Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Yesterday, in this space, I stated that a problem in Wharton Co Texas had votes switching from a GOP candidate to a Democrat. In fact that information was incorrect. The election was a non-partisan election on constitutional amendments. There clearly was, however, vote swapping taking place. The information regarding the vote switching in Pennsylvania was correct. My apologies for the erroneous information.
The EAC terminated all certification of the Advanced Voting Solutions voting system that was being tested by iBeta. This renders the AVS system used in three Pennsylvania counties useless. Northampton and Lackawanna Counties are now discussing suing the vendor.
Twenty percent of the vvpat tapes from Diebold/Premier DREs used recently in Cuyahoga Co Ohio are damaged beyond use. The SoS has given the county permission to run ballot images from the DREs for recounts. Thus no voter verified paper ballots will be used to recount 20% of the votes. Diebold is looking for a way to blame election officials or the voters, of course.
Those stories, and the rest of today’s notable voting news items, are all linked below…
- CA: Humboldt County – Voter Confidence Committee gathers community support for hand-counting paper ballots
http://www.eurekareporter.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ArticleID=31135 - CA: Los Angeles County – Calif. State Secretary May Re-certify February Voting System
http://www.kpbs.org/news/local;id=10311 - CA: San Francisco – Editorial – A real public voting system
With machines, a current deal that thrills no one
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=5049&catid=4&volume_id=317&issue_id=327&volume_num=42&issue_num=09 - FL: CD-13 – Jennings withdraws lawsuit over 2006 congressional race
http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071128/APN/711280703&template=apart - FL: CD-13 – Jennings withdraws lawsuit
http://www.bradenton.com/breakingnews/story/239299.html - GA: Clayton County – Secretary of State will not investigate election fraud in Riverdale
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/clayton/stories/2007/11/28/riverdale_1129_web.html - NY: Poll access for disabled heats debate
http://www.thedailystar.com/local/local_story_331073021.html - OH: Ohio Wins Poll-Worker Training Funds, Voting Problems Persist in Cuyahoga County
http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2007/11/28/172042/53 - OH: Clermont County – Official Clermont vote tally prompts recounts in 3 races
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071128/NEWS01/711280380/1056/COL02 - OH: Cuyahoga County – Cuyahoga Board of Elections gets secretary of state’s OK to reprint paper records for recounts
http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/119615626399510.xml&coll=2 - OH: Cuyahoga County – 20 percent of election printouts were unreadable
Officials fear disaster in Cuyahoga County during primary vote
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/119624295790400.xml&coll=2 - OH: Lorain County – Close races face recount
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19063850&BRD=1699&PAG=461&dept_id=46371&rfi=6 - OH: Summit County – Counting machines requested
Absentee balloting likely to soar; $368,000 sought
http://www.ohio.com/news/11880281.html - PA: Northampton County’s voting machines are out
http://www.pennlive.com/lehighvalley/index.ssf/2007/11/electronic_voting_machines_in.html - PA: Northampton County voting machines won’t get federal approval
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-n-l-voting-112807-cn,0,6381105.story - PA: Philadelphia – Losing candidate alleges fraud
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20071128_Losing_candidate_alleges_fraud.html - TX: 49,000 questionable names found on voter rolls
Auditors say none of them cast ballots in the May election
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5333979.html - UT: Salt Lake County – Smells like 2000: Voting was supposed to have changed after the 2000 election fiasco. What happened?
http://www.slweekly.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=873C227F-AAE1-CFF1-5106872DA9483201
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