Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
In California, SoS Bruce McPherson reached down and deep and certified Diebold for use in the state with some conditions. Note that there has still been no report from the federal ITA that was asked to reinspect the Diebold memory card. At the same time, in Maryland, Diebold and Linda Lamone have taken to ignoring the truth, or misrepresenting it as they ignore proof of lost votes in elections and try to assure voters that there are no problems. And good news from New Mexico where the state legislature has passed a voter verified paper ballot bill….
NAtional: Voter databases must be secured, report says LINK
CA: Secretary of State Bruce McPherson Grants Certification to Diebold with Conditions LINK
CA: California Secretary of State Certifies, With Conditions, Diebold Touch Screen and Optical Scan Voting Systems for 2006 Elections LINK
CA: Elections chief questions use of electronic voting LINK
CA: Hearing probes ‘scary’ voting machines LINK
CA: Santa Cruz County – Opinion – As We See It: Mail-in voting a sign of the times. LINK
CO: Larimer County – Unfunded mandate would cost the county LINK
FL: Leon County – Sancho sets own deadline LINK
IN: Bartholomew County – Officials eye new, old voting machine mix LINK
MD: Voting System Defended As Nation’s Best (By Diebold and Linda Lamone) LINK
MD: Md. officials worry about voting system LINK
MD: Md. Official Resists Call to Change Voting System (Linda Lamone) LINK
MD: Ehrlich voting proposal decried LINK
NM: Paper Ballot Victory In New Mexico LINK
NM: Paper Ballot Bill Among Those that Clear Legislature in Final Hours LINK
NY: New York faces DOJ suit over voter accessibility law LINK
PA: Team 4 Investigates Electronic Voting LINK
PA: Voting suit headed to Pa. high court LINK
PA: Armstrong County – Commissioners caught in legal quandary LINK
PA: Bucks County – CVI braces for decision on voting machines LINK
PA: Carbon County – Carbon hopes to avoid voter ‘mass confusion’ LINK
PA: Delaware County – County unveils new electronic voting machines (910 Danaher 1242) LINK
PA: Delaware County – Editorial: Voting-machine race is still up in the air LINK
PA: Luzerne County – Ruling puts counties, including Luzerne, in limbo LINK
PA: Washington County – Washington Co. buys touch-screen voting machines (700 Diebolds) LINK
TX: Wichita County – Vendor expects to be ready to go (ES&S iVotronic) LINK
WA: King County – County election trouble not yet fixed LINK
WV: Kanawha County – Putting fee on May ballot nixed LINK
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In California, SoS Bruce McPherson reached down and deep and certified Diebold for use in the state with some conditions. Note that there has still been no report from the federal ITA that was asked to reinspect the Diebold memory card. At the same time, in Maryland, Diebold and Linda Lamone have taken to ignoring the truth, or misrepresenting it as they ignore proof of lost votes in elections and try to assure voters that there are no problems. And good news from New Mexico where the state legislature has passed a voter verified paper ballot bill….
All in all a pretty eventful day!!!!
Its time to smoke whats left of Diebold/Sequoia out of its cave…….
Diebold & ITA dodged their requested hearings, broke the law again. Caught in the pickle jar.
Doug E.
Meanwhile the republican White House has asked the Supreme Court to approve gerrymandering in the Texas cases. The gerrymandering was engineered by Tom DeLay.
The cases are League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry, 05-204; Travis County v. Perry, 05-254; Jackson v. Perry, 05-276; GI Forum of Texas v. Perry, 05-439.
As long as democratic minority keep getting blamed for the status brought on by the republican majority, the same things will continue.
RE: #2
Forgot to include this link.
Note that the MSM cleans up "gerrymandering" by calling it "redistricting".
OT
We are "winning" the republican war in Iraq … say the republicans.
However, new statements by republican Rummy indicate, I guess, that even tho NSA spying has been claimed by republicans to be a part of war, winning the confidence of the nations of the earth is not.
Republican Rummy says the US is loosing the public relations battle (link here).
So, public relations is not a part of war, but spying on Americans is?
Wow, Rummy and the other republicans really have a way with words, its just that governing is a really hard thing and they can’t do that very well.
Talking points they do good at, however.
If they wanted to take over this BLOG they would post #1 most of the time … but they could not run this BLOG cause it takes more than talk.
My guess is that Rummy just wants some more propaganda money for the November elections. These republicans will blame this on the democrats and say "it is the fault of the democrats" for not stopping us.
Republicans couldn’t manage this blog because the people who contribute to it are intelligent.
Except for a few trolls, that is. Republicans need people who don’t think for themselves (like trolls), but who simply regurgitate what they heard Rush Limbaugh or Bill O’Reilly say earlier in the day.
Talking points instead of reason. Ad hominem attacks instead of argument. Name-calling instead of criticism. We don’t have to go there, unless we really want to.
I was thinking about these voting irregularities and tampering when it occurred to me: carbon copy voting. Turn in the original to the election official, keep the carbon. Or better yet, have the carbon come with a pre-addressed/pre-stamped envelope. You mail the copy to the National Ballot Lockbox , which is really a collection of small boxes that reside in your local post office branch. Post Office takes tampering seriously. If the election goes off uncontested, the NBL can dispose of the contents 30 days prior to the next election ballot.
Paper ballots you say? Old fashioned? Carbon copies!!! Get outta here—
Listen, if No Child Left Behind really worked, then people really would be able to read and write. They’d do all sorts of things quicker and more accurately (except for typing skills).
Paper comes from a renewable resource–if you believe Louisiana-Pacific and other corporate sawmills.
Think about it. A few seconds anyway.
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