Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
Jefferson Co., Kentucky election officials have told the local media that they will be ‘testing’ their new accessible voting machines in tomorrow’s election. This is the same thing we are going to be seeing from jurisdictions all across the country this year. “Testing”! We, the voters, are going to be asked to test these new machines, which will fail more than they should, in real elections. Training for election workers is scarce. Training for the voter is non-existent. I hope I am wrong but I fear not….
FL: Volusia County – County Council’s against wall in paper-ballot fight LINK
IA: Clinton County – Placing blame where it belongs LINK
IL: Early voting raises concerns about ballot security LINK
IN: Allen County – County updates voting locations LINK
KY: Jefferson County – Voting machines for disabled to get tested in special elections (Why are they ‘testing’ voting machines in real elections?) LINK
KY: Jefferson County – Special voting machines ready to go LINK
MD: Maryland Moving Toward Reliable Voting System LINK
MS: Senate approves final version of bill for voting machines LINK
MS: Coahoma County – Coahoma clerk says criticism of secretary of state a misunderstanding LINK
NC: Polk County – Voting machine standoff ends; touchscreen units win LINK
NC: Wake County – Wake rejects touch-screen voting LINK
INternational: Nigeria – Alliance for Democracy Vows to Resist E-Voting LINK
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Jefferson Co., Kentucky election officials have told the local media that they will be ‘testing’ their new accessible voting machines in tomorrow’s election. This is the same thing we are going to be seeing from jurisdictions all across the country this year. “Testing”! We, the voters, are going to be asked to test these new machines, which will fail more than they should, in real elections. Training for election workers is scarce. Training for the voter is non-existent. I hope I am wrong but I fear not….
John You are correct, the testing will be a disaster. These people need to get the scanners in compliance and run those, just drop the TSx machines alltogether. People still using the TSx machines need to drop it.
Doug
Everyone study up on election law in their own jurisdictions (county, borough, etc) and find out if testing is illegal. I mean testing at election time rather than well before it.
A place to start researching is right here.
Searching the CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) on federal elections can be done here.
In my #2 above, scroll down to state law and select the state you are interested in. (It is below the federal stuff.)
Excellent blog. This is my first time here, haven’t seen this one before but saved to my favorites. I can’t see McCain getting in. His last bid to run failed and it was "poof" his campaign ended. The press now reports that Hillary is dropping in the polls as folks think she is "too mean" when she acts agressive.
We have all noticed that the candidate that runs the most positive campaign always seems to win. Here are some examples.
Carter vs Ford Carter had positive message he won
Bush vs Carter Bush won (thousand points of light)
Clinton vs Bush Clinton way more positive with his campaign than Bush
Bush W runs again Gore Bush had more positive message he wins
Kerry vs Bush Kerry talks mostly about Vietnam and his voice reminds us of the donkey from Winnie the Pooh what’s his name "Eeore"? So Bush wins.
Just you wait and see you guys, whoever has the most positive message wins. Here’s another good site, it’s not a blog but it’s a non partisan pro America video page. Enjoy
http://www.turnyourspeakerson.c...ofamerica.html
Chris #4
Welcome.
David Gergen made an interesting comment on This Week with George Stephanopolous, which relates to your "We have all noticed that the candidate that runs the most positive campaign always seems to win" statement.
Gergen said that the republicans are much better campaigners than the democrats, however the democrats are much better at governing than the republicans are.
We need good governing, not good campaigning … it is time to hold the republicans to account and put the better governing democrats in power.
Even if it is only to punish the republicans for screwing things up so bad … better government will be the icing on the cake of accountability.