Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
The little town of Bluffton, SC will decide to cease hand tallying their paper ballots after an election today. They have always had a town meeting after the polls close in which the votes are read off and tallied on chalk boards with the audience yelling “tally” after each group of five slash marks is put on the board. Now some feel the town is getting too big and they will go to DREs in the future. …
NATIONAL: Recalling when a vote mattered (Note: This is a fun column to read) LINK
AZ: Businessman pushes voting-by-mail initiative for Ariz elections LINK
CA: Orange County – GPS to help O.C. polls run smoothly LINK
CA: El Dorado County – Voters return to polls soon. Change to optical-scan LINK
CA: Alameda County – Alameda Voters Get First Look at New Voting Machines LINK
CA: Commentary: Changes in Voting Procedures Needed LINK
CO: Boulder County – Election audit sufficient? LINK
CT: Voters stood in line for more than an hour Monday to try out the three different voting machines in the running to be the state’s new electronic model. (Danaher, Avante and Diebold) LINK
CT: New Voting Experience (Misinformation from the SoS and vendors) LINK
FL: Volusia County – Ceremony snub miffs elections chief LINK
GA: Richmond County – Election results stand after District 5 recount (DRE recount showed the same results as election day count. Go figure) LINK
NC: Pasquotank County – Recount says Foster won Elizabeth City mayor’s race. There is now a protest filed on this race. (ES&S Votronic DREs) LINK
NC: Keep voting protections, forum says LINK
NC: Guilford County – Behind the scenes at Guilford County board of elections LINK
NH: Portsmouth – City must recount council vote by hand LINK
NJ: Trenton – Clerk’s office up for the count LINK
NJ: Hudson County – Votes won’t be counted until Friday LINK
NY: Ninth JD – Supreme Court ballots impounded, locking up all contested election races in the Ninth JD LINK
NY: Steuben County – Hogan: Voters demand probe of District 10 race LINK
OH: Lucas County – Election boss now says space crunch slowed vote count LINK
PA: Erie County – Provisional ballots under scrutiny LINK
PA: Cumberland County – County says Rhoades won race (Failure in ES&S software) LINK
SC: Bluffton – Paper voting to end? Bluffton might shed tradition LINK
VA: Deeds closes vote gap as canvass continues LINK
VA: Voting machines leave room for fraud LINK
WA: King County – Challenging the GOP challenge in King County LINK
WI: Rep. Pocan: Bipartisan Request to Governor for Special Session on Paper Trail Reform Measure LINK
AFRICA: Citizens to Check Voter Registration Status At ATMs (Is this in our future?) LINK
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a bunch of rednecks yelling "tally" after every five votes – wheee what fun
Maybe someone needs to send the citizens of Bluffton SC links to VotersUnite.org, BlackBoxVoting.org and WHO’s COUNTING. They obviously aren’t paying attention – but even here in OH I know that’s the case.
I read reviews written by locals in the little local rag after Diebold machines were previewed at the County Fair this summer and the people here just loved how EASY they were to use… Ugh. I wrote endlessly to the paper pointing out the problems with electronic voting but none of my letters were printed…
John, thank you from the depths of my heart and soul for the work you do. I love that you’re blogging these daily reports here.
You, Brad, Bev, Clint, Fitrakis, Wasserman, Lynn, well, the list goes on of the true patriots of this country who will one day be able to proudly claim that they (you) were the ones who saved our democracy.
I just got done reading the lastest email from BBV and between that and your links here it’s just mind blowing that this is actually happening in our country.
Thanks again! And if you get the chance please check out Who’s Counting and leave us a message and let us know what you think.
no, they need to be sent back to the trailer park. Why cant they just vote for governor and president and all when the vote for their favorite nascar driver?
Look who just brought up the GAO Report at a state Party fundraising rally and speech in Michigan:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyon...1/16/12051/328
THANK YOU, HOWARD.
Welcome to the fight.
Now Dean is he going to take this all over the media? Because otherwise the GAO will not given a spotlight! Too many things to distract from getting the GAO into frontpage news.
Doug E.
Ready, Set, Go #4
I read your link, and offer this exerpt:
"The General Accounting Office just came out…the General Accounting Office – about the most neutral, non-partisan group in America – came out with a big study showing in fact that it was easily possible to program these things [voting machines] to make them do whatever you want. That’s not good for America. This is not a partisan Republican-Democrat issue. This is an American issue. American have to believe their votes count (link here).
Call To Arms 6 or 7
CNN asked for email concerning the question of torture. Here is my post to them:
"You asked the question Should the US torture detainees?
That you would ask this question, to me, reveals that you are in bed with (’embedded’) the forces at work to kill our democracy with ‘a thousand cuts’. A slow death to democracy.
You have not covered the GAO report that shows that voting machines used in the last two or so elections can be hacked and corrupted by elementary students (link here).
The report is not an internet conspiracy theory. Instead it is a matter of fact report by a government agency composed of americans and is bi-partisan.
Should we torture? Torture who? Torture the american democracy with tired stories as democracy dies?
As elections are stolen one after the other while the MSM partakes of lurid lust with its partners in covering up the big crimes?
The answer is not only NO, it is HELL NO!!!
Stop supporting torture of democracy in all its forms. Or suffer the fate of newspapers … fading into the obscurity of being irrelevant to what we call news.
If you want to tell them what you too think, the email address is:
headlinenews@cnn.com