Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Faulkner Co, Arkansas, media are reporting that there was a tabulating error on machines in at least one precinct. In the East Cadron B precinct the iVotronic moved votes for Cadron Township Constable candidate John Edwards to Linda Tyler, who was a candidate for House District 45. This seems to be “vote flipping plus.”
Two US Senators have now joined together to sponsor bipartisan legislation that will ensure the continued use of DREs. In this case they require the voter has a means of verification but that verification can be paper, video, audio, or even electronic. Does that mean that the review screen on the present DREs is good enough? It may be.
I will be publishing DVN tomorrow and then we will be going on a week hiatus while the editor, publisher, writer, and chief cook and bottle washer takes his annual trip to chase the wily Alaska Salmon. Unfortunately the lodge now has wireless so I may be able to keep up with some of the most important news as it happens….
- NAtional: Disarming Our Demons
The self-fulfilling prophecy of election-stealing.
http://www.slate.com/id/2190779/ - NAtional: Senators: No need for paper e-voting trails, ‘electronic’ ones are OK
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9951458-7.html - AR: Murray requests recount in race for circuit judge
http://www.thnews.com/article.php?id=5522 - AR: Faulkner County – Recount reverses results in District 45 race
http://www.thecabin.net/stories/052408/loc_0524080001.shtml - AR: Faulkner County – Another Election Outcome Changed in Arkansas After Another ES&S Voting Machine Failure…
https://bradblog.com/?p=6017 - AZ: Pima County – Victory for the Voters in Pima County, AZ! Judge Allows All Diebold Voting Databases Released to Citizens!
https://bradblog.com/?p=6016 - FL: Supervisors expecting smooth election process
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/may/24/30gtsupervisors-expecting-smooth-election/ - OH: Editorial – Legislature makes Cuyahoga County a pawn in fight with Brunner – editorial
http://www.cleveland.com/editorials/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1211617876162900.xml&coll=2 - OH: Opinion – Voting by mail doesn’t do a lick of good as far as unifying Americans
http://www.morningjournal.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19717351&BRD=1699&PAG=461&dept_id=46368&rfi=6 - OH: Columbiana County – Vote board to review ballot printing options
http://www.salemnews.net/page/content.detail/id/502254.html?nav=5007 - OH: Cuyahoga County – Cuyahoga elections officials survey possible voting machines
Three firms compete to supply Cuyahoga
http://www.cleveland.com/open/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/isope/121163372839940.xml&coll=2 - UT: Bill would require trail, audit rules for voting machines
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_9367676
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John,
Since it isn’t fashionable to bring up cracking, a.k.a. hacking, computers (unless it happens to them) check out this story about election corruption.
Do you think it is a valid story?
John,
If you want to check up on the story in post #1, the brother of the individual is going to be there in a few days.
If you want to ask them, one is President of the Federal Bar Association in Washington DC, and speaks only truth constantly, trust me, and will be at the:
(DC Federal Bar Assoc., emphasis added). Wow, not bad, rubbing elbows with military brass for some reason.
I suggest you send Jim March to do the interview, he is not a chickenshit.
Tell Jim that Silvio (“Aaron of Fairlight”) is brother to “Strider of Fairlight”, and that both are famous crackers.
Not that it has anything to do with cracking voting machines or getting into places of power so as to be able to control election outcomes.
Hell no, it is only coincidence and only happens to them.
NO! What we really want to know is what they are having for Hors d’ouevres.
Report back … its a votin thang dawg … we are going to have the same hors as them at our next dawg and pony show …
John, check this:
(Wikipedia). Members of the EI movement constantly cite the vulnerability of electronic voting machines as giving opportunity to crackers (a.k.a. hackers).
Within bradblog software there is the work of a self-proclaimed hacker who goes by the name of strider and strider72 who wrote a plug-in that is used in the blog software.
If any evoting machine company used a plug-in written by a self-proclaimed hacker on its evoting machines, what would be said of it in terms of the notion of opportunity? Or the notion of means?
Remember, motive generally does NOT have to be proven for a conviction of a crime, it is just icing on the cake.
I know what should be said, that the code should be supplied to all of us programmers at bradblog, and we should hang together and check it out so we don’t hang separately, but will it be said?
