Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Sequoia has now been sold, yet again. This time the new owners are the present management team. Who is really behind the purchase and what was the final purchase price? Smartmatic paid $16M for the company which represented a $7M loss for its previous owner. Also, now that the Venezuelans are not involved who is going to do all of the ballot programming?

Is Cuyahoga Co Ohio too big for Diebold/Premier? That’s a question being asked by the media and probably some members of the county Board of Elections.

Poll workers failed to remove the results cartridges from seven Sequoia Advantage machines in Camden Co New Jersey. If the votes on those cartridges won’t affect any races the votes won’t be considered in the final tally, according to state law. Election officials wonder why voter turn-out is so low. That’s one reason.

Counting of ballots in Lackawanna Co Pennsylvania was much slower than expected either with or because of Premier/Diebold employees running the optical-scan machines. Was the hold-up a ploy to make optical-scan systems look bad and to sell the county DREs?

Lawrence Co Ohio reports that votes have been flipped due to a software error by ES&S.

This is it for today. DVN will be on hiatus until Monday....

• NAtional: U.S. Voting Technology Leader Sequoia Voting Systems Announces New Corporate Ownership
  http://www.sequoiavote.com/press.php
• NAtional: Getting in Touch with the Inner VVSG
  http://www.opednews.com/...getting_in_touch_wit.htm
• NAtional: Just a Few 'Glitches'?
  https://bradblog.com/?p=5265
• CA: Counting paper ballots means long wait
  http://www.pe.com/localn...al_D_vote08.3eb70eb.html
• CA: Riverside County - Supervisors' e-mails violated law, DA says
  www.philly.com/inquirer/...s_in_a_few_machines.html
• CA: San Bernardino County - Next election results may take days
  http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_7400611
• CA: San Francisco - SF Charges Voting Company With Breach Of Contract
  http://www.nbc11.com/news/14536192/detail.html
• CA: San Francisco seeks reimbursement for election problems
  http://www.signonsandieg...-sanfranciscovoting.html
• CA: San Francisco - S.F. prepares to sue voting machine company
  http://www.sfgate.com/cg...2007/11/08/BAN2T84D2.DTL
• CA: San Francisco - Voting machine vendor under fire
  http://www.examiner.com/...e_vendor_under_fire.html
• CA: San Mateo County - Election picture still shaping up
  http://sanmateodailynews...7-11-8-smc-election-folo
• CO: Uncertainty looms for 2008 election in Denver
  http://www.rockymountain...MN_24736_5742427,00.html
• CO: Denver election woes bode ill for 2008
  http://www.rockymountain...MN_24736_5742006,00.html
• CO: Denver – Columnist - LITTWIN: What's wrong here?
  http://www.rockymountain...,DRMN_86_5742097,00.html
• CO: Denver clerk: Much to do by '08
  http://origin.denverpost.com/news/ci_7399499
• CT: Rage for (and against) the machine:
  New voting technology draws mixed reviews
  http://www.acorn-online....sh/newcanaan/24947.shtml
• CT: Middlefield recount in motion
  http://www.middletownpre...dept_id=10856&rfi=6
• FL: Fla. asked to detail balloting procedures
  http://www.news-press.co...07/NEWS01/711070383/1002
• FL: Sarasota County – Opinion - Election rules in limbo
  http://www.heraldtribune...8/OPINION/711080837/1030
• IA: Voting by mail?
  http://www.gazetteonline...NEWS/711080029/1006/news
• IA: Culver wants to explore voting by mail
  http://www.action3news.c...30015&nav=menu550_2
• IA: Johnson County - Human error, number of early voters lead to counting glitch
  http://www.press-citizen...08/NEWS01/711080340/1079
• IN: La Porte County - Some glitches at polls
  http://heraldargus.com/a...ha/display.php?id=388530
• MT: Election chief views mail-in balloting as success
  http://www.billingsgazet...ws/local/27-election.txt
• NJ: Atlantic County - Software blamed for delay of Atlantic County vote counts
  http://www.pressofatlant...y/7515324p-7414212c.html
• NJ: Camden County errors trap votes in a few machines
  http://www.philly.com/in...s_in_a_few_machines.html
• NJ: Essex County - Seven voting machines replaced in Essex County
  http://www.montclairtime....com/page.php?page=16156
• NJ: Mercer County - Judge orders county to open machines to tally leftover votes
  Poll workers did not turn over cartridges when the polls closed
  http://www.nj.com/news/t...67125940.xml&coll=5
• NY: US to NY: You Gotta HAVA Faulty Voting Machine
  http://www.opednews.com/..._to_ny_3a__you_gotta.htm
• NY: Civic Groups Blast Department of Justice Proposal to Gut Standards
  http://www.opednews.com/...reaction_to_proposed.htm
• NY: State elections board discusses U.S. lawsuit in closed session
  http://www.thejournalnew...08/NEWS05/711080402/1021
• NY: Election activists call for return to paper ballots
  http://timesunion.com/As...&newsdate=11/8/2007
• OH: Ohio Election Justice Campaign, Justified
  http://www.opednews.com/...ohio_election_justic.htm
• OH: State will review voting trouble in northwestern Ohio county
  http://www.coshoctontrib...01/711080314/1002/NEWS01
• OH: Glitches delay vote count for Seneca, Putnam
  http://toledoblade.com/a...0071108/NEWS09/711080400
• OH: Stealing Ohio 2004 – The Case Heats Up
  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0711/S00161.htm
• OH: Cuyahoga County's rocky election night leaves a lot of questions
  http://blog.cleveland.co...untys_rocky_electio.html
• OH: Lawrence County - Township race result flipped because of error
  http://www.irontontribun...7/11/08/news/news170.txt
• PA: Fayette County - Official blames election Web site errors on database 'glitch'
  http://www.heraldstandar...ept_id=480247&rfi=6
• PA: Lackawanna County - Vote-Counting Woes in Northeast Pennsylvania
  http://www.votetrustusa....;id=2634&Itemid=113
• PA: Lackawanna County - Voting system ‘just totally antiquated’
  http://www.thetimes-trib...ept_id=415898&rfi=6

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