Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
“I have no idea what happened in Pennsylvania or Chicago. I don’t read about any of that.” Essex Co., New Jersey Superintendent of Elections Carmen Casciano when asked about recent problems with Sequoia machines. “I am not happy about the outcome, or the state of the industry. I think that something needs to be done. I’m not sure what it is, it probably doesn’t include AccuPoll at this point, but I do not feel that any of the vendors has a system that voters can trust. I think that vendors outright misrepresent the robustness, stability, and security of their systems. You just have to look at the litany of problems and it points at one thing, bad fundamental design, and not enough checks and balances. I also wonder why the other vendors were so adamant in fighting a VVPAT system requirement. They spent much more in fighting it than in implementing it.” Ex-AccuPoll CEO Dennis Vadura. Eleven Indiana counties were forced to suspend absentee voting when they found out that the ballots they were provided could not be read by their Diebold optical-scan machines….
NAtional: With voting machine company now bankrupt, CEO speaks out: No vendor “has a system that voters can trust”! LINK
NAtional: In response to “A bit of a quandary” LINK
NAtional: Punch Cards Out, Paper Trails In LINK
NAtional: Hugo Chavez and our voting machines LINK
CA: Thousands of voters dumped off California’s voting rolls LINK
FL: St. Lucie County – St. Lucie polling centers modified for disabled residents LINK
IL: Cook County – Slow vote count stymies parties LINK
IL: Chicago/Cook County – Neal questioned by council over voting night delays LINK
IL: Chicago – Elections spokesman defends primary performance LINK
IN: Marion County – Mistake Discovered on School Board Ballots (ES&S) LINK
IN: Scanner woes slow voting (Diebold) LINK
MD: Ehrlich fears voter fraud (This is fear mongering at its worst) LINK
MD: Chances Dim for Paper Ballots for 2006 Elections LINK
MO: Phelps County – Gaddy to ask for recount of election results LINK
MO: St. Louis – City Elections Board says machines fast, people still slow LINK
MO: Scotland County – New Technology Ensuring Every Scotland County Vote Counts (Diebold TSx and Optical-scan) LINK
NJ: Essex County – Thumbs up, thumbs down on ballot machines: Assurances not enough after out-of-state problems arise, activists say LINK
NY: Sequoia Voting Systems & Jaco Electronics Unveil Latest Voting Machine for New York LINK
OH: Shocking Diebold conflict of interest revelations from Secretary of State further taint Ohio’s electoral credibility LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County – Workers accused of fudging ’04 recount LINK
OH: Miami County – Elections deputy resigns LINK
PA: Allegheny County – Allegheny County, PA Tries Again…This Time with ES&S LINK
PA: Allegheny County – County adopts voting plan B LINK
PA: Allegheny County – County to utilize iVotronic voting machines LINK
PA: Bucks County – Bucks trying to find new voting machines LINK
PA: Chester County – New voting machines coming to Chesco polls LINK
PA: Fayette County – All 268 voting machines have arrived (eSlate) LINK
PA: Montgomery County – County to test voting system LINK
PA: Westmoreland County – Demonstrations set for voting machines (iVotronic) LINK
TX: Judicial candidate files challenge LINK
UT: Emery County – Former Emery County clerk still fighting to keep job LINK
WI: Columbia County – Election counting goes low-tech LINK
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“I have no idea what happened in Pennsylvania or Chicago. I don’t read about any of that.” Essex Co., New Jersey Superintendent of Elections Carmen Casciano when asked about recent problems with Sequoia machines. “I am not happy about the outcome, or the state of the industry. I think that something needs to be done. I’m not sure what it is, it probably doesn’t include AccuPoll at this point, but I do not feel that any of the vendors has a system that voters can trust. I think that vendors outright misrepresent the robustness, stability, and security of their systems. You just have to look at the litany of problems and it points at one thing, bad fundamental design, and not enough checks and balances. I also wonder why the other vendors were so adamant in fighting a VVPAT system requirement. They spent much more in fighting it than in implementing it.” Ex-AccuPoll CEO Dennis Vadura. Eleven Indiana counties were forced to suspend absentee voting when they found out that the ballots they were provided could not be read by their Diebold optical-scan machines….
Essex Co., New Jersey Superintendent of Elections said
“I have no idea what happened in Pennsylvania or Chicago. I don’t read about any of that.”
It’s hard work and they’re working hard to get it done!!
The Bush Administration work ethic in full force!
A new poll is same ole same ole, the president and vice president … a.k.a. republicans, are going down (link here).
It boils down to "By a 49-33 margin, the public favors Democrats over Republicans when asked which party should control Congress" (ibid, bold added).
The hypnotic residue of the way the republican talking points driven MSM thinks is still out there though. They said that "The good news is Democrats don’t have much of a plan" (ibid).
How twisted does one’s concept of politics and government have to become for the leading party’s obligation to have "much of a plan" be shifted to the minority party not in power?
Whatever happened to the notion that the president and the party in power must have "much of a plan"?
If the leader’s plan is bad, how is it beneficial to look elsewhere before the bad plan is considered to be relevant?
Why ask for the minority party’s plan so that it can be scrutinized instead of the president’s plan, then reject that plan and say "not much of a plan" so I am sticking to my bad plan?
Does anyone really think the president would ever consider any other plan than his own?
His plan is to "keep both feet deep in Iraqi sh*t", "keep lying", "keep grasping for power to spread the wealth and influence of the oil barons", "keep leaking", "keep using Diebold fraud machines", "keep on torturing", "keep on bankrupting America", and "keep on keeping on"?
Reality check. Leaders must change their own bad plans. Leaders don’t say "I do not approve of the democratic plan so I must stick to my bad plan".
Leadership is not composed of becoming stubborn and refusing to change a bad plan, on the contrary, leadership is admitting the wrong and correcting it.
You don’t blame others for your own wrongs if you are a true leader.
The republican dictatorship is bad, bad, bad leadership and bad, bad, bad news.
If all they can do is blame others for what they have done with all the power a party can have in America, then they are not leaders.
They are despots.
Regarding Dredd’s comment:
What? Me worry?
I TOUCH MYSELF RIGHT HERE
AND GOD TELLS ME STUFF
Incorrigible