Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
One Cook County Illinois candidate is threatening to file a federal lawsuit for both Democrat and Republican candidates and against the county for voting counting problems. ES&Ss inability to deliver paper ballots on time is now being blamed on consolidation that the company did last year when they closed a Chicago office and moved their functions in with the Omaha office. Meanwhile Indiana SoS Rokita has decided that it is time to hold hearings into the failure of ES&S to provide contractual services and to learn more about reports that MicroVote has provided uncertified software to some customers in the state. The fines to ES&S could be as much as $300,000 per incident….
IN: Train Wreck – Rokita targets voting machine suppliers (ES&S and MicroVote) LINK
IN: Train Wreck – Indiana Sec. of State Announces Hearings, Subpeonas, Possible Fines against ES&S Voting Machine Company LINK
IN: Train Wreck – Indiana to probe voting system problems LINK
IN: Train Wreck – Secretary of State to Hold Hearings on Voting Machine Issues (ES&S and MicroVote) LINK
IN: Train Wreck – Counties shifting polling places (ES&S) LINK
IN: Johnson County � Train Wreck – Voting snags persist in county (ES&S) LINK
NC: Forsyth County � Train Wreck – New machines not ready for early vote (ES&S) LINK
PA: Train Wreck – Election officials hope to pull in help. Shortage linked to new machines. Some workers balked, registrar says. LINK
PA: Train Wreck � Centre County – Hawaii eases primary concern. County’s election machines on loan from Aloha State (ES&S) LINK
PA: Northampton County � Train Wreck – Northampton County needs poll workers; classes scheduled on new machines: Some people have quit to avoid dealing with touch-screen equipment. LINK
WV: Train Wreck – New voting machines expected active by primary (ES&S) LINK
WV: Editorial � Train Wreck – Hold Company To the Contract LINK
AR: Arkansas County – County tests new voting machines LINK
AR: Carroll County – Beaver resident pleads case for hand-counting of ballots LINK
CA: Humboldt County – ‘Chad isn’t even in the building’ LINK
CA: Marin County – County to buy 130 voting machines with disabled access LINK
CO: Montezuma County – County will cast e-votes in 2006 LINK
IL: Chicago/Cook County – Election system reform likely to cost taxpayers LINK
IL: Chicago/Cook County – County clerk making changes to prevent voting problems LINK
IL: Chicago/Cook County – Call For Ballot Recount Comes From Both Sides Of Aisle LINK
MS: Federal commissioners to examine Miss. coast voting needs LINK
OH: Franklin County – Voters fear for privacy LINK
PA: Allegheny County – Lawsuit Filed In Allegheny County Seeks To Stop Purchase of iVotronics LINK
PA: Allegheny County – Suit would ban new voting machines (ES&S) LINK
PA: Allegheny County – County voters try to bar new machines. Lawsuit cites lack of training, accessibility LINK
PA: Allegheny County – Lawsuit cites lack of training, accessibility LINK
PA: Beaver County – County gets just two bids to buy outdated voting machines (Patriots) LINK
PA: Lebanon County – Voting-machine demonstration causes flap LINK
TN: Madison County – Early voting goes high-tech in Madison County (Hart eSlate) LINK
TX: Whitesboro council votes against voting machines LINK
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One Cook County Illinois candidate is threatening to file a federal lawsuit for both Democrat and Republican candidates and against the county for voting counting problems. ES&Ss inability to deliver paper ballots on time is now being blamed on consolidation that the company did last year when they closed a Chicago office and moved their functions in with the Omaha office. Meanwhile Indiana SoS Rokita has decided that it is time to hold hearings into the failure of ES&S to provide contractual services and to learn more about reports that MicroVote has provided uncertified software to some customers in the state. The fines to ES&S could be as much as $300,000 per incident….
Pretty soon, what we’ll see is all the voting machine companies running the other way and us taxpayers left holding the bag
It’ll look like the Silverado bailout
It’s quite interesting though, that the lead (to the end of these machines) might come from Indiana?
I guess I don’t care where the end comes from, as long as it does
If anyone out there has information relating to Diebold that would help in exposing the company’s bad practices, please post it here.
If you know of a resource that would lead us to such information, that would be helpful also.
Thanks.
Although I’m not familiar with any data available of Diebold’s bad company practices, there is an excellent resource of US state statistics that was just released last tuesday – StateMaster.com, a handy way of comparing US states on over 2,600 statistics, everything from percent of toothless people to race related hate crimes (New Jersey comes in number 1 for the latter, in case you were wondering). This free online resource allows you to graph, map, plot and correlate all statistics in the database. It also includes detailed state profiles, hundreds of maps and flags, and a forum area.
A fine resource worth a look.
http://www.statemaster.com
Thanks for your time
We stink. We, meaning America.
#1 yeah, like the Simpson’s monorail episode
John Gideon, thank you for this important service you provide through Brad Blog. It certainly help us to see the soon to come train wreck that will be hitting Arizona.
#5 Dan, there is more reality on that show than the reality that the pubs can make up
As a matter of fact, thats where the Simpsons writers get their plot line from, the family values people