Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Just as suddenly as the alarm was raised over ES&S being a concern in the state of California the word seems to have been passed that there is no longer any concern. Perhaps ES&S has gotten a manicure kit federally qualified so voters with long fingernails can cut them before voting. (Note: Long fingernails was one excuse given by ES&S for votes being swapped on their touch-screens)…
AL: Montgomery County – County first to comply with election rules LINK
CA: Polling irregularities. High-tech voting hasn’t served California well LINK
CA: Colusa County – Colusa said not affected by glitches in e-voting LINK
CA: San Mateo County – Elections official warns of costly voting problems LINK
CA: Solano County – Voting machines safe for now LINK
CT: Danbury – Voting machine search worries local officials LINK
IN: Vanderburgh County – Precinct merger opposed LINK
MI: Editorial – Detroit – The Correct Call. Hendrix plans to stop the mayoral recount LINK
MN: Isanti County – County approves election equipment plan LINK
NC: Democratic chairman backs optical scan LINK
NC: Voting machine woes grow as deadline nears LINK
NC: Beaufort County – Voting machines tested LINK
NC: Carteret County – Carteret voters to get a look LINK
NC: Gaston and Lincoln Counties – Voting machine firm wins Gaston by default LINK
OH: Stark County – Commissioners OK better facilities for new voting machines LINK
PA: Chester County – County correctly plays waiting game with voting machines LINK
PA: Westmoreland County – Voting machine provider chosen (ES&S) LINK
UT: Counting on Diebold. The provider of Utah’s new voting machines faces allegations of bad security. LINK
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Just as suddenly as the alarm was raised over ES&S being a concern in the state of California the word seems to have been passed that there is no longer any concern. Perhaps ES&S has gotten a manicure kit federally qualified so voters with long fingernails can cut them before voting. (Note: Long fingernails was one excuse given by ES&S for votes being swapped on their touch-screens)…
ES&S is here in Mississippi county Ark as part of the Help America Vote Act. HAVA has made the entire nation into Diebold territory.
Meanwhile Brad, you 9/01/05 piece on Karl Rove meeting the Move America Forward people who tried to mob Cindy SHeehan’s peaceful gathering takes on new light this week.
The latest spin ploy is that Move America Forward has forgeries suggesting the WMD went to Syriana, errrr Syria.
Move America Forward refuses to disclose campaign statements, claims no political affiliation, yet they were key in the Grau Davis recall in Cali.
They helped petition and publicze the event. Gov. Davis has right to view their financial backing.
Meanwhile the group that opposed energy price caps for Cali and its Governor also opposed:
The 9-11 Commission and the survivors/families of victims who petitioned the 9-11 commission to be formed.
The Conyers Downing Minutes hearings.
The Gold Star Mothers for Peace and Truth.
Time to see who is really behind the cutrain in Oz…
FYI
I work on touch screen gaming machines that are located in clubs and bars .I have NEVER seen a fault that would "flip" the users selected choice from one answer to another and these machines have the whole screen divided into "buttons" so the odds should be far greater of that type of fault occurring.Also Las Vegas has tens of thousands of electronic gaming machines and do you think they would except ES&S or Diebold’s level of reliability and accuracy ? NO they would not but in their case THEIR money is involved. So how can it be that billions of quarters can be accurately counted and processed year in year out but 100 million or so votes can NOT be reliably counted every four years even after HAVA throws $56 per vote into the effort ?
Maybe voters should have a beer ,a ciggy hanging out of their mouths and cuss regularly ,then maybe ES&S or Diebold’s level of reliability and accuracy will approach that of gaming machines .For gaming machines they surely are but who’s running the game and what is the bet ? Triple or nothing anybody ?
So Utah has a problem with reality or what?