{"id":6623,"date":"2008-11-04T13:37:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T21:37:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-17T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T00:02:00","slug":"ar-pre-election-tests-not-performed-on-touch-screens-not-enough-paper-ballots-voting-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6623","title":{"rendered":"AR: Pre-Election Tests Not Performed Correctly on Touch-Screens, Not Enough Paper Ballots, Voting Delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest Blogged by John Gideon of <a href=\"http:\/\/votersUnite.org\">VotersUnite.org<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kait8.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=9291876&#038;nav=menu67_2\">Problems with machines<\/a> in Clay County, Arkansas. Pre-election tests were not performed and there aren&#8217;t enough paper ballots to around&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><b>Technical Glitch Affects Machines in Clay County<\/b><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nSome of the machines had not been zeroed out yet from when test runs were performed. The test, for accuracy, is called an &#8220;LNA&#8221; test.<\/p>\n<p>In Rector, there weren&#8217;t enough paper ballots to substitute for the electronic voting machines. This is because Clay County is an all-electronic voting county. Voting was delayed from the start of the day for about 30 minutes.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is not a &#8220;glitch&#8221;. It is a failure of the election workers to do their job properly. &#8220;LNA&#8221; test is actually &#8220;L and A&#8221; [Logic and Accuracy].  The failure is compounded by the fact that the county, which <a href=\"http:\/\/verifiedvoting.org\/verifier\/map.php?state=Arkansas&#038;county=Clay&#038;ec=allall&#038;year=2008\">forces voters to use ES&#038;S iVotronic touch-screen systems<\/a>, did not have enough paper ballots to give to the one town.<\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> covers your electoral system, fiercely and independently, like no other media outlet in the nation. Please support our work with <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Donate\">a donation<\/a> to help us keep going.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org Problems with machines in Clay County, Arkansas. Pre-election tests were not performed and there aren&#8217;t enough paper ballots to around&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,122,6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arkansas","category-election-2008","category-election-irregularities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6623"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}