Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Yesterday the CA SoS held a hearing regarding the state certification of the Diebold TSx DRE. The hearing was held in a room that was difficult to locate and was held in front of a microphone attached to a tape recorder. This is what the SoS seems to think of as democracy. In regards to the Diebold machine and Diebold’s actions so far, Jim March of BlackBoxVoting had this to say, “If you don’t want to be accused of cheating at cards, don’t let aces fall out of your sleeves at every step.” Bev Harris and Jim March are going to be allowed to do their ‘hack’ into a Diebold machine on Nov. 30….
ADDITIONAL INFO FROM BRAD: The California Secretary of State’s office will accept public comment on the certification of the Diebold TSx touchscreen voting machine until next week. To submit a comment, visit www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections_vs.htm, call (916) 653-6814 or email votingsystemcomment@ss.ca.gov.
National: The Independent Media, the GAO report and “Invisible Ballots” LINK
AZ: Judge rules for Brewer in election procedure case LINK
CA: Critics pan Diebold voting machines LINK
CA: Voting machines draw fire at hearing (Diebold TSx) LINK
CA: CA Elections Use Flawed Diebolds? LINK
MO: Cape Girardeau County – Cape County receives funds to upgrade voting machines LINK
MS: Lee County – Buys new, used voting machines LINK
NC: Speakers urge renewal of Voting Rights Act LINK
NC: Catawba County – Tight deadline. Officials hope new law won’t force county to get new voting machines (Hart Intercivic) LINK
NC: Person County – Person may need new vote machines LINK
NH: Portsmouth – Recount changes the result LINK
NJ: Chester County – Final tally: Luther is Parsippany mayor (Recount – Another waste of time. This one on Sequoia Advantage DREs) LINK
NY: Chemung County – Legislators set vote on 2006 budget LINK
NY: Getting out the vote just got tougher. Misreading the law has state eying machines that hinder elections LINK
OH: Fulton County – Provisional ballots may decide races LINK
OH: Butler County – D’Epifanio is Fairfield’s mayor, but recount coming (A waste of time on DRE machines) LINK
PA: Chester County – Many want voting machines that leave trail of paper LINK
PA: Group works to mobilize disabled vote (AAPD) LINK
SD: Absentee voting changes requested LINK
SD: Voting machines debut in Madison, Sioux Falls LINK
VA: Attorney general recount certain LINK
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Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Kudos to Jim March and Bev Harris.
And to you John.
Has John Kerry won Ohio yet???
GWB #2
The scientific exit polls say yes, the neoCons say no, but the polls tell it all.
Brad, thanks for adding the email address to use in making comments.
I emailed the address you provided as follows:
"To Whom it may concern:
The GAO has recently published a report which touches upon the issue of voting systems used in US elections these past several elections. The report is located at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05956.pdf and it points out the serious flaws in voting machines.
Courts in your state have ruled against Diebold in suits brought by your attorney general and some qui tam litigants. Visit http://www.blackboxvoting.org for full details.
These studies and investigations cry out for verifiable paper trails on all computer/software based voting systems."
Brad – here’s one for todays Daily Voting News
US sues Missouri over voters in 2004 election
Dredd,
I used your text, adjusting it to indicate I’m from Ca. and sent it to the address Brad gave.
Bluebear 2 #6
I hope this helps Bev and Jim in their invite to hack the new Diebold machines.
Diebold has demanded that they be able to control the test but Bev and Jim are sticking to their guns. They want to select a random machine to hack in an election day setting …. nothing unnatural.
If enough of us respond the election officials in CA may back off and let a fair test be performed.
Here’s another link to send your message to California representatives:
http://www.usalone.com/diebold2.htm
As the link states, "The one click form below will send your personal message to all your government representatives selected below, with the subject "Reject the Diebold voting system for CA." At the same time you can send your personal comments only as a letter to the editor of your nearest local daily newspaper if you like."