‘Daily Voting News’ For January 18, 2006

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Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org

Some California counties are becoming a bit nervous about whether they will be able to use their voting machines in upcoming elections. At the same time, the talk in Northern California is about Vote-By-Mail. Meanwhile in Bucks County, PA activists have brought suit against the county to stop them from going to paperless voting. …

  • NAtional: Ehlers’ Chairmanship: An Opportunity for Election Reform? LINK
  • NAtional: New Method for Flagging Vote Miscount Released — Specific Type of Statistical Analysis Can Indicate Vote Count Errors in Past and Future Elections LINK
  • NAtional: The Gun is Smoking – 2004 Ohio Precinct-Level Exit Poll Data Show Virtually Irrefutable Evidence of Vote Miscount LINK
  • AL: Dallas County – County approves new voting machines LINK
  • AR: Crittenden County – Crittenden County to get new voting equipment LINK
  • AR: Nevada County – County getting new voting machinery LINK
  • CA: Delay worries county registrars LINK
  • CA: Officials pitch all-mail ballot plan LINK
  • CA: Sutter County – Waiting on vote machines LINK
  • FL: Leon County – Florida county e-voting system deal nixed LINK
  • GA: Candidate: Let judges appoint ethics panel LINK
  • KY: Fayette County – Fayette replacing voting machines for May primary LINK
  • KY: Lexington – How new voting machine works (Hart eSlate) LINK
  • MD: Lawmakers mull implementing early voting LINK
  • NC: Chatham County – Chatham reverses decision on voting machines (DRE to Optical-scan except for early voting) LINK
  • NC: Cumberland County – Cumberland commissioners approve buying voting machines LINK
  • NC: Greene County – Greene County to get new voting machines (Optical scan) LINK
  • NC: Person County – County elects to buy new machines LINK
  • NC: Polk County – Elections board member explains optical scan choice LINK
  • NC: Polk County – Board of Elections, public choose optical scan voting machine at forum LINK
  • NH: Editorial – Photo ID shouldn’t be required to cast a vote LINK
  • NY: Opinion – Optical Is Optimal LINK
  • OH: Guest Columnist – Senate passes reforms to make voting more secure (Senator speaks in favor of the regressive, restrictive House Bill 3) LINK
  • PA: Bucks County – Activists sue to block replacement of lever voting machines LINK
  • PA: Bucks County – Lawsuit aimed at electronic voting LINK
  • PA: Centre County – Concerns aired over paperless voting LINK
  • PA: Fayette County – Voting machine demonstration goes off without a hitch LINK
  • PA: Luzerne County – No decision on voting machines LINK
  • TX: Secretary of State Roger Williams Launches New Statewide Initiative to Make Voting Easier, Faster and More Secure LINK
  • **”Daily Voting News” is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in “Daily Voting News” may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or BradBlog.Com**

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    1. 1)
      Grizzly Bear Dancer said on 1/18/2006 @ 4:08pm PT: [Permalink]

      WAKE UP!!!
      No county in the United States should ever allow any voting machines without a paper ballot trail. If you can’t have a legitimate recount of the vote then every one of these paperless voting machines must have an 8 X 12 picture of Bush and Cheney with their middle fingers extended and laughing it up in the direction of the voter. The legacy of the Executive branch’s 2004 style of vote rigging has continued to prevail. Americans lose again.

      Stupid Amerikans
      Stupid Amerikans
      Stupid Amerikans
      We’ll take your vote away!

    2. 3)
      Dredd said on 1/19/2006 @ 4:09am PT: [Permalink]

      The ’06 voter should take into consideration the following:

      Bush the neoCon and the republican congress have plagued us with:

      Lies, Iraq, Katrina folly, a botched Medicare/Medicaid drug plan, No Child Left Behind, a national economic surplus turned into a gargantuan debt, increasing lobbying crime, and endless war on terror which is in fact been a war on civil rights and liberties, a "Homeland Security" agency which is by all accounts a fetid swamp of corruption, mismanagement and ineptitude, "Patriot" Acts I & II have shredded our most sacred document, the Bill of Rights, the embrace of torture has cast the US in the role of a sordid, sadistic demon wallowing in the very "cruel and unusual punishment" forbidden by its own Constitution, NSA universal spy program has turned a nation founded on reverence for privacy, free speech and due process into a cynical Big Brother with utter contempt for individual rights or liberties, two consecutive corrupt presidential elections, mega lies, and record crime in government.

      Accountability will become manifest if the republican majority is voted out, because it sends a clear message to Bush.

    3. 4)
      MarkH said on 1/19/2006 @ 7:28am PT: [Permalink]

      MadsenReport.com is reporting on the attempted coup of Equatorial Guinea and how British, Spanish and American people were behind it. Further it relates the president of Equatorial Guinea to Riggs bank (which might be today’s BCCI) and to "lobbying" by Jack Abramoff. Oh what a twisted tale.

      That the prez of Equatorial Guinea would meet with executives from large oil company in Manhattan in September and find himself the target of a military coup the next March tells us a lot about the American (and British) policy towards the world’s oil countries.

      Equatorial Guinea is apprently rich in oil.

      Next we’ll be hearing Jack Abramoff lobbied for Diebold.

      Hey Brad, could we get a current list of all the states where major debates, actual court cases or legislation are going on with relation to electronic voting machines?

      So far, North Carolina looks to be the leader in getting it right.

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