Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
It’s not often that we see the corporate main stream media actually doing a lot of research for an article. Today we have an exception in an article in the Rocky Mountain News from Denver all about Sequoia’s recent failures and even their brush with a bribery scandal in 2001. Texas counties have been in the early voting process for the past week with some ES&S counties only able to use paper ballots due to non-arrival of ballot programming. Arkansas began early voting today with many counties using paper ballots because of the greed of their vendor, ES&S. In fact, even the paper ballots printed by ES&S were “Like they threw a muffin in the air and let the pieces fall wherever.”…
AR: Train Wreck – Early Voting Begins Today (ES&S) LINK
AR: Carroll County � Train Wreck – Machines ‘without brains,’ error-riddled ballots delay electronic voting (ES&S) LINK
AR: Marion County � Train Wreck – Early voting begins (ES&S got the county ONE iVotronic for early voting) LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County � Train Wreck – Cuyahoga County finishes tabulating votes (120 hours after the polls closed) LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County � Train Wreck – Finally: Election results are final LINK
TX: Bexar County � Train Wreck – County voting machines to be ready for Saturday elections LINK
TX: Williamson County � Train Wreck – Williamson Co. elections head resigns abruptly.
Borofsky leaves just days before elections. (ES&S) LINK
NAtional: Two days in the field with ES&S OpScan LINK
NAtional: E-VOTE TRAIN WRECK 2006: Another Week, Another Wild � and Unfortunate � Ride� LINK
AR: Arkansans increasingly head to polls early for elections LINK
CO: Denver – Voting machine glitches tally up. Denver City Council to discuss purchase for next election (Sequoia) LINK
CO: Denver – Denver council votes on voting machines (Sequoia) LINK
MD: $13M No Bid E-Pollbook Deal with Diebold Draws Fire LINK
MI: Increasing access to voting: Disabled voters get more privacy (AutoMark) LINK
MO: Boone County – Voting machine cost concerns county. Federal money won’t pay for all of a mandated upgrade. (ES&S � AutoMark and PBOS) LINK
MS: Mississippi voters learning to use touch-screen machines (Diebold TSx) LINK
NC: Two days in the field with ES&S OpScan LINK
NC: Election canvasses set LINK
NE: Douglas County – New Technology To Greet Douglas County Voters LINK
OH: Democrats call for Blackwell to step aside in election probe LINK
OH: Lucas County � Editorial – Election lessons learned LINK
PA: Chester County – Electronic voting machines ready for May 16 primary (ES&S iVotronic) LINK
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It’s not often that we see the corporate main stream media actually doing a lot of research for an article. Today we have an exception in an article in the Rocky Mountain News from Denver all about Sequoia’s recent failures and even their brush with a bribery scandal in 2001. Texas counties have been in the early voting process for the past week with some ES&S counties only able to use paper ballots due to non-arrival of ballot programming. Arkansas began early voting today with many counties using paper ballots because of the greed of their vendor, ES&S. In fact, even the paper ballots printed by ES&S were “Like they threw a muffin in the air and let the pieces fall wherever.”…
Chester County, PA is using opscan for most voters, and iVotronics primarily for the vision impaired, although I believe they are letting anybody use the DRE’s if they want to.
I was browsing the blog of Clint Curtis and he had mentioned an article that says electronic voting machines are being made offshore and in China:
"One problem is that many of the new voting machines that will be deployed are arriving from offshore manufacturing sites — mainly China — and are being rushed into service without adequate quality controls, says Kimball Brace, president of Election Data Services, a voting consultancy firm" (link here, bold added).
The article title, on Clint’s site is entitled "Early Signs of Trouble Appearing", and it quotes from a Financial Times article.
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The types of equipment expected to be used in the upcoming train wreck are chronicled here.
The link is to a paper from the company quoted in my post #2 which states that electronic voting machines are being made by, among others, our communist competitors.
We know … wink wink … that they would never … wink wink … do anything to destabilize … wink wink … our election systems.
This is Arkansas’ first year of requiring paper.
They had alot of lever machines.
Lisa Burks is responsible for Arkansas passing a VVPB law. She doesn’t like any voting machine, but especially doesn’t like the DRES.
Arkansas has a partisan SOS running elections, and he persuaded the lawmakers to exclude or grandfather in some of the largest counties to allow them to run paperless DRES.
So, they are off to a rough start.
The first time Lisa told me she thought they should just stick with lever, I thought " she must be kidding", but think about it – there is no backup for them, but other than that – there is no modem, no computer chips, it is simplicity.
But so is hand counted paper.
The problem is convincing folks that HCPB can be done easily, and that fraud can be prevented or caught.
At least Arkansas passed a law, so they are headed in the right direction.
Where were we on this three years ago?