{"id":2790,"date":"2006-05-05T19:54:48","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T23:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2007-09-08T21:33:11","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T04:33:11","slug":"ess-meltdown-mo-counties-going-back-to-paper-lever-voting-as-company-failures-continue-to-pile-up-around-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2790","title":{"rendered":"ES&S MELTDOWN: MO Counties Going Back to Paper, Lever Voting as Company Failures Continue to Pile Up Around the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Diebold implodes on the latest news<\/a> that all of their touch-screen voting machines contain a perhaps-uncorrectable flaw being described as a “major national security threat,” the largest of the country’s Electronic Voting Machine Companies, ES&S continue to meltdown all across the nation.<\/p>\n

On the heels of similar failures in Indiana, Oregon, Texas, West Virginia, Arkansas and elsewhere, Missouri now joins the crowd as the latest state to report failures by ES&S to deliver ballots, machines and software programming in time for elections this year.<\/p>\n

Five counties in Missouri have announced they are going to “Plan B” (creating their own paper ballots, or returning to their old lever systems) in preparation for early voting which is to begin Monday in the Show Me state.<\/p>\n

Problems are being reported<\/a> in Boone, Carroll, Marion, Newton and Searcy Counties. Here’s a sample of refrains that are starting to sound incredibly familiar:<\/p>\n

“I’m just sick,” longtime [Carroll County] Election Commission Chairman Levi Phillips said Tuesday. He said Election Systems and Software of Omaha, Neb., had not only failed to send the programmed parts for the touch-screen machines but it also failed to break down paper ballots so results could be reported by precinct. It also didn’t put the candidates in the order drawn from a hat in a couple of races, he said.<\/p>\n

“We’re in hell with that,” he said. “That wasn’t a step forward. That’s a step back.”<\/p>\n

The Election Commission voted unanimously Tuesday morning to order paper ballots for early voting.
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\nSearcy County plans to drag its old lever voting machines out for early voting and they will be used on Election Day May 23 if the fancy new touch-screen computer voting machines aren’t ready.
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\n“Searcy County is very upset and let down with ES&S,” Smith said this morning. He said he and four retired school teachers who “burned their own gas” took the new touch screen voting machines all around the county training poll workers and demonstrating for voters and “now they say you’ve got to do something else.” He noted that the lever machine invented in the 1800s was proving more reliable than the state-of-the-art computer machines.<\/div>\n

Dear Washington D.C. and the National Mainstream Media: Is anybody there? Does anybody care?<\/p>\n

(Thanks to BRAD BLOG<\/a> reader Mark M. for the tip from my home state!<\/i>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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