Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Next Tuesday is another round of primary voting on DREs. Maryland uses Diebold/Premier DREs. Virginia uses a mixture of different vendors’ DREs. Washington DC uses precinct-optical scan and DREs.
Citizens and the media in Bucks Co Pennsylvania are speaking louder and louder for a paper ballot based voting system. They need our voices to join with theirs. …
- AR: Super Tuesday Saw Few Problems With Voting Machines
http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2008/02/09/news/021008lrvotingmach.txt - CA: Riverside County – Transition went relatively smoothly
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/02/10/opinion/jacobs/18_49_312_9_08.txt - LA: Obama Camp Sends ‘Urgent Request for Assistance’ to Louisiana SoS as Voters Find Party Registration Switched
https://bradblog.com/?p=5677 - NY: Protests over voting machines
http://capitalnews9.com/content/headlines/110268/protests-over-voting-machines/Default.aspx - OH: Ballot-box blues
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080210/NEWS09/153185696 - PA: 2008 Will Be Stolen! A Plea from A Resident of the “Silent State”
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mary_ann_080210_2008__will_be_stolen.htm - WA: Huckabee challenges “dubious” caucus count, sends lawyers here
http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/davidpostman/2008/02/huckabee_challenges_dubious_caucus_count_sends_lawyers_here.html
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The Committees dismissal (obviously with Pelosi’s approval) is a sad, almost pathetic, abrogation of their oath of office.
Specifically:
It simply does not pass the smell test that 18,000 voters in heavily Democratic precincts just didn’t vote on the most hotly contested race on their ballot.
The investigators never got to take the software out and check it.
The chain of custody for the software and machines was compromised.
Only 115 out of 1499 machines were tested, and there are no assurances that those machines did not all come from the Republican precincts that did not experience the missing vote problem.
Not much more to say. Just a raw deal for the 18,000 voters whose votes will never count.
Brad, I’m posting this here. Hope you get it.
http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/brianrothenberg/C3c7