New insights on one of the most interesting election fraud stories of 2012…and before my Republican friends become concerned that the negative light shed on Republican absentee activities in Florida might not also spill on the Democrats, rest assured that the Obama administration is pushing a federal bill to expand the very absentee voting setup…
California Assemblyman Phil Ting has proposed AB 19, a bill to require the California Secretary of State to implement an Internet voting pilot project. And if you don’t live in California: There are efforts to provide federal cash incentives to any state that “expedites” its voting process. And that will likely be used to shoehorn…
Reporter Jamie Hall of the Edmonton Journal wrote in a recent article titled “Other jurisdictions eyeing Edmonton’s potential foray into Internet voting” (Nov. 25, 2012), that a 17-person focus group voted in favor of Internet voting. Hall did not ask the right questions, and apparently neither did City Clerk Alayne Sinclair, who said she will make a recommendation to council…
My e-mail seems to have two recurring themes lately, each from the opposite side of the political spectrum. It goes like this: “Hey, have you seen this? Anonymous claims to have hacked Karl Rove’s intended election manipulation.” And this: “Are you doing anything about the rampant voter fraud that put Obama in office?” 1. The…
Perhaps one of the oddest moments of all during last night’s live election coverage was what happened to Karl Rove on Fox Network News. With Florida still too close to call and hundreds of thousands of votes still out in Ohio (including a large hunk of votes in Romney strongholds), and with a spread of…
Colorado election integrity and transparency is now officially out the window, with a series of corruption protection rules and new laws. 1. Let’s begin with the unflappable Donetta Davidson, who collaborated with convicted embezzler Jeffrey Dean(1) to remove voter privacy, through a contract specification that required him to redo his absentee mail software in order…
The theatre that TV Election Night news coverage has become takes one more step into the absurd with cancellation of exit poll data in 19 states. The states that will be excluded from detailed exit poll coverage are: Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island,…
A press release July 20th about the planned expansion of Unisyn into more USA locations renews attention on foreign ownership of corporations selling voting systems into the United States. Unisyn is owned by a Malaysian gambling outfit. Another major elections industry player, Canada’s Dominion, purchased the massive Diebold Election Systems division (which it shares with…
Washington State is setting up a Facebook voter registration process. Basically this is just an access point provided through the popular Facebook system, leading into the actual Washington State online voter registration system. If you are a fan of online registration, then Facebook is indeed a great way to drive a lot more people, especially…
Don’t be confused, and don’t let anyone tell you that you shouldn’t talk about this. TO BE CLEAR: THE PUBLIC HAS BOTH THE RIGHT TO INSPECT BALLOTS AND THE RIGHT TO A SECRET BALLOT We have a right to BOTH. Some election officials have been conflating these two issues, claiming that if we examine ballots…