Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Officials in Denver Colorado estimate that as many as 18,000 voters walked away from the polls without voting in the Nov. 7 general election. These are disenfranchised voters just the same as those voters who have been removed from voting registers for no reason or those who were intimidated, in the past, when poll sites had police officers stationed just outside the doors. We cannot continue to use voting systems (in this case it was an untested, kludgey Sequoia poll book that was the cause) that keep people from the polls and cause long lines. When DREs fail no one can use them. When precinct-based optical-scan machines fail, ballots can be put into a ballot box….
NAtional: Observations of a Poll Worker: A Critique Of The eSlate LINK
NAtional: Democrats may give voting machines more scrutiny LINK
NAtional: With Some Electronic Voting Systems, Not All Votes Count LINK
NAtional: ES&S ““ the Midas Touch in Reverse LINK
NAtional: HR 550 vs HR 6200 LINK
NAtional: Counting votes that don’t count LINK
NAtional: Sarasota Vote Snafu Figure Involved In Bribe Scandal LINK
NAtional: For Trustworthy Elections; Dump ALL the Machines, Require Paper LINK
NAtional: House member wants e-voting paper trail LINK
NAtional: Holt renews call for e-voting law LINK
NAtional: The Vote Protectors LINK
AL: Baldwin County – Voting glitch didn’t affect election LINK
AR: Benton County – Democrats Want Recount In Justice Of The Peace Race
At Stake Is ‘Confidence in the Voting System,’ Chairwoman Says LINK
AR: Waldenburg – A touch screen, a missing vote, a mystery in Arkansas LINK
AZ: Pima County – Fun With Vote Machines
Pima County Dems claim election procedures were violated when an elections worker broke a server seal LINK
CA: Tuteur calls for changes to avoid ‘disaster’ LINK
CA: Napa County ““ Opinion – Election reflections, from Baltimore to Napa LINK
CA: Riverside County – In Riverside County, 31 percent of ballots remain uncounted LINK
CO: Coffman gets election primer LINK
CO: Denver – Cost hole for nightmarish balloting may get deeper LINK
CO: Denver’s turnout total falls short of forecasts LINK
CO: Denver ““ Editorial – Elections: A wreck in very slow motion LINK
CO: Denver – Key city election official resigns LINK
CO: Denver – Officials vow ’06 vote woes won’t recur LINK
CO: Denver still counts ballots LINK
CT: Recount gives Courtney win in 2nd District LINK
FL: Revote of Florida’s 13th Congressional District Election Called For by National Voting Rights Groups LINK
FL: Broward County – Broward seeks election storage facility LINK
FL: Manatee County – Manatee recounts its ballots calmly LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Buchanan lead grows as manual recount looms LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Few changes in first recount in contested congressional race LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Cluttered Sarasota ballot may be at fault, expert says
Sarasota County’s ballot was poorly designed, an expert said, one possible factor in voters skipping over the 13th Congressional District race. LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Experts: 15% undervote in 2000 isn’t comparable LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Analysis suggests undervote caused by ballot design LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Touch-screen voting tossed in Sarasota
County voters mandated ‘verified paper ballots.’ Meanwhile, a recount continues. LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Voting Problems Were Widespread In Sarasota County House Race LINK
FL: Sarasota County – PFAW Foundation Calls For Public Hearing on Sarasota Undervotes LINK
ID: Vote Counting Complications LINK
IN: Delaware County – Officials working to account for missing ballots, miscounts
Some precincts showed different vote counts for unchallenged provisional ballots. LINK
IN: Lake County – Final vote count still out
ELECTION: Machines that don’t ‘talk,’ provisional ballots hold up tally LINK
MN: Results from Minnesota’s First Post-Election Review Confirms Accuracy of State’s Voting Machines LINK
NC: Craven County – Vote recount shows reliable results LINK
NJ: Essex County – Problems found on 24 voting machines LINK
NY: New Voting Systems for New York – Long Lines and High Cost LINK
NY: Bloomberg blasts state board over voting machine delays LINK
NY: Board of Elections Response to Mayor Bloomberg LINK
NY: NYS could lose $50M in voting machine delay LINK
NY: Voting Machines To Cost $40-$100 M LINK
OH: Does Anyone Know What’s Going On? LINK
OH: Agreement reached on Ohio’s provisional ballots LINK
OR: Ashland – Voting machine problems in Ashland, Oregon LINK
PA: No decision today on request to dismiss electronic voting machines suit LINK
TX: More voting problems in Williamson County
Officials blame computer software for voting overcount. LINK
WI: Frie says he is seeking recount LINK
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“who were intimidated, in the past, when poll sites had police officers stationed just outside the doors”
Pathetic. Just how easily scared are the Democrats? (Or does that apply to all Americans?)
Check this out!
Sarasota: Election Activist Videographer Richard VanSlyke Does the Job forgotten by Corporate Media, Defends Democracy!
The 4:50 minutes video of the Sarasota elections at precincts 4 and 22 is now available at The Right To Count website (www.therighttocount.com).
The direct link is: http://www.therighttocount.com/shorts
Watch Supervisor of Elections Kathy Dent refusing to answer questions by Democratic Party Precinct Captain Steve Runfeldt and Democratic Party Lawyer James Kenney, and her driver threatening to “put them in jail” after he almost hit them with the car.
Also in the video, electronic voting machines printouts show some strange numbers, as explained by Steve Runfeldt and Poll Watcher Dawn Kalish.
For more info, contact Richard Van Slyke:
richard @ roamingvideo.com
O: 770-919-0708
Thanks Ginny and ALL
I’d say that’s pretty irrefutable evidence Congress should CHOKE ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
John Gideon
Thank you a bizzillion times every day, with bright blessings on you and yours!