When Ehrlich’s right, he’s right: for paper ballots in November
Dear Ms. Hixson, Ms. Mizeur, Mr. Hucker, and Mr. Raskin, First of all, congratulations again on your wins in the primary election on September 12. I’m confident you’ll all win in November as well...
View ArticleNo on Question 4: Maryland’s election system is bad enough already
Maryland’s “Question 4″ election law referendum language is summarized at the State of Maryland’s Board of Elections web site. Of course no link to the actual language is provided there, that would...
View ArticleNo on Question 4: the Election Central Command and Control Act
This post concludes a series arguing against Maryland’s Question 4, a referendum on election law revisions that I christened the “Linda Lamone Lifetime Appointment Act” and the “Election Technology...
View Article"No problem, no problem, no problem"
VotersUnite.org has built a database of election problems around the country, searchable by incident type, voting machine vendor, and state. In addition to records of electronic voting machine or...
View ArticleMaryland update: e-voting reform, death penalty, MCPA
I went to the monthly Montgomery County Progressive Alliance (MCPA) meeting this evening to hear Stan Boyd brief the group on the state of play regarding voting reform in Maryland. Boyd is a retired...
View ArticleVoice of the Voters — in Maryland and on the Internet
I happened to see TrueVoteMD.org activist Robert Lanza this weekend and congratulated him on the recently passed Maryland verified voting bill (SB392/HB18), which envisions verified voting systems in...
View ArticleOptical scan voting penciled in to Maryland budget
I attended a fundraiser for Maryland District 20 (Takoma Park/Silver Spring) Delegate Heather Mizeur tonight. In her remarks to everyone she said she’d been assigned the job of getting the corporate...
View ArticleMaryland switch to optical scan voting imperiled?
On the heels of widespread Maryland election snafus in the 2006 primaries with electronic voting systems, Maryland’s legislature passed a voting systems reform act (SB392/HB18) mandating more reliable...
View ArticleOptical scan voting survives Maryland House committee vote
Thanks to tenacious lobbying by TrueVoteMD, SAVEOurVotes, and other verified voting supporters — and to strong advocacy by District 20 delegates Sheila Hixson, Heather Mizeur, and Tom Hucker — optical...
View ArticleOptical scan vote by 2010 imperiled (again) in Maryland – UPDATE
UPDATE FROM TRUEVOTEMD.ORG, 3/17 Governor O’Malley will be submitting a new budget this week with hundreds of millions in cuts and we want to make sure that the transition to optical scan is included...
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