Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Up to 100,000 votes may not be counted in Los Angeles Co. New Mexico is still counting ballots from the week-old caucus and probably will be for a couple more days. The Washington state GOP has stopped counting caucus votes, with 13% more to be counted, and has declared a winner. These are not voting machine issues but election administration issues. More voters are affected by these failures than they are by voting machines. When you add in all of the problems with voter registration data bases that have been apparent in CA, AZ, NM, LA, and other states so far this year, there is a pattern that should be of great concern. Tomorrow we have primary voters going to the polls in Maryland and Virginia and the District of Columbia. Let’s hope they do much better. If not, we will be reporting their failures.
Blog Owner’s Prerogative: We interrupt this ‘Daily Voting News’ to offer its dedicated and tireless author our best, albeit one-day belated, Happy Birthday wishes! Happy Birthday John Gideon! Hey, at least we were more timely than the NM Dems, the WA GOP, and the L.A. County Registrar’s Office! -BF
And now, please see below, as usual, for links to all of today’s notable voting news stories…
- NAtional: Chesapeake Tuesday Snapshot
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2748&Itemid=26 - NAtional: Diebold Admits Overstating ’07 Election Revenue by 300%; Announces 5% Workforce Layoff as Feds Continue Investigations and Stock Price Keeps Falling
https://bradblog.com/?p=5669 - CA: An Estimated 1.5 Million California Presidential Primary Votes Remain to be Counted
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2008/02/an_estimated_15.html - CA: Los Angeles County – Criticism of L.A. County’s voting system grows
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-vote11feb11,1,5286478.story?ctrack=1&cset=true - CA: Los Angeles County – Up to 100K Los Angeles voters likely won’t have ballots counted
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Up_to_100K_Los_Angeles_voters_0211.html - CA: Los Angeles County – Apparently, The Only Thing More Difficult Than Building A Subway To The Beach Is Casting A Vote
http://laist.com/2008/02/11/apparently_the.php - CO: Colorado will retest electronic voting machines
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20080211/NEWS/791364700 - CO: Gov. Ritter Signs Bipartisan Voting-Machine Recertification Legislation
http://www.thecherrycreeknews.com/content/view/2435/2/ - FL: CD-13 – Buchanan slammed for leaking report
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080211/COLUMNIST89/802110521 - LA: Election Irregularities: Louisiana Democrats Disenfranchised When Party Registration Switched
http://globalintercept.blogspot.com/2008/02/election-irregularities-louisiana.html - NM: Volunteers qualify 2,800 provisional ballots so far in NM caucus
http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_8224831?source=most_viewed - NY: Albany County – Albany’s voting machines
http://blogs.timesunion.com/localpolitics/?p=1125 - NY: Herkimer County – Legislature approves purchase of 41 ballot marking devices
http://www.littlefallstimes.com/articles/2008/02/11/news/news4.txt - NY: Tompkins County – Committee requests $41K for voting machines
http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080211/NEWS01/802110323/1002 - OH: Give the new voting machines a chance
http://www.advertiser-tribune.com/page/content.detail/id/503533.html - OH: Ohio Officials at Odds Over Paper Ballot
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/us/politics/10ohio.html - OH: Ohio secretary of state says votes will count
Jennifer Brunner discusses concerns of election
http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/15501041.html - OH: Judge to decide if secretary of state can order paper ballots in primary
http://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080211/UPDATES01/80211020 - OH: Restraining order thrown out, hearing set for Wednesday
http://www.thisweeknews.com/?sec=home&story=sites/twn/content/pool/exclusives/2008/february/021108-MVL-News-Brunner.html&tab=tab1 - PA: A risk of mishaps with Pa. voting?
Report: ‘high risk’ of malfunctions for Pa. voting machines
http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2008/02/11/News/A.Risk.Of.Mishaps.With.Pa.Voting-3200602.shtml - TN: Your Email Action is Needed Now to Ensure Verifiable Voting in 2008 Elections
http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/2008/02/11/your-email-action-is-needed-now-to-ensure-verifiable-voting-in-2008-elections/ - WA: Huckabee ‘Not Ready to Concede,’ ‘Looking at Some Legal Issues’ in ‘Dubious’ Washington State GOP Caucus
https://bradblog.com/?p=5678 - WV: Kanawha County – Only one state firm makes optical scan ballots
http://www.dailymail.com/News/Kanawha/200802110202
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Yeah, Happy BD John.
You know, voting machines make strange bedfellows.
Back in the day when Clint Curtis was explaining how the was approached by an individual who became a congress member, and was told to write some code to flip votes, there was also a chinese spy story.
The spy worked at the same place as Clint, and the congress member was the lawyer for the spy.
Now the spies have multiplied, and so have the voting machines.
John, we need more of you to keep an eye on this. I hope your children and grandchildren stay the course.
I just blogged about my voting experience in Maryland, and some of my thoughts about it.
Happy birthday John. Thank you for your tireless work for US. May your coming year be full of joy and peace.
Scott #2
You are correct to reject the election religion (“just have faith and trust us”) in chain of custody and most everything else.
As you say, what we have in common in Amurka is that there is no way to know how our vote was counted, or even if it was counted.
What happens to our vote is an article of faith, not a matter of knowledge.
Thank you for the kind comments. I appreciate it.
Now we all need to start a letter writing campaign to convince Brad that I deserve to have that vacation in Hawaii that he has been promising me for the past two years. I was expecting it for my birthday. Maybe next year?
Ahahahahaha!
That’s a good one, John!
Ahahahahaha! My hand is sore from slapping it on my desk. 😛
Hope that next year works out for you, John. You deserve it! You guys are my working class heros.
Come on Brad,
Don’t you need to send somebody to check on Hawaiian elections in person?
If JG doesn’t wanna go, I volunteer. I’m just that way…
Happy day JG. And know that we all appreciate your work. This DVNews is where I go every day in the limited time I have to fight this fight for free fair elections…
shw