‘Daily Voting News’ For August 30, 2006

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

Foreign-born, US citizens have filed a suit in Ohio against a law that could require that they provide citizenship papers at the polls when they go to vote. This seems to be a violation of their right to equal protection. Included in the group bringing suit is the wife of an ex-Governor. / In Missouri a state auditor candidate has requested a state-wide hand recount of his race. The state and county clerks want to do a machine recount only. / Ex-GOP Congressman Bob Barr speaks out against voting machines …

  • AZ: Voters now will be required to show specific kinds of ID LINK
  • CA: Alameda County – Counties recruit poll workers. New voting system prompts county to begin search for Election Day staff earlier LINK
  • CA: Humboldt County – Secretary of state rejects Vote-PAD due to reliability, accuracy LINK
  • CA: San Diego County – So much for checks and balances, welcome to absolute power LINK
  • CA: San Diego County – Pre-Certification Swearing in by Hastert Terminates All State Legal Authority Over Elections LINK
  • CT: Election officials preview voting machines LINK
  • FL: Leon County – Early voting: What took it so long? LINK
  • FL: Sarasota County – The county attorney believes portions of the petition conflict with state election laws. LINK
  • FL: Sarasota County – The early bird gets the vote. Lower turnout expected, but voters taking advantage of early voting LINK
  • GA: Opinion — Bob Barr – No-confidence vote earned by machines LINK
  • MD: Attempt to Attract Uninterested Voters Struck Down LINK
  • MO: Lake clerks confident of recount capability. Republican auditor’s primary will be state’s first test of electronic voting machines LINK
  • NY: To Avoid Glitches, Council Pushes For Vote Machine Tests LINK
  • NY: Technical Difficulty. Selecting voting machines must be clear, fair process LINK
  • NY: Dutchess County – Ruling puts elections inspectors in place for Sept. 12 primary LINK
  • OH: NYT: Ohio officials prepare to destroy paper ballots from 2004 presidential election LINK
  • OH: Foreign-born file election suit LINK
  • OH: Cuyahoga County – Elections Board To Spend $700,000 To Train Poll Workers LINK
  • PA: New voting machines could affect results. Modern models more likely to confuse voters, study shows. LINK
  • WA: Snohomish County – No more trudge to the polls LINK
  • WA: Snohomish County – Get ready to vote by mail 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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      Grizzly Bear Dancer said on 8/30/2006 @ 5:54pm PT: [Permalink]

      Read the Bob Barr piece. While on 1 hand he states with a certainty that voters simply got tired of McKinney’s outrages to support her 17 point loss, he gives her a back handed compliment for expressing a need for a verifiable paper trail to evidence the electronic machine outcome. He goes on to admit some examples of lost and unreadable ballots in Ohio and even goes as far as using the word HACKABLE to describe these electronic voting machines.

      He DOES NOT give the reader much information about the massive number of problems associated with these machines. Does not expound on test results which consistantly come up with different figures than hand counts and the fact that one person can rig an election undetected. He also fails to talk about the convicted felons who own the propriatory software and count our vote in secrecy.

      Yet Bob stands tall that he’s faithful to the McKinney results because no problems have come up in with electronic voting results in Georgia. Or do they exist??? In the McKinney election, we would like to you prove your assumption wrong Bob or correct but as you know this IS NOT A POSSIBILITY.

      The fact is you cannot evidence the actual results of her runoff election because electronic voting machine in GEORGIA DO NOT PRODUCE A PAPER TRAIL. Truth is Bob, you cannot prove that someone rigged the outcome and Representive McKinney lost or won by 17 points?

      Isn’t that right councelor?
      Isn’t that right?

      McKinney election case NOT dismissed.

      It appears U.S. Democracy loses another battle to the Fascist highjacking of our vote.

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      molly said on 8/31/2006 @ 8:55am PT: [Permalink]

      Cynthia McKinny spoke out like Paul Wellstone did. I wish her luck and success with her lawsuit. Winter Patriot’s website was a real eye opener to the racism in the DC police dept. To all the critics of her efforts for US instead of corporations..I say how genorous AIPAC is with their money. AMERICABLOG called her a nutjob for supporting Palestinians…they later banned me when I asked,”Do you take money from AIPAC?” Kos banned me for asking “Do you take Diebold money?” Maybe they are thin skinned, maybe I’m rude. Time will tell.

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      Larry Bergan said on 9/2/2006 @ 12:43am PT: [Permalink]

      In Michael Moore’s video collection called “The Awful Truth” he confronts Bob Barr during the Clinton Impeachment and they start talking about morality.

      Moore brings up the fact that Bob was caught licking whipped cream off a woman’s bare breast at a party. Mr. Barr says something like, yeah, and people are always bringing it up.

      Bob seems to be on our side a lot since he lost office, but I’d rather have somebody else defend our precious rights. Thanks anyway though!

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