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I've been inspired by recent comments in 'Kos pages about grocery strikes, bookstore strikes and how to honor our brothers and sisters by supporting organizations that deal fairly with their workers....
View ArticleAbout your vote: We don't care. We don't have to.
In a nod acknowledging the hue and cry over The Great Florida Voting Debacle, the government passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). Interpretation of this law's provisions in part resulted in many...
View ArticleStopping Blackbox in San Diego
We've read all the websites, done all the homework, signed all the petitions, made the phone calls, etc... now we are going face to face with the Board of Supervisors next week as they seek to...
View ArticleBlack Box vs. Your Vote: Update on the Ballot Wars
Some bad news...Despite objections from a dozen public speakers who said electronic voting machines put democracy at risk, San Diego County supervisors ended an 18-month process Tuesday by agreeing to...
View ArticleCalifornians needed: Stop Diebold Certification today
Fellow Kossians - If there are any Californians reading this, please write TODAY 12/15/03 to Secretary of State Kevin Shelley. Ask him to hold off on Diebold's pending certification as a vendor of...
View ArticleVoting Machine Iceberg Starting to Show
This excellent CBS Evening News story--"The Kinks in Electronic Voting"--is more evidence that this issue is starting to show above the surface. Every day now there are news stories, opinion pieces...
View ArticleMy 1st Convention: CA Dems & Voting Issues
I attended the California Democratic Convention this weekend (my first ever, as a proxy), and it just wrapped up today. While the topic of voting systems was not on the agenda per se, it did come up in...
View ArticleCalifornia Attempts Electronic Election: fails miserably
Well, folks, here in California we made the news recently with all the famous "glitches" that one can expect with electronic voting technology. No, it wasn't just Diebold counties that were left...
View ArticleSan Diego Voting Machine Rollout a Miserable Failure
As last week's problematic voting machine roll-out dramatically increased complexity in San Diego's election system, the Registrar faces a 'catch-22' situation. By the time she must certify the...
View ArticleCitizen Lobbying Opportunity...
As some of you know my current 24/7 work is about verified voting and the now-URGENT need to pass legislation requiring voter-verified paper ballots for November's election (see HR2239 for reference)....
View ArticleHR550 - Voter Verification bill gets 9 new co-sponsors!
After two long days of traipsing about Capitol Hill in Washington DC, intrepid citizen lobbyists were delighted to learn that their efforts have netted nine new co-sponsors on the "gold standard" of...
View ArticleOn HR811 - Separating Truth from Fiction
For three consecutive sessions of Congress, Rush Holt (D-NJ) has championed the cause of voter-verified paper ballots and mandatory random manual audits to check vote tallies for accuracy. Since his...
View ArticleCandidate Richardson For HR811, Verifiable Votes in 2008
Gov. Richardson has published a well-expressed op-ed piece in The Hill which calls for Congress to take quick action to ensure voter-verified paper ballots in time for 2008, so that we can audit --and,...
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