A good question to ask our representatives:
Are you following e-voting issues and horror stories in the news? »
Brad Friedman
Get the facts: here is an annotated list of questions (backed up with facts) tracking the growing number of electronic voting horror stories around the country – stories largely ignored by the national media – to help election officials learn from others’ mistakes.

Dirty Deja-vu all over again
Another Second-Rate Crime With Big-Time Republican Connections »
NY Times
Vote supression campaign points towards the upper echelons of the Republican party.

E-VOTING 2006:
The Approaching Train Wreck
Our Elections are Now Officially 'A National Disaster in the Making' »
John Gideon
While we have been involved in all of our issues about Direct Recording Electronic (DRE or "touch-screen") voting machines or paper ballots the electronic voting machine vendors have been wreaking complete havoc across the country.

Conspiracy? No.
2004 Ohio Recount Was Fudged »
Cleveland Plain Dealer
After the 2004 presidential election, Cuyahoga County election workers secretly skirted rules designed to make sure all votes were counted correctly ... their efforts were aimed at avoiding an expensive - and very public - hand recount of all votes cast. Three top county elections officials have been indicted, and Erie County Prosecutor Kevin Baxter says more indictments are possible.
The Ohio Secretary of State's Diebold conflict of interest »
Columbus Free Press
Ohio is reeling with a mixture of outrage and hilarity as Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell has revealed that he has owned stock in the Diebold voting machine company, to which Blackwell tried to award unbid contracts worth millions while allowing its operators to steal Ohio elections. A top Republican election official also says a Diebold operative told him he made a $50,000 donation to Blackwell's "political interests."

Voting machine support costly »
Columbus Dispatch
The cost of service contracts for new touchscreen voting machines has left county elections officials across Ohio in sticker shock. Elections boards and counties are stunned at the expense.

LA County DA: Dirty corporate secrets are more sacred than democracy itself
Whistling Diebold »
Robert C. Koehler
No matter that you exposed wrongdoing and struck a blow for fair elections. The larger good isn't always obvious to the powers that be.

Voter Group Sues to Ban Touch-Screen System »
SF Chronicle
... A study earlier this year by computer experts hired by the state found a number of security problems in the Diebold software. They saw the same problems that Finnish computer expert Harri Hursti demonstrated in Florida last year when he showed it was possible to use the computer memory cards to undetectably change the result of an election, even without passwords or special access to the system.

308,000 Ohio voter registrations mysteriously cancelled in 2004 »
Columbus Free Press

Watchdog Group Questions 2004 Fla. Vote »
SF Chronicle
An examination of Palm Beach County's electronic voting machine records from the 2004 election found possible tampering and tens of thousands of malfunctions and errors.

Put away the tin foil ...
US Agcy. details election fraud
GAO report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings »
Columbus Free Press
The latest critical confirmation of key indicators that the election of 2004 was stolen comes in an extremely powerful, penetrating report from the General Accounting Office that has gotten virtually no mainstream media coverage.

The government's lead investigative agency is known for its general incorruptibility and its through, in-depth analyses. Its concurrence with assertions widely dismissed as "conspiracy theories" adds crucial new weight to the case that Team Bush has no legitimate business being in the White House.

Why Ohio Matters »
NY Press
Here's the thing about Ohio. Until you really look at it, you won't understand its significance, which is this: the techniques used in this particular theft have the capacity to alter elections not by dozens or hundreds or even thousands of votes, but by tens of thousands.

Way to go, Ohio »
Boston Phoenix
As a new report details massive Election Day failures, the state goes on vacation and the country ignores the lesson.
see also:
Something Rotten in Ohio »
Gore Vidal / The Nation

Miami Election Chief Wants to Ditch Touch-Screen Voting Machines »
AP

Miami-Dade County's elections chief has strongly recommended that its ATM-style voting devices be ditched for optical scan ones that use paper ballots ... he reached his conclusion based on declining voter confidence in the paperless touch-screen machines and election-day labor costs that have quadrupled with them.

Excellent analysis on polling results and the state of media -
The Anatomy of a Myth »
How did one exit poll answer become the story of how Bush won?
Good question.
Washington Post

Elections Run by Same Guys Who Sell Toothpaste »
by Noam Chomsky

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