Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
Two reports from Belmont County Ohio and both in the same news paper report how an Election Commission member said the machines were a complete success while the other article talks about how elections workers were saying they would never work in another election again. Diebold has announced in Pennsylvania only that they have ”potential security vulnerability”. It is probably not only an issue in PA but no one else has been notified yet. North Carolina seems to have been able to hold a relatively problem free election based on their first state-wide use of optical scan voting and even though their vendor is ES&S….
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The Glitch That Stole Our Democracy.
I want my country back.
You’re a mean one, Mr. Glitch!
Your such a Glitch-,…….(B)
How can "an Election Commission member said the machines were a complete success" and in another county they say the machines are not working?
If they do not use different versions of software or hardware, then The Silence of the Goats is at work here.
Lets all pretend that the exact same machinery works differently in one county as it does in another.
Yeah right, and two exact ATM machines work differently in one county as compared to another.
Yeah right.
John
I can’t find where Florida forbids manual recounts. I have heard rumors to that effect however.
There are Florida statutes that specifically deal with manual recounts (2005->Ch0102->Section%20166#0102.166" target="_blank">Title IX Ch. 102.166).
Am I missing it?
Let’s use north carolina as a model.
The words "train wreck", which can also be called a catastrophe, appear a lot in your post John. And I think for valid reasons.
Some people have a strange reaction to catastrophe. We remember Bush saying "Brownie you are doin a heckuva job" after the FEMA/Katrina catastrophe.
Some election officials are saying "you are doin a heckuva job" to their defective voting systems.
One republican, however, who is wide awake is not saying "you are doing a heckuva job" to congress members:
"RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman met with Republican members of Congress this week to impress upon them just how bad the opinion polls are looking for them, and warning that they face a possible catastrophe in November" (link here, bold added).
I noticed that one IN story had it right in the headline. They didn’t use the word "glitch," but instead dug up that great old WWII word, "snafu."
"Snafu" is a much more descriptive word for these electile disfunction situations. It’s an acronym for, "Situation Normal, All F***ed Up."
That’s pretty much The way it is. If a computer is counting our votes and there is a problem – even one problem – then the situation is normal, and our election is "all f***ed up."
I propose that we (6 or 7 of us anyway…) make a point of writing a letter to the editor to every paper that uses the word "glitch" and inform them that what happened was not a "glitch" but a "snafu," and all the implications of that.
Dredd go to Clint Curtis dot com and click on the contact link for Clints email and ask him for the details on not recounting the optical scan ballots onece they have been through the reader.
Mr. Sanford, Sorry, not here.
The Management
If anyone is wondering why some conservatives talk like liberals and use catastrophic terms:
"Angry conservatives are driving the approval ratings of President Bush and the GOP-led Congress to dismal new lows, according to an AP-Ipsos poll that underscores why Republicans fear an Election Day massacre.
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• Just 33 percent of the public approves of Bush’s job performance, the lowest of his presidency. That compares with 36 percent approval in early April. Forty-five percent of self-described conservatives now disapprove of the president.
• Just one-fourth of the public approves of the job Congress is doing, a new low in AP-Ipsos polling and down 5 percentage points since last month. A whopping 65 percent of conservatives disapprove of Congress.
• A majority of Americans say they want Democrats rather than Republicans to control Congress (51 percent to 34 percent). That’s the largest gap recorded by AP-Ipsos since Bush took office. Even 31 percent of conservatives want Republicans out of power.
• The souring of the nation’s mood has accelerated the past three months, with the percentage of people describing the nation on the wrong track rising 12 points to a new high of 73 percent. Six of 10 conservatives say America is headed in the wrong direction" (link here).
We fear an election day massacre too, but we call it a train wreck and the massacre we fear is not that the republican dictatorship will get justice.
Cuyahoga county has now found all but 5 of the missing memory cards, originally 70. They will be counting paper ballots for another couple days. So far, no reported electronic errors, but it’s still early for what passes for elections around here. A commentator stated that this county has more to count than four states. The prosecutor is making noises about taking some of the poll workers who didn’t show up, to court. It just gets better and better.
Do the "found" cards work or show signs of having been "updated"?