Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
The Colorado SoS announced today that 10 counties may have to procure new voting machines. Their ES&S and Sequoia Optech Eagle III-P precinct scanners did not properly count the votes in last month’s election and a hand recount in the 10 counties resulted in two races being changed. Is this just an excuse to force the counties to buy DREs? I dunno but these are precinct based optical scan machines and they were being used, in part, to count absentee and mail-in ballots. …
NAtional: Fixing the Game LINK
AR: Washington County – County to demonstrate new voting systems on Tuesday LINK
CA: Plan to ease voting slowed by test delay LINK
CO: A better plan needed for primaries LINK
CO: State’s eye on vote scanners LINK
CO: Ten Counties May Need New Voting Machines LINK
CT: Editorial – Vote Shortage Is Suspicious LINK
FL: Palm Beach County – Ballot paper trail unlikely in ’06, Palm Beach elections chief says LINK
FL: Volusia County – Editorial – Stand ground. Don’t give in to state’s dawdling for Diebold LINK
IA: Lee County – Voting equipment arrives in Lee County (ES&S) LINK
IA: Henry County – Henry Co. near compliance (Diebold TSx) LINK
MD: Every vote counts LINK
MN: Opinion – SoS Mary Kiffmeyer – Protecting election integrity
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NC: N.C. must redouble efforts to iron out problems with electronic voting process LINK
NC: Mecklenburg County – Early voting at mall debated LINK
NC: Banned E-voting Machines Specially OK’d in North Carolina LINK
NE: Gale touts electronic voting LINK
NY: Proposed election reforms draw criticisms
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OH: Court Allows Historic Voting Rights Action to Proceed against Ohio Governor and Secretary of State; Non-Partisan Lawsuit Seeks to Redress Constitutional Defects in the Ohio Elections LINK
OH: Highlights of proposed Senate changes to election bill LINK
OH: Judge allows lawsuit challenging adequacy of Ohio election system LINK
VA: 2 Camps Turn Focus to Rules In Va. Recount LINK
VA: Opinion – Digital voting fears are grounded in facts (This is an excellent article) LINK
WA: Grant County – Counting up the memories LINK
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The Colorado SoS announced today that 10 counties may have to procure new voting machines. Their ES&S and Sequoia Optech Eagle III-P precinct scanners did not properly count the votes in last month’s election and a hand recount in the 10 counties resulted in two races being changed. Is this just an excuse to force the counties to buy DREs? I dunno but these are precinct based optical scan machines and they were being used, in part, to count absentee and mail-in ballots. …
John Good links.
I selected the Ohio cases for comment.
I was impressed by the language of the federal court. It was strong and should send a very clear signal to the governor and the wannabe governor and now Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell. The language is ominous for them, however, since they have the neoCon groupThink they will poo poo the charges to their own detriment, as DeLay has done, Libby has done, in the tradition of those suffering from elitist myopia.
The case was brought by The League of Women Voters of Ohio, which is non partisan (link here).
This clearly and plainly shows that Ohio is very, very dangerously out of sync with American concepts. Ohio has morphed into the worst of voting practices and has allowed partisanship to corrupt to the very core of its soul.
This lawsuit should be seen as a healing remedy, and the legislature should move ahead of the court to insert respectable and democratic election institutions so it can join the free and fair states that have done a better job.
In the same Federal District Court, as an indicator of how bad it is, an indictment against Tom Noe is being litigated (link here). Can it get much worse when pension money is stolen and given to political hacks who are neoCons like DeLay, to the detriment of the hard working people of Ohio? How Enronic, how shameful.
Note that the Noe indictment includes conspiracy theories. I say this in case any trolls are here and want to parrot the phrase conspiracy nut. Conspiracy is real and it is a crime and read the indictment and wake up ditto heads.
Everytime george w bush speaks God kills a Kitten.