John Gideon
John Gideon is the Information Manager of Voters Unite and VoteTrustUSA. He is the editor of Daily Voting News. Readers can comment on this column by visiting his blog at www.VoteTrustUSA.org.
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September 19, 2005
Today's release of the much awaited Carter-Baker Commission report, entitled "Building Confidence in U.S. Elections - Report of the Commission on Federal Election Reform" has been met with mixed emotions. While it suggests that all voting machines in the nation provide a voter verified paper audit t...
August 28, 2005
Since the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) was signed into law by the President, statements have been made by Secretaries of State, state elections officials, national organizations, and voting machine vendors all saying the same thing: “HAVA mandates that all lever and punch-card voting machine...
August 17, 2005
With Ellen Theisen, Executive Director of VotersUnite.Org
In the past month two separate incidents took place that call into question whether the present voting systems qualification process is functional and whether the Elections Assistance Commission (EAC) knows what is going on around them.
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August 04, 2005
On July 29, 2005 it was reported that certification of the Diebold TSx GEMS v. 1.18.22 had been denied by the Secretary of State, Bruce McPherson. The initial report told of a 10% failure rate due to jammed printers and computer “crashes”.
Just 5 days later, the newspapers reported that the fai...
July 21, 2005
EAC Advisory 2005-004: How to determine if a voting system is compliant with Section 301(a) – a gap analysis between 2002 Voting System Standards and the requirements of Section 301(a)
http://www.eac.gov/docs/EAC%20Advisory%2005-004%20(%204%20page%20fit%20).pdf
During recent public forums, the El...
July 05, 2005
INSIGHT INTO THE OPINION OF THOSE WHO WRITE THE VOTING SYSTEM STANDARDS
05 July 2005
"The presence of the paper record can significantly increase voter satisfaction and trust in the accuracy of electronic voting systems and in elections. Electronic voting systems are inherently c...
June 22, 2005
Written with Ellen Theisen www.votersunite.org and www.votetrustusa.org
The 1990 Voting System Standards are Certainly Outdated. Are They Illegal, Too?
Section 222(e) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) provides that the 2002 Voting System Standards adopted by the Federal Election Commis...
June 16, 2005
Those who hold the sacred trust of overseeing the election procedures and voting systems in this country are an alphabet-soup of organizations. The National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS); the National Association of State Elections Directors (NASED), the Technical Guidelines Development...