Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Two elections so far this year and Cuyahoga Co Ohio is 0-2 in successful recounts. Both recounts were in small municipal elections and in both cases the recounted voter verified paper trail (vvpat) votes failed to match the official machine results. Why? Mistakes in counting? Not according to the county. The problem is that the vvpats are at times difficult and sometimes impossible to read. These vvpats along with audits of those vvpat ballots are supposed to be an acceptable solution to the problems with DREs. Cuyahoga Co is now concerned that they may have a close county-wide race that will require many days of trying to decipher what is on the vvpat tapes. Remember that in Ohio the vvpat is the vote of record in an audit so any damaged or unreadable ballots may be lost ballots and they could affect the results of an election. This, again, is proof that adding a vvpat printer to a DRE is like adding a seat belt to a Pinto. Let’s “Rage Against The Machines” and recall them all….
- NAtional: Diebold/Premier Admits Memory Card Failure On Popular Optical-Scan Voting Machines
With Elections Impending Next Week, Company Downplays, Hides Failure Rate
https://bradblog.com/?p=5242 - NAtional: TIME: The ‘Stampede Away from Touch-Screen’
https://bradblog.com/?p=5245 - CA: Monterey County – Pushing paper ballot envelope
Electronics will be used only for counting
http://origin1.montereyherald.com/ci_7366681 - CT: Longing For The Certainty Of Levers, Curtain
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/commentary/hc-commentarydownie.artnov04,0,5059490.story - FL: Sarasota County – Voting group plans to appeal ruling Appeals court struck down extra audits; state Supreme Court is next
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20071102/NEWS/711020314/1270/NEWS0101 - FL: Dent said complaint has no merit
http://www.sun-herald.com/Newsstory.cfm?pubdate=110407&story=tp3np2.htm&folder=NewsArchive2 - IN: Marion County – No replay of primary, officials say
Election staff says plan is in place to ensure polls run smoothly
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071104/LOCAL1905/711040394/1004/SPORTS - OH: Activists mourn 2004 election, Democracy
http://blog.dispatch.com/dailybriefing/2007/11/activists_hold_funeral_for_ele_1.shtml - OH: Cuyahoga County 0-for-2 in recounts
Run-up to election gives officials pause
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/119416930484390.xml&coll=2 - OH: Cuyahoga County – Recount procedures, paper jams worry Cuyahoga elections officials
http://www.ohio.com/news/ap?articleID=190971&c=y - PA: Bradford County – Election officials provide voting tips
http://www.thedailyreview.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18987596&BRD=2276&PAG=461&dept_id=465049&rfi=6 - PA: Lackawanna County – A step-by-step look at voting on paper ballots
http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18987702&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=415898&rfi=6 - TX: State voter database working better
http://news.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=a54a4332d942da96 - VA: Voting problems mostly corrected
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news/politics.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2007-11-04-0137.html - VA: Botetourt County voters to get write-in help
Voting involves typing the candidates’ names using a touch-screen keypad.
http://www.roanoke.com/politics/wb/138372
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I’ll be voting tomorrow and following the progress of the tally. The machines are not too popular here, and the county BoE is all new and untested. Also, the SoS is new and claims to be studying machines, not learning so far from CA SoS Bowen’s work.
Why should we elect a Democrat as president when this
congress is such a “Cave in Congress?”
Their total impotence and unwillingness to take a unified stand (like the repugs continually do)isn’t the picture we need in Washington. This Demo. congress begs the question “What could a Demo president accomplish in the light of these current Demo’s who are now the majority but act independent of their constituents.”
Robert