Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
The fallout from the ‘train wreck’ in Maryland this week will not go away for awhile I’m afraid. There will surely be more calls for firings, and there should be. Heads should definitely roll but will the real people who are responsible be the ones to lose their jobs or will some underling suffer for the mistakes of their bosses? Will the state learn anything or will they just have an investigation and blame the problems all on poll workers and the voters? They hired the Election Center to do an investigation so there is no way Diebold will share any fault in this. Even the Washington Post has taken to disinformation and obfuscation in their reporting this weekend….
NAtional: NASED Chief Blows Smoke Re: E-Voting Machines LINK
NAtional: Major Problems At Polls Feared. Some Officials Say Voting Law Changes And New Technology Will Cause Trouble LINK
NAtional: Washington Post Front Page: ‘Major Problems At Polls Feared’ LINK
NAtional: FOX NEWS Exposes the Princeton / Diebold Virus Hack Story! LINK
NAtional: CNN’s Lou Dobbs:The Integrity Of Midterm Elections Cannot Be Guaranteed LINK
AZ: Maricopa County – Designed to Fail… Auditing Elections in Arizona LINK
CO: Rebuttal to CO official that state is protected vs. vote tampering LINK
FL: Palm Beach County – Palm Beach elections office reaches out to minority voters LINK
LA: Livingston Parrish – Livingston voting to get high-tech LINK
MD: Md. Election Problems Fuel Push for Paper Record. After Primary Day Fiasco, Some Area Officials and Activists Say Electronic Voting Systems Need Backup LINK
MD: Solution to voting problems ordered. Md. elections chief tells city, 3 counties to avert repeat of Tuesday errors LINK
MD: Anne Arundel County – Election judges are needed. Shortage of poll workers blamed for many election day problems LINK
MD: Harford County – Glitches overcome in primary. Voter describes new device as ‘too high-tech’ LINK
MD: Montgomery County – Nancy Dacek’s 15 Minutes Of Fame, Give or Take LINK
NY: Editorial – Now, help New Yorkers vote LINK
WA: Snohomish County – Much at stake, even if not all votes count LINK
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The fallout from the ‘train wreck’ in Maryland this week will not go away for awhile I’m afraid. There will surely be more calls for firings, and there should be. Heads should definitely roll but will the real people who are responsible be the ones to lose their jobs or will some underling suffer for the mistakes of their bosses? Will the state learn anything or will they just have an investigation and blame the problems all on poll workers and the voters? They hired the Election Center to do an investigation so there is no way Diebold will share any fault in this. Even the Washington Post has taken to disinformation and obfuscation in their reporting this weekend….
EVEN the Washington Post is putting out disinformation? This has been going on since 2000. Google the subscription free fall for them and the NYTimes. I’ve read the Times may go under.
A partyline split in the Cuyahoga county OH BOE kept the incompetents from being fired. Could it happen in MD?
Of course it can happen in Maryland and will continue to happen all over the place. I’m sorry to say nobody cares a hoot-and-a-hollar about crappy machines and dishonest corporations and secure/private/transparently counted balloting. Noboby except for a limited few—was it six or seven?–here at the B-Blog.
It is disheartening. Politicians of either party who care about clean and fair elections should be ALL OVER this topic and making the Press pay attention. Even poor old Lou Dobbs can’t make a dent. It is ranked there with “Loose Change” and the Grassy Knoll.
My wife wanted to see a list of the Diebold and ES&S turncoats who decided to spill their guts and blow the whistle on the fixers. Is there a short-list anywhere?
Re: comment 3. There is a shortlist, obviously, because the successful prosecution of the lawsuit against the manufacturers of the electronic voting machines will probably be dependent in no small part on the testimony of those whistleblowers. Their names, therefore, must remain anonymous until after their testimony. In most lawsuits of this nature whistleblowers need to have assurances of anonymity before they will agree to testify…repercussions against them and/or their families are not uncommon. Remember Norma Rae?