Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
On March 4 election officials in Butler Co Ohio discovered that even though their system said that all memory cards had been read, in fact the system did not read one of the cards. This is an error in accuracy. Last Thursday Diebold issued a report to the county to report the results of their investigation. Diebold will fix the software problem and send it through the federal certification process. It appears that the county will just live with the problem and mitigate it with administrative procedures. First, this is a violation of HAVA Section 301(a)(5) but more importantly why would any county use a voting system that has already proven itself to be inaccurate? This is an outrage….
- NAtional: Several Big Voting Rights Victories On Friday!
https://bradblog.com/?p=5997 - FL: It shouldn’t be so hard to vote in Florida
http://pelicanpress.org/main.asp?SectionID=131&SubSectionID=226&ArticleID=5097 - HI: Bid protest leaves state without election system
http://starbulletin.com/2008/05/17/news/story08.html - HI: State delays contract for voting machines
Procurement office won’t allow temporary deal with company
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080517/NEWS03/805170335/1007/LOCALNEWSFRONT - IN: Clay bungled handling of vote on election night
http://www.post-trib.com/news/james/954649,james.article - MO: Missouri Legislature Ends Session With Voter ID Amendment Still on Agenda
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/us/politics/17missouri.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=politics&adxnnlx=1211033003-J3wqodfkcX7Yv1sw7sstQg - NJ: Judge sets tight security on voting machine tests
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/05/judge_to_rule_on_testing_proce.html - OH: Voters Comfortable With Machines
http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/509620.html - OH: Opinion – Costs of voting have to be considered
http://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080517/OPINION01/805170306/1014/OPINION - OH: Butler County – Report: Voting errors caused by two factors
http://www.middletownjournal.com/hp/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/05/17/hjn051708boe.html
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Hey, if the Judge would also add tight security to voting machines that are being used during an election (tight chain of custody).
The reason it is done in this test is so that the results of the test can be believed. Same as in an election isn’t it?
What a concept 😉 …
This article appeared on the front page of the Dallas Morning News today. http://www.dallasnews.com/share...d.3c75dcb.html
Texas attorney general’s two-year effort fails to unravel large-scale voter-fraud schemes
12:35 AM CDT on Sunday, May 18, 2008
By WAYNE SLATER / The Dallas Morning News
wslater@dallasnews.com
AUSTIN ““ More than two years ago, Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott pledged to root out what he called an epidemic of voter fraud in Texas.
He established a special unit in his office, tapped a $1.4 million federal crime-fighting grant and dispatched investigators.
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Since then, Mr. Abbott has prosecuted 26 cases ““ all against Democrats, and almost all involving blacks or Hispanics, a review by The Dallas Morning News shows.
The cases usually have resulted in small fines and little or no jail time, and for all the extra attention, Mr. Abbott has not unraveled any large-scale schemes with the potential to swing elections.
How did the DailyKos and Marcos Zuniga become so powerful? This is a very important question, one that hopefully will eventually be fully explained.
A few links:
Mark Lindeman supporting DailyCIAKos and trashing Bev Harris
DailyCIAKos trashing election integrity movement
This last one I haven’t checked out in a while but look forward to checking it again.
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On March 4 election officials in Butler Co Ohio discovered that even though their system said that all memory cards had been read, in fact the system did not read one of the cards. This is an error in accuracy. Last Thursday Diebold issued a report to the county to report the results of their investigation. Diebold will fix the software problem and send it through the federal certification process
trusting diebold to “fix” it is a perfect example of upside down logic…the ole fox guarding the hen house
btw…on sundays i listen to vicki karp on we the people radio….today from 2:50 (illinois time) to 3 pm…the airwaves were dead