The latest testing results from Palm Beach Co Florida seem to clearly point to problems with the voting machines. It wasn’t the only problem the county had in the primary but it seems to have been a large part of it.
Tomorrow (Friday) there will be a hearing in Washington DC to discuss and take testimony about the failures in the DC primary election. How did one precinct have over a thousand more votes than it had voters? Again this seems to clearly be a machine issue.
The tie that binds Palm Beach Co and Washington DC together is that their voting machines were all supplied by Sequoia Voting Systems…
ADDENDUM FROM BRAD: More details on all of the above now here…
- National: States ready e-voting systems as Election Day approaches
Many states switch to paper ballots in continuing migration from touch-screen e-voting machines
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9116014 - National: News Release – The Rights of Students to Register and to Vote
http://www.accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=1827 - National: Voting groups release guidelines for e-voting checks
http://www.intergovworld.com/article/bdc62ad8c0a8000601e2d159aadf0a0f/pg1.htm - National: Getting out the voter suppression
Heading Into November with New Worries About Anti-Vote Tactics
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/opinion/20081002_GETTING_OUT_THE_VOTER_SUPPRESSION.html - National: Voting goes to court
Registration lawsuits could shape election
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-voter-registrationoct02,0,1278791.story - National: Voters beware: Identity thieves using voting system to steal voters’ personal information
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20143912&BRD=1659&PAG=461&dept_id=8103&rfi=6 - National: Reports Show Widespread Confusion About The Voting Rights Of People With Criminal Records
http://www.aclu.org/votingrights/exoffenders/37003prs20081001.html - National: Victory rests on using infantry, lawyers
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14178.html - National: Electronic Voting Puts Votes at Risk
http://www.dailynexus.com/article.php?a=17251 - National: Making Every Ballot Count: U.Va. Professor Reviews History of Voting Machines
http://media-newswire.com/release_1075036.html - National: Richard Hayes Phillips on VoteRescue Radio Friday, October 3, 6-8PM CST
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Richard-Hayes-Phillips-on-by-Vickie-Karp-and-Ka-081002-130.html - CA: Nevada County – County has biggest percentage of mail-in voters in state
http://www.theunion.com/article/20081001/NEWS/110019982/-1/politics&parentprofile=-1&title=County%20has%20biggest%20percentage%20of%20mail-in%20voters%20in%20state - FL: Voters to Florida Secretary of State Browning: No Match – No Vote is Bad Enough, Don’t Make It Worse
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2962&Itemid=113 - FL: General election registration deadline Monday
http://www.dailycommercial.com/10-2-08-register - FL: Palm Beach County – Partial recount yields same vote totals
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/10/02/1002recount.html - FL: Palm Beach County’s ballot-counting machines off by dozens in tests
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flptabulation1002pnoct02,0,6616047.story - FL: Lawyer says Palm Beach County voting machines need repair
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/palm/blog/2008/10/_attorney_gerald_richman_said.html - GA: Lincoln County – Electors urged to check voter registration status
http://www.lincolnjournalonline.com/news/2008/1002/front_page/003.html - IL: Judge orders state to scrap ballot wording month before vote
http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=99605 - IL: Judge: Constitutional convention must be remedied before election
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=239714&src=109 - IL: Judge Orders Stop On Absentee Ballot Mailing
http://www.wbbm780.com/Judge-Orders-Stop-On-Absentee-Ballot-Mailing-AUDIO/3070493 - IN: Hamilton County – County leasing extra voting machines for Election Day
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081002/LOCAL01/810020531/1015/LOCAL01 - MN: Minneapolis OK for ’09 instant-runoff , official says
But implementing the system, which lets voters rank first and second choices, may require hand-counting and may delay results.
http://www.startribune.com/politics/local/30071784.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aU2EkP7K_t:aDyaEP:kD:aUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU - MN: Ritchie speaks on voting
http://media.www.universitychronicle.com/media/storage/paper231/news/2008/10/02/News/Ritchie.Speaks.On.Voting-3466250.shtml - MT: Missoula voters my receive letter to re-register
http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=9109176&nav=menu227_8 - MT: State GOP challenges eligibility of voters
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/10/02/news/local/news03.txt - MT: State GOP challenges eligibility of 6,000 voters
http://www.kxmc.com/News/281545.asp - NJ: Judge Suppresses Report on Voting Machine Security
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/appel/judge-suppresses-report-voting-machine-security - NV: Miller warns of voter ‘confusion’
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/01/state/n190019D30.DTL&type=politics - NY: Beware I.D. theft scam on false voter signup
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20147742&BRD=2731&PAG=461&dept_id=575596&rfi=6 - OH: Lawsuit over Ohio Republican absentee-ballot applications thrown out
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/122293623090590.xml&coll=2 - OH: Editorial – Election Day starts early
http://www.milforddailynews.com/opinion/editorials/x1150628887/Editorial-Election-Day-starts-early - OH: Cuyahoga County – Cuyahoga voters still can repair outdated addresses on registrations
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/122293623490590.xml&coll=2 - PA: Monroe County – NAACP plans lawsuit against elections board over polling site
http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081002/NEWS/810020340 - VA: On voter registration, an uneasy consensus
http://www.collegiatetimes.com/stories/2008/10/01/on_voter_registration__an_uneasy_consensus - VA: Secretary of State issues voter fraud advisory
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/x1917544909/Secretary-of-State-issues-voter-fraud-advisory - VA: Voters To Use Optical Scanners
Fairfax Machines Have Paper Trail
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100101037.html - VA: Prince William County – Local Voter Registration Jumps Ahead Of Deadline
County Getting 500 Applications a Day
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100100083.html - WI: J.B. Van Hollen’s own voter registration may violate standard he’s suing to enforce
http://www.isthmus.com/isthmus/article.php?article=23903 - WV: Tennant, Minimah call for review of electronic voting booths
http://www.dailymail.com/News/election08/200810020249
Overseas and Military Voter Participation – Presidential Campaigns Join Overseas and Military Voter Outreach Effort
https://www.overseasvotefoundation.org/2008-Media-Releases
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