Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
Humboldt County California has announced plans to scan every ballot cast and post those ballots on-line for anyone who wants to check the vote counts. This plan has been endorsed by many activist groups such as VotersUnite.Org. Alabama needs to be held-out as an example of the right way to do things. While the states surrounding them have sold-out to DRE’s they are all precinct-based optical scan and AutoMark for the disabled voters. It seems that Mississippi is trying to obfuscate the issues with their new voting machines. In article after article the machines are identified as being AccuVote Touch Screen machines. It’s as if the SoS has put out an edict that the name ‘Diebold’ will not be uttered by the media. And Pulaski County Arkansas has laid all blame for primary problems at the feet of ES&S….
AR: Train Wreck – No Early Voting Yet in 12 Arkansas Counties LINK
AR: Gov. Huckabee Calls Voting Problems ‘Unacceptable’ LINK
AR: Baxter County ? Train Wreck – County primary votes certified LINK
AR: Pulaski County ? Train Wreck – County election woes blamed on company LINK
AR: Pulaski County ? Train Wreck – Recount Planned In Close Race For State House Nomination LINK
PA: Allegheny County ? Train Wreck – Groups cite flaws in electronic voting. County is urged to set up citizens advisory panel LINK
PA: Allegheny County ? Train Wreck – County election workers count leftover electronic votes LINK
NAtional: Localities Look to Used Equipment to Meet Voting Machine Demand LINK
NAtional: Diebold Disaster: Loaded for Orwellian Bear LINK
AL: Worley touts state’s new ballots LINK
AL: Clarke County – Voting machines to help the disabled cast votes LINK
AL: DeKalb County – Polling Practice: New Machines Inspected (ES&S Op-scan) LINK
CA: Alameda County – Supervisors to Vote on Voting Machine Contract LINK
CA: Humboldt County – County Announces Transparency Project LINK
CA: Riverside County – Registrar, voter groups agree on posting results LINK
CO: Suit targets electronic voting LINK
CO: Voters file lawsuit over touch-screen machines LINK
CO: Law firms to challenge DREs LINK
CO: Vote? We’ll Sue! LINK
CO: La Plata County – Lawsuit seeks to shut down voting machines LINK
FL: Election Integrity Group Challenges Uncertified Voting Machines LINK
IA: Touch screen voting system ready for Tuesday’s election LINK
IL: Lake County – Legislative action may make early voting more inviting LINK
MD: Lamone Finds A Firm That Will Approve Diebold Paperless Voting LINK
MS: New voting machines may end faulty ballots (Diebold) LINK
MS: Washington County – New voting machines ready for Tuesday LINK
NC: Chatham County ? Opinion – Chatham primary elections, good and bad LINK
PA: Voting Machine Problems Reported Statewide In PA LINK
PA: Report Highlights Problems With New Voting System LINK
PA: Bucks County – County to inform on new machines LINK
UT: Emery County – Ex-clerk at center of machine politics LINK
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Humboldt County California has announced plans to scan every ballot cast and post those ballots on-line for anyone who wants to check the vote counts. This plan has been endorsed by many activist groups such as VotersUnite.Org. Alabama needs to be held-out as an example of the right way to do things. While the states surrounding them have sold-out to DRE’s they are all precinct-based optical scan and AutoMark for the disabled voters. It seems that Mississippi is trying to obfuscate the issues with their new voting machines. In article after article the machines are identified as being AccuVote Touch Screen machines. It’s as if the SoS has put out an edict that the name ‘Diebold’ will not be uttered by the media. And Pulaski County Arkansas has laid all blame for primary problems at the feet of ES&S….
John,
I’m glad to hear that VotersUnite! is supporting Humboldt County, California’s plan to scan all the ballots cast and then making copies of the digital images of those ballots available to any citizen who wants them.
Black Box Voting is presently working with John, Brad and other voting rights activists to find other ways to put pressure on Diebold to recall all of the TSx touch screens and replace them with their high speed optical scan machines and do exactly what they are doing in Humboldt County. These TSx touch screens must be handled in the same way they handled the exploding gas tank on the Ford Pinto and be recalled immediately.
This will set a precedent that citizens should have the right and ability to audit 100% of their elections, rather than just 2 or 3 percent.
We should do everything possible to prevent any county from being at the mercy of these extremely flawed TSx touch screen machines come November.
