Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
Carteret County, North Carolina is selling their old Unilect Patriot voting machines back to the vendor for $3000 total for over 200 machines. / Tennessee counties faced an overly long ballot of up to 21 screens and a projected large turnout of voters yet many polling places had as few as two DREs resulting in two hour waits to vote. / Next Tuesday is Primary Election Day in Colorado, Connecticut, Michigan and Missouri. / Pima Co. Arizona Board of Supervisors voted 3 to 1 to use Diebold TSx machines for accessibility along with a 100% hand count audit of the vvpat / It looks like Williamson Co., Tennessee may have gotten bit by the ES&S Ballot Programming bug where votes swapped between candidates….
AL: Barbour County – Reimbursement iffy for voting machines LINK
AZ: Pima County – County Supervisors OK Use Of Diebold Touch Screen Voting Machines LINK
AZ: Pima County – Diebold voting machines subject of Friday morning supervisors meeting LINK
AZ: Pima County – County supervisors authorize touch-screen voting machines for disabled (Diebold) LINK
AZ: Pima County – Supervisors approve use of Diebold touch-screen machines LINK
CA: New Voters With Disabilities Suit in California LINK
CA: Mendocino County – Elections office clarifying changes LINK
CA: San Diego County – E-voting security under fire in San Diego lawsuit LINK
CO: Boulder County – Electronic election LINK
CO: Prowers County – County Clerk clarifies LINK
CT: News and notes from the campaign trail (Diebold Op-scan and IVS for accessibility) LINK
FL: Miami-Dade County – Officials: Technology Will Make Early Voting Faster, More Accurate LINK
FL: Volusia County – Secure ballots fuel races LINK
KS: Butler County – Voters ask for more privacy – New voting machines get favorable grade after primary election LINK
ME: Disabled voters get new help (IVS Vote-By-Phone) LINK
MI: Voting machines bring mixed reviews LINK
MI: Chippewa County – New auto-mark voting machines set for primary LINK
MI: Detroit – Detroit announces new election policies LINK
MI: Detroit – New voting system won’t be glitch-free (ES&S) LINK
MI: Midland County – Some upset by non-voter letter LINK
MO: Suit Seeks to Block Mo. Voter ID Law LINK
MO: Kansas City and Jackson County – Step right up to your new voting future (Jackson County — InkaVote; Kansas City — Diebold OpScan and TSx for accessibility) LINK
NC: Carteret County – UniLect to buy voting system LINK
OH: Activists: Advisory proves Blackwell suppressing vote LINK
OH: Court affirms Blackwell owes $65,000 in legal fees LINK
OH: Franklin County – County won’t hang curtains around voting machines LINK
TN: Long ballot and longer lines frustrate voters LINK
TN: Rutherford County – Long waits for Rutherford voters. County stops giving out paper ballots (MicroVote) LINK
TN: Rutherford County – Long lines causing delay at polls (2.5 hour wait — two machines) LINK
TN: Sullivan County – Long ballots, long lines … late results LINK
TN: Williamson County – Glitches may result in changes to original election results (ES&S) LINK
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Carteret County, North Carolina is selling their old Unilect Patriot voting machines back to the vendor for $3000 total for over 200 machines. / Tennessee counties faced an overly long ballot of up to 21 screens and a projected large turnout of voters yet many polling places had as few as two DREs resulting in two hour waits to vote. / Next Tuesday is Primary Election Day in Colorado, Connecticut, Michigan and Missouri. / Pima Co. Arizona Board of Supervisors voted 3 to 1 to use Diebold TSx machines for accessibility along with a 100% hand count audit of the vvpat / It looks like Williamson Co., Tennessee may have gotten bit by the ES&S Ballot Programming bug where votes swapped between candidates….
How ironic that today, the day I chose to post another notice about my campaign, your headline reads Carteret County sells old Unilect voting machines…what an irony indeed!
I attended the DNC in 2004 in Boston as a Delegate for NC.
It was a blast…it pumped me up for the Presidential campaign of 2004!
I wanted my NC homeboy, Senator John Edwards, in the White House..one way or the other.
Instead, I was deprived of the right to have my vote counted…my vote was “lost” in the Carteret County Election Fiasco of 2004..over 4,000 missing votes…
What did I do about it?
1 – I found the Bradblog…
2 – Co-founded the Carteret Coalition for Verifiable Voting (we have new machines now with a optiscan paper ballot)
3 – Filed for office in my County…Commissioner, 3rd District, Carteret County…
see my blog
http://www.myspace.com/votetina06
I think all Arizona voters will be heartened by the use of Diebold in Pima county. We’ve been reassured:
Whew! That was close! We don’t have to worry now. The “technical staff” would never take advantage of all of those glitches. Would they?
My daughter was in England last year. She was with an English friend on their voting day & went with her while she voted. There were no machines, she said, just paper & pencils. You wrote the name of your candidate on the paper & put the paper in a wooden box.
Sounds positively revolutionary.
T-Rod kicks butt!
Comment #3
Only in America!!!
Tsk! Tsk! Such language
#5 Exactly.
Sorry, OT – Send the SOB a bag or pretzels!!!
Ooooops – how the hell did that happen?
T-Rod:
Great way to channel your anger. Good luck!