9 days until Election Day.
In a stunning admission Sequoia Voting Systems has admitted to not printing and mailing over 11,000 absentee ballots to Denver, Colorado, voters. Their spokeswoman claimed they “made an unfortunate mistake.” In fact, the company had failed to notify the city of this “mistake” and when originally asked they lied and told the city they had delivered all 21,450 ballots they were supposed to print and deliver to the post office on Oct. 16. Sequoia claims they will have ballots printed and delivered to the post office by tomorrow, Monday. Voters have until election day to get those ballots marked and either back in the mail or delivered to any early polling site. Not mentioned by anyone is if any overseas voters or military are affected by this failure.
In Jefferson Co, Arkansas, voters will vote on ballots that don’t have some alderman races on them. The county discovered their error too late and they have now fixed it but all early voting has been done without those races being voted on by the voters. The county will just forget all of those voters and hope that none of the races are close, which would open them up for potential lawsuits….
- National: How to Stop Election Theft and How Not to Stop Election Theft?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/How-to-Stop-Election-Theft-by-Mark-Adams-081023-879.html - National: Antidote to Election Theft: “Steal Back Your Vote”
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Antidote-to-Election-Theft-by-Joan-Brunwasser-081026-908.html - National: This Election Will Not Be Stolen
http://www.opednews.com/articles/This-Election-Will-Not-Be-by-Jennifer-Hathaway-081024-520.html - National: Opinion – Groups work to fend off Nov. 4 poll problems
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081026/COLUMNIST0107/810260401/1008/OPINION01 - National: Casting its lot with e-voting
Despite critics, Hart Intercivic has made its choice
http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/technology/10/27/1027hart.html - National: Obama could still lose election to McCain from GOP voter suppression or vote fraud
http://www.examiner.com/x-775-Political-Issues-Examiner~y2008m10d26-Obama-McCain-election-GOP-voter-suppression-vote-fraud - National: Democrats Describe Efforts to Limit Voting Machines Problems
http://www.alternet.org/democracy/104635/democrats_describe_efforts_to_limit_voting_machines_problems/ - AR: Error On Redfield, Altheimer Ballots Addressed At Emergency Meet
http://www.pbcommercial.com/articles/2008/10/26/news/news4.txt - AR: Candidate Reacts to Ballot Error That May Have Cost Votes
http://www.pbcommercial.com/articles/2008/10/26/news/news5.txt - CA: Your vote faces challenges like never before
http://www.times-standard.com/othervoices/ci_10820484 - CA: Polling places are in the mail
http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/963364.html - CA: Riverside County registrar braces for record voter turnout
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_W_vote26.47447f2.html - CA: Riverside County – JACOBS: Why act like there’s something to hide?
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/10/26/opinion/jacobs/zdc14582f5b12f5ab882574eb006141ee.txt - CA: San Diego County – Steps taken for smooth Election Day
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20081026-9999-1m26vote.html - CO: Coffman sued over voter purge
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_10815894 - CO: Boulder County – Greenlee: Will our votes count?
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/oct/26/will-our-votes-count/ - CO: ‘Missing’ Denver mail ballots were never sent by vendor
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/oct/24/denver-looking-11000-missing-mail-ballots/?partner=RSS - CO: Denver – Missing ballots weren’t prepared
A vendor didn’t mail half the 21,450 needed, but that’s been fixed.
http://www.denverpost.com/election/ci_10817170 - FL: Both parties to guard polls on Election Day
Legal teams for the Barack Obama and John McCain campaigns will deploy thousands of poll watchers to Florida voting sites to keep an eye out for possible irregularities in the presidential election.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/741885.html - FL: Florida counties split over voter verification
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/741884.html - GA: Gwinnett County – Officials ‘confident’ in absentee solution
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/main.asp?SectionID=6&SubSectionID=6&ArticleID=52061&TM=338.932 - IN: Parties await judge’s ruling on Lake County early voting
http://www.chestertontribune.com/Politics%20and%20Elections/parties_await_judges_ruling_on_l.htm - MD: Decision Time for Early Voting in Md.
Issue Has Long Divided Lawmakers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/25/AR2008102501864.html?sub=AR - NY: BlackBoxVoting.org Speaks Out for Election Transparency
http://e-voter.blogspot.com/2008/10/ny-blackboxvotingorg-speaks-out-for.html - NY: Does the US electoral system HAVA brain?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Does-the-US-electoral-syst-by-Rady-Ananda-081025-859.html - OH: White House Asks for Scrutiny
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/24/AR2008102403659.html - OH: Lawmakers Urge DOJ Not to Intervene in Ohio Voter Dispute
http://www.pubrecord.org/nationworld/428-lawmakers-urge-doj-not-to-intervene-in-ohio-voter-dispute.html - OH: Is Ohio doomed to ballot battles?
Some laud litigation; others see need for nonpartisan system
http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/26/copy/why_elections_explode.ART_ART_10-26-08_A1_8SBMPRH.html?adsec=politics&sid=101 - PA: Counties add voting machines, poll workers in anticipation of record turnout
http://www.eveningsun.com/ci_10817459 - PA: Bradford County — Editoral – Integrity of voter lists needs protection
http://www.thedailyreview.com/articles/2008/10/26/editorial/tw_review.20081026.a.pg4.tw26edit_s2.2040293_edi.txt - TN: Davidson County – Problems Plague Early Voting System
Elections Commission Says Blames Calibration
http://www.wsmv.com/politics/17803172/detail.html - TN: Knox County – Voters confused about presidential vote on TN county’s machines
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/26/voters-confused-about-presidential-vote-on-tn-countys-machines/ - TX: Brazoria County – Clerk says to double-check electronic ballots
http://thefacts.com/story.lasso?ewcd=1e459a0a06766e36 - WV: ES&S official left company in May
Ireland gave man an award Thursday for voting innovation
http://sundaygazettemail.com/News/200810250560?page=1&build=cache - Overseas Voting: My Voting Experience From Afghanistan
http://blog.pennlive.com/blog-runner/2008/10/my_voting_experience_from_afgh.html
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It will be interesting to see if there are any obvious patterns , like 80% Dem. Death by a thousand cuts!
I am an American citizen. I used to listen to Brad on Peter B. Collins’ shows all the time. I believed (falsely), that the only people committing voter fraud were the Republicans. They are not. There are plenty of factually correct stories out there of massive voter fraud in the caucuses during the primary. These fraudulent activities were a part of the Obama campaign, and are the reason, Obama was given the nod to be the Democratic nominee. I have discovered something this year, and that is, if you do not stand up for all the people concerning voter fraud, then you stand for nothing. Since, voter fraud is being done by both sides, does this
make either side right? The answer is no, and if you truly care about democracy, then you should care about the voter fraud being done by the Democracts, as well as the Republicans. I am still a registered Democrat, but I plan to reregister, after the election to Non-committed, or Independent. It is sad, that a party, that I believed stood for one man, one vote, is only concerned about your right to vote if you are a Democrat. What a sad, sick joke on all of us.