‘Daily Voting News’ For April 14, 2007

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Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

What is it about elections administration that the names never change, just their jobs? Tom Wilkey moved from the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) to the Election Assistance Commission. Donetta Davidson was on NASED panels and now she is Chair of the EAC. Brit Williams and Steve Freeman were both working for Wilkey at NASED and are now consultants for the EAC. And then there is Michael Vu who was under fire and a complete failure as an election administrator in Cuyahoga Co., OH. He finally resigned before he got fired and now he is the assistant registrar in San Diego Co., CA with a $10,000 a year raise. And these people all talk about voter confidence. We are supposed to have confidence in them? The EAC? Michael Vu? I don’t see how….

  • NAtional: Sen. Menendez Asks Sen. Feinstein to Investigate EAC’s Altered, Buried Report on ‘Voter Fraud’ LINK
  • NAtional: The EAC Gopher Bash LINK
  • CA: Nevada County – Hart Election System Recommended by Nevada County Elections Office, Committee LINK
  • CO: Voter Act raises questions, ire LINK
  • FL: Lost Votes in the 2006 Election: A Look at Extraordinary Undervote Rates on the ES&S iVotronic LINK
  • MS: Harrison County – Sec. Of State Offers Harrison County A Voting Solution LINK
  • MS: Harrison County – Electronic voting ditched
    County must receive federal approval before implementing new plan LINK
  • MS: Lauderdale County – Voting machine woes not plaguing Lauderdale County LINK
  • PA: Voting machine lawsuit proceeds
    State sought to have complaint dismissed LINK
  • PA: Legal challenge to touch-screen machines can proceed, court rules LINK
  • PA: Group takes on voting machines LINK
  • **”Daily Voting News” is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in “Daily Voting News” may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or BradBlog.Com**

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      Dredd said on 4/15/2007 @ 4:18am PT: [Permalink]

      John asks “What is it about elections administration that the names never change, just their jobs?”

      Yes, and what about the only EVM tester in the universe who changes companies from time to time but always ends up the only EVM tester, kinda like the Maytag repairman?

      It seems so incestuous or at best election nepotism in the spot it ought never to be.

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      Dredd said on 4/15/2007 @ 7:11am PT: [Permalink]

      Confidence or neoConfidence … it is all the same, John, when there is a secret fascist element now operating as a rogue species within the regime now occupying Iraq and the what house.

      Their greatest efforts are to hide anything and everything from the people:

      Rep. Henry A. Waxman has released a comprehensive examination of secrecy in the Bush Administration. The report analyzes how the Administration has implemented each of our nation’s major open government laws. It finds that there has been a consistent pattern in the Administration’s actions: laws that are designed to promote public access to information have been undermined, while laws that authorize the government to withhold information or to operate in secret have repeatedly been expanded. The cumulative result is an unprecedented assault on the principle of open government.

      (Government Report, emphasis added).

      We can see a strange pattern when Vu shows up in California, but we can’t get the documentation to fully expose it.

      “Delete the emails” is a Rove mantra and a neoCon chant, because it is they, not us, who “can’t handle the truth”.

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