This is from a press release from the CA Secretary of State office:
Felony charges were filed and an arrest warrant issued Monday for an Orange County man suspected of committing voter registration and election fraud, Secretary of State Debra Bowen announced today.
An investigation by the Secretary of State’s Election Fraud Investigation Unit revealed [...]
I wrote a few days ago about some data we collected as part of the 2008 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES), testing assumptions about “voter confidence,” a survey respondent’s perception about whether their vote will be counted accurately or not.
We wanted to test for two other patterns that have been reported in past work by [...]
I’m off to Atlanta — the site of yesterday’s Senate runoff election — for two days of discussion regarding voter registration systems as part of the ongoing National Academy study of Statewide VR systems. So if you happen to be in the area, Thursday’s open sessions look pretty interesting. Unfortunately I can’t find [...]
Title says it all. Details are still being worked out in some counties, but it looks like election officials are ramping up to start early voting on Monday Friday!
And it seems like the election just ended…. WAIT! It did!!
CNN has the story. It is interesting to see how both campaigns are using social networking tools on the Internet to encourage supporters to register and to get absentee ballots.
Readers might be interested in these signs which we saw yesterday in Valparisaio, Chile — in the window of a house overlooking the city’s harbor.
Click here for the photo, my slow internet connection won’t let me put the thumbnail in this post.
There’s an interesting story in the Washington Post, “Companies Struggle to Keep Data Safe.” The lead paragraph in the story notes: “A staggering 94 percent of companies admit that they are powerless to prevent confidential data from leaving their company by e-mail, according to a new study from Mimecast.”
But it’s not just corporations [...]
Doug Chapin and I have been asked about this before–if you cast an early ballot and then die, is your ballot still counted? I think we’ve agreed on a standard reply. While everyone thinks this is an issue that can be dealt with using absentee ballots, what about early in person voting? It seems to [...]
In addition to the reports of fraud that I wrote about in the past few days, there are two additional ones that I ran across this morning.
The first comes from New York, from a report in the Daily News:
An aide to former Queens Assemblyman Jimmy Meng was charged yesterday with rigging voter addresses during a [...]
This has circulated the past few days, here’s an AP report on the allegations:
She worked in August and September as a voter registration recruiter for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN. She is accused of using another woman’s Social Security number to get hired by ACORN and Project Vote.
Davis also [...]