Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
Just as important as the voting machine issue is the issue of voter suppression. Why is it alright for legal voters to not be given a chance to use their right to vote? Why is it alright for states to overly restrict voter registration drives? Why is it alright to use ballots that are confusing and lack complete instructions? Today a US House committee met, after very little notice, to mark-up a bill that would keep hundreds of thousands of elderly, minorities and poor voters from being able to vote in Nov. This bill, HR-4484, would require every voter in the US to re-register to vote and to prove they are citizens and all before this November. This bill was replaced with another bill that will give us all another year but the substitute bill is even more restrictive in nature. Why is this alright? / On Wednesday EFF filed a brief with the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, asking the court to reject a request to dismiss an EFF lawsuit against the Ohio secretary of state and governor. The suit alleges the defendants abdicated their responsibilities to ensure Ohio residents had a right to vote. / Montgomery Co. Maryland is hiring the Election Center to investigate their failures. Sigh!!…
NAtional: Voting rights center says voters may be prevented from casting ballots LINK
NAtional: 2006 Voter Suppression Strategy Predictions LINK
NAtional: E-voting machines again under fire LINK
NAtional: Electronic voting’s moment of truth LINK
NAtional: Voting glitches continue to worry election officials LINK
NAtional: Election glitches ‘could get ugly’ LINK
NAtional: Holt: Princeton Computer Scientists Show How To Steal Votes In Under A Minute Without Being Caught LINK
NAtional: Diebold Election Systems Response to the Princeton University AccuVote-TS Analysis LINK
NAtional: To err is human; to really screw things up, use Diebold LINK
NAtional: How To Steal The Next Election Using The Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine, Or Others Like It LINK
NAtional: National: House Quietly Schedules Mark-Up Of Sweeping Voter ID Bill LINK
NAtional: House Leader to Meet With Vote Machine Reformers LINK
CT: A Test For High-Tech Voting. 25 Communities To Use Scanners In November LINK
CT: Newtown Will Get New Voting Equipment LINK
CT: East Lyme, Old Lyme, Montville Voters Will Help Test New Scanners LINK
CT: Changes In The Voting Booth LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Sarasota Florida Court Finds For Voters, Amendment Calling for Paper Ballots to go Before Voters LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Judge orders ballot question LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Voters get final say on voting system LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Voters To Choose Voting Technology LINK
GA: Election board plans electronic voting debate LINK
IN: Monroe County – Voting machines questioned. Group raises concerns over reliability of system LINK
MD: CNN’s Lou Dobbs: Human Error? The Error of Maryland Buying Diebold Machines LINK
MD: Editorial – Election problems centered on people, not new machines LINK
MD: Editorial – Balloting Breakdown LINK
MD: Election woes elicit calls for firings LINK
MD: Anne Arundel County – 6,000 ballots left unattended LINK
MD: Howard County – Voters encounter few glitches at polls LINK
MD: Montgomery County – Montgomery plans review of voting mishaps LINK
MD: Montgomery County – A Look at What Went Wrong in Montgomery LINK
MD: Montgomery County – Official Won’t Resign After Election Snafu LINK
MD: Montgomery County – Elections board inquiry sought LINK
MD: Wicomico County – Poll problems could be human error LINK
MO: State recount verifies original primary results LINK
NH: Machines savetime, but software could save more LINK
NJ: Trenton – ‘Sabotage’ claim made in mayoral election trial LINK
NY: Voting Devices for Disabled Draw Praise From All Sides LINK
NY: Nassau County – Voting made easier for physically challenged (Avante) LINK
NY: Otsego County – Otsego reps showing red, blue over choice of voting machine LINK
OH: The Critical Ohio E-Voting Case LINK
RI: Voters Report Problems With Special Machines For Blind. Board Of Elections Promises Better Training For Poll Workers LINK
WI: Voter registration details may be shielded LINK
WI: Milwaukee – City ballots don’t add up. Totals are much larger than tallies for candidates; state wants explanation LINK
WI: Milwaukee – Officials to recount Milwaukee ballots LINK
WI: Waukesha County – County voting bedeviled. Inoperable machines, incompatible computers hamper ballot counts LINK
WI: Winnebago County ““ Editorial – Touch screens’ trial tenuous at best in Winnebago County LINK
WI: Winnebago County – Technology issues slow Winnebago election results LINK
WI: Winnebago County – Voting results slow-down one time occurrence LINK
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Republicans simply do not understand the concept of compromise. Winning is the ONLY thing they care about. They prefer to think that somehow, if they win, everybody wins in America, and no amount of evidence to the contrary will ever persuade them.
Rush Limbaugh is there every day to assure them that this principal is the cornerstone of logic! The poor drag us down. The rich pull us up. It doesn’t matter which of the two actually works harder for their society as a whole.
That is why they only pass laws that benefit themselves, even if it disenfranchises the rest of the world and the people in their own country.
I hate people who take what should be mine or somebody else’s and laugh. Rich OR Poor. What about you, Limbaugh? Do you think it’s funny when somebody votes and doesn’t get represented by that vote?
Liar!
The reason I asked on another thread about differences in Diebold TS and TSx systems is because here in Nevada County, California our Board of Supervisors (as John reported awhile back) have voted to spend a $250,000 to rent Diebold TSx touchscreen machines for the November election. (The first I heard of the upcoming vote was from the newspaper on the morning of the meeting – a little late — It was already a done deal by the time I knew it was coming to a vote.) I want to have my facts straight in presenting to the Supervisors and others the latest damning report by computer scientists.
On Tuesday, the Supervisors aproved $130,000 for Diebold “support”. (I fully intended to speak at that meeting, but my mother had heart failure the night before and had to be rushed to the hospital. I just couldn’t make it. It was a very unfortunate missed opportunity to overwhelm the Supes with facts, although there were some dissenting speakers.) BTW, someone in a letter to the editor did an analysis and figured that what we are paying to rent Diebold machines averages to over $7.00 per voter.
My goal is to let local citizens know what they are facing and to follow through with whatever citizen action and oversight is necessary (including, of course, chain of custody procedures and logs.)
What became of the San Francisco court action? Did I miss that?
http://www.rockymountainnews.co...994042,00.html“>This article is a very good one, but the very last paragraph (which is what RawStory lead with) scared the hell out of me.
If Democrats vote absentee, then the results will be closer, allowing the Rethuglican thieves and criminals to “install” their “apparent winner” without ever counting the absentee votes, just as they did in the CA-50. THIS IS A HORRIBLE MISTAKE — A MASSIVE MIS-CALCULATION. ARE DEMOCRATS IN COLORADO __REALLY__ THIS STUPID?
Arry:
I’m pretty sure we have the TSx here, and they are HUGE. They don’t look much like the one in the hacking video.