{"id":5243,"date":"2007-11-03T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5243"},"modified":"2007-11-04T02:56:14","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T09:56:14","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-november-03-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5243","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For November 03, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

<\/a>Today the Daytona Beach News Journal reports that 25,000 Diebold optical-scan machines used across the country may have a defect that causes failures in the memory cards. Apparently Diebold has known about this problem for some time. One election official claims that she THINKS no votes have been lost. Diebold says that around one percent of the memory cards are affected but the News Journal has found that some counties have reported over nine percent failure. There will be an election in Florida next week but the state is not requiring any beefed-up audits to ensure there are no lost votes. Diebold says they will inspect machines outside of Florida on a “case by case basis.”\u009d In other words, they are not going to warn their customers, and they won’t inspect anything unless a customer forces their hand. This is just another reason to recall all voting devices qualified by NASED and inspected by ITAs paid by the vendors to look the other way. It is time to “Rage against the machines”\u009d….<\/p>\n

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