Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
It appears that not many officials in New Jersey believe Sequoia’s explanation of the problem 6 counties found following the state’s primary on Super Tuesday. Sequoia has attempted to blame the poll workers for a problem where, on some machines, the internal paper memory does not match the internal memory, and neither match the facts from the poll books. The issue is with how many votes were cast for each party and not vote totals for candidates. Election officials have questioned Sequoia’s theory. Now a large association of state constitutional officers has voted unanimously to demand an investigation. Machines will be shipped to Ed Felten at Princeton University for possible inspection. Our gratitude is given to those state officials in New Jersey who have questioned the excuse that it is the poll workers or the voters who are at fault. The vendors almost never accept responsibility. One vendor may now have their excuse proven to be wrong.
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- NAtional: The Problems with All-Mail Elections
http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/blogs/tokaji/2008/03/problems-with-all-mail-elections.html - CA: Statewide Ballot Initiative Aims to Make Voting Safe
http://newsblaze.com/story/20080311151018tsop.np/newsblaze/NEWSWIRE/NewsBlaze-Wire.html - CA: Riverside County – Supervisors discuss spending $5 million on voting machines
http://www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080312/NEWS0301/803120318/1026/news12 - CO: SPEAKOUT: Colorado’s county clerks know best
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/mar/12/speakout-colorados-county-clerks-know-best/ - CO: Larimer County needs storage for election materials
http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080312/NEWS01/803120353/1002/CUSTOMERSERVICE02 - FL: Touch screens still get some folks’ vote as end of an era draws near
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/03/12/s1a_pbvote_0312.html - FL: Editorial – No new primary
http://www.sptimes.com/2008/03/12/Opinion/No_new_primary.shtml - FL: Fla. Mail-In Vote Could Be Announced In Days
http://www.local10.com/news/15567346/detail.html - FL: Democrats in Florida Are Near Plan for New Vote
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/us/politics/12delegates.html?ref=politics - FL: Fla. House Members Oppose Mail-In Vote
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/03/11/fla_house_members_oppose_maili.html - FL: Palm Beach County – Technology upgrade made for PBC’s smooth election results
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/03/12/0312pbcvoting.html - IA: Counties face high costs under voting-machines bill
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080312/NEWS10/803120373/1007/NEWS05 - IA: Senate votes to require paper ballots
http://www.radioiowa.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=9FBE4B4B-C18A-7DE4-65CA12285FD272DB - MS: Machine glitches blamed for most voting problems
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080312/NEWS04/803120363 - MS: Heavily GOP DeSoto Co. struggled to provide Democratic ballots
http://www.sunherald.com/306/story/427549.html - NJ: Election-machine problems spur call for study
Independent analysis requested after lack of explanation from Sequoia
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-9/1205300247279401.xml&coll=1 - NY: Accessible Voting and New York
http://www.nyvv.org/boblog/2008/03/12/accessible-voting-and-new-york/ - OH: Cleveland City Council primary offers chance to test optical-scan voting system
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1205310834327040.xml&coll=2 - OK: Few voter fraud attempts come at the polling place
http://www.normantranscript.com/opinion/local_story_072003830 - OK: Voter ID laws are disenfranchisement schemes
http://ocolly.com/2008/03/12/voter-id-laws-are-disenfranchisement-schemes/ - PA: Blair County Expecting Heavy Voter Turnout
http://www.wjactv.com/news/15570194/detail.html - PA: Centre County – Showdown in the state
County readies for record voting
http://www.centredaily.com/news/local/story/460498.html - TX: Hidalgo County – Two more voter fraud cases dismissed
http://www.themonitor.com/news/case_9829___article.html/dismissed_fraud.html - VA: Visually impaired report trouble with voting machines that speak
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http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-03-12-0165.html
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John, remember the attempted takeover of Diebold a few days back?
An interesting event has happened that is thinly related, in that, some of the Carlyle Group have been parts of UT at one time or another.
The Carlyle Group is in dire straights it seems:
(WashPost, emphasis added). When these well connected companies the group controls cannot keep sections of themselves from disaster, there is economic evil afoot.
Even the Iraq war is not enough to generate cash flow to satiate their greed. More war may be on the horizon, and a hypothetical preznit McCain may be the front line for that, since he has received his blessing from the preznit in chief. Hence, a move to take over the electronic voting machine industry?
But the housing debacle is knocking down more dominoes, and so owning the electronic voting machine companies may be worth more than we think … and the reason they don’t want to sell.
Who knows …