http://www.canada.com/news/national/Irregularities%2Bwidespread%2BCanadian%2Belections%2Breport%2Bfinds/8318101/story.html By Stephen Maher, Postmedia NewsApril 30, 2013 OTTAWA — More than 165,000 people seem to have voted improperly in the last election, a new Elections Canada report has found, and the system for voting needs to be overhauled, although there isn’t enough time to do that before the next election. Chief Electoral Officer [more]
Dec 232012
I am highly motivated, this hits close to my home (explained in a later posting), and to the international efforts in the wake of Fukushima. QUESTION: What eventually happened to the moratorium on uranium development in Virginia? (We participated in June 2011, item #4 below). RESPONSE: Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling took up the cause (#2 [more]
(Notes to myself (from “Comments” on the article, Harper Mag website): Greg Palast’s “Armed Madhouse” describes vote irregularities and vote stealing in 2000 and 2004. Palast has another couple of books out on the same topic.) In the last day or two Anonymous has said they hacked into voting machines and found rigged software which [more]
(There are serious concerns about electronic voting since the election fraud in Florida that put Geo Bush back into the White House and since the “robo call” manipulations in Canada. Add this article to the file, “Electronic votiing” found under “Corporatocracy or Democracy”. ) http://www.salon.com/2012/11/05/ohio_republicans_sneak_risky_software_onto_voting_machines/ Monday, Nov 5, 2012 03:36 PM CST Is the GOP stealing Ohio? Uncertified, [more]
A very important story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYIezJyhGWY (INSERT: in the October 2012 municipal election in Saskatoon, the electronic voting system was the same as demonstrated in the documentary where a black marker is used to fill in the oval to mark the voter’s choice. The page is then run through the reader/computer.) “The mid-term elections are one [more]
Nov 072012
http://www.thestar.com/article/657514 Published on Friday June 26, 2009 Joan Bryden THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA–Allowing Canadians to vote electronically may be the remedy for the ever-dwindling percentage of voters who bother to exercise their democratic rights, Elections Canada suggests. In a report released late Friday, the independent electoral watchdog says it will push this fall for legislative [more]
Mar 242012
In light of robocalls vote fraud in the U.S. the project for E-voting in Canada is in need of hard scrutiny. I sent a follow-up to my Sept, 2011 email to Marc Mayrand, Chief Electoral Officer, because of grave concerns about electronic voting. People in the U.S. have done an excellent job of documenting and [more]
Mar 242012
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0310/S00211.htm Diebold Memos Disclose Florida 2000 E-Voting Fraud Friday, 24 October 2003, 11:18 am Article: Alastair Thompson The Diebold Memos’ Smoking Gun Volusia County Memos Disclose Election 2000 Vote Fraud By Alastair Thompson http://www.blackboxvoting.org Read The Book…Support The Cause – Order Your Copy Today “DELAND, Fla., Nov. 11 – Something very strange happened on [more]
Sep 072011
FOR UPDATE on the email sent below, see: 2012-03-24 Letter to Chief Electoral Officer, Follow-up on Project on Electronic Voting in Canada Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, Marc Mayrand , (2007 to present). Bio: http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=abo&dir=ceo/bio&document=index&lang=e The reply to the following email, click on: Elections Canada reply re E-voting Their File 371802, Sept 29 [more]
Sep 032011
(I hope to return to this blog. There are interesting postings.) Posted on August 28, 2011 by Christopher http://www.christopher-parsons.com/blog/technology/online-voting-and-hostile-deployment-environments/ Elections Canada recently stated that sometime after 2013 it intends to trial online voting, a system that lets citizens vote over the Internet. Fortunately, they are just committing to a trial but if the trial is conducted [more]
