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EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT – VOTE TODAY!
April 9, 2013 By 3 Comments
Today is Election Day across Illinois. Please remember to vote.
Vote Defenders – Illinois Voters Help To Stop Election Fraud!
April 9, 2013 By 4 Comments
Defend the Vote invites voters across Illinois to become a Vote Defender. How many times have I heard… “Sharon, how can I help. What can I do?” I take these words very personally because I feel the emotions behind them. It is disheartening to our Republic when we do not have faith in the integrity [...]
Florida Identifies Cyberattack on Absentee Voting
March 19, 2013 By 2 Comments
With the way technology is growing these days, nobody should be surprised about the cyberattack identified in Florida during an August 2012 primary election. Or that’s what law Professor Candice Hoke, founding director of the Center for Election Integrity at Cleveland State University, seemed to be saying: “This has been in the cards, it’s been [...]
Illinois Board of Elections Doesn’t Take Security Seriously
March 18, 2013 By 3 Comments
Editor’s note: This is part two in a series of 4 responses from Defend the Vote directed at the Illinois State Board of Elections letter on January 17th, 2013 regarding election security in Chicago and Suburban Cook County. These links may be useful. Sharon Meroni’s Letter, Ken Menzel’s Response, and The Problems with Chicago (Article [...]
86 Year Old Minnesota Woman Charged With Voting Fraud
March 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
An eighty-six year old woman living in Minnesota was recently charged with felony voter fraud for voting twice in the 2012 primary election. After discussing the incident with St. Peter detective Travis Sandland, Margaret Schneider remembers voting twice: once using an absentee ballot on July 13th, and again in person on Election Day. Furthermore, she [...]
The Problems With Chicago
March 6, 2013 By 4 Comments
On November 19th, 2012, Defend the Vote’s Sharon Meroni testified at the Illinois State Board of Elections board meeting. As part of her testimony, Sharon gave the Board members a letter outlining Defend the Vote’s findings from the recent November election; not all of it good, but she felt it was important to alert the [...]
Defend the Vote Enters the 2nd Congressional Race
February 14, 2013 By 3 Comments
Defend the Vote has been working to develop a hands on and real-time security-based reporting system for elections. This involves fraud reporting and security reporting. We have our prototype ready to go and will begin deploying it tomorrow in the 2nd Congressional race in Illinois. It’s new. Time is short. The impact unknown until we [...]
The Nation’s First Election Performance Index
February 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Pew Charitable Trusts – “an independent nonprofit organization that applies an analytical approach to improve public policy, inform the public, and stimulate civic life” – has created the nation’s first Elections Performance Index. Based on the recommendations of Professor Heather Gerken’s Democracy Index, this elections performance index ranks a state’s election performance based on 17 [...]
Attacks on Voting Rights Include Attacking Justice Clarence Thomas
In a shocking show of racial intolerance in this modern day, CNN published an article about Clarence Thomas; a black conservative Supreme Court Justice who is being maligned in the liberal media for his originalist views toward the Constitution. “How does a black judge become an originalist when the “original intent” of the Constitution was [...]