Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
Why is it that some states talk about their voting systems and mention that they use AccuVote? In Connecticut papers they talk about the “AccuVote-OS system, sold by LHS Associates of Massachusetts”. Are they afraid to say ‘Diebold’? / The Massachusetts primary is on Sept. 19 yet the state still has no voting system that is accessible. They have not even settled on a choice but they still hope to have the machines in time. Counties are concerned about training but the state says they are all easy to use. Why doesn’t anyone look outside of their own fences to see the failures of not training? / Poll workers in Jefferson Co. Missouri voiced their frustration of vowed to never do the job again due to the new voting machines and lack of training. …
NAtional: CNN’s Lou Dobbs: Electronic Voting Machines Pose An Extraordinary Threat To Our Democracy. LINK
NAtional: New Election Auditing Protocol Proposed LINK
NAtional: SEC Opens Formal Investigation Into Diebold’s Election Division LINK
AR: Benton County – Election Commission works on two elections LINK
CA: New voting machines questioned. Costly units giving access to disabled are flawed, soon to be outdated, some say. LINK
CA: Riverside County – E-voting reaches religion status LINK
CT: Editorial – Dawn Of A New Age In Voting LINK
FL: New technology awaits local voters. Touch-screen machines join paper ballots LINK
FL: Volusia County – Long’s attempt to comply with new ad rule comes up short LINK
IL: La Salle County – ‘Electronic poll binder’ may curb miscast votes LINK
KY: Battle Rages Over Voter Purge LINK
MA: Voting tool for disabled delayed for primaries LINK
MI: Midland County – Bigger ballots breaking budget LINK
MO: Jefferson County – Problems at the polls LINK
NM: Bernalillo County – Soggy ceiling plops on voting machines LINK
NY: Rockland – Rockland gets new voting machines for the disabled LINK
PA: Pennsylvania Drops “No Match” Voter Restrictions LINK
TN: Curtainless voting still hidden from prying eyes LINK
TN: Coalition workshop aims to help immigrants obtain citizenship LINK
TN: Anderson County – Three complaints filed to throw out election results LINK
TX: Harris County – Needed: A paper trail for county ballots. County clerk and mayor shouldn’t ignore troubling situation any longer LINK
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My hubby gets News Wire Daily/pentontech.com, news important to IT Professionals. IOW, people who read this know what can be done with machines/computers.
They did a survey on voting machines recently and here are the results:
Q. Do we need government-mandated safeguards on electronic voting?
Responses:
Yes, we need a paper trail — 21% (46 responses)
Yes, we need to open up the code to inspection and auditing by independent security labs — 9% (20)
Yes, we need both of these safeguards — 62% (135)
Yes, we need some other form of safeguard — 6% (13)
No. It’s fine the way it is — 2% (4)
Very telling indeed!
Hannah:
Now that’s a poll that makes sense.
I saw one today that didn’t from Newsweak. It was something like:
Bush is doing a good job in the war on terror 55%
Bush is doing a good job overall 36%
If you put your finger up to your mouth and move it up and down real fast while saying Ow, you can recreate my mood.