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'Daily Voting News' For October 03, 2008
Today I listened to, and watched, a hearing, on-line, from Washington DC in which the DC Council heard testimony regarding the recent failures in the district’s primary election where there were thousands of phantom votes from one precinct and even after those were discovered and cleaned-up the final numbers still do not add up. The two council members who asked questions in the morning, Council members Mary Cheh and David Catania, were extremely well prepared and concerned especially when taking sworn testimony from Michelle Shafer and Ed Smith, both VPs of Sequoia Voting Systems and other Sequoia representatives. Soon after one representative tried to claim that the problem found in DC was unique, the result of pollworker mistakes, and that no votes had ever been lost on Sequoia machines Mr. Catania began asking questions about past problems that are very much like the problems that happened in DC and that may have resulted in lost votes. There were, of course, claims of mistakes in the media and misunderstanding of the facts from Sequoia. Further testimony was taken from computer scientists who also had concerns about the Sequoia product and testimony. Our featured article discusses this hearing in more detail. I will include a link to an archive of the hearing if/when it becomes available. And, watch for more articles from Featured - http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dc/2008/10/saying_the_dc_board_of.html National: Sequoia Op-Scan Ballot Counters Fail to Count Same Way Twice http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6461 National: EAC Commissioners Confirmed by http://www.eac.gov/News/eac-commissioners-confirmed-by-u-s-senate/base_view National: A Petition to Ask the Presidential Candidate About Weekend Voting at the Next Debate National: Does Your Vote Count? It Depends On Who’s Counting Your Votes http://tech.mit.edu/V128/N44/evoting.html National: Voters Being Purged on a Massive Scale. CBS Takes Notice. You Should Too. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Voters-Being-Purged-on-a-M-by-Mary-Mancini-081002-693.html National: Urgent Call to Action! Contact Obama Campaign and DNC, Demand Action to Stop Illegal Voter Purges http://www.opednews.com/articles/Urgent-Call-to-Action-Con-by-steveheller-081002-249.html AZ: CA: http://www.dailycal.org/article/102924/ac_transit_joins_effort_to_increase_voter_registra CA: Want to skip polls and post office? Vote by Mail ballots can be deposited at 60 spots across http://www.mydesert.com/article/20081003/NEWS0301/810030333/1026/news12 CO: Counting days and concerns until election http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_10623161 FL: Mass e-mail rumors befuddle voters From what you can wear to what you can show at the polls, false voting rumors are zipping about the Internet and pouring in across http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/711356.html GA: Surprise: You’re off the voter list http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/stories/2008/10/03/georgia_ped_voters.html IL: Scramble on to fix 'misleading' ballot Could cost state $2 million or more http://www.bnd.com/news/state/story/490247.html IL: An Update From The Con-Con Hearing http://progressillinois.com/2008/10/03/con-con-hearing- IN: http://www.post-trib.com/news/lake/1199901,lcacorn.article IN: http://www.post-trib.com/news/james/1199199,james.article IN: GOP won't rule out using residency change to challenge a ballot http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081003/NEWS0502/810030478 MT: Army Reservist Included in http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-sample/army-reservist-included-i_b_131766.html MT: http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/10/03/bnews/br37.txt MT: Project Vote Blasts GOP Attack on MT: GOP Challenges 6,000 http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6462 NJ: One man, one voting machine http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2008/10/03/21646/ OH: Board of elections unveils new office. http://www.oxfordpress.com/hp/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/10/03/hjn100308boe.html PA: http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081003/NEWS04/810030332 RI: State Supreme Court orders recount in disputed http://www.projo.com/extra/election/content/ALVES_HEARING_10-03-08_DKBQ8ND_v14.160dfda.html SD: Forum set to answer questions about upcoming election http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081003/UPDATES/81003034/1001/news TX: Election panel: Odds of e-voting fraud low But one dissenting member says voting machines make fraud more likely. http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/09/30/0930voting.html TX: http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=9115962&nav=menu69_2_12 TX: http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2008/oct/03/hordes-register-locally-to-vote/ VA: Columnist - Increased voter applications raise fraud fears http://www.dailypress.com/dp-local_tamara_1003oct03,0,6905239.column **Articles and commentary included in “Daily Voting News” may not all reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or its allied organizations. 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