California de-re-de-certification for voting machine use


Submitted by jsebes on March 28, 2008 - 3:53pm. PST

There's a pretty regular stream of news about activities in the office of California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, de-certifying or re-certifying voting systems following the results of the state's top-to-bottom review. Rather than making an up to the minute comment, I thought it would be useful to re-visit what I think is one of the more notable past scenes in the on-going drama.


Press Flak on California Tsunami Tuesday


Submitted by jsebes on January 21, 2008 - 6:02pm. PST

It's pretty certain that California is in for some serious flak from the press regarding how the Tsunami Tuesday primary election is conducted. Today we saw an opening salvo in the San Francisco Examiner on a refreshingly pragmatic issue of voting technology that has nothing to do with voting devices in precint -- but rather how absentee ballots are counted.


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