Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
We are happy to join the Action Alert from VoteTrustUSA and ask that the EAC do their job and demand that the ITA reinspect the Diebold software looking for banned ‘interpreted’ code. Diebold has admitted that it is there. Now the ITA needs to find it and, if necessary, withdraw the qualification of Diebold software until the ‘interpreted’ software is removed. So far 14 organizations have signed the petition. Concerned citizens have sent 855 emails and 90 letters so far…
NAtional: Action Alert: Say No to Prohibited Software in Voting Machines! LINK
AL: Jackson County – Polls to become more accessible LINK
CA: Solano County – Solano’s voting machines OK LINK
CT: Mandate on Voting Machines Still Riles Officials in Region LINK
CT: Middletown – Responding to an order from the state Supreme Court, city voting registrars are scrambling to throw together a new Common Council election scheduled for Jan. 24.
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GA: Voter ID law battle looms LINK
IL: Illinois to miss deadline for voter rolls law LINK
IN: Clark County – Committee recommends changing nine polling stations in Clark LINK
MN: Fillmore County – County OKs voting equipment plan LINK
MS: Lee County – Lee County seeks accurate HAVA reimbursement figure LINK
NC: Voting machine cost may skyrocket LINK
NC: Diebold not giving up in North Carolina LINK
NC: Craven County – Craven County equipment demonstrated in New Bern LINK
NC: Pamlico County – New voting machines unveiled in Pamlico LINK
NC: Warren County – Warren moves on to second choice for voting equipment LINK
NY: N.Y. to miss voting deadline LINK
PA: Bucks County – Bucks Democratic Committee officials call for public vote on new voting machines LINK
PA: York County – Dover to rerun school election LINK
PA: Westmoreland County – Touch-screen voting machines a go LINK
WA: Snohomish County – County borrows voting machines LINK
WV: Editorial – Vote fraud hurts all West Virginians LINK
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We are happy to join the Action Alert from VoteTrustUSA and ask that the EAC do their job and demand that the ITA reinspect the Diebold software looking for banned ‘interpreted’ code. Diebold has admitted that it is there. Now the ITA needs to find it and, if necessary, withdraw the qualification of Diebold software until the ‘interpreted’ software is removed. So far 14 organizations have signed the petition. Concerned citizens have sent 855 emails and 90 letters so far…
Excellent John, now is the time to hit Diebold square in the face about their interpreted code!!!!
First these bastards should not have any right, any right to alter any of the state laws already in affect.
Second they need to be de-certified alltogether and explain why illegal banned interpreted code is doing in the machines…
Third on top of going to court, we need to hold additional open tests in California on both the Touch-screens of ES&S/Diebold.
Finally we need to get a lawsuit together against Connie McCormack, who apparently has been trying to alter CA’s voter laws non-stop and put up further lawsuits against these criminals like Shamos in other states.
Who wants to get the voting back? ITS UP TO US ONE AND ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Doug E.
John,
The link for the story on CT:Middletown is leading to the wrong story. Have you got a link to the Middletown breaking news?
Thanks
Keep up the work Brad – without an accurate vote tally the Majority can never save America from the cluthces of the corrupt neocons..
The link Catherine mentions is still mis-linked … it has to do with machines coming from Reno to Washington state …
BTW … if you add "target="_blank" to you links it will open a new window and not blast the current Brad Blog spot a blogger is at …
Catherine and Dredd,
Thank you for catching what I should have caught. The correct link is now with the Middletown article.
Thank you for the recommendation about "target=" I’ll see if I can change my macro to do that.
Thanks to both Brad and John – for keeping us informed!!! There is hope!!!
I’m sure the problem here in Connecticut remains Sen. Chris Dodd.
Last January I attended a rally outside the Capitol in Hartford. It was held to protest the Nov. 2004 election results, but also to lobby for paper trails in upcoming Connecticut elections, to prevent our state from becoming another Ohio or Florida in the future.
The word going around was that Dodd was keeping the state legislature from enacting such a bill. He had worked on HAVA, and was focused on making sure all new machines ordered could be used by blind people, as mandated by HAVA. The machines did do that, but they were also hackable (as we have learned from the recent Florida test). Dodd apparently made a commitment to Diebold and/or E.S.&S. that the HAVA architects would recommend these machines to the states, without considering the possibility that they’d be hackable.
Recently, when Kerry told Dodd, "There’s a problem with these machines," Dodd got angry at him. Moral: You can tamper with voting machines, just don’t tamper with a politician’s ego.
Folks the article with the latest about Middletown, CT is a humdinger. (Thanks, John, for fixing that link.) It’s of huge relevance to electronic machines, even though the story is about a lever machine.
(They recently discovered a certain lever on a machine has been broken since 2001!!! Now there will be a new election, new inspections open to public scrutiny, and a much tighter range of testing since the previous inspection routine never revealed the defect. It’s a great precedent for what ought to be happening when there are problems with electronic voting machines.) And the reporter, Melissa Bailey, has done a great job covering the story.
Reading over the news and the DailyKOS link on the same subject, I was glad to hear that someone in the Governor’s office in North Carolina was indicating his resistance to a special legislative session. That is good news if it can be believed. But as was also pointed out, 3/5 of the legislators can petition for a special session too and , as I predicted, the county election officials are making a host of poor-mouth arguments which are intended to drive legislators toward that special session. The Dems want to look even-handed and frugal with tax dollars. I would not be surprised if they caved even if the Governor holds his ground.