12 days until Election Day.
There is just too much news to fit into one DVN today so there will be one edition this morning (Pac time) and one at the normal time. We will be doing that through the election as the amount of news grows.
So far today a federal lawsuit has been filed in Pennsylvania seeking an earlier use of emergency paper ballots than is presently the dictate of the Secretary of State. The SoS has dictated that emergency ballots can only be used when all of the machines at a poll site are shut-down for some reason. The lawsuit hopes to loosen up that dictate to when 50% of the machines are shut-down for some reason.
While the West Virginia SoS has dictated that all of the states ES&S iVotronic touch-screen machines must be recalibrated we are still getting reports of vote switching.
- National: Editorial – Sorry, I Can’t Find Your Name
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/opinion/23thu1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin - National: Election officials try to ease long voting lines
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iXAkBilVhjbpsgAAHfgp6kGEShvwD93VRFK80 - National: Errors, mischief could lead to long election night
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gGnXAe9LtYL6kK0RfS4kG9VYGacgD9402DIO0 - National: Mickey Mouse Operation
Making sense of the confusing, contentious “problem” of voter fraud.
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=1c31a193-489f-45b0-8bd7-bb0db7a12227 - National: Chocolate News on the proper care of our voting machines
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Chocolate-News-on-the-prop-by-the-web-081023-809.html - National: Here’s an outstanding article on massive voter purges going on
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Here-s-an-outstanding-arti-by-Katie-Hickox-081023-562.html - National: POLITICS-US: E-Voting Worries Focus on Swing States
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44411 - National: Enough Voting Machine Problems, Let’s Return to Traditional Ballot Box
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rw-sanders/enough-voting-machine-pro_b_137141.html - National: Stop, Drop, and Poll – What to Do if You Have Problems Voting
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Stop-Drop-and-Poll–Wha-by-Mary-Mancini-081023-1.html - AZ: Pima County – Count the Votes
What’s a voter to do in Pima County–wear a foil hat and pray Attorney General Terry Goddard puts an end to the RTA election distrust?
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=oid:117425 - CA: Los Angeles County – Voting Registrations Break Records, Early Voting Continues
http://laist.com/2008/10/23/voting_registrations_break_records.php - CO: Arapahoe County – Perlmutter waits for response after requesting monitors
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=102377&catid=188 - FL: No Confidence Vote
http://blogs.cioinsight.com/knowitall/content001/culture/no_confidence_vote.html - FL: Internet Voting in Florida Raises Security Concerns: Geek the Vote
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4288327.html - FL: More Florida Counties Give Unverified Voters Leeway
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/oct/23/na-more-counties-give-unverified-voters-leeway/ - FL: Lawyer: Voter matching can be done at polls
http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=b1d81f16-44b6-4c90-9f82-177b2ad81d6e - FL: Students at FAMU, FSU and TCC playing larger role in presidential politics
http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20081023/BREAKINGNEWS/81022005 - FL: Early voting wait times in Miami-Dade, Broward posted online
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/737936.html - FL: Palm Beach County – Vote tabulating machines pass test as absentee ballot count awaits
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/local_news/epaper/2008/10/22/a1b_vote_1023.html - FL: Volusia County – Central Florida Foreclosures Could Lead To Challenges At The Polls
http://www.wftv.com/news/17784210/detail.html - GA: Fulton County – Glitch Keeps Fulton Voters Waiting For Hours
Computers Lose Connection To State’s Database
http://www.cbs46.com/news/17785206/detail.html#- - IL: Cook County – The Machine Vote
Despite millions of dollars spent on new electronic election equipment in Illinois, many still wonder, “Will my vote count?”