Pray for me John 😉 …
Dredd #1 – I’m sorry. The election corruption is where? I will admit to only reading the first two grafs before I stopped and skimmed the rest of the article but, unless you mean the SD GOP not interviewing this author for its endorsement as a candidate, I don’t see any election issues mentioned.
As for the rest of your comments, this is all totally out of my web of concern. I care, but not anywhere near as much as you apparently do. And in a few hours the only thing I am going to care about is how deep to fish and whether the herring bait is fresh.
Have a great trip John and blow the ocean a kiss from me!
Keep on keeping on Dredd!
Happy Memorial Reflections Everyone!
John,
You mention the wily Alaska Salmon! I used to limit out during lunch down on the Kenai Penusula at the Kenai river.
One interesting trait (in election terms) is that they always return to their place of birth. Exactly.
Like Aaron of Fairlight, the “nickname” on Amazon dot com for Silvio Krvaric, the little brother of the mysto election dude (Strider of Fairlight) I mentioned.
They have returned to Fairlight, their cracker place of birth, and now they are in influencial places where they can effect the outcome of elections.
And their copycat strider72 aka strider can even effect the way your postings here work John.
Not to worry John, catch a big one for us and we will try to catch a big one for you!
Hey Dredd, WYEP which streams on the net is having a Dylan birthday bash!
Ancient #5
Thanks.
I hope John did not think “registered pedophile was employed as a clown” in the article was a reference to Senator Craig (R-Closet).
I was simply pointing out that the “things done as a child” defense that Strider advanced when he was outed as a famous cracker, does not fit his fascist tactics NOW to not give a fair chance to the other republicans running for office there in San Diego. He is still a dangerous ideologue.
I memorialize those Masters of Peace, who live and let live, and have only disdain for the Masters of War, who kill and let kill.
Ancient #7
Great … Dylan is a master of lyric symbolism … my birthday is tuesday, so he and I are both gemini I suppose … but I don’t know much about astroturf … 😉
Today will be the birth of good knowledge if Phoenix lands on Mars ok in a few hours …
peace
I’m got sum catching up to do. Been doing a Phil and working in my garden!
Ooops that was suppose to be “I’ve”. Anyway, thanks for all you do, and Happy Happy!
Ancient #10-11
Happy gardening.
Aaron of Fairlight, as chief homeowner dude at Kingston Chase, “Silvio believes in transparent government”. And he is a drug pharmaceutical litigation lawyer.
Well, we might just have a bipartisan thingy here? Can he help us get some 10 million emails from the people’s house (where preznit blush now lives).
Or at least help Brad some on this transparency issues?
Or does “transparency” mean I can look at all your stuff but you can’t look at mine?
Dredd –
Please see what I’d hoped would be my final response to your ridiculous line of attack in yesterday’s DVN. But since you keep referring to “transparency issues” of software here at The BRAD BLOG and suggesting that “the code should be supplied to all of us programmers at bradblog,” we use WordPress here, which is Open Source.
The Pull-Quote plugin (which I chose, after looking at several) but which you think is surely some guy hacking into us, is called “JavaScript Pull-Quotes” and it too is Open Source. So please, go knock yourself out with your sleuthing. But please stop hijacking threads here with nonsense that has nothing to do with the original post at hand.
If you find any security concerns, of course, you are free to reach me via email as you do in other cases. And yes, as I mentioned in the previous post that I referred you to, we have security concerns here all the time. The one you mention, as I have responded to you now several times, is not one of them. And I’d appreciate it if you stopped using up comment threads for your personal hobby horse, unless and until there actually is something worth riding because you’re really serving as an extraordinary distraction from legitimate discussion AND serving to annoy the crap out of me at all once. So again, I ask you politely to please knock it off. Thank you.
Farewill Brad, here is my parting song for you and yepper:
(Bob Dylan, Silvio).
Well, I’m (finally) getting around to inquiring about something in John’s dvn that caught my eye about a week ago – and John’s on vacation! Maybe someone will respond to this. I’m befuddled by an article in a Wheeling, WV. paper linked to by John that reported that only one percent of the voters in Ohio in the March primary who had the opportunity to use paper ballots actually used them! 99% used the machines! What gives here? I would have thought the folks up there in the Buckeye would have jumped at the chance to use paper. Anybody else in here happen to read that link? May 17th I think. If the report is accurate, what are we to make of it? Are we banging our collective heads against a brick wall the size of the one in China?