In 2003 D.I.R.T. used the Declaration of Independence to lure teenagers in to using Electronic "Pirate" Voting Machines for False Left vs. Right Paradigm of no choice! Now in 2010 their at it again this time it may be for 2012!
Though Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman conceded and Democrat Bill Owens was sworn into Congress last week, the routine recanvassing of votes shows Owens' lead has narrowed to 3,026 votes, with about 5,800 absentee ballots received so far that hav
A new study shows that more 3.3 million voters on current registration rolls across the country are dead. Another 12.9 million remain on voter registration lists in an area where they no longer live.
He was hardly the first to employ the tactic, which didn't stop a rival campaign from complaining the ad did not have a "paid for by" disclaimer. The Florida Elections Commission ordered Wagman to remove it and pay a $250 fine, even though the requir
Sequoia Voting Systems agreed yesterday to turn over sensitive information to the D.C. Council about how the District's voting machines work and tabulate results, setting the stage for one of the most comprehensive probes on the reliability of electronic voting equipment.
One good thing that's happened to [John] Brakey this month: The trespassing charge from his arrest while observing an election audit on Sept. 6, 2008 was dismissed. Brakey felt like a big weight had been lifted from his shoulders, and justice ha
At the briefing, Goddard will discuss the results and take questions about the Attorney General’s Office’s examination this month of the May 2006 Pima County Special Election ballots. (Blah Blah Blah)
The primary objective is to determine whether someone rigged the election by tampering with the optical-scan polling machines in Pima County, transforming "no" votes into "yes" votes.
Our cover story last week told of the unexpected consequences of Arizona's Clean Elections experiment: a more polarized legislature, a fair amount of gratuitous spending, and dirty tricks aplenty. But one phenomena related to Clean Elections -- o
If you've ever wondered what it would look like if a state attorney general's office were to actually investigate a voting machine tampering incident, here's an up front an personal report on just that.
Goddard's restrictions on political party observers --- just one per party, selected by the AG, not by the parties themselves --- was the cause of criticism by all of the involved parties (Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, etc.).
Author and former radio talk show host Al Franken, the Democratic challenger for the U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota, will be the state's next U.S. Senator, according to a final tally by the bi-partisan three-judge panel overseeing challenger Norm
Al Franken, the comedian turned politician, won a potentially decisive court ruling on Tuesday in his bid to replace Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican trying to hold on to his Senate seat.
It's been a bad month for Diebold, with the findings in CA that their voting machines drop votes and their audit logs allows deletion of records; their admission that all of their voting machines fail to record ballot deletions, and that their AT
The CIA, which has been monitoring foreign countries' use of electronic voting systems, has reported apparent vote-rigging schemes in Venezuela, Macedonia and Ukraine and a raft of concerns about the machines' vulnerability to tampering.
Even the audit log system on current versions of Premier Election Solutions' (formerly Diebold's) electronic voting and tabulating systems --- used in some 34 states across the nation --- fail to record the wholesale deletion of ballots.
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Vote tabulation software currently in use throughout the United States contains a button to permanently delete audit logs that are required under federal voting-system guidelines, according to a report submitted to California's top elections offi
Former Colorado Sec. of State Coffman asked a judge to block the Independent Ethics Commission from holding a hearing on a complaint against him. Accused of allowing an employee in elections to also operate a partisan political business
Claims lack of jurisdiction to order retention of ballots from 2006 election, even if counting them might reveal results were 'rigged'
Opponents of counting argue ballots should now be destroyed...
Homer Simpson tries to vote for Obama and discovers the voting machine mysteriously keeps changing his vote to McCain. (Below the video it says "Do right by your family and country: Vote 3rd party, write in or NOTA!")