Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Today was a typical “day after an election day” news day. Though many claim that everything went well, a look at the list of counties in Ohio, and elsewhere, proves that everything did not go well. Of course elections officials and the vendors are claiming that all of the problems were caused by the voter or poll workers. The problems are never the result of using the machines. Already a candidate is calling for a recount in Virginia after complaints that voters would vote for him and the votes would register for his opponent. And there are 45,000 questionable votes in Montreal, Canada…
California – Voters Head To The Polls
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District 20, AZ – Recount hearings creating GOP split
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New Jersey – Poll workers under scrutiny during election. DOJ wanted to
make sure no repeats of problems in primary election
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Ohio – Long issues confuse some voters; new machines cause late starts
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Ohio – Voters soundly reject Democratic election changes in Ohio
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Manchester, OH – In Manchester, voters turn out for levies
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Los Angeles Co., CA – Absentee Votes Returned to Senders
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King Co., WA – Elections chief praises work of poll workers
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Riverside and San Bernardino Co., CA – Local voters head to the polls
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Minnesota – Secretary touts voting reform
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Onslow Co., NC – New machines OK to most voters (Hart InterCivic eSlate)
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Cameron Co., TX – New elections equipment paves way for smooth vote counting (ES&S PBOS)
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Hidalgo Co., TX – Despite new machines, voters see delays at polls (ES&S iVotronic accessible machine software problems would not allow those machines to be used)
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Butler Co., OH – Problems early, but Butler voters praise new voting
method (Diebold TSx)
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Beaver Co., OH – Problems plague voting tabulations (Optical scan)
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Lorraine Co., OH – Elections officials hit snags, but not from touchscreens
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California – Paperless e-voting era ends
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Montreal, Canada – Bourque seeks judicial recount. Demand rejected. Upheaval grows over glitches in vote tally (Microvote)
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Contra Costa Co., CA – San Ramon voters keep board intact
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Stark Co., OH – Voters love new machines but …
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Monterey Co., CA – Good start for touchscreens
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Brainerd Co., MN – County getting devices that will help the disabled vote
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Tennessee – New Voting Technology Upsets Tennessee Taxpayers, Commissioners
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Clermont Co., OH – Multiple Voting Glitches Hold Up Clermont Results
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Tennessee – Attack of the Killer Voting Machines
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New York – Voting machines: Lifton right on choice
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Butler Co., OH – Fairfield races may need recount
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Campbell Co., OH – Voting machine snafus not huge
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Lucas Co., OH – Ballots still being counted into today
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Minnesota – State of Minnesota moves to fulfill disabled voting mandate
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Roanoke Co., VA – Democrat Deeds Prepares for Recount in Tight Attorney General Race
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Lucas Co., OH – Election Day not entirely a smooth event
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Neshoba Co., MS – Stennis Institute of Government to help with voting precincts
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Wichita Co., TX – New machines cause problems in getting vote totals
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Matagorda Co., TX – New voting machine malfunctions
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The funniest part is Clermont County, Ohio is on the list. The same county that had the "glitch" in August that once remedied gave Jean Schmidt the win over Paul Hackett for the House.
I think Clermont is one of the only counties in Ohio that did not go to the new touch screen system. Gee I wonder why.
Jamie
http://intoxination.blogspot.com
I love Ohio!!! Oh how I love Ohio!!!!!!
Here is an Excel Interactive Election Model which you can download and run.
http://us.share.geocities.com/e...Simulation.xls
Analyze a 200 trial simulation of 2004 pre-election state and 18 national polls as well as 51 post-election state exit polls and the National Exit Poll.
See why the Final National exit poll time line which matched to a corrupted vote and had Bush a 51-48% winner (1:25pm Nov.3, 2004, 13660 respondents) is bogus (the "How Voted in 2000" demographic weightings are mathematically impossible). And see why the 12:22am NEP (13047 respondents) time line is close to the truth (Kerry won by 51-48%)
A challenge to those who still believe Bush got more votes than Kerry: Play what-if. See if you can come up with just ONE plausible Bush win scenario.
Everything must have gone well. Bernadette Noe assured me we had a good election in Ohio.
Wow,
What a great election day we really put W in his place. This was a sweeping election for all those that are against anything the President does. Before the election the Republicans had 28 State Governors and now they have…… lets see…..24,25 …… um um ……. 28 .. that can’t be right. 28??? Someone help me here.
I am happy the elections have produced Democratic office holders. I want to know in fairness, however, how were these elections conducted. How did they differ in handling from the previous, seriously impaired elections that Brad and others have criticized? I too think the 2000 and 2004 elections exposed great problems, possily deceit and tampering. I think an examination of the present cycle also deserves attention to see if they were any fairer, or if the results were perhaps closer than they appear. What do you think?
Gtash – I agree that all the results demand great scrutiny. I myself believe that there is a certain point of unpopularity beyond which even Diebold can’t help.
Ho Commander – It’s always nice to hear from you – it means we’re on the right track!
Love and Peace to all my fellow Bradvillians, from Prague!
MoveOn was scapegoated as a left-wing organization of "outside agitators," in the same way civil rights workers from the North were stigmatized during the 1960s.
MoveOn is a good-government organization. To the G.O.P. in Ohio, clean government is a left-wing concept. When crooks can’t defend their own conduct, they always respond by defaming their critics.
Ohio won’t change until Ohioans demand change, and that means getting rid of Blackwell, Ney, both Noes, Taft, Petro, LoParo, and most of all Diebold and the cesspool of corruption that surrounds it.
It would be nice if the MSM would open up and discover the story … the story of the sorry state of elections here in the US.
We used to be the example to which various international organizations looked. Amnesty International, for example, held us in the highest regard up until the past few years. After bu$hit took over, things in the neighborhood went downhill fast.
As a microcosm of american politics of the last few years, therefore, I offer this story:
The winner of a school board election didn’t campaign, attend forums or even go to any school board meetings before the vote – because he was in jail.
(link here).