‘Daily Voting News’ For July 03, 2006

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Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org

So what do you do when a voting system you want to use doesn’t meet the standards you have set up? If you are Colorado you certify it anyway and then when questions begin to be asked you change the standards to meet your actions. / “If, as a practical matter, [the electronic voting machines deployed prior to an election] can’t be secured, then perhaps they ought not be used at all. Period. Until the impediment can be removed.” Freddie Oakley, Yolo County Registrar of Voters. / BlackBoxVoting has released the full Hursti II report, unredacted and with more pictures than were taken during the “Alice’s Restaurant Massacre”. / VoterAction has announced they are filing an injunction in California against the use of Diebold TSx machines….

  • NAtional: BBV: San Diego’s Diebold ‘Sleepovers’ Broke Chain of Custody, Touch-Screen Machines ‘Cannot be Trusted’ LINK
  • NAtional: Concerns About Fraud Potential Continue to Plague Users of Electronic Voting Machines LINK
  • NAtional: Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility Turn To Online Voting Using Deliberate.Com’s EVote LINK
  • NAtional: RFK Jr., Florida Law Firm to File Federal Whistleblower Suits Against Two Voting Machine Companies! LINK
  • NAtional: Study: Fed ‘Guidelines’ Imperil E-Voting Security LINK
  • CA: California Voters Today To File for Injunction to Block Use of Diebold DREs in November Elections LINK
  • CA: Oakland ““ Council Still Considering Instant Runoff Voting LINK
  • CA: San Diego County – California Democrats race to file election challenge LINK
  • CA: Yolo County CA Registrar Speaks Out On Voting Machine “Sleepovers” LINK
  • CO: Key Government Document Altered LINK
  • IA: In An Age Of Computerized Voting, Is It Possible To Maintain Voting Integrity? LINK
  • NJ: Hudson County ““ Hooking Up County LINK
  • NY: Monroe County – County will test touch-screen ballot system for disabled voters (Populex) LINK
  • **”Daily Voting News” is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in “Daily Voting News” may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or BradBlog.Com**

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      Dredd said on 7/3/2006 @ 6:23pm PT: [Permalink]

      John

      Good question.

      In cosmetic America what you do is worship the ghost image every election war lord seems to think is watching.

      I mean these election war lords seem to talk to a ghost.

      They sure as hell are not talking to the voting American public who obviously want fair, open, honest, efficient, and democratic elections.

      So their discourse is forged and framed to fit some mythical person they think would listen to their bullsh*t.

      Is it God? Is it their mother, father, brother, sister, boss, or special idol of the week?

      I do not think even those imaginary friends or any one of them is that gullible.

      So, the only thing I can figure John is that these election war lords must be talking to themselves!

      They are that gullible! (they listen to Diebold don’t they)

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      dkd said on 7/3/2006 @ 7:13pm PT: [Permalink]

      John, I’ve been reading the intro and summary of the brennan report. Perhaps my question is answered somewhere in the body of the report (which I’ll probably never get around to reading), but could you explain what’s an “automatic routine audit comparing voter-verified paper records to the electronic record following every election”? I assume its not a recount using the paper trail, otherwise why use the machines in the first place? Thanks for any enlightenment on the matter!

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      Larry Bergan said on 7/4/2006 @ 4:43am PT: [Permalink]

      Wouldn’t you just love to see Columbo drive up in that old car and start to question some of these “public servants!”

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