Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
Today the release of two much awaited reports has been in the media. One report on the Arkansas and ES&S and the other report is on the failures in the primary election in Cuyahoga Co., OH. / An Arkansas election official wrote about ES&S and the recent state primary, “This was the most disorganized bunch ever to run an election in Arkansas. They were untruthful in their responses. Their performance left the burden of this election on us and greatly increased the cost.” / A report prepared by InfoSentry for the state of Arkansas said this about vvpat printer failures, “Such an occurrence could cause a very serious problem in the event of an audit or a recount in which the verified voting paper audit trail becomes an official ballot,” the report said. “There would be some unknown number of ballot transactions that would print on a single, unreadable, and unverifiable line.”…
NAtional: Voting Software. It’s an election year, and we’re still struggling to get voting machines that people trust. LINK
NAtional: Rep. Boehlert Makes The Case For Voter Verified Paper Ballots And Audits LINK
NAtional: David Wagner’s Testimony On Voting System Standards LINK
NAtional: Senate Approves 25 Year Extension Of Voting Rights Act LINK
NAtional: New U.S. Voting Guidelines Improving States’ Elections Processes LINK
AL: Morgan County – Deadlock deliberations. GOP chair says if next Tuesday’s count fails to produce winner, he’ll name one LINK
AR: Arkansas needs to renegotiate with voting machine vendor (ES&S) LINK
AR: Expert: Revise voting-machines deal LINK
CA: Bowen calls for more electronic voting safeguards LINK
CA: Alameda County – Electronic voting plan makes sense for county LINK
CO: Paper trail pursued. Democratic candidate for secretary of state among petition backers LINK
CO: Boulder County – County voting not a hit. Judges find new machines daunting (over 100 of 798 poll workers who pledged to work in the primary have quit) LINK
CO: Denver – Voting system passes test. Mock election on new machines nets accurate results LINK
GA: Barrow County – Defeated Barrow BOE candidate plans to contest LINK
MN: Otter Tail County – New machines will make voting easier for disabled LINK
MS: Hattiesburg – Officials rush to set up election (“The election commission voted to use a paper ballot, which members said was less expensive and would ease confusion at the polls”) LINK
OH: Appeals court to hear punch-card ballot case LINK
OH: Ohio’s Coming Electoral Meltdown LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County – Early Warning LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County – Could fraud happen? LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County – Training lax, warnings went ignored, panel says LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County – Vote tied on whether to fire election chief after botched primary LINK
OR: Rep. Hooley Raises Concerns about Electronic Voting Machine Security LINK
TN: Computer shutdown snarls early voting (Electronic Poll Book) LINK
TX: HAVA helps provide voting access LINK
WV: Berkeley County – Berkeley Co. needs more up-front money for machines 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**
Nobody should ever trust these machines, or their “secret software”, I already forgot what the name they called it was… it might as well be named SWIPE or RIP-OFF 🙂
I guess I was a little harsh in an earlier post saying everybody’s opening statement, except David Wagner’s, at the July 19th hearings were “garbage”. As I said, I couldn’t see the whole hearing (Archived Webcast) because of my slow connection and Rep. Boehlert does a good job as portrayed in the article above called:
“NAtional: Rep. Boehlert Makes The Case For Voter Verified Paper Ballots And Audits”
I didn’t care for the part of his opening statement which said he didn’t think anything would happen before 2010. Not his fault, but still a demoralizing statement.
I’m justifiably angry that after the stolen election of 2000, we are going to bungle on for many more years trying to make HAVA work!
Thiry seven years after LANDING ON THE MOON, Americans are completely and utterly incapable of counting their votes on election day.
It’s obvious 2006 is lost unless we scrap ALL of the legal language and complex machinations.
Hand mark, Hand count, nationwide in 2006 and screw the handicapped people who show up with their seeing-eye dogs as reported in the “Salon” article. Robert Kennedy already said some of these shills got paid a million dollars to prevent paper trails. When Republicans steal elections, blind people lose. It’s that simple!