http://netvouz.com/garoldstone/tag/election?feed=rss garoldstone's bookmarks tagged "election" on Netvouz http://avi-rubin.blogspot.com/2006/09/my-day-at-polls-maryland-primary-06.html 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. garoldstone Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:37:02 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/02/AR2006110201670.html 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 garoldstone Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:04:07 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/21/AR2006092101046.html 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 garoldstone Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:53:53 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/20/AR2006092001356.html 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 garoldstone Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:52:47 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/20/AR2006092001908.html four dozen cards -- holding potentially hundreds or more votes -- had not yet been uploaded into a central server. Sep 21, 2006 garoldstone Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:46:05 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/27/AR2007062702828.html 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. garoldstone Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:55:24 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/17/AR2006051701928.html?sub=AR 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 garoldstone Tue, 30 May 2006 17:46:02 GMT http://thinkprogress.org/clinton-interview 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] garoldstone Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:56:26 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/20/AR2007062002567.html 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)) garoldstone Sun, 24 Jun 2007 11:55:50 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/16/AR2006051601712.html 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 garoldstone Tue, 30 May 2006 17:48:03 GMT