Category: Voting Rights
Dok Harris and residency
| October 16, 2009 | Posted by insider under 2009, Blogs, Elections, Pittsburgh, Politics, voting, Voting Rights |
An investigation by KDKA turned up information suggesting that Dok Harris may be ineligible to be mayor. The home rule charter lays out the requirements for taking office as mayor: The mayor shall have been a resident of the City for at least three years immediately preceding election Harris held a press conference today, where…
Voter Photo ID Bill at State Level
| March 6, 2009 | Posted by p2wp under Elections, Get Involved, Government, Issues, PA General Assembly, Pennsylvania, Take Action, voting, Voting Rights |
Requiring voters to show ID every time they vote is a barrier to voting. Contact your state representative and senator, and members of the relevant committees, and ask them to vote against such a requirement. You can find your representatives’ contact information here. The Senate Bill in question can be found here. Here are some…
Pennsylvania VOICE Announces Results of Its 2008 Election Work
| February 16, 2009 | Posted by p2wp under voting, Voting Rights |
Pennsylvania VOICE, a statewide collaborative involving more than 60 organizations dedicated to nonpartisan voter registration and protection efforts, has just released a preliminary report detailing its work on the 2008 Elections in Pennsylvania — and is already gearing up for the next series of elections. According to Pat Clark of Jackson/Clark Partners, statewide consultant for…
Tell Onorato to Verify Voting Maching Software
| October 13, 2008 | Posted by p2wp under Voting Rights, Western PA |
From the PaHotsheet.com… Make sure every cote is counted correctly! Write a letter to the editor urging County Executive Dan Onorato to have voting machine software verified ASAP!!! Electronic voting machines have been in PA for a few elections now, but the Allegheny County hasn’t certified the authenticity of the software, which can be hacked…
Easy Way to Check to Make Sure Your Friends Are Registered to Vote- The Everybody Vote Facebook Application
| October 5, 2008 | Posted by Lindsay under Pennsylvania, Voting Rights |
Image via CrunchBaseJust 1 day left to register to vote in the great state of Pennsylvania to vote for the Presidential election in November, 2008. If you are on Facebook there is an easy easy to make sure your friends are registered to vote. The Everybody Vote Facebook application! http://apps.facebook.com/everybodyvote/ Everybody VOTE is a non-partisan…
no photos, please
| April 28, 2008 | Posted by andrea under Elections, Voting Rights |
Does anyone have a p icture of the poster that was distributed to polling places by the Allegheny County Board of Elections proscribing any photography inside the polling place? I was staring straight at the one in my precinct for the better part of Tuesday but stupidly forgot I could take a picture of the…
PA Live-Testing Results Site
| April 20, 2008 | Posted by mmp under 2008 Primary Election April, Elections, Gossip, Pennsylvania, Voting Rights |
Today is Sunday, April 20, and Pennsylvania’s Primary is Tuesday April 22. If you visit the PA elections page, you find that they are testing their results page live, rather than offline. * For the record, I do not believe that there is a conspiracy afoot to rig the election for Mike Huckabee, and probably…
County on-line polling place locator /// CORRECT link
| November 6, 2007 | Posted by Clarkbar under Campaign 101, Information, Progress Pittsburgh Updates, Uncategorized, Voting Rights |
Just a heads-up on something I didn’t find out about ahead of today’s election, wanted to make sure other folks found out as well… Allegheny County Division of Elections changed the url that points to their on-line polling place lookup tool. It now resides at: http://apps.county.allegheny.pa.us/VoteDistricts/Lookup.aspx If your website links to the County look-up, or…
Improved Voting Within Reach
| July 11, 2007 | Posted by Take Action under Issues, National, Take Action, Voting Rights |
Whats Happening: HR 811 – the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act could come to a vote in the next 2 weeks H.R. 811: Paper Ballots — ALL voting machines must produce a paper ballot Audits — ALL voting machines must be audit-able No Secret Source Code — ALL voting machine vendors MUST make the…
the State of Democracy in Western Pennsylvania
| February 9, 2007 | Posted by andrea under Civic Engagement, Elections, Voting Rights |
Being the geek that I am, it was inevitable that the title of this upcoming GSPIA workshop would grab my eyeballs: The State of Democracy in Western Pennsylvania (http://www.gspia.pitt.edu/State_of_Democracy.htm) Of course, I can’t imagine exactly what the workshop will really be about. Featured panelists include Gene Ricciardi and Jake Wheatley, as well as the Chair…
Keeping Score on the Other Side of the State
| November 28, 2006 | Posted by mmp under Blogs, Elections, Location, Pennsylvania, Politics, Voting Rights |
The unofficial vote count at the end of Election Day had the Republicans holding control of the State House by a slim 102-101 majority, but control of the General Assembly still depends on the outcome of two close races in Chester County. In the 156th legislative district, Republican Shannon Royer had 11,500 votes and Democrat…
Voter-verified ballots
| November 27, 2006 | Posted by andrea under Elections, Pennsylvania, Voting Rights |
PG has an article today about the fact that we live in a neolithic backwater here in Pennsylvania. Soon, it surmises, we may be changing our voting machines yet again. Older voters in my precinct are wigged out about the touch-screen machines, rightly or wrongly — a lot of them get to the polls and find…
The Biggest Un-Told Story on Nov 8 will be…
| November 3, 2006 | Posted by mmp under Elections, Politics, Voting Rights |
The problems with Allegheny County’s electronic voting machines from under-training to the lack of a voter-verified paper ballot is well tread territory, but there are plenty of other pervasive changes in voting patterns that these new machines will bring in, and which will only become apparent once new voting patterns start to emerge. Last Primary,…
Voter file database hacked: oh, goodie
| October 24, 2006 | Posted by Vanna under Elections, National, Politics, Voting Rights |
It’s not like we haven’t had plenty of warnings about the lack of security of electronic voting machines. Well, now this. It seems “Illinois Ballot Integrity Project — which bills itself as a not-for-profit civic organization dedicated to the correction of election system deficiencies” last week successfully hacked into the Chicago voter file database, with 1.35…
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