Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Just in late this afternoon, a typical-bad-news-on-a-late-Friday-after-the-news-week-is-complete, is the news that OH Secretary of State Brunner has ignored the statements of every person who spoke before the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. She has decided that the county must change voting systems and voting system vendors before the primary election, which is March 4, with early voting beginning in a little over a month. ES&S will be given the contract.
Two more states have begun to look at the results of testing of voting systems and they are answering questions of the media. In both cases, Nevada and Louisiana election officials told the same story. Yes, they use the same machines and the machines have the same problems BUT they have administrative methods that make the findings from Ohio and Colorado inconsequential. Of course, both states have the same, or nearly the same, administrative methods as both Ohio and Colorado and the methods described in the media would not have any impact on the insecure, inaccurate and inaccessible voting systems in use.
Speaking of inaccessibility of voting systems; why has no one yet stood-up and reminded these states that their reports say the machines do not meet HAVA requirements? Why is this being ignored?
All of those stories, and many more, linked below as usual…
- NAtional: Electronic Voting Equipment Records a Vote of ‘No Confidence’
http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/1335/electronic-voting-equipment-records-vote - NAtional: Voting Rights Activists Win Big Cases in Florida and Arizona
http://www.alternet.org/story/71260/ - NAtional: Diebold under Justice Department scrutiny, too
http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20071221/FREE/892434399/1090&Profile=1090 - NAtional: Diebold Now Also Under DoJ Investigation as Stock Price Hits FIVE-YEAR Low!
Once-Great, Now-Disgraced American Company Also Facing SEC Probe, Lawsuits, Upcoming 2008 Election Meltdowns
https://bradblog.com/?p=5468 - AK: Vote count for 2004 general election will stand
SYSTEM CRITICIZED: Division of Elections must pay attorney fees.
http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/242640.html - CA: Kern County – Kern considers lawsuit against state official
http://www.bakersfield.com/102/story/316474.html - CA: Marin County – Women urge hand-count double-check of county ballots
http://www.marinij.com/marin/ci_7780933 - CA: San Diego County – Chip disappearance prompts sparks
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/12/21/news/top_stories/39_17_9112_20_07.txt - CA: Solano County – Kondylis wants probe of mayoral tallies
http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_7779075 - CO: Clerks plead for all-mail vote
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/dec/21/clerks-plead-all-mail-vote/ - CO: Party Chair Questions Coffman’s Ability to Lead Elections
http://www.thecherrycreeknews.com/content/view/2173/2/ - CO: Political firm boss denies any conflict
Phase Line-Coffman link prompts call for resignation
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/dec/21/e-voting-firm-says-ties-didnt-affect-coffman-rulin/ - CO: Coffman caught in conflict over lobbying firm
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_7773979 - CO: Arapahoe County – Doty responds to decertification of voting machine
http://denver.yourhub.com/AuroraNorth/Stories/News/About-Town/Story~407048.aspx - CO: Park County voting machines need upgrades
Machines will be ready for August primary, says Park County clerk and recorder
http://theflume.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=4797&TM=41557.82 - CO: Pitkin County voting machines on track
Local voting machines immune to statewide security problems
http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20071221/NEWS/655549493 - CO: Pueblo County — Editorial – Double whammy
http://www.chieftain.com/editorial/1198225461/1 - CO: Pueblo County – Will Pueblo have legal voting machines in time for the next election?
http://www.koaa.com/aaaa_top_stories/x1457861320 - CO: Weld County – Weld voting machines remain certified despite state-wide concerns
http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20071221/NEWS/256237491 - IN: Porter County – Versau likes voting machines, not election results
http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2007/12/21/news/porter_county/doceadbe1d3deb4fcda862573b8000abea2.txt - LA: Colorado voting machine decision being reviewed in La.
http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=7529453 - MI: Feds review Warren elections
City is one of five in Michigan undergoing audit of election spending, equipment security
http://www.macombdaily.com/stories/122107/loc_n3001.shtml - MN: Instant runoff voting has its first hurdle – a lawsuit
A citizens group filed suit to stop instant runoff voting in Minneapolis. The group says the ranking system is too confusing.
http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/12665581.html - NV: I-Team: Voting Machines Used in Nevada Deemed Unreliable in Colorado
http://lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=7522777 - NY: Federal Judge Sets Voting Machine Deadline
http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=fdaae096-1e21-492b-bf5c-ee66ee9f567f - NY: Judge Orders Voting Machine Deadline
http://www.weny.com/News-Local.asp?ARTICLE3864=7209145 - NY: N.Y. ordered to comply on election law
Judge gives state deadline for voting machines plan
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071221/NEWS01/712210351/1001 - NY: Judge gives N.Y. 14 days to devise plan to comply with voting law
http://www.syracuse.com/articles/news/index.ssf?/base/news-0/119823125635160.xml&coll=1 - NY: Oneida County Board of Legislators urge state to comply to voting machine updates
http://www.wktv.com/news/local/12748712.html - OH: WHAT the HE DOUBEL HOCKEY STICKS is going on in OHIO?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_james_st_071220_what_the_he_doubel_h.htm - OH: Opinion – Resolve Voting Issues Quickly
http://www.news-register.net/page/content.detail/id/503657.html - OH: Athens County – Voting machine issues to have little effect in county
http://www.athensmessenger.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=273&ArticleID=7341&TM=36584.73 - OH: Cuyahoga County – Ohio County Split on New Voting System
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h6y0nVXefzLWXOImRcDXQxW8LPxQD8TLHNDO0 - OH: Cuyahoga County – Secretary of State Brunner expected to order Cuyahoga County to buy optical scanners
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/119822949248330.xml&coll=2 - OH: Cuyahoga County – Conflict in Cuyahoga
http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/blogs/tokaji/2007/12/conflict-in-cuyahoga.html - OH: Cuyahoga County – Secretary of state breaks tie, votes to scrap Cuyahoga machines
http://www.ohio.com/news/ap?articleID=300096&c=y - OH: Official To Issue Decision For BOE To Overhaul Voting System
http://www.newsnet5.com/politics/14908541/detail.html - VA: Virginia: Election Advocates Urge New Security Measures
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2698&Itemid=113
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John asks:
Because for forty years now (see Dugger article infra) they can ignore with impugnity because the EI movement is sterile. It demands all or nothing and gets it. Nothing.
The electronic voting machine (EVM) watchdogs twenty years ago were saying what was said before a committee recently (1988 Article).
You can shock the hell out of the EVM audience with these quotes from a 1988 official report:
(NIST Report 1988, bold added).
No one mentioned that twenty years is enough to have more than “suggested rules” which are admittedly inadequate … which election war lords are ignoring anyway.
And who asked why one person certifies the machines no matter how many ITA companies claim to do the certification? Or who sets the standards of the lone ranger doing the testing (The Lone Tester)?
Doesn’t it appear that either the voting rights movement related to the EVM world has failed … or congress has failed … or perhaps both?
But it makes for lotsa blog content … giving new meaning to “content” (are you content with the content of election law blogs?).