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 36 organizations have signed the VoteTrustUSA petition. Concerned citizens have sent 9465 emails and 1175 letters so far. There is a lot of good that has happened today. Nearly 6000 emails were sent to the EAC and nearly 700 letters. Besides that Connecticut decided to wait a year and keep their levers. New Mexico announced they were going to wait on any further purchases of Sequoia Edge. And, Wisconsin is now a vvpat state but with the added bonus of having a ‘disclosed source code’ mandate….
NAtional: Recess Appointments By The President � Hans von Spakovsky LINK
AZ: Did Phoenix’s New Times buy a subpoena? Lawmaker wants probe LINK
CT: Connecticut Dumps Danaher – No Electronic Machines (For Now At Least) LINK
CT: State scraps bid process for new voting machines (Danaher) LINK
CT: Another State Reversal! Connecticut Announces It’s Ditching Electronic Voting Machine Plans for 2006! LINK
GA: One Vote Decides Election On Third Try LINK
IL: Kendall County – Kendall to switch to electronic voting (ES&S iVotronic) LINK
IN: Vanderburgh County – Precinct shuffle gets OK LINK
LA: La. gets OK to plan N.O. elections LINK
MA: Cheshire – Cheshire rejects voting mandate for machines LINK
MA: Cheshire – MA Town Tells Fed Electoral Commission to ‘Shove It’! LINK
MN: Martin County – Martin Co. sees unnecessary expenses LINK
MS: Opinion – State needs tough ID provision (Another voice willing to disenfranchise voters to combat a small amount of voter fraud issues) LINK
MS: Alcorn County – Alcorn County orders more voting machines LINK
MS: Lee County – Officials working on voting upgrades after HAVA deadline passes LINK
NC: Columbus County – Columbus: Officials updated on voting systems LINK
NC: Gaston County – Paper ballots get another look LINK
NC: Granville County – Granville OKs new voting machines LINK
NC: Guilford County – To touch or to scan? That is the question (This is a pretty ‘fair and balanced’ article) LINK
NC: Johnston County – Touch screen may replace ballot as county eyes machines LINK
NC: Mecklenburg County – $5.4 million wanted for new voting machines LINK
NC: Shelby County – Voting machine choice narrows to two for county LINK
NC: Wilson County – Voting board picks a machine LINK
NM: State Halts Purchase of Sequoia Edge LINK
NY: Arcadia – Arcadia opts to wait on voting machines LINK
NY: Monroe County � Opinion – Help Monroe shop for new voting machines LINK
NY: Saratoga County – No decision likely in voting debate LINK
OH: Ross County – Voters will use new machines for May ballot (ES&S M-100) LINK
PA: Hang Elsewhere, Chad LINK
PA: Monroe County – County balks at replacing voting machines LINK
PA: Westmoreland County – Ballot debate remains in flux LINK
TN: Sumner County – Hectic election cycle greets Worsham LINK
WA: Snohomish County – Dems in control; all-mail voting back LINK
WI: Governor Doyle: Signs 15 Bills into Law Including: Assembly Bill 627 will upgrade and modernize our election system by ensuring that new touch screen voting machines produce a verifiable paper ballot, providing the additional requirements necessary to maintain the integrity of Wisconsin elections. LINK
WI: New law ensures voting paper trail LINK
WI: Doyle signs bill requiring voting machines to produce paper trail 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 36 organizations have signed the VoteTrustUSA petition. Concerned citizens have sent 9465 emails and 1175 letters so far. There is a lot of good that has happened today. Nearly 6000 emails were sent to the EAC and nearly 700 letters. Besides that Connecticut decided to wait a year and keep their levers. New Mexico announced they were going to wait on any further purchases of Sequoia Edge. And, Wisconsin is now a vvpat state but with the added bonus of having a ‘disclosed source code’ mandate….
Just what have these states been doing the past years, thinking this wasn’t a problem!????
It took someone violating Diebold and Sequoia in public, and there needs to be more demonstrations now, to ensure these machines do NOT get used in the states!!!!
The code was banned. Places knew this for years, yet they got in anyway…I smell lobbyists all over this network.
We’re going to have to mobilize to fight, big time against Van Spakovsky and his goons…..they are going to make this difficult along with their hack-controlled lobbyists.
Doug E.
DougE #1 –
The FEC has nothing to do with voting technology and procedures anymore. That is all now taken care of by the EAC.
Von Spakovsky and the FEC have oversight for campaign spending, etc. That means MoveOn, PFAW, CommonCause, etc. are going to have to be careful.
For everyone. I wanted to point out to you that because of BradBlog, VelvetRevolution, OpEdNews, VoteTrustUSA, VotersUnite and thousands of organizations and voting activists we sent 5,895 emails to the EAC just today; and 715 individual letters. Today we more than doubled our totals from the first four days of this action alert. The totals are now 9,465 emails and 1175 letters. Thank you everyone. Great job.
John I wish that were the case but I wouldn’t be so sure.
The FEC has alot of back-doors we don’t know about, this is a revolving door enterprise. They go after anyone who seems to cut their way, and now record companies like the rapper "Puff" Daddy. Yet we never hear a thing from them about how the FEC’s supposed mandate of HAVA by law is going to be met. Not a "simple" mistake, mind you. I advise everyone to be alert of anything re: FEC and the vendors…..
The so called "Election Center" on reform
Doug E.
How trustworthy, verifiable, etc, are lever machines for voting? Is there a paper ballot record? How would you know if someone fucked with the gears, rather than changing computer code?
good bye mister sharon
…Bejammin075 How would you know if someone fricked with the gears —–you can see gears so you could count the teeth , you cannot see or count electrons.
Benjammin075 #5
Have a look at what’s going on in Middletown, CT where there was a malfunctioning lever machine. It took them 4 years but they finally did catch it, and now they’ve changed their testing procedures so nothing will slip through again.
Fortunately they were all willing to look at the lever machines and test them, when evidence of a problem surfaced. Wish they would be so responsive when there are indications of trouble with other kinds of election equipment.