Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
If a recount in Sarasota Co, Florida fails to award Democrat Christine Jennings a seat in Congress, she has a final recourse: The newly Democratic-controlled U.S. House. A little-known provision in the U.S. Constitution gives the House the final decision on who sits in its chamber. The CA-50 special election to replace Randy “Duke” Cunningham was decided by decision of the majority party in the House and according to the US Constitution Article 1, Section 5. FL-13 may be decided in the same way. / VVPAT: The printer that was added on to the DREs to allow the voter to review the ballot and to allow the counties to have something to audit/recount instead of software. What good has it been? Voters don’t review it. On some models of machines the printer is covered by an opaque cover that must be lifted by the voter so they can review the ballot. They don’t do it. Poll sites ran out of replacement spools for the printers and, where the printers are mandated by law, the machines had to be taken out of service. We need to rethink this idea….
NAtional: Editorial – Counting the Vote, Badly LINK
NAtional: Some tight U.S. House races still undecided LINK
NAtional: Editorial – The glitching hour LINK
AR: Benton County – Candidate requests recount LINK
CA: Magic Numbers
This year’s vote was as dirty as ever. LINK
CA: Why Candidates Should NOT Concede Before All the Votes Are Counted LINK
CA: Monterey County – Without A Trace
‘No paper ballots,’ says poll watcher. LINK
CA: Monterey County, CA Registrar Orders Voters be Turned Away at Polls Rather Than be Given Paper Ballots LINK
CO: Montrose County – Commissioners address voting fiasco LINK
FL: Editorial – Touch-screen controversy doesn’t indict machines LINK
FL: Commentary – Florida voters do it again
Once again, Floridians have demonstrated to the rest of the country that we have the voting skills of an adult diaper. LINK
FL: FL-13 – Democrat-controlled U.S. House to the rescue? LINK
FL: FL-13 – Demos, NVRI Call for Revote in Florida’s 13th District
18,000 Votes Lost In Tight Race Exposes Electronic Voting Flaws LINK
FL: F:-13 – Election Integrity Groups Call for Re-Vote in FL-13 U.S. House Race! LINK
FL: Manatee County – Messy votes create extra ballot count LINK
FL: Sarasota County – In Florida, much ado about touch screens LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Florida officials begin manual recount of 18,000 ballots LINK
FL: Sarasota County – 18,000 Votes Lost in Tight Race Exposes Electronic Voting Flaws LINK
FL: Sarasota County – PFAWF Criticizes Decision to Put Partisan Paper Trail Opponent in Charge of Sarasota Voting Machine Audit LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Voting machine audit cancelled LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Judge continues protection of voting machines at Jennings request LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Sarasota Public Hearing on Voting Irregularities LINK
IA: Opinion – Yepsen: Require paper trail to address voting paranoia LINK
IL: Kane County – High court lets extended vote stand
But Kane Election Day case can be revisited by the Circuit Court LINK
IN: Delaware County – County Clerk Wenger says ballot problems her fault LINK
IN: Hamilton County – Infinity machines in voters’ future LINK
IN: Vanderburgh County ““ Editorial – Early Voting
The Issue: Kirk proposes satellite polling places. LINK
MT: Voting Technology LINK
NC: Mecklenburg County – Mecklenburg Officials Toss About One-Third Of Provisional Ballots LINK
NH: Parallel hand counts heartwarming exercise LINK
NH: Optical scanners proved easy to use this election LINK
NM: Paper ballots cause delay as canvass deadline nears LINK
NJ: Ocean County – County works to end mystery of double vote LINK
NY: Caution urged in selection of voting devices LINK
NY: Otsego County – Voting choice: DREs or scanners? LINK
OH: Not necessary to overhaul voting system LINK
OH: Athens County – Two weeks after election, county’s votes should all be counted LINK
OH: Franklin County – Voting booths may get curtains LINK
PA: Voting machine suit seeks answers
25 citizens claim electronic units in state are unreliable. Judges ask about challenges to their use LINK
PA: Bibb County – As part of test program, Bibb trying to verify electronic election results LINK
RI: Voters handicapped LINK
TX: Williamson County – Votes Counted Three Times Each on ES&S E-Voting Machines in Williamson County, TX! LINK
TX: Williamson County – E-voting glitch turns up in Texas LINK
UT: Election over? Not so fast! LINK
VA: Vote Early, Vote Often LINK
VA: Montgomery County – Computer expert: Scrap all paperless voting machines LINK
WY: Trauner Will Not Ask for Recount in Congressional Race LINK
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As appealing as that may seem, it is always best to look to the voters intent. But, if you don’t have a complete vote and you simply can’t tell what the majority wanted, then you’re stuck. I guess the Constitutional provision assumes the majority of the entire electorate will simply gain another seat in cases of a tie or electoral confusion.
OT,…
Campus Police at UCLA use a Taser on an individual at the library, fascism is on the march.
Video of UCLA Taser use in library.
Article Student newspaper.
E-mails to contact UCLA pertaining to the Taser Gun
use against a student.
chancellor@conet.ucla.edu
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I just happened to turn on C-SPAN 2 and there is a rebroadcast of something very interesting that happened today. Senators Kennedy, Leahey, and Schumer are grilling Wan J. Kim, Assistant Attorney General for civil rights.
They haven’t mention voting machines, but are getting very serious about voting rights problems in this election and previous ones concerning phony brochures falsely identifying Republicans as Democrats. Other abuses such as phone calls telling minorities to vote on the wrong day, the civil rights division’s purging of experienced staff in favor of politically partisan personnel ect… And the senators were raising the specter of criminal prosecution for such disenfranchising actions. Schumer even brought up the fact that some of these things seem to be happening to one political party.
In America?
Of course, this wasn’t important enough to reach our television screens via the “news”, but if this is a preview of things to come, I’m impressed!
Sometimes one has to connect the dots.
I saw this news blurb in October: Karl Rove visited Ohio in the weeks before the November 7th elections, but reportedly didn’t meet with any Republican candidates or anyone in the Ohio Republican Party machinery. So, who did Rove see in Ohio?
Aaaah, I just wonder if he dropped in at Diebold’s headquarters in Ohio? To make sure that the vote-fixing was all going according to plan? In fact, following this news story about Rove’s mysterious Ohio visit, he came out and proclaimed that he was certain that the Republicans would retain control of both houses of Congress. Why?
Rove said he’d seen the numbers, he’d done the math, victory was in the bag for the Republicans. Hmmm, I just wonder if he was referring to the numbers and math he might have seen at Diebold headquarters on his visit to Ohio?
The incoming Democratic Party leadership of both chambers of Congress have a smorgasbord of Republican scandals from which to select.
All the executives at all the companies that supply electronic voting machines should be subpoenaed and required to testify under oath before Democratic Party-controlled House and Senate investigative committees.
Democrats won the November 7th elections in a landslide, but with Rove and certain Republican-owned companies “fixing” the vote, the winning margin by Democrats was much smaller than it actually was.
This contested Florida election is just one instance where an anomaly occurred that broke for the Republican and against the Democrat.
No wonder Rove was so smugly confident in Republicans retaining control of both houses of Congress. Luckily enough concerned, patriotic American citizens voted, thus throwing a monkey wrench into his carefully laid, evil plans.
We can never, ever let down our guard again. Republicans like Karl Rove have stabbed Uncle Sam in the back once too often. The Republicans have betrayed the trust of our democracy.