We’re watching results as they’re coming in tonight, while continuing to comb through various problem reports as they’ve been coming in throughout the day (the usual “hiccups” “glitches” “snags” and “snafus” reportage — anything but the proper word for them all: “failure”!)
As we always find necessary to remind readers on such nights, the bulk of election failures tend to reveal themselves in the hours and days — and sometimes even weeks — after Election Day.
With that in mind, of the most potential note that we’ve seen so far today — though mostly downplayed as minor “glitches” in most of the stories reporting them — we’ve found reports of: Diebold touch-screen machine failure in OH’s Montgomery and Greene Counties; new e-pollbooks failing in Suffolk County, NY; new Sequoia/Dominion optical-scan systems failing in St. Lawrence County, NY, and; Sequoia touch-screen failures in Essex, Somerset and Goucester Counties, NJ.
Fortunately, turnout has been light today, so the problems that have cropped up seem to have been handled by quickly replacing machines (a luxury available during slow, off-year elections when there are extra machines to go around) or in such a way that delays — and the voter disenfranchisement that goes with them — were minimal. At least as so far reported.
Whether any of the results tabulated in secret, with secret software, are actually accurate, well, that’s anyone’s guess as usual. In any case, we’re monitoring, and will let ya know if there’s anything you need to know about. Please feel free to let us know about anything you think we should know about in comments.
Other than that, we’re just stunned that ACORN did such a terrible job, yet again, at “stealing the election” in New Jersey!
UPDATE 9:29pm PT: New Sequoia op-scan systems fail in Fulton County, NY and are impounded by court order. Emergency paper ballots are used. Fulton is part of the hotly contested NY-23 Congressional special election.
… *ahem*… now that we’ve gotten the obligatory rituals out of the way…
Anyone know what the level of disparity between recount/chain of custody regulations and the actual implementations thereof are in Maine?
Right now the “No on #1” group looks like they’re in the only real squeaker of the day.
Theocrats just screaming their heads off deliberately lying about imaginary sexual threats to children and then just waltzing away smugly as if they’d done something wonderful…
I believe the proper term for that electronic tripe is FUBAR…
You know, that “beyond all repair” part, all the reason anyone should need to scrap all the electronics (melt ’em down and build another whoreship to join that 9/11 sacrilege) and go back to what we wisely imposed on the Japanese and the Germans after WWII, all in the name of honest, transparent elections, as are the custom in true democracies. Too bad the foxes have not only emptied the henhouse, they’ve somehow learned to burn it to the ground. I weep for what was once my country…
Guess I have to move back to my hometown, where you freeze your ass off but democracy still prevails.
Good story.
http://www.startribune.com/politics/local/69075297.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr
“Vote fraud” case that should draw some attention since the mother of the kid came to TPM and chewed everyone out asking who stole her sons vote, lol.
This appears to be another case of voting for the registered non-voter, by hack, only this dude showed up to vote. This is a huge problem, not a clerical error.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/voter_fraud_caught_on_tape.php#comment-3658168
Lets say you were a certain candidate, from a certain party, and you were 5 percentage points behind. You would only need to jigger (add) 6+ votes per every 100 legit votes to recover your deficit.
Hopefully they will recover his vote and find out where it went…ha!
wow flo,i read those articles and thought,well it can’t be that hard to check if the kid did request an absentee ballot….then i read nj’s home page,this time it will be easy to check but after this election anyone that has ever requested an ab ballot will recieve one w/o asking?? unreal and ripe for fraud
i agree with your premis that the “mysterious they”(by hack or design we don’t know) voted for the kid and then he had the audacity to show up
here is the copy and paste from nj’s home page
unreal
does anyone have a link to precinct by precinct results for maine?
I only have a link to incisive political punditry on the Daily Show….
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-november-3-2009/indecision-2009—reindecision-2008-and-beyond
Saw that one 99…funny.
Karen, if they use electronic poll books, whose to say they can’t alter his registration that says he came in or requested an absentee ballot? IMO they could just say he voted. Do they use electronic signatures? Who goes back and checks that?
flo, yea silly me thinking somewhere there would be a paper trail