• Avi Rubin’s Blog: My day at the polls - Maryland primary ‘06 (p)(f)
  The biggest change over the 2004 election was the introduction of electronic poll books that we used to check in voters — basically little touchscreen computers that are connected to an Ethernet hub. They each contain a full database of the registered voters in the county, and information about whether or not each voter has already voted. These poll books turned out to be a disaster, but more on that later.
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• Democrats Press GOP to Ease Off Game Plan for Voter Challenges (p)(f)
  Democrats and independent voting rights groups yesterday called on Maryland Republicans to repudiate their Election Day handbook that advises GOP poll watchers to aggressively challenge the credentials of voters. Nov 2, 2006
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• Ehrlich Urges Voters to Cast Absentee Ballots (p)(f)
  Faced with intense opposition to his proposal to switch from electronic voting machines to paper ballots, Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) today urged voters to cast absentee ballots in the November general election instead of voting at their polling places. September 21, 2006; 4:10 PM
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• Ehrlich Wants Paper Ballots For Nov. Vote (p)(f)
  A week after the primary election was plagued by human error and technical glitches, Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) called yesterday for the state to scrap its $106 million electronic voting apparatus and revert to a paper ballot system for the November election. September 21, 2006; Page A01
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• Election Officials Seek Out Data Cards (p)(f)
  four dozen cards -- holding potentially hundreds or more votes -- had not yet been uploaded into a central server. Sep 21, 2006
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• Elections Chief Stars In Diebold Promotion (f)
  Linda H. Lamone, Maryland's elections administrator, is featured prominently promoting a Diebold Election Systems product that caused delays in last year's elections. Her appearance in the company's new marketing and sales brochure has critics asking whether she violated state ethics law by publicly promoting a vendor.
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• Former Bush campaign official sentenced to prison (p)(f)
  A senior official in U.S. President George W. Bush’s re-election campaign was sentenced to 10 months in prison on Wednesday for his role in suppressing votes in a key U.S. Senate race, a scandal that Democrats charge may involve the White House. May 17, 2006
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• Fox News Sunday, Interview With President Bill Clinton, 9/22/06 (p)(f)
  I’m being asked this on the Fox network. ABC just had a right-wing conservative run in their little Pathway to 9/11, falsely claiming it was based on the 9/11 Commission report, with three things asserted against me directly contradicted by the 9/11 Commission report. And I think it’s very interesting that all the conservative Republicans, who now say I didn’t do enough, claimed that I was too obsessed with bin Laden. All of President Bush’s neo-cons thought I was too obsessed with bin Laden. [AND MUCH MORE]
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• Gatekeepers of Hillaryland (f)
  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has brought together a powerful group of women from her White House days to drive her campaign for the presidency. Not Pictured: Evelyn Lieberman (Past White House Role: White House deputy chief of staff; Current Clinton Role: Adviser (volunteer)); Maggie Williams (Past White House Role: First lady's chief of staff; Current Clinton Role: Communications adviser (volunteer))
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• GOP Official Faces Sentence in Phone-Jamming (p)(f)
  In October 2002, Charles McGee, executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party, was mailed a Democratic flier that offered Election Day rides to the polls. The circular listed telephone numbers of party offices in five cities and towns. "I paused and thought to myself, I might find out -- I might think of an idea of disrupting those operations," McGee later testified. May 17, 2006
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• Guidelines Designed to Ensure Vote Accuracy (p)(f)
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• Judge throws out voter registration rules (p)(f)
  A federal judge struck down parts of a new voting law that voter advocacy groups said would make it nearly impossible to conduct voter registration drives -- saying the law was vague and noted that an act that takes place regularly in the courthouse - new citizens filling out voter registration cards and turning them in to volunteers from the League of Women Voters - would be illegal. Sep 1, 2006
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• Md. Democrats Say GOP Plans to Block Voters (p)(f)
  A recently distributed guide for Republican poll watchers in Maryland spells out how to aggressively challenge the credentials of voters and urges these volunteers to tell election judges they could face jail time if a challenge is ignored. Nov 2, 2006
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• Md. Dems Slam GOP Voter-Credential Guide (p)(f)
  Maryland Democrats on Thursday accused Republicans of launching a "conscious, premeditated" campaign of voter intimidation after a report described a handbook advising Republican poll watchers to challenge the credentials of any voters they suspect are fraudulent. Nov 2, 2006
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• Md. Election Problems Fuel Push for Paper Record (p)(f)
  The primary day debacle in Montgomery and Prince George's counties will add momentum to regional efforts to ensure that election systems create a paper record of each vote, according to some elected officials and activists critical of paperless balloting. September 17, 2006; Page A04
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• Md. House Approves Paper Ballots (p)(f)
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• New Registration Rules Stir Voter Debate in Ohio - New York Times (p)(f)
  Ohio’s new voter registration rules have meant spending two extra hours a day collecting half as many registration cards from new voters as he did in past years. Republicans say the new rules are needed to prevent fraud, but Democrats say they are making it much harder to register the poor. Aug 2006
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• Ohio 2004 Voter Suppression (p)(f)
  Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio (PDF) Status Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff Regarding problems in the general election in Ohio 2004 ** THIS ITEM WILL TEMPORARILY HAVE THE SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTION (action) TAG --- BUT IT WILL SOON AGAIN BE TAGGED ONLY WITH `election reform` -- long story
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• Out of a Jam and Back Into the Jelly (p)(f)
  A major figure in the Election Day phone-jamming scandal that embarrassed and nearly bankrupted the New Hampshire GOP is out of prison and back in the political game. Charles McGee, the former executive director of the state Republican Party, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and served seven months for his part in the scheme to have a telemarketer to tie up Democratic and union phone lines in 2002. May 28, 2006; Page A05
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• Panel Backs Guideline Favoring Voting-Machine Verification (p)(f)
  A federal panel voted yesterday to begin developing a national standard that could result in the gradual phasing out of the paperless electronic voting machines in use across the Washington region and in many parts of the country. Dec 8, 2006
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