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Maryland STATE BOARD OF ELECTION LAWS

Maryland STATE BOARD OF ELECTION LAWS

410-269-2840
151 West Street, Suite 200
P. O. Box 6486
Annapolis, MD 21401-0486
Administrator: Linda H. Lamone, Esq. ………….. 410-269-284 0l******@****************md.us
Deputy Administrator: Ross Goldstein …………………… 410-269-2840 rg********@****************md.us
Fair Practices Officer: Jackie Bryley ……………………… 410-269-2866 jb*****@****************md.us
EEO Officer: Jared Demarinis ………………….. 410-269-2853 jd********@****************md.us
ADA Coordinator: Roger Stitt ……………………….. 410-269-2850 rs****@****************md.us
Personnel Officer: Jackie Bryley .. …………………410-269-2866 jb*****@****************md.us
Fax: ……………………………………. 410-974-2019
Toll Free Line: …………………………………. 1-800-222-8683 http://www.elections.state.md.us
http://www.dbm.maryland.gov/eeo/Documents/stateeeodirectory.pdf

Romney Family Investment Ties To Voting Machine Company That Could Decide The Election Causing Concern

http://www.forbes.com/
The network political departments get busy and, in short order, discover that the machines used in Hamilton County, Ohio—the county home of Cincinnati— are supplied by Hart Intercivic, a national provider of voting systems in use in a wide variety of counties scattered throughout the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Hawaii, Colorado and Ohio.
A quick Internet search reveals that there may be reason for concern.
A test conducted in 2007 by the Ohio Secretary of State revealed that five of the electronic voting systems the state was looking to use in the upcoming 2008 presidential election had failed badly, each easily susceptible to chicanery that could alter the results of an election.
As reported in the New York Times, “At polling stations, teams working on the study were able to pick locks to access memory cards and use hand-held devices to plug false vote counts into machines. At boards of election, they were able to introduce malignant software into servers.”
We learn that one of the companies whose machines had failed was none other than Hart Intercivic.
Tony Tamer, H.I.G.’s founder, turns out to be a major bundler for the Mitt Romney campaign,  along with three other directors of H.I.G. who are also big-time money raisers for Romney.
Indeed, as fate would have it, two of those directors—Douglas Berman and Brian Schwartz— were actually in attendance at the now infamous “47 percent” fundraiser in Boca Raton, Florida.

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Just one in four children in Kentucky is prepared for kindergarten, according to preliminary data presented to the Kentucky Board of Education.
<SHAME> Where is the Separation between Church and State? In private Pocket$
The Florida Board of Education has adopted a new strategic plan that envisions about 17 percent of one-time public school students attending either charters or using taxpayer-funded vouchers to attend private schools by the 2017-18 school year.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com
School officials have formally approved a one-year agreement for evaluating principals in the Los Angeles Unified School District, but the head of the administrators union also asserted that principals will be overburdened by a new teacher-evaluation system.
A San Francisco Unified School District administrator urged teachers to re-evaluate whether to offer summer school to special education students as a way to cut costs, a move that special education teachers and attorneys say violates federal regulations.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s hand-picked choice to head the Chicago public schools, Jean-Claude Brizard, has resigned just three weeks after the end of the city’s first teachers strike in a quarter century.
The State Educational Technology Directors Association has announced the launch of a new online database intended to help policymakers, researchers, corporate and philanthropic investors, and educators keep track of developments in state-level policy directly affecting the realm of educational technology.
http://ow.ly/eCEME

K12 Administrators Dept. of Ed Family Policy Compliance Office

On October 24, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, the Department’s Family Policy Compliance Office will present via webinar a basic overview of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).  This one-hour presentation will be geared toward local school officials.  TO REGISTER, PLEASE GO TO https://educateevents1.webex.com/educateevents1/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=748074727.