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Voting« Previous Entries‘Stealing America’: Voting-Fraud DocumentaryThursday, September 4th, 2008The numbers don't add up. By Michael Ordoña | $3.8 billion: The initial Help America Vote Act allocation that California Secretary of State Deborah Bowen said "pushed many counties into buying electronic systems that ... were not properly reviewed or tested." Images A scene from the documentary "Stealing America: Vote by V...Dorothy Fadiman, director of the documentary "Stealing Am... View Larger Images 18,000: Votes that did not register in a 2006 Sarasota County, ... tagged VotingDiebold Finally Admits its Voting Machines Drop VotesSaturday, August 30th, 2008By Bruce Schneier | Premier Election Solutions, formerly called Diebold Election Systems, has finally admitted that a ten-year-old error has caused votes to be dropped. It's unclear if this error is random or systematic. If it's random -- a small percentage of all votes are dropped -- then it is highly unlikely that this affected the outcome of any election. If it's systematic -- a small ... tagged VotingPlanning to E-Vote? Read This FirstFriday, August 22nd, 2008With less than three months before the presidential election, the hotly contested state, Ohio, along with others, continue to have problems with E-voting technology By Larry Greenemeier In their rush to avoid a repeat of the controversy that plagued the 2000 presidential election, and to meet the requirements of Congress's hastily mandated 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA), states and counties flocked to electronic voting systems they hoped would eliminate ... tagged VotingVIDEO: The “Magic” of Disappearing VotesSaturday, August 16th, 2008In segment 3, Stephen Spoonamore explains how election fraud can happen even if the voting machines are registering votes correctly. One way is through the haphazard custody of memory cards after voting. But it gets worse. No one has ever inspected the code inside the vote tabulators, so alarming issues like tabulators that decrease votes remain unanswered. They produce negative numbers, which should never happen in a vote tabulator. Why ... tagged USA-News and VotingA Tragedy Unnoticed By The WorldFriday, June 27th, 2008How conflict exacerbates Somalia's starvation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says thousands of Somalis are malnourished and in need of urgent medical treatment. This comes as local human rights groups claim conflict in the country has left more than 2,000 civilians dead so far this year. Ama Boateng reports on the fighting that is exacerbating hunger and illness. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtDjMhH0Iww tagged Voting and World-NewsFacing the Truth About the American VoterTuesday, June 24th, 2008Rick Shenkman, is the author of the just-published Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter (Basic Books, 2008). He blogs at Howstupidblog and is editor of George Mason University's History News Network Shenkman writes: I do not wish to engage in a debate about the Iraq War. But the thought of planting a largely Christian army in the middle of the Muslim Middle East ... tagged USA-News and VotingNuns are turned away from Indiana pollsWednesday, May 7th, 2008 By Scott Martelle - Los Angeles Times | A dozen nuns and an unknown number of students were turned away from polls Tuesday in the first use of Indiana's stringent voter ID law since it was upheld last week by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The nuns, all residents of a retirement home at Saint Mary's Convent near Notre Dame University, were denied ...
tagged USA-News and VotingCivil rights groups sue state officialsFriday, April 25th, 2008 By Adam Jadhav | Voting-rights activists filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Missouri public aid officials and election authorities in St. Louis and Kansas City, saying that agencies have failed to help poor people stay active on the voter rolls.The suit, filed in Kansas City by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, focuses on a 1993 federal law ...
tagged USA-News and VotingZimbabwe ballot box seals brokenMonday, April 21st, 2008 By Peta Thornycroft |
Zimbabwe's regime has been accused of a "concerted effort" to rig the election for Robert Mugabe as it emerged that seals protecting ballot boxes have been broken. A partial recount of the election - which was held on March 29 - is now taking place in 23 constituencies.
A source at the recount at ...
tagged Voting and World-NewsWhat if 5.3 Million More Americans Could Vote?Monday, April 21st, 2008 By Erika Wood |
Millions of people in the U.S. can't vote because of felony convictions. Restoring their right to vote means restoring democracy. This is a big year for American democracy. Hundreds of thousands of new voters are not only registering, but are actually showing up at the polls. States whose primary races have never counted ...
tagged USA-News and VotingElection MadnessWednesday, April 2nd, 2008Howard Zinn There’s a man in Florida who has been writing to me for years (ten pages, handwritten) though I’ve never met him. He tells me the kinds of jobs he has held—security guard, repairman, etc. He has worked all kinds of shifts, night and day, to barely keep his family going. His letters to me have always been angry, railing against our capitalist system for its failure to ... tagged USA-News and VotingVIDEO: President Bush Booed at Baseball GameTuesday, April 1st, 2008There's a reason President Bush almost never appears before members of the general public: They really don't like him. Despite the delirious mood of Washington Nationals fans on opening night at their new stadium, Bush was greeted with loud boos when he came to the mound to deliver the traditional first pitch. Video ... tagged Bush, USA-News and VotingVOTING COMPANY BULLIES ELECTION OFFICIALSThursday, March 20th, 2008Failed machines same as those to be used in Pennslvania tally BRAD BLOG Sequoia Voting Systems' legal threats against Princeton computer science professors and New Jersey election officials have apparently had their intended effect. The strong-arm email sent to professors Ed Felten and Andrew Appel was apparently accompanied by a two-page letter to Union County, New Jersey, Clerk Joanne Rajoppi, who originally discovered a tally failure ... tagged USA-News and VotingWar Contractor Makes Bid For Election MachinesTuesday, March 4th, 2008CHICAGO TRIBUNE - United Technologies Corp. made public Sunday an unsolicited $3 billion bid for Diebold, one of the largest makers of automated teller machines and voting machines. United Technologies, which first approached Diebold two years ago, initially made the offer in private Friday. The bid amounts to $40 a share in cash, or a 66 percent premium over Diebold's closing price Friday of $24.12, United ... tagged VotingThe supporters and opponents of vote-riggingTuesday, February 12th, 2008Rani Singh  Unlike in, say, American politics, pre-elections polls are bit thin on the ground in Pakistan. The results of one, however, have been published by the Dawn. Conducted during January 2008, the US-based Terror Free Tomorrow poll finds that 70 % of Pakistanis want President Pervez Musharraf to quit, and that the PPP is the most popular ...
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