John Bonifaz is seriously considering running for election next year as Massachusetts Secretary of State, or more properly, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A victory for him would be a victory of national importance for election reform and …
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While debate still rages over Ohio’s stolen presidential election of 2004, the impossible outcomes of four November 8 referendum issues may have put an electronic nail though American democracy.
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Amidst the chaos and confusion of Ohio’s 2004 presidential election, with so many irregularities, that for the first time in the United States history an entire electoral slate was challenged by the U.S. Congress, an Ohio election reform movement was born.
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The National Election Data Archive’s paper analyzing the Ohio exit poll data has been temporarily withdrawn due to an error in the assumed definition of data given in the ESI report. In other words, NEDA’s Ron Baiman incorrectly assumed that ESI …
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New Mexico rarely generates much national news. When it does, as in the Wen Ho Lee nuclear espionage investigation, it can be explosive. Now a little-known lawsuit before New Mexico District Court Judge Eugenio S. Mathis has the potential to alter …
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If I want to generate a little fear-based insomnia, all I have to do is remind myself just before bedtime that the 2006 elections are barely a year away. Suddenly I’m awash in cold sweat and my heart starts pounding like a steam piston.
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Days 2 & 3: The Ghost You’ll Never See in the Machine (“electronic voting”); Outsourcing Elections to Corporate America; Methods of Monitoring Elections; plus State and Community Level Action.
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In this report: – Activist Attorney Paul Lehto Makes a Strong Case – VotersUnite.Org’s Theisen Explains How Citizens have "Outsourced" the Voting and Tabulation Process to Corporations – A Huge Opportunity in New Mexico and Three Weeks to Raise the Money …
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Harper’s Magazine: None dare call it stolen – Ohio, the election, and America’s servile press – by Mark Crispin Miller, summarized by Mary Anne Saucier, Columbus, Ohio – July 24, 2005
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It is clear from this advisory that the 2002 Voluntary Voting Systems Standards are the only standards recognized by the EAC. Nowhere are the 1990 standards even mentioned. Yet almost all presently NASED qualified voting systems, including most of those …
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JULY 20, 2005: One late night in Texas, 51-year-old Kathleen Wynne did something she never thought she would consider: She jumped into a dumpster. An ordinary citizen who had become concerned about the integrity of Diebold voting machines, Wynne was …
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Rep. Cynthia Mc Kinney concluded a press conference this morning on the Diebold Company’s performance in the Georgia elections. For E-voting activists, Georgia is the ground zero of the entire Vote Hacking bomb.
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According to the vote tabulators, in the 2004 presidential election George W. Bush won a stunning victory that defied all odds, particularly those applied by unbiased statisticians. He won despite trailing in most state and national polls.
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John Conyers, D, MI is a legendary figure in the Democratic Party. He served on the Judiciary Committee since 1964 (and was on that committee during the Nixon impeachment hearings); he is a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus; has sponsored …
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It was late July 2004, and it was a hot day for Seattle. The park was filled with activists, organizers and regular folks, there to hear a battery of speakers who had come together for this stop on the Rolling Thunder Democracy Tour.
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All-time American patriotic "good guy" Andy Stephenson passed away on Thursday, July 7, 2005 at 6:27 EST/9:27 PST after a rather short but heroic bout with pancreatic cancer. The many thousands who understood his cause and who contributed to the cost …
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Note: This consumer report focuses on Diebold Elections Systems. The next major report from Black Box Voting will focus on Sequoia Voting Systems.
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EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT: Incorporated into the foundation of the Diebold Precinct-Based Optical Scan 1.94w system is the mother of security holes, and no apparent cure will produce infertility, or system safety.
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Utah’s Lt. Governor Selected Deibold E-Voting Machines which have been Widely Reported since early 2003 to be Susceptible to Election Tampering, Do Not Meet HAVA Requirements for all Disabled Voters, and Do Not Provide a Demonstrated Method for Independent …
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Those who hold the sacred trust of overseeing the election procedures and voting systems in this country are an alphabet-soup of organizations. The National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS); the National Association of State Elections Directors …
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