Threat of Internet Voting Spreads, and poor widdle Diebold sues test lab

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

John Gideon's Daily News warns of attempt to sneek internet voting into Washington State.
E-voting activists need to be ready - this is THE new battle, internet voting. John also tells about Diebold suing the test labs HAH DIEBOLD! I've been in court against Diebold myself, so I have no sympathy for them. SysTest doesn't deserve any love either. Read Joe Hall's blog about that also in John's Daily News.

Premier/Diebold has filed a lawsuit against SysTest Labs. The voting machine vendor claims that SysTest’s loss of EAC accreditation in the middle of testing on the newest Premier voting system has wreaked havoc on Premier’s business. This should be an interesting suit.

“Even though reports from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), and dozens of computer security experts strongly and unanimously warn of insurmountable threats to the privacy and security of ballots cast over the Internet, the Washington State legislature is proposing – and fast-tracking – a bill to allow Internet voting for its military and overseas voters.” “VotersUnite does not believe in using military and overseas voters as guinea pigs in a voting scheme that has already been determined by experts to be an “essentially impossible” task given the current architecture of the Internet.”

Featured - National: Electronic Voting Manufacturer Claims Testing Lab's Shoddy Work Wreaked Havoc
http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/01/23/Electronic_Voting_Manufacturer_Claims_Testing_Lab_s_Shoddy_Work_Wreaked_Havoc.htm

Featured - WA: Washington State Legislature Proposes Using Military & Overseas Voters as Internet Voting Guinea Pigshttp://www.votersunite.org/

National: Premier Voting v. Systest Labs Complaint For Damages and Declaratory Relief
http://josephhall.org/misc/premier_v_systest-complaint.pdf <.pdf>

National: Following up with Steve Heller, formerly known as the "Diebold Whistle-blower"
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2009/3361

CA: Riverside County – Opinion - Redundant Tallying
State Mandate Ratchets Up Costs, Imperils Early Voting
http://www.pe.com/localnews/opinion/localviews/stories/PE_OpEd_Opinion_S_op_dunmore_09_cp_loc.3f9236f.html

MI: Nonprofits Help Disenfranchised Michigan Voter Join Voter Rights Lawsuit
http://www.ombwatch.org/node/9653

MN: The myth of voter fraud
http://www.minnpost.com/community_voices/2009/02/09/6398/the_myth_of_voter_fraud

MN: Senate recount: How much longer?
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/39205262.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUnciaec8O7EyUsl

MN: GOP: ‘No reports of voter fraud’ in Minnesota
http://minnesotaindependent.com/25971/gop-no-voter-fraud-in-minnesota

MS: State's suffrage law for felons remains inconsistent
http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=285639&pub=1&div=News

MS: Mississippi Republicans Push For Disenfranchising Polling Place Photo ID Restrictions
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6899

NY: Do Lever Machines Provide a Better Voting System for Democracy? <.pdf>
http://www.nyvv.org/newdoc/2009/LWVNYVV_LeverStatement020909.pdf

PA: Allegheny County - Phantom Ballot Menace

http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A58465

PA: Lackawanna County - Election district changes disputed
County court will receive objections to voting district consolidation petition.
http://www.timesleader.com/news/Election_district_changes_disputed_02-09-2009.html

Canada: New Rules Stopped 450,000 Canadians from Voting
Upped ID requirements may have affected some close federal races.
http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/02/09/Voting/

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[eppur_se_muova]

1. K&R -- can't rec enough. nt

[HAARP]

2. re:

Voting via internet is too corruptible. We need to go back in time to all paper.
The internet is an electronic den of thieves.

[McCamy Taylor]

3. I warned of this....when? Back in 2006? They laughed at me. They always laugh at me.

At the very least investors should follow my predictions because I can always spot a trend, even if people in politics won't.

[Wilms]

4. I never laughed at you.

It was that frog that cracked me up!

[troubleinwinter]

5. Arizona has already done it.

Arizona Democrats led the way in 2000 as 45 percent of the 86,970 voters used the Internet to cast their primary ballots.

To vote online, voters enter personalized codes from the ballot, along with place and date of birth.

Personalized codes, huh? My neighbor, Dixie, has her mailbox right next to mine. I know when her birthday is and and where she was born.