Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
‘Lawyers for the state and groups that opposed Ohio’s voter identification rules claimed victory Wednesday in a settlement that suspends the law for absentee voters and clarifies and expands it for voting in person.’ / Hart Intercivic has been under the radar lately. VoteTrustUSA has an article that lets you see who is behind the company. / Cuyahoga Co Ohio is back in the news again. Seems they decided that they would make free use of workers lap-tops to make memory card reading a bit easier. No telling what viruses may have been passed around. / There seems to be a yellow button on the back of Sequoia DREs that is suddenly getting a lot of attention because it can be used to gain access to the machine and could be used to vote more than one time….
NAtional: Who is Counting Your Votes? – A Closer Look at Hart InterCivic LINK
NAtional: ‘Hacking’ Doesn’t Crack the Code LINK
NAtional: CNN’s Lou Dobb’s: ‘Tonight, voting activists, not our government, leading the battle for voting security.’ LINK
NAtional: In the Land of ‘Every Vote Counts,’ Uncertainty on Whether It’s Counted Correctly LINK
NAtional: Debate (Larry Norden v. Michael Shamos) Can Electronic Voting Be Trusted? LINK
NAtional: Button on state’s most used e-voting machine allows multiple votes LINK
NAtional: Keeping a wary eye: Pitfalls abound LINK
NAtional: Close races to magnify problems at the polls LINK
NAtional: ES & S Offers $10,000 Prize in University Voting Technology Competition LINK
NAtional: Hackable Democracy? LINK
NAtional: Media Release – Candidates Advised to ‘Citizen Audit’ Race Before Conceding LINK
NAtional: Revamped exit poll, vote counting operations get test in closely watched election LINK
AR: It’s Charlie’s fault (Reports of vote switching) LINK
CA: California secretary of state unveils new election checks LINK
CA: HERE WE GO AGAIN: ‘Just Push the Yellow Button and Vote as Many Times as You Want’ on Sequoia Touch-Screen Voting Machines! LINK
CA: Sequoia Voting Machines Certified For Use By Secretary Of State Could Let People In 21 Counties Vote More Than Once LINK
CA: Officials brace for election glitches as e-voting takes hold LINK
CA: Mendocino County – 70% in county vote by mail LINK
CO: Denver – Election judges grapple with new voting machines LINK
CO: Eagle County – Ballots will be translated into Spanish LINK
FL: Supervisor told new vote machines pose time-change problem LINK
FL: Broward County – Broward racks up nearly 40,000 early votes for Tuesday’s election LINK
FL: Collier County – Brent Batten: Voters still wary toward touch-screen machines LINK
FL: Palm Beach County records 32,000 early votes for Tuesday’s election LINK
FL: Volusia County – Voting runs into untimely glitch LINK
IA: State confident of voting machines
Many Iowans can use touch screens at polls; watchdog groups urge caution LINK
IA: Editorial – Iowa’s voting methods deserve confidence LINK
IL: Early voters finding new machines aren’t without faults LINK
IL: Chicago/Cook County – Voting equipment glitches lingering LINK
IN: Everyone’s looking for signs of voter fraud LINK
KS: Sedgwick County – Voting Problems in Sedgwick County LINK
MD: More Poll Workers Recruited, But Training Proves Daunting LINK
MD: Maryland balloting beset with doubts, vulnerability LINK
MD: Md. voters will have lots of company at polling places LINK
MD: Does e-voting need paper trails? LINK
MD: Md. Dems slam GOP voter-credential guide LINK
MD: Prince George’s County – Nearly 3,000 absentee ballots yet to be sent LINK
NM: Domenici criticizes decision not to use election auditor LINK
NY: Voting machine schedule changed LINK
OH: State Proposes Settlement To Voter ID Requirement LINK
OH: Ohio suspends voter ID law for absentees LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County OH Possibly Exposed Election System to Computer Virus LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County – Ohio’s most populous county unveils election monitoring system LINK
OH: Miami County – Official States Electronic Voting System Added Votes Never Cast
In 2004 Presidential Election; Audit Log Missing LINK
OH: Miami County – Official States Electronic Voting System Added Votes Never Cast LINK
PA: Mistakes affect absentee ballots LINK
SC: Long ballots could mean long lines at polls LINK
SD: S.D. voting machines not linked to probe LINK
TN: Sullivan County – Voting machine problem shuts down Civic Auditorium site LINK
TX: Electronic, paper ballots raging controversy this election season LINK
TX: Bringing The Ballots To People Who Cannot Get To Them LINK
UT: Vote! – But, Bring a Book LINK
UT: Utah braces for Nov. 7 jam
Machine shortage, confusion over ballots bring long lines, frustration in early voting LINK
WA: Computerized vote systems raise fears of potential fraud LINK
GUam: Opinion – Ban is not the way to address the problems with voting machines LINK
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‘Lawyers for the state and groups that opposed Ohio’s voter identification rules claimed victory Wednesday in a settlement that suspends the law for absentee voters and clarifies and expands it for voting in person.’ / Hart Intercivic has been under the radar lately. VoteTrustUSA has an article that lets you see who is behind the company. / Cuyahoga Co Ohio is back in the news again. Seems they decided that they would make free use of workers lap-tops to make memory card reading a bit easier. No telling what viruses may have been passed around. / There seems to be a yellow button on the back of Sequoia DREs that is suddenly getting a lot of attention because it can be used to gain access to the machine and could be used to vote more than one time….
What happened to all the “feel good” newspaper articles from Utah. The press and television news is going to have to claim Responsibility for the mess too. They only reported the “Diebold line” and could have done something about this by asking tough questions YEARS AGO!
YEARS AND YEARS AGO!
This is undoubtedly going to be, if it isn’t already, the worst election, and, by far, the most costly in Utah’s history! Is the press going to report on the monetary and voter confidence cost of this debacle or continue to protect the officials who caused it?
Local ABC television host Chris Vanocur HAS been giving some coverage and this should be noted!
Quote from Utah article above:
Joe Demma, who is a spokesman for the Lieutenant Governor’s Office puts the blame on the “poorly crafted” federal voting law, which mandated that states upgrade to the machines.
Utah is the only state that has mandated Diebold, statewide for the 2006 election. It does not seem logical to blame that on the HAVA Act, if no other state felt obligated to implement the machines so widely without even having enough machines to deploy.
Nice try Joe!