Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
The state of Florida has decided that just maybe they need to do something about security and the Diebold machines. They issued a technical advisory that tends to vindicate Ion Sancho. In New York advocacy groups, individuals and civil rights groups have filed to intervene in the DoJ suit against the state. And it appears that Burlington, Vermont will be the first US city to elect it’s mayor using “instant run-off voting”….
CA: Opinion – Why voting registrars seek snail mail ballots LINK
CA: State official visits county voting office LINK
CO: Larimer County – County tries out new voting machine (Diebold TS) LINK
FL: State Issues ‘Technical Advisory’ for ‘Security Enhancements’ on ‘All Voting Systems’ in State! LINK
FL: State orders security safeguards for voting machines LINK
FL: State issues new voting guidelines LINK
FL: Voting bosses must boost security LINK
FL: State: Absentee vote count ‘will not be a problem’ in elections LINK
IL: Cook County – Claypool takes early voting to court LINK
NC: Craven County – Craven bid to modify voting booths with new equipment gains approval LINK
NC: Person County – New voting machines expected in next 2 weeks (ES&S OS) LINK
NY: New York Voters and Civic Groups Intervene in DOJ Lawsuit LINK
PA: Fayette County – New voting machines needed in Fayette LINK
PA: Luzerne County – Voting boss promises new devices to be ready (ES&S iVotronic) LINK
VT: Burlington to become first to elect mayor using instant runoff LINK
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The state of Florida has decided that just maybe they need to do something about security and the Diebold machines. They issued a technical advisory that tends to vindicate Ion Sancho. In New York advocacy groups, individuals and civil rights groups have filed to intervene in the DoJ suit against the state. And it appears that Burlington, Vermont will be the first US city to elect it’s mayor using “instant run-off voting”….
Am I getting this correct?
The advisory in Florida seems to take the position that there is nothing that can be done about the defective electronic voting machines.
Except surround them with more people as a security matter.
Why not just do the machines correctly and serve the purpose machines are designed for … to replace boring dry work with machines.
I am not going to subscribe to the notion that Americans can not build good levees or that Americans can not build good electronic voting machines.
It is not a matter of security in the first instance, it is a matter of quality control and commitment to quality first.
And when it comes to elections in a democracy, the quality sense translates into good patriotism.
And more shocking news is coming out of Florida:
State: Absentee vote count ‘will not be a problem’ in elections
By MAURICE TAMMAN
"With just days before elections, state officials were scrambling this week to determine whether they had a problem that could call into question tens of thousands of absentee votes.
The problem surfaced in the state’s newly minted central voter database, a multimillion-dollar project that is supposed to cleanse the voter rolls of errors and prevent voter fraud.
The Herald-Tribune on Wednesday found thousands of mysterious entries in the tally of historic votes that suggested people had already voted in elections that haven’t yet occurred.
The revelation launched a furious review by state election officials who worried that the entries could make it appear as though legitimate voters were trying to vote twice. "
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