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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

more effing voting stuff



UC Pivotal in State Voting System Review
By David Harvey
Staff Writer

May 21, 2007 — California Secretary of State Debra Bowen's intensive review of voting systems began last week as part of her quest to assess the state's voting methods before the February 2008 primary elections

...An exception to the Sacramento testing will be the network used by Los Angeles County, which is considered a vendor because of its custom voting system.

"The issue with Los Angeles County is that all votes go to a hunking mainframe computer, so it's not possible to test that system here," Bowen spokeswoman Nicole Winger said.

Voting machine vendors briefly delayed the tests by voicing concern about the guidelines of Bowen's planned review....

local information:

Voter Oppression Moves to San Diego!
June Caldwell
May 21, 2007

The public had a chance to speak this about this this morning at 9 am. I've been looking for information online for a couple hours now ( as of12:05 PM 5/22/2007). I couldn't find much. Thank God for the local Air America Radio affiliate or we might now know anything that was going on in this town. Not that the powers that be want us to be informed, involved citizens.

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