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Election Integrity

Mission: To encourage citizen ownership of transparent, participatory democracy

John Gideon, 1947 - 2009

 

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Florida Election Results - Hidden Outsourcing Can Take Votes for a Trip

Originally posted 2008-11-05 17:44:18 -0500. -- GH

Should such a core function of state -- assuring the integrity of the process counting your vote -- be sold to the bidder with the most powerful lobbyists?

On the historic election night of 2008, the power of swing states was felt worldwide as their collective decision to tip the balance to red or blue filtered in from across the country. 

Like Déjà Vu, Sour Stew Starting to Brew over Voting in Ohio

OhioNews Bureau

ONB COLUMBUS: Just when you thought the confab and controversy over Ohio’s problem-plagued system of voting was over, a new stew is brewing pitting election-law experts and voting-rights advocates against Ohio’s new chief elections officer, who recently decided to scrap expensive, hackable touch-screen machines in favor of expensive, temperamental optical scanners in the hotspot of Ohio election failures just a few short months before the Buckeye State’s March primary.

Ohio SOS Breaks Tie, Chooses Optical Scan Machines for Cuyahoga, It’s Her Election Now

OhioNews Bureau

Ohio Election Officials Say Reform Costly, Others Say Reforms Also Risky, Unwise

OhioNews Bureau

ONB COLUMBUS: Last Friday Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner presented the controversial findings of her $1.8 million dollar EVEREST study of Ohio’s election system showing vulnerabilities abound.