'Daily Voting News' For February 09, 2009

 

Premier/Diebold has filed a lawsuit against SysTest Labs. The voting machine vendor claims that SysTest’s loss of EAC accreditation in the middle of testing on the newest Premier voting system has wreaked havoc on Premier’s business. This should be an interesting suit.

 

“Even though reports from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), and dozens of computer security experts strongly and unanimously warn of insurmountable threats to the privacy and security of ballots cast over the Internet, the Washington State legislature is proposing – and fast-tracking – a bill to allow Internet voting for its military and overseas voters.” “VotersUnite does not believe in using military and overseas voters as guinea pigs in a voting scheme that has already been determined by experts to be an “essentially impossible” task given the current architecture of the Internet.”

 

Featured - National: Electronic Voting Manufacturer Claims Testing Lab's Shoddy Work Wreaked Havoc

http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/01/23/Electronic_Voting_Manufacturer_Claims_Testing_Lab_s_Shoddy_Work_Wreaked_Havoc.htm

 

Featured - WA: Washington State Legislature Proposes Using Military & Overseas Voters as Internet Voting Guinea Pigs

http://www.votersunite.org/

 

National: Premier Voting v. Systest Labs Complaint For Damages and Declaratory Relief

http://josephhall.org/misc/premier_v_systest-complaint.pdf [.pdf]

 

National: Following up with Steve Heller, formerly known as the "Diebold Whistle-blower"

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2009/3361

 

CA: Riverside County – Opinion - Redundant Tallying

State Mandate Ratchets Up Costs, Imperils Early Voting

http://www.pe.com/localnews/opinion/localviews/stories/PE_OpEd_Opinion_S_op_dunmore_09_cp_loc.3f9236f.html

 

MI: Nonprofits Help Disenfranchised Michigan Voter Join Voter Rights Lawsuit

http://www.ombwatch.org/node/9653

 

MN: The myth of voter fraud

http://www.minnpost.com/community_voices/2009/02/09/6398/the_myth_of_voter_fraud

 

MN: Senate recount: How much longer?

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/39205262.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUnciaec8O7EyUsl

 

MN: GOP: ‘No reports of voter fraud’ in Minnesota

http://minnesotaindependent.com/25971/gop-no-voter-fraud-in-minnesota

 

MS: State's suffrage law for felons remains inconsistent

http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=285639&pub=1&div=News

 

MS: Mississippi Republicans Push For Disenfranchising Polling Place Photo ID Restrictions

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6899

 

NY: Do Lever Machines Provide a Better Voting System for Democracy? [.pdf]

http://www.nyvv.org/newdoc/2009/LWVNYVV_LeverStatement020909.pdf

 

PA: Allegheny County - Phantom Ballot Menace

[Note: Be sure to watch the Youtube link.]

http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A58465

 

PA: Lackawanna County - Election district changes disputed

County court will receive objections to voting district consolidation petition.

http://www.timesleader.com/news/Election_district_changes_disputed_02-09-2009.html

 

Canada: New Rules Stopped 450,000 Canadians from Voting

Upped ID requirements may have affected some close federal races.

http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/02/09/Voting/

 

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