Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
Yesterday we had primary elections in eight states, yet all problems have not been settled in states that had primaries even a month ago. There are still residual problems being reported in Arkansas, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. How are these being addressed by the EAC? They are being ignored as the state’s problems. /Underfunded candidates who did no campaigning won in the first count of absentee ballots in one Iowa county on ES&S Optical-scan machines. The county is hand counting those ballots./There were many reports of problems throughout the state of California yesterday. One can only guess that there were at least as many unreported problems./ Leflore Co., Mississippi had ballot programming problems even though a Diebold tech had worked on their machines for a month/…
AR: Carroll County ? Train Wreck – June 13 run-off expected to run more smoothly LINK
AR: White County ? Train Wreck – Election officials withhold $40,000 LINK
CA: Merced and San Joaquin Counties ? Train Wreck – Turnout low, problems plague polls in SJ, Merced counties LINK
CA: Orange County ? Train Wreck – Machine Malfunctions- broken voting machines prompt voter complaints (Hart Intercivic) LINK
CA: Orange County ? Train Wreck – Glitches plague voting machines, polling stations LINK
CA: Riverside and San Bernardino Counties ? Train Wreck – Glitch delays Web posting of vote tallies LINK
CA: San Joaquin County ? Train Wreck – A few glitches with voting machines LINK
CA: San Joaquin County ? Train Wreck – Human and machine errors cause voting problems in two counties LINK
CA: San Joaquin County ? Train Wreck – Rocky start to election day in Lodi (Diebold) LINK
CA: San Joaquin County ? Train Wreck – Voting Glitches in San Joaquin County LINK
CA: Ventura County ? Train Wreck – Glitches sour some on new voting system (Sequoia Optech Insight) LINK
IA: Black Hawk County ? Train Wreck – Computer glitches slow county election returns LINK
IA: Johnson County ? Train Wreck – Few problems with new voting machines LINK
IA: Pottawattamie County ? Train Wreck – Voting glitches found in Pottawattamie and Black Hawk counties (ES&S OS) LINK
IA: Pottawattamie County ? Train Wreck – ELECTION: Faulty voting machines delay results; counting under way LINK
IN: Madison County ? Train Wreck – Anderson to get recount help (ES&S has to send two employees to the county to do the recount. Cost – $3000) LINK
MI: Washtenaw County ? Train Wreck – New vote machines a concern (AutoMark) LINK
MS: Train Wreck – Polls experience sporadic glitches LINK
MS: Train Wreck – Most voting goes smoothly LINK
MS: Lauderdale County ? Train Wreck – Poll workers iron out the kinks LINK
MS: Leflore County ? Train Wreck – Thompson all smiles after his easy victory LINK
MS: Leflore County ? Train Wreck – Rough debut for voting machines (Diebold) LINK
PA: Allegheny County ? Train Wreck – County to examine vote machine concerns LINK
PA: Allegheny County ? Train Wreck – Group says vote tally unreliable LINK
NAtional: Another Letter To The Election Assistance Commission LINK
NAtional: CNN’s Lou Dobbs Hammers Electronic Voting for Third Straight Night! LINK
NAtional: Forget Flag Burning. Tackle the Real Issues, Like Voting Machines LINK
NAtional: Editorial – Block the Vote, Ohio Remix LINK
NAtional: Debunking the Debunker LINK
NAtional: Candidate Clint Curtis, Election Fraud Whistleblower Praises Robert F Kennedy, Jr. Expose on Election 2004; Calls for a Federal Investigation into Electronic Voting LINK
NAtional: AEI Scholar Calls For Congressional Action To Address Voting Machine Security Issues LINK
AL: Barbour County – Voting Machines Stolen in Barbour County LINK
AL: Montgomery County – System keeps voters moving (ES&S OS) LINK
AZ: Pima County – To hisses, county buys voting gear (Diebold) LINK
AZ: Pima County – County buying disputed voting machines (Diebold) LINK
CA: Minor hiccups’ mark balloting across state LINK
CA: Humboldt County – Watchdog group rejects election results, calls for hand count LINK
CA: San Diego County – Results of Close Busby/Bilbray U.S. House Special Election in Doubt! LINK
CA: San Mateo County ? Editorial – Centralized voting merits further study LINK
IA: Pottawattamie County ? Editorial – Mean machines LINK
MD: Board OKs contract to buy e-poll books LINK
MT: Cascade County – Error slows vote-counting process in Cascade County (Paper ballots so they were able to begin again and solved the error) LINK
NC: Buncombe County – Buncombe opts for optical scan voting LINK
NY: Enabling Voters With Disabilities? LINK
NY: Senate Approves Legislation to Improve Voter Rights LINK
PA: Westmoreland County – Vote count finished early LINK
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Yesterday we had primary elections in eight states, yet all problems have not been settled in states that had primaries even a month ago. There are still residual problems being reported in Arkansas, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. How are these being addressed by the EAC? They are being ignored as the state’s problems. /Underfunded candidates who did no campaigning won in the first count of absentee ballots in one Iowa county on ES&S Optical-scan machines. The county is hand counting those ballots./There were many reports of problems throughout the state of California yesterday. One can only guess that there were at least as many unreported problems./ Leflore Co., Mississippi had ballot programming problems even though a Diebold tech had worked on their machines for a month/…
In Congressional district 50 in California and the very close election there, the GOP spent twice as much as the dems.
In that race, a GOP gerrymandered fortress, and where the dem challenger put her foot in her mouth the last day … still … it was squeaky close.
The election, assuming for the moment as some do that it was valid, indicates other interesting characteristics of that district. I mean their GOP congressman is in jail for felonies associated with being a congressman.
This shows that to the GOP faithful:
1) corruption is not a major issue
2) accountability is not a major issue
3) the voters are confused
4) the GOP was scared spitless
The GOP is saying their candidate won because immigration is such a big issue, as evidenced by the furor over the Dubai port scandal.
But what about the president selling military hardware factories to Dubai after finding out Americans do not like the idea?
That is back door immigration isn’t it?
I mean, foreign governments running military plants that make critical military hardware parts (link here) is "letting them into our country" big time isn’t it?
One time supporters of the Taliban working in sensitive weapons factories? Remember the movie Schindler’s list where munitions were sabotaged? How hard would it be for terrorists to influence some of what goes on there?
The furor over virtual slave labor crossing the border to earn less than minimum wage and send some home is no more a story than a president putting unstable mid-east countries that supported the Taliban in ownership position of national security relevant munitions factories in the US.
I live in California and my county has electronic voting. I vote absentee but hand delivered my ballot while at the office a man was on the electronic voting machine and had finished voting and reached for the side of the machine for a receipt and was told there wasn’t one. I find it interesting that he naturally just did that and was surprised that there wasn’t one.