VoteSwap 2004

VotePair.org continues to roll

VotePair.org continues to roll along! We are signing up more supporters each day. We are getting great media coverage! Come over to the site and check it out! VotePair.org

VotePair.org

VotePair.org is up and running. Check out the splash page and sign up for updates. Strategic voters will help defeat George Bush. Return the village idiot to Texas!

We are about to launch!

The clock is ticking and we are gearing up for the most important elections of our lives. The votepair team has been working around the clock to launch our campaign. Only a couple more days! Keep checking back for our new website and address!

S.F. Takes the Lead in New Voting Method

Los Angeles Times: S.F. Takes the Lead in New Voting Method

SAN FRANCISCO — The city that brought the nation beat poetry, free love and sourdough bread now is taking on election reform. With a quiet nod from the secretary of state, San Francisco will soon let voters rank multiple candidates in citywide elections, a system that proponents say would eliminate the "spoiler" problem if used nationwide.

In November, San Francisco will become the first U.S. city to adopt the voting method since a short-lived experiment three decades ago in Michigan.

Under the system, voters will rank their top three candidates in order of preference. If no one wins 50% of the votes when first choices are tallied, the candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated. The second choice of those voters is then added to the remaining candidates' tallies. The process — which some call an instant runoff — continues until a majority winner emerges.

GREENS FOR KERRY

GREENS FOR KERRY
The greens are getting into it with a campaign to help defeat Bush. Check out the Greens for Kerry (GFK) campaign website to see how Greens are organizing to help Kerry be the next president.

VoteSwap 2004

Lots of activity going on with the voteswap campaign. We are gearing up and getting ready for Nov 2nd. Keep visiting us as we continue to post updates on this blog. Your vote makes a difference!

Nader On NJ Presidential Ballot

1010 WINS: Nader To Appear On NJ Presidential Ballot

Ralph Nader will appear as an independent presidential candidate on New Jersey's ballot, according to the state Division of Elections.

IT Clouds Over the Sunshine State

IT Clouds Over the Sunshine State

By Cynthia L. Webb
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Friday, July 30, 2004; 10:18 AM

The Sunshine State, still smarting from the 2000 presidential election debacle, is once again making headlines for problems with its voting technology, this time with the new high-tech machines that state officials rushed to install to avoid another controversial vote count

Officials from sprawling Miami-Dade County this week acknowledged that technical problems resulted in the loss of most of the electronic records for the 2002 gubernatorial primary, and the glitch is being held up by e-voting critics as yet another example of the pitfalls and lack of security with touch-screen machines.

According to the New York Times, which first reported the news on Tuesday, county elections officials said the "records disappeared after two computer system crashes last year." The Times noted that the "news of the lost data comes two months after Miami-Dade elections officials acknowledged a malfunction in the audit logs of touch-screen machines. The elections office first noticed the problem in spring 2003, but did not publicly discuss it until this past May. The company that makes Miami-Dade's machines, Election Systems and Software of Omaha, Neb., has provided corrective software to all nine Florida counties that use its machines."

Is Vote Swapping Legal?

Marc Randazza recently published a law review article in the Washington University Law Quarterly making a case for why vote swapping is legal. Marc's article The Other Election Controversy of Y2K: Core First Amendment Values and High-Tech Political Coalitions gives a well thought out analysis of core first amendment issues. A definite read if you are intersted in the concept of vote swapping.

Download randazza_article_voting.pdf

Libertarian Badnarik May Cost Bush Support, Poll Finds

Libertarian Badnarik May Cost Bush Support, Poll Finds

WASHINGTON — Democratic strategists have long fretted that Ralph Nader could draw votes from their presidential candidate. But a new survey suggests that President Bush faces a potential threat of his own from a more obscure spoiler: Michael Badnarik.