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Seeing Through the Voting Booth

Joel Epstein | Posted 11.05.2009 | Technology


Joel Epstein

In this age when we are looking to social entrepreneurs to improve the world let's celebrate the open source developers who are working to shine a light on how the country votes.

Diebold's Demise Bad For Elections Administration

David Segal | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics


David Segal

That Diebold might be on the verge of disappearing from the political landscape could be mistaken for reason to celebrate. Its successor would manage elections for 70% of voters.

The Most Ominous Monopoly

Michael Carmichael | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics


Michael Carmichael

America's love story with capitalism is crystallized in the merger of two computerized voting machine giants like nothing that has ever been seen before in American history.

Diebold's End: Consolidation of Largest Voting Companies Shows Need to Reform Elections

Rob Richie | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics


Rob Richie

The United States' largest voting equipment vendor just bought the second-largest, Diebold. 120 million registered voters live in jurisdictions using one of these two companies' systems

Diebold Sells US Voting Machine Unit

AP | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business


NORTH CANTON, Ohio — ATM maker Diebold Inc. has sold its much-criticized U.S. voting-machine business to its bigger competitor, Election Systems...

This Week in Cheating

Jeff Kreisler | Posted 06.01.2009 | Comedy


Jeff Kreisler

Build a $1.5-ish billion taxpayer-funded stadium, charge those same taxpayers $2600 to see a game, don't create the promised park for local kids (because they're poor). Now look around. Guess what? You're rich!

I Don't Care About AIG's Bonuses

Brad Friedman | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics


Brad Friedman

Where is all the furor over the $12 billion sent over to Iraq as pallets of cash, which then simply disappeared into that trillion dollar rat hole without accounting or explanation?

Filibuster-Proof Democratic Majority Begins to Line Up in U.S. Senate

Brad Friedman | Posted 12.08.2008 | Home


Brad Friedman

Setting aside whether or not a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate is a good or bad thing, the undecided races at this hour are quickly summarized below.

Voting Machine Company Diebold Faces Lawsuit Over Software Use

Ars Technica | Posted 12.05.2008 | Business


Artifex Software, the company behind the open source Ghostscript PDF processing software, has filed a lawsuit against voting machine vendor Diebold an...

Oprah's Vote Lost & How You Can Fight to Assure It Doesn't Happen to You!

Brad Friedman | Posted 12.02.2008 | Home


Brad Friedman

Now that the touch-screen voting machine that Oprah voted on failed to properly register her vote on the screen, perhaps we may finally be able to get rid of these damned things.

Vote-Flipping Diebold Machine Removed, Quarantined in CO

Brad Friedman | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics


Brad Friedman

A county clerk in Colorado has finally done the right thing for the voters by removing a touch-screen voting machine from service

How Electronic Voting Machines Could Steal Our Democracy

Jonathan Kim | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics


Jonathan Kim

A small number of people could easily program DREs to flip votes, and the evidence of this crime would be safely locked inside the machines.

An American Orange Revolution

David Horton | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics


David Horton

How can it be that America, with its claim to be the first modern democracy, retains a system of managing elections that would be thought unduly cynical even in the worst of third world dictatorships?

Toasting Tom Bradley

David Horton | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics


David Horton

How many times have you heard, when a politician is confronted with an unfavorable opinion poll, "the only poll that counts is the one on November 4" ...

Calif. Obama Volunteers Work the Swing States, on the Road and in the Office

Natasha Chen | Posted 11.15.2008 | Home


Natasha Chen

When the C-SPAN broadcast of the final presidential debate ended, Democrats at the San Mateo County headquarters ceased their cheering, laughing and a...

Landslide Needed

Norman MacAfee | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics


Norman MacAfee

We need a landslide. If 80 percent of the population think the country is on the wrong track, why can't we have an election where 80 percent vote for Barack and 20 for McCain?

"We'll Be Ready": An Interview with Ohio's Secretary of State

Brad Friedman | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics


Brad Friedman

I sat down with Ohio's Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, for an exclusive, detailed one-on-one interview while in Denver at the Democratic National Convention a few weeks ago.

Election Law 101: Primary Colors and Hanging Chads in '08 and Beyond

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics


Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

So what's going to go wrong at the ballot box this year? What ever happened to those good ol' punch cards and Diebold electronic voting machines?

Voting Machine Debacles Continue As Election Nears

Sarah Granger | Posted 08.06.2008 | Home


Sarah Granger

The Bipartisan Electronic Voting Reform Act being reviewed by the Senate today is clearly a mixed bag, inadequate to address the problems fair-voting advocates say continue to bedevil the system.

American Idol Finale: Will Diebold Rig It Just For Fun?

236.com | 23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 05.29.2008 | Entertainment


On Tuesday night's "American Idol", Season 7's crushingly obvious finalists David Archuleta and David Cook each sing their last three songs, and their...

Election Systems Upgrade: Money's Gone To Iraq

James Freedman | Posted 05.01.2008 | Home


James Freedman

Our election machinery is flawed and vulnerable. It's a telling comparison-- the amount of money we spend on fair elections versus the amounts we spend on campaigns or on bringing democracy to Iraq.

United Technologies In $3 Billion Bid For Diebold

New York Times | Michael J. de la Merced | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The United Technologies Corporation made public on Sunday an unsolicited $3-billion bid for Diebold, one of the largest makers of automated teller mac...

If You Can't Vote for Anyone, You Can Always Vote Against Someone: How I Learned to Quit Whining and Get Involved

Ian Spiegelman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Ian Spiegelman

The underhanded tactics my co-author Allen Raymond employed to win elections for ten years are by no means confined to one party, and they permeate every level of electioneering.

How to Rig An Election: Foreward

Allen Raymond and Ian Spiegelman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Allen Raymond and Ian Spiegelman

From HOW TO RIG AN ELECTION: Confessions of a Republican Operative: The first sign of trouble at my sentencing hearing came when the judge cut off my...