Election Integrity News

This article was posted at Ed Felten's Freedom to Tinker Blog (http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1367)and is reposted here with permission of the...

In a recent segment, CNN anchor Lou Dobbs told viewers that substantial evidence suggests that large numbers of non-citizens, including...

This article was posted at written about (http://www.nyvv.org/boblog/2008/07/28/tell-it-to-the-judge/) in earlier posts (http://www.nyvv.org/boblog/2008/07/24/schedule-slips-and-slippery-slopes/), what gall vendors have providing New York?s voters...

The U.S. Election Assistance Commission has posted the following response to Officials Say Flaws at Polls Will Remain in...

?As we approach the 2008 general election, the structure of elections in the United States ? once reliant on local...

This letter was published by the New York Times on August 11, 2008 (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/opinion/l12vote.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=dianne%20feinstein&st=cse&oref=slogin) Washington, Aug. 6, 2008To the Editor: ?A...

This article was posted at AlterNet (http://www.alternet.org/story/94541/ ) and is reposted here with permission of the author.The first large block...

This editorial was published in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/opinion/11bysiewicz.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin) on August 10, 2008.WHAT is the secretary of Veterans Affairs...

Lack of fixed, ID address challenges voters and administratorsThis article appeared in the Electionline Weekly (http://www.electionline.org) and is reposted here...

Dr. Barbara Simons Fills Position for Technology ProfessionalsDr. Barbara Simons, a computer scientist and founder of ACM's U.S. Public Policy Committee (USACM), has...

Blogged by Brad Friedman from Denver... I'm up in the press skyboxes at the Pepsi Center tonight where Hillary Clinton just finished her speech. The place was absolutely jammed, literally, to the rafters, as the "UNITY" "HILLARY" "OBAMA" signs flowed on schedule through the throngs. How she did will be up to ...

Guest Blogged by Emily Levy of VelvetRevolution.us ... Velvet Revolution - co-founded by Brad Friedman - today launched its newest campaign at StandingForVoters.org, calling on candidates across the country to pledge to challenge elections when necessary. "This election, let's make democracy the winner!" the Standing For Voters site proclaims. Readers of The BRAD ...

College students in Dutchess Co. New York are taking advantage of a grant from the Election Assistance Commission to be trained to operate the counties voting equipment. These students will work as “fellows” earning a stipend as the recruit up to 200 more students to help out as election workers. ...

Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review. It appears he really is running for President of the Hanoi Hilton.

Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review. This sounds like a story you might read on the spoof site, womenforjohnmccain.com, which my colleague Trish at Pensito Review wrote about earlier today, but, sadly, this is no joke. Or at least it's not meant to be. Yesterday, just in time for the start ...

Blogged by Brad Friedman from Denver... It was a long and hot day in Denver. The mercury topped out at 90 as we roamed the streets from one venue to the next. At least on the ground, as we got our bearings today, mostly far off the grid of the incessant ...

Today’s featured article is a warning from Greg Gordon of McClatchy News in which he points to the fact that the recent disclosure of flawed software in Premier/Diebold machines points directly to a system of testing and certifying voting systems that was broken. Gordon points out, “NASED watched over the ...

Blogged by Brad Friedman from Boulder, CO... The following video report, as seen live on Fox "News" yesterday, demonstrates that the far-right "news" channel has no clue what the words "raucous", "out of control" or "freedom of speech" actually mean, as "reporter" Griff Jenkins is seen taunting DNC Convention demonstrators, only ...

Blogged by Brad Friedman from Boulder, CO... Just as I went off the grid late last week, this news came in, so some of you may be ahead of me on this one. In either case, it's still worth noting that GOP/DoJ vote suppressor, Hans von Spakovsky was secretly hired by ...

Blogged by Brad Friedman from Boulder, CO... If you didn't happen to pay close enough attention to Ellen Theisen's guest blog on Friday, now that I'm back on the grid (after a few blissful days in the mountains with family friends on the way to Denver here), let me re-iterate the ...