Kathleen Wynne
John,
I’m glad to hear that VotersUnite! is supporting Humboldt County, California’s plan to scan all the ballots cast and then making copies of the digital images of those ballots available to any citizen who wants them.
Black Box Voting is presently working with John, Brad and other voting rights activists to find other ways to put pressure on Diebold to recall all of the TSx touch screens and replace them with their high speed optical scan machines and do exactly what they are doing in Humboldt County. These TSx touch screens must be handled in the same way they handled the exploding gas tank on the Ford Pinto and be recalled immediately.
This will set a precedent that citizens should have the right and ability to audit 100% of their elections, rather than just 2 or 3 percent.
We should do everything possible to prevent any county from being at the mercy of these extremely flawed TSx touch screen machines come November.
Kathleen Wynne
John,
I’m glad to hear that VotersUnite! is supporting Humboldt County, California’s plan to scan all the ballots cast and then making copies of the digital images of those ballots available to any citizen who wants them.
Black Box Voting is presently working with John, Brad and other voting rights activists to find other ways to put pressure on Diebold to recall all of the TSx touch screens and replace them with their high speed optical scan machines and do exactly what they are doing in Humboldt County. These TSx touch screens must be handled in the same way they handled the exploding gas tank on the Ford Pinto and be recalled immediately.
This will set a precedent that citizens should have the right and ability to audit 100% of their elections, rather than just 2 or 3 percent.
We should do everything possible to prevent any county from being at the mercy of these extremely flawed TSx touch screen machines come November.
Kathleen Wynne
Sorry about the repeated post. My bad.
Kathleen
There is a huge danger here, both to election integrity
and those that seek to promote it through this approach.
The proposal facilitates online vote selling, such as by
voters "fingerprinting" their ballots by the exact way
that they fill the ovals.
http://www.drudgereport.com/bs.mp3
Brad cares about Voting laws. Lets see if he cares about this democrat.
But as we all know. Voting laws only matter when it doesnt help democrats. This story will NEVER appear here.
http://www.freepress.org/depart...y/19/2005/1607
We hear the poll numbers appearing to show the democrats staged for a comeback, with the voting machines in place as they are now, polls are a moot point. Ohio is preparing at this very moment to make sure that the crooks get elected this November. This is happening all over the country. Recounts are being outlawed, districts gerrymandered, and laws are being passed to keep the voting machines from being examined.
I don’t usually do this anymore, but against my better judgement here goes – feeding the troll:
Ricky, she was asked how someone could help with the campaign. Here reply was: “Everybody can help, yeah, absolutely, you can all help. You don’t need papers for voting, you don’t need to be a registered voter to help.”
"You don’t need papers for voting" is clarified by "you don’t need to be a registered voter to help.”
Her sentence construction admittedly sucks, it would have been clearer if she had said "You don’t need ‘voting registration papers’, you don’t need to be a registered voter to help"
The bottom line is that she is being taken out of context by the right wing spin monkeys.
There – now this issue has been addressed here.
It is a non-issue – so give it up!
Back to my den!
DON’T FEED THE TROLLS!
Every precinct and county that escapes from its electronic voting machines is a great victory. When the Rep’s steal the ’06 election electronically, these islands of accurate totals will stand out like sore thumbs.
SDUT 6/7/06 – SLIP SWINGS UNDECIDEDS – An offhand remark by Democrat Francine Busby — who headed into yesterday’s 50th District primary with a slim but promising three to seven point lead — may have triggered the amazing last minute swing by undecided voters toward her opponent, Republican Brian Bilbray. . . .
(Time for the old "gee, it wasn’t the machines, it was the ‘papers’ remark" explanation.)
Bluebear2 #8
The comment you addressed is neutral, not favoring either party.
The people addressed in the statement can work for either party.
And like the homosexual problem with republican Jeffie Gannon and others (condeming in the name of conservatism, their own gayness), the republicans will be using undocumented folk to do their campaigning too.
The republican dictators have ordered the misinterpretation in yet another hypocrital position in yet another campaign.
They don’t get the concept of "too late" … it is too late for the republican dictatorship to deceive the people into believing them.
They are known liars.
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SO RICKY CAN
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Dredd #11 said:
"The republican dictators have ordered the misinterpretation in yet another hypocrital position in yet another campaign."
Generaly the point I was trying to make.