Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
One day of early voting and Craighead County Arkansas has run out of ES&S provided paper ballots. They are now printing their own with hints that the Attorney General will now get involved. Tomorrow, a lawsuit is being filed in Arizona against the purchase or use of Diebold and/or Sequoia DREs (more on that tomorrow). West Virginians go to the polls today but 6 counties will only have paper ballots because of the failure of ES&S. Fifty Texas counties are still without software from ES&S to support local elections on Saturday. Test ballots provided by West Virginia state elections division to Jefferson Co. could not be read accurately by the counties optical scan machines. The county blamed the test deck….
NAtional: Train Wreck – Major New Diebold E-Voting Security Vulnerability Discovered; Affects All Touchscreen Voting Systems in All States LINK
AR: Train Wreck – Most counties without mandated equipment as early voting begins (ES&S) LINK
AR: Baxter County � Train Wreck – Early voters use paper ballots (ES&S) LINK
AR: Clark County � Train Wreck – Early voting gets off to a shaky start in Clark County LINK
AR: Craighead County � Train Wreck – First Day of Early Voting and Already Running Out of Ballots (ES&S) LINK
AR: Jefferson County � Train Wreck � Voters Face Paper Ballots (ES&S) LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County � Train Wreck – Elections board opens probe into voting fiasco (Diebold) LINK
TX: Bexar County � Train Wreck – Electronic machines will await voters (As of now 50 Texas counties still have no ballot programming software from ES&S) LINK
WV: Train Wreck – Primary Day in West Virginia Begins with Problems (ES&S) LINK
WV: Train Wreck – Several W.Va. counties ditch new voting machines (ES&S) LINK
WV: Train Wreck – New voting machines to receive first big test in today’s primary (Except in 6 counties that ES&S failed to have ready) LINK
WV: Jefferson County � Train Wreck – Officials hope voting machines up to the challenge today (ES&S) LINK
NAtional: Diebold Election Systems Develops Advanced Accessibility for Touch-Screen Voting Systems LINK
NAtional: Diebold faces informal SEC inquiry LINK
NAtional: SEC Investigation Of Diebold Under Way! LINK
NAtional: Ask your election officials: Are you following e-voting issues in the news? LINK
CO: Denver – Council questions voting machines (Sequoia) LINK
FL: Columnist – No `verify,’ no trust LINK
FL: Palm Beach County – Elections chief wants machine to handle votes LINK
IN: Jackson County – Votes await count LINK
IN: Union County – Sheriff candidate seeks recount LINK
KS: Sedgwick County – Voting change. Registering, advance voting may create obstacles for poor, elderly, disabled LINK
LA: Ater wants FEMA help for elections LINK
NC: Granville County – Granville Board of Elections Director explains what went wrong with primary LINK
NE: New voting devices add ease to elections (ES&S) LINK
NJ: Bayonne – Voting machines don’t count voters, altering runoff rules LINK
OH: Democrats Tell Ohio Official to Quit Probe LINK
OH: State orders election review LINK
OH: Hamilton County – Madeira levy still undecided. 135 ballots not counted LINK
TN: Monroe County – Faster August election results expected LINK
UT: Glitch Worries Utah Elections Officials. Optical Scanners Miscount Absentee Ballots in Ohio (Diebold) LINK
WV: So far, so good in W.Va. primary LINK
WV: Kanawha County – Electronic vote runs smoothly LINK
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When all things voting are not stable something has happened to destabilize the voting system in America.
There are three companies in the US that supply most (the vast majority) of the voting equipment used in US Elections.
One could destabilize democracy in the US by destabilizing the IT manager or CEO of those three companies.
Sounds like destabilizing the democracy of the US is a lot simpler than it once was thought to be.
If the voting machines don’t work properly, then somebody is going to have to lie and say "all is well" to keep the people from making revolting statements.