Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Voters went to the polls in Horry Co South Carolina this morning in hopes of casting their vote in that state’s Republican primary. Unfortunately testing of the voting machines had not been completed by the county and ES&S so poll workers were not able to start the machines. Over 80% of the machines used in the county sat dark until technicians could be sent out to get them cleared and ready for the voters. While county election officials were telling the media that no voters had been turned away, voters were telling the media the truth. Voters were sent away without voting.
Ohio SoS Jennifer Brunner has moved back a bit from her plans for November. Gone are her demands for vote centers and gone is her mandate for only central count. Now she will allow counties to use precinct based optical scan to unofficially count the ballots at the precinct level so they can compare those numbers to the official centrally counted tally. There is still no mention of accessible voting for voters with disabilities or federally mandated over vote protection. …
- CA: 600 ballots sent astray; to be in the mail Saturday
http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2008/01/19/news/local/doc4791928cd4f30578663915.txt - CO: Vote machine bill on its way to passage
http://www.chieftain.com/metro/1200732819/3 - CT: Coalition Says Changes Needed in Election Audits
http://www.ctelectionaudit.org/ - FL: Palm Beach County – Avoid absentee problems by going to the polls
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2008/01/19/a14a_leadedit_absentee_0119.html - FL: St. Johns County – Early voting means fewer precincts in St. Johns
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/011908/nes_237652765.shtml - MD: Security of ballot not 100%
Critics expect flaws as Md. switches systems
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.voting19jan19,0,1820162.story?coll=bal_tab01_layout - MS: 2 days of runoffs possible for Mississippi
Depending on need for special election to fill Lott’s Senate seat
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/jan/19/2-days-of-runoffs-possible/ - MT: Guest Opinion: Election machines secure in Montana
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/01/19/opinion/guest/50-machines.txt - NC: Wake County – Instant-runoff voting mulled
Complicated or convenient? Wake voters weigh in at public hearing
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/888611.html - NH: Human error in Nashua Ward 5 resulted in extra numbers
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080119/NEWS08/267211607/-1/news08 - NY: N.Y. gets OK for new voting machines
But local election officials must examine machines from state list before making choice.
http://www.stargazettenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080119/NEWS01/801190309 - OH: Secretary of state retreats from some voting changes
Brunner still wants to replace touch screen machines in 57 counties.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/01/18/ddn011908vote.html - OH: Central counting of votes waived
Brunner still pushing shift from touch screens to scanned paper ballots
http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/13914922.html - OH: Elections officials fear paper ballots will delay primary results
Paper ballots could delay results of primary until the wee hours
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1200735161190660.xml&coll=2 - OH: Ashtabula County steams ahead with its voting system
http://www.starbeacon.com/local/local_story_019002744.html - PA: Northampton County – Officials get set for new voting era
http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-15/120071912841020.xml&coll=2 - SC: Chester County – Justice Department won’t monitor primary in Chester
NAACP asked for oversight of voting machines
http://www.heraldonline.com/109/story/304205.html - SC: Horry County – State readies for elections
Polling formerly conducted by parties
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/story/319865.html - SC: E-Voting Train Wreck 2008: The Horry County, SC Disaster
https://bradblog.com/?p=5579 - SC: Horry County Voting Machine Error
http://www.scnow.com/midatlantic/scp/news.apx.-content-articles-BTW-2008-01-19-0001.html - SC: Horry County – Voting machine problems reported in one South Carolina county
Posted: 11:15 AM ET
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/19/voting-machine-problems-reported-in-one-south-carolina-county/ - SC: Horry County – Voters being turned away in Horry?
http://blogs.thestate.com/bradwarthensblog/2008/01/voters-being-tu.html - SC: Horry County – Voting machine problems anger voters
http://www.scnow.com/midatlantic/scp/news.apx.-content-articles-BTW-2008-01-19-0005.html - SC: Horry County – Electronic Voting Machine Problems in Myrtle Beach
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/01/electronic_voting_machine_prob.html - SC: Horry County – Voting Machine Error Forces Paper Ballot Use
http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=57508 - SC: Horry County – SC polling problems: Man v. Machine
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/01/sc_polling_problems_man_v_mach.html - SC: Horry County – McCain looking to extend South Carolina poll hours
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/19/mccain-looking-to-extend-south-carolina-poll-hours/ - SC: Horry County – Voting problems widespread in Horry County, officials say
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/politics/story/320363.html - SC: Horry County – SC Voting Problems
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/19/592019.aspx
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Bev Harris sedd:
(Blackbox Voting, emphasis added).
Election warlords in the bananna republic of Bullshitistan chant like monks: “It is not who votes that counts, but who presents the final ballots that count”.