1219637948113100.xml&storylist=cleveland

 

OH: Ohio elections officials preparing for 80% turnout in November

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Ohio_elections_officials_preparing_for_80_0825.html

 

SC: State bucks trend, keeps voting machines

SC election officials have faith in systems

http://www.goupstate.com/article/20080825/NEWS/194/1083/news01&title=State_bucks_trend__keeps_voting_machines

 

TN: Touch screens on way out in TN

Optical-scanning voting machines to be in use by 2010

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/aug/25/touch-screens-on-way-out-in-tn/

 

PA: Guest column: Voter ID laws are a national catastrophe

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20089304&BRD=1675&PAG=461&dept_id=18168&rfi=6

 

PA: Westmoreland County - Elections inspector gets role in documentary

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/news/westmoreland/s_584729.html

 

WV: W.Va. counties sticking with touch-screen voting, despite troubles elsewhere

http://www.dailymail.com/News/200808250080

 

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