Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Election officials in three Colorado counties claim that they can catch all of the stray marks on ballots. Those stray marks may be read as votes by their Hart Intercivic eScan voting machines. Those claims don’t seem to carry any water when you consider that some of the marks that were read by the machines instead of the actual votes were just dots where voters may have rested their pens.
On the heels of reports of serious problems with Sequoia Advantage voting machines used in New Jersey the state Attorney General has announced that there is no way they can have voter verified paper audit trail (vvpat) printers for those machines by the November election. Of course, some would have you believe that the inclusion of a vvpat printer would mitigate the problems reported yesterday. No vvpat printer on those machines would have made any difference with the internal memory and voters do not verify their ballots using those printers. The only savior would be to replace the machines with a paper ballot voting system….
- NAtional – Analysis: e-voting’s success rests on chain-of-custody issue
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080221-analysis-evotings-success-rests-on-chain-of-custody-issue.html - NAtional: Electronic Voting and Partial Audits — Let’s do the Math
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13554_1-9876062-33.html?tag=more - NAtional: Following the Paper Trail
Case study examines five states’ efforts to limit paperless voting
http://www.sys-con.com/read/505286.htm - CO: Key voting machine hearing today
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/feb/21/key-voting-machine-hearing-today/ - CO: 3 county officials dispute state test results on voting equipment
http://www.9news.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=86824 - FL: Broward County – Incredible Turnout – The Phantoms of Oakland Park
http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-02-21/news/incredible-turnout/ - FL: Hillsborough County – Hillsborough approves $5.97 million contract for voting system
http://tampabay.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2008/02/18/daily39.html - MS: Wilkinson County – Judge calls new election
http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/news/2008/feb/21/persons-tosses-paper-ballots/ - NH: Statement from the New Hampshire Fair Elections Committee Regarding Activist Recount Investigations in New Hampshire
http://www.democracyfornewhampshire.com/node/view/5472 - NJ: Sequoia E-Voting Machines Reporting Inaccurate Totals in New Jersey
https://bradblog.com/?p=5718 - NJ: Minor problems with voting machines
http://www.nj.com/news/gloucester/local/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1203577826286680.xml&coll=8 - NJ: AP NewsBreak: Another delay for N.J. electronic ballot safeguards
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj–votingmachines0221feb21,0,5683398.story - NJ: Voting Machine Discrepancies Leave Questionable Results
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2757&Itemid=113 - NJ: Another delay for N.J. electronic ballot safeguards
http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/new_jersey/20080221_ap_anotherdelayfornjelectronicballotsafeguards.html - NY: New York City – Data entry errors to blame for wrong NY Super Tuesday tallies
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny–miscountedvotes0220feb20,0,4200259.story - NY: New York City Still Tallying Votes
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/02/20/new_york_city_still_tallying_v.html - OH: Forum addresses voting equipment
http://www.thepost.ohiou.edu/Articles/News/2008/02/21/23006/ - OH: Will Some Ohio Polling Places Be Inadvertantly Shut Down on Election Day?
http://www.josephhall.org/nqb2/index.php/2008/02/21/ohpollshut - OH: Licking County to exceed paper ballot requirement
Local election officials hope to have enough on hand for March 4 primary
http://www.newarkadvocate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080221/NEWS01/802210332/1002 - OH: Summit County – Ohio SoS Fires Another GOP County Election Official, GOP State Senator Applauds
https://bradblog.com/?p=5724 - OH: Summit County – GOP chief Arshinkoff loses elections board seat
http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/15822622.html - OK: House voter identification bill clears committee
http://www.journalrecord.com/article.cfm?recid=86435 - PA: Bucks County – Bucks voting machine activists will have their say
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b1_2voting.6281012feb21,0,2798462.story - PA: Bucks County – Paper Balloting Advocates Decry Bucks County Voting Machines
http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=19317276&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=618959&rfi=6 - PA: Bucks County – Columnist – Meeting shows our system at work
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-02212008-1491249.html - PA: Bucks County – Voting advocates protest machines
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-02212008-1491317.html - PA: Bucks County – Dry Ice and the DRE Dumpster
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_marta_st_080221_dry_ice_and_the_dre_.htm - PA: Luzerne County – 3rd-party voters get reminder
http://www.timesleader.com/news/20080221_21elect_jen_ART.html - PA: Wayne County – Editorial – Wayne officials made savvy decision on voting
http://www.weeklyalmanac.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=76&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=8803&wpage=&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1020&hn=weeklyalmanac&he=.com - TN: Film raises issue of vote fraud
http://media.www.mtsusidelines.com/media/storage/paper202/news/2008/02/21/News/Film-Raises.Issue.Of.Vote.Fraud-3223785.shtml - TN: Tennessee may change voting machines
93 of 95 counties can’t generate paper trail that bill would require
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080221/NEWS0201/802210402/1009/NEWS01 - VA: Recounting the recount
http://www.nelsoncountytimes.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=NCO/MGArticle/NCO_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173354695272 - VA: Chesterfield County – Democrats protest Chesterfield vote
Complaint claims county mismanaged election and some couldn’t cast ballots
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news/politics.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-02-21-0098.html
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American flag waived, Amurkan flag waved …
Is this an election issue John?
The ultra-conservative Drudge Report is saying that the Secret Service ordered the Dallas Police to stop screening for weapons at the Dallas appearance of Barack Obama.
They quote the Fort Worth Start Telegram.