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Newsweek plugs N.C. instant runoff voting scheme
Few North Carolinians are paying much attention to it, but the latest Newsweek features a blurb about the 13-candidate scramble for a seat on the N.C. Court of Appeals. Why?…
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Funny how all the voting “mistakes” benefit Democrats
Glenn Reynolds has a roundup of some voting irregularities that have been reported, one of them in North Carolina: “Sam Laughinghouse of New Bern said he pushed the button to…
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Troubleshooting 101
One sign of defective election software in North Carolina is a Republican victory, and so it was in Polk County. A protest was lodged against the Polk County Board of…
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On election balloting by dead tree
University of Virginia professor Bryan Pfaffenberger sounds an important warning about the current neo-Luddite attack on modern voting technologies: The paper ballot is making a comeback. Across America, election officials…
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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
A quick fix to all the concerns about erroneous electronic voting machines that transcend the traditional dictum of GIGO would be to program them to score a vote for a…
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Latest voting machine ?issues?
OK, let?s see if we?ve heard this before: There?s a potential problem with the (brand new) voting machines the state is using. In this case, Colorado just banned the same…
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Durham leads the way!
I know that falls in somewhere close to “The French are victorious!” but it’s true in at least one case. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist wants his state to throw out…
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Election Snafu Unfolding
Can’t help but note that two hours after the polls have closed, Mecklenburg has yet to show any precincts reporting. Meanwhile, entire other North Carolina counties have reported their races…
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Voting Technology
I still don?t understand why there are so many complaints about computer voting when the gear-and-lever machines being replaced were at least as open to tampering but were seen as…