Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
Salt Lake County has 2 primary races to recount. The recount will be done in a couple hours according to news reports this morning. That means they will just run the tapes again and come up with the same answers. No real recount. Garbage in — Garbage out! / This evening the county reported that they had completed the recount. There was no change. Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen says the result is a big boost of confidence in the new electronic voting machines. / The Arkansas Co., Arkansas Election Commission Chair told a court that she got a bill from ES&S for programming PEBs in the primary and run-off elections recently and “of course it’s wrong”. / Avante International Technology is suing Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia for patent infringement / Accenture is failing in another state, Wisconsin, to provide a voter registration database on time and that works….
NAtional: Inventor of Electronic Voting Verification System Takes Industry Giants to Court for Patent Infringement LINK
NAtional: CNN’s Lou Dobbs: ‘What happens when electronic voting machines fail?’ LINK
NAtional: From NASS Convention – Richardson pushes paper ballots LINK
NAtional: From NASS Convention – New Mexico Governor Richardson Exhorts Secretaries of State To Adopt Paper Ballot Voting Systems LINK
AR: Arkansas County – Election problems vendor’s fault, head of commission says (ES&S) LINK
CA: Riverside County – Temecula-based group asks supervisors to name panel to reduce potential voting abuses LINK
CA: Riverside County – Complaints lodged on election process LINK
CA: San Diego County – Group says San Diego County ignoring election laws, giving different figures for hand count LINK
FL: Collier County – Poll workers trained to avoid another debacle (ES&S iVotronic) LINK
GA: BREAKING: New Lawsuit Seeks Immediate Decertification of Diebold Systems in Georgia! LINK
GA: Houston County – Election workers prepare for V-Day LINK
KS: Crawford County – Extensive training (AutoMark and ES&S M-100) LINK
KS: Douglas County – Advance voting for primary begins today LINK
NC: Lenoir County – N.C. Elections Board Plans More Hearings In House Primary Dispute LINK
NY: Dutchess County – Dutchess legislature closes in on HAVA LINK
OH: Everybody Votes Initiative hopes to registered voters LINK
TN: Hamilton County – Touch-screen voting criticized LINK
TN: Sevier County – Early-bird voters to cast ballots (ES&S) LINK
UT: 3 GOP candidates press for a recount LINK
UT: Salt Lake County – 2 primaries undecided as votes face recount LINK
UT: Salt Lake County – Recount Confirms Incumbent Loss in House District 42 LINK
VA: Fairfax County – Security of county voting machines questioned LINK
WI: Cities unsure about voter registration software. All say they could handle the election if Accenture system isn’t ready LINK
IReland – E-voting system will never be used: ICTE LINK
Netherlands – Protest against voting machine LINK
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Salt Lake County has 2 primary races to recount. The recount will be done in a couple hours according to news reports this morning. That means they will just run the tapes again and come up with the same answers. No real recount. Garbage in — Garbage out! / This evening the county reported that they had completed the recount. There was no change. Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen says the result is a big boost of confidence in the new electronic voting machines. / The Arkansas Co., Arkansas Election Commission Chair told a court that she got a bill from ES&S for programming PEBs in the primary and run-off elections recently and “of course it’s wrong”. / Avante International Technology is suing Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia for patent infringement / Accenture is failing in another state, Wisconsin, to provide a voter registration database on time and that works….
Gosh, I just listened to a a track on one of my favorite record albums – it skipped in the middle so I played it again. It skipped in the same place so obviously it was meant to skip and nothing is wrong with it!
Brilliant Logic If I must say so myself!
It seems like a monumental task to do this decertification process in time for the 2006 elections. What good is something like “running the tapes” if you get the same wrong result? I got a bad feeling about this…
Goper’s Lament (Hard To Be A Republican)
Greg Palast reports that the Bush Administration, under the guise of a secret War on Terror contract, hired ChoicePoint, Inc. to filch the voter & citizen files of Mexico.
These are the same characters (the Bushes & ChoicePoint) who helped purge Florida’s voter rolls of African-Americans before the 2000 race.
Were the Mexican rolls “scrubbed” with Dubya’s help?
And what exactly was the International Republican Institute, the imperial arm of the GOP, doing down there?
Shouldn’t someone ask?
Greg says he will investigate this & report back.
John, the patent infringement case is quite interesting.
Most public contracts have “boilerplate” clauses in them which require the products to be free of patent infringement.
If the EVM’s are not free from patent infringement it could be a breach of contract and the companies would be liable to the state or county for such a breach.
We have heard of voodoo economics, and now we seem to have voodoo election practices that put everyone at risk, including the counties who use EVM’s.
Voodoo economics, voodoo voting machines, voodoo war, voodoo congress … it really adds up to voodoo democracy.
Yipes, Dredd! That’d be a great name for a book!
Voodoo Democracy, by Dredd X. Bradblog 😛
Agent99 #5
Yep … and I left out voodoo certifications of EVM’s … explained more in this thread:
https://bradblog.com/?p=3052
Boy, am I embarrassed!
I’ve been wrong this whole time. The system works after all. See for yourselves.
First do a COUNT
Then do a RECOUNT
I was blinded by the conspiracy theorists!
Ya know, we’ve reached the point where ANY election using electronic voting machines that does NOT have problems will be headline news.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
The election warlords must be insane if they expect to charge hundreds of thousands of dollars for nothing. They run disfunctional machines once for free, if we want to see it again it costs $150,000 ???
Things are not the same:
(Bob Dylan). In my generation we put the Attorney General in jail, the top aids of Nixon in jail, and force the president to resign.
Ok kids … are you up to it? Even Bob Dylan has now made it to a broadway musical, when once the fascists had a jail for him (link here).
They’d better start swimming, huh Dredd?
Czaragorn #10
Yes … or they will sink like a stone … 8)