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/iteam&id=6465381 - KS: Sedgwick County – First day of advance voting sees big crowd
http://www.kansas.com/news/story/570193.html - MD: Poll location vital for vote to count
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-md.elections23oct23,0,2710359.story - MN: Election Day hash
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/2008/10/election_day_hash.shtml?refid=0 - NJ: NJ Elections Board Says This Election Is Too Important To Allow Outside Observers
http://www.opednews.com/articles/NJ-Elections-Board-Says-Th-by-the-web-081022-343.html - NM: ACLU Calls for Criminal Investigation of Bernalillo County Clerk’s Office, GOP
http://www.aclu.org/votingrights/gen/37304prs20081022.html - NV: Nevada Secretary of State Rebuffs Latest GOP Effort To Suppress Vote
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/nevada_secretary_of_state_rebu.php - NY: Thousands dropped from local voter rolls
http://www.pressrepublican.com/midday/local_story_297095908.html - NY: Monroe County – Homeless Face Challenges in Voting
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wxxi/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1396393§ionID=1 - OH: Brunner disallows mismatch challenges
Directive to counties’ elections officials comes after victories in court
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/23/no_challenge.ART_ART_10-23-08_B1_E3BM90B.html?sid=101 - OH: Ashland County – Ashland professor challenges voting rights / Filing claims juvenile inmates at Mohican facility shouldn’t be allowed to vote in Ashland County
http://www.times-gazette.com/news/article/4450751 - OH: Ross County – Official to board of elections: Focus on local voters
Secretary of state visits office in Ross County
http://www.chillicothegazette.com/article/20081023/NEWS03/810230303 - PA: Press Release – Coalition of Voters and Civil Rights Groups File Federal Lawsuit in Pennsylvania Seeking Emergency Paper Ballots
http://tinyurl.com/5qadup - PA: Lawsuit: Paper ballots should be on hand in Pa.
http://www.ldnews.com/news/ci_10794336 - PA: Lawsuit: Paper ballots should be on hand in Pa.
http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/919372.html - PA: Pennsylvania Department of State Debunks Myths Associated With Election, Voting
http://tinyurl.com/6sxeq3 - SC: Beaufort County – County election officials assert that votes have been correctly tabulated
http://www.beaufortgazette.com/local/story/593539.html - SC: Beaufort County – Election officials: Voting machine, paper ballot problems resolved
http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/story/646485.html - TX: Travis County fights misleading voting advice
http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=9220170&nav=menu73_6_1_3 - TX: Travis County – Ignore straight-ticket voting rumors, clerk says
Voting straight party and also for individual candidate, will cancel vote on electronic ballot, DeBeauvoir says.
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/10/23/1023voterscam.html - TX: Lubbock County – Disabled Lubbock Citizens Have More Voting Options Than Ever
http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=9223438&nav=menu69_2_9 - WI: Voter fraud, suppression battle to intensify as election approaches
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=809369 - WV: Subject: Take Action to Stop Vote Flipping in West Virginia
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Subject-Take-Action-to-St-by-Kevin-Zeese-081022-581.html - WV: W.Va. official stands by touch-screen voting
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iJ1S7a0ZEQaSbug7MrGES692oirwD93VRK3O0 - WV: Ireland says WV voting machines O.K.
http://www.wvpubcast.org/newsarticle.aspx?id=5598 - WV: West Virginia reassures voters about e-voting machines
http://blogs.computerworld.com/west_virginia - WV: Berkeley County – More voting problems reported
Martinsburg man says machine switched Democratic vote to Republican 5 times
http://sundaygazettemail.com/News/200810220659 - WV: Wyoming County – Voting errors
Perhaps Wyoming County’s antiquated’ ballots aren’t so bad
http://www.register-herald.com/opinion/local_story_296230717.html?keyword=topstory
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Hey John, the marketwatch links for PA don’t seem to be working.
Thanks. It’s the Marketwatch URLs that cause the problems for some reason. I made them ‘tiny’ so they work
I want to know why the FBI, public defenders, and governors in individual states are not looking into this ES&S and Sequoia machine rigging and vote flipping. Since the states want control over voting, the governors of the states should be held accountable. In TN the repugs probably made sure a few votes flipped to democrats so they could say the democrats are responsible for the theft, when really the republicans have HAD an organized method for election stealing for years. NO MORE! We’ve had it. Also, why don’t students of Political Science paired with students in Computer Engineering look into this. The problem concerning voting in this country is probably THE most important issue we face. This government is supposed to be “for the people, by the people”. If even one person’s vote is not counted, the system has failed us. America’s future has never been more threatened.
“12 days until Election Day”, and the thirteenth day hopefully you can rest a little.
Hey time to get out those BIG magnets Brad spoke of on Faux News!
Thanks John, and if I had a million dollars I’d make pedro eat his myth list lies. Sure hope people have their cell phone cameras ready!
So if the horrible machines have to be re-calibrated, what happens to the votes????
#3….Brilliant