Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
While a dozen Northern California counties consider going vote-by-mail in order to get themselves out of the ‘voting machines morass’ Riverside Co. decides to pay over $6M to upgrade their present Sequoia voting machines to newer machines. These ‘newer’ machines are federally qualified to 1990 standards and do not meet HAVA mandates for accessibility. Those of you who have responded to the Action Alert from VoteTrustUSA have sent 15,097 emails to the EAC along with 1870 letters demanding the ITA be made to do their job….
NAtional: Sue Diebold LINK
AL: Marengo County – Polling places could change LINK
AL: Russell County – Russell to buy 20 voting machines (AutoMARK) LINK
AL: Shelby County – County Approves Purchase of HAVA Machines (AutoMARK) LINK
AR: Arkansas County – County will purchase new voting system LINK
AZ: Gila County – County Recorder will handle city election needs LINK
CA: Counties explore all-mail voting (12 Northern Calif. counties) LINK
CA: Alameda County – Officials want all-mail election LINK
CA: Alameda County – County votes to lobby for all-mail election, joined by others LINK
CA: Humboldt County – Humboldt Voters Association forms to advocate ranked-choice voting LINK
CA: Riverside County – County to buy 3,700 e-voting machines (Sequoia Edge II) LINK
CA: Tulare County – McPherson makes visit to Tulare County LINK
CT: Attorney General Blumenthal investigating voting machine company (Danaher) LINK
IL: Bureau County OKs new voting machines LINK
IL: La Salle County – Better Ballots: New voting machines allow more privacy (AutoMARK) LINK
MD: Governor’s panel backs vetoes of four election reform bills LINK
MD: Veto battles point toward tough session LINK
MS: SoS Clark unveils funding proposal for new voting machines LINK
NC: Opinion – There’s no need to delay primary (A great opinion piece) LINK
NC: Chatham County – Opinion – Board of Elections selects the wrong new voting machine option LINK
NC: Johnston County – County may join protest over voting machines LINK
NC: Person County – Officials mulling voting gear options LINK
NC: Wayne County – Voters test new machine choices LINK
NY: Dutchess County – Election flaws must be fixed LINK
NY: Rensselaer County – Most accurate voting measures not yet in place LINK
OH: Summit County – Voting-system purchase OK’d LINK
PA: Westmoreland County – Computerized voting suit heads to Commonwealth Court LINK
TX: Montgomery County – County residents can vote close to home March 7 (The county tried to combine precincts but the voters rebelled against that) LINK
WA: King County – Voting on elections director advised LINK
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While a dozen Northern California counties consider going vote-by-mail in order to get themselves out of the ‘voting machines morass’ Riverside Co. decides to pay over $6M to upgrade their present Sequoia voting machines to newer machines. These ‘newer’ machines are federally qualified to 1990 standards and do not meet HAVA mandates for accessibility. Those of you who have responded to the Action Alert from VoteTrustUSA have sent 15,097 emails to the EAC along with 1870 letters demanding the ITA be made to do their job….
As part of the Northern California population, my husband, daughter and I started voting Absentee Ballet this last special election and plan to do it permanently.
It’s convenient and I feel safer for counting the vote. Just as a note, I have voted since I was 21 years old and never had a problem. I just walked in, told them my address and voted. I really was shocked to see on TV (not MSM, but Link, Freespeech, PBS etc) that other citizens had so many problems, ie, long lines, long waits, being insulted by checking a list of felons, demanding identification etc. It makes me sick. I wish people would yell and scream and protest this bullcrap.
OFF TOPIC – What is this crap regarding that former AG Ashcroft is a Lobbiest for Oracle and Choicepoint as of last October? Everyday, something else comes out about the stinking mess in DC and WH. How much does it take for americans to wake up and get mad??
I believe that these companies are involved in the technology for the NSA. Yuck.
We’re already suing Diebold off its ass, lets change the rules and picket-demonstrate them out of coup and then turn all litigation on ES&S.
Who’s with that proposal? Blackboxvoting sure is.
Its your right to vote—carry a camera, or don’t participate
Doug E.
The fundamental essence in voting theory, as regards incumbents, is accountability.
The theory is that if incumbents get voted out of office because of their corruption, and a better candidate replaces the incumbent, democracy has proven itself.
However we see a staggering degree of corruption and the party in power, the republicans, not having been held accountable.
When DeLay first came under fire, the republican majority in the House changed the rules to allow him to stay on if he was indicted. This caused a firestorm and so they backed off, flip flopped, and changed it back like it had been.
So the neoCon power brokers who are the leaders of the republican party, and who are under the guns of indictment or potential indictment, do not like the notion of accountability.
"Keep It Simple Stupid" is the principle being violated when "they all do it" is the yawner response to exposure to the principle of accountability.
The solution is simple: accountability is expressed and preserved when the majority party is voted out.
For those who want to explore the fundamental concept of accountability from the viewpoint of political scientists, I suggest the following example:
"I would argue that the capacity for sanction is essential to the concept of accountability, and that accountability without sanctions is indeed a diminished form of accountability." (link here, emphasis added).
Basically when a political structure does not have accountability it has a fatal disease. It is like not having antibodies in the human immune system.
In the case of a human, the person dies, and in the case of a political system, democracy dies.
Voting can be likened to the movement of antibodies to the scene of the disease and the removal of the harmful agents.
If the voting is impaired, then the body cannot heal itself.
AZ Election Protest: 12noon – 1pm, 301 W. Jefferson/SW corner. Bring signs & cameras…big brother will be watching.
Denise #5
Good for you. Bring your cameras and videorecorders to take pictures of big brother.
Then share them with us here. We are with you in spirit.
Gotta get rid of the slime doing the crime … and let them do some time.
And get rid of the voting machines right alongside their filler asses……
Doug E.
Anybody hear how it went?