Another Primary Election Day. Another E-Voting Mess. This time in Arkansas.
Mind you, this comes on the heels of earlier announcements that several major counties in Arkansas would be forced to use paper ballots instead of electronic machines after ES&S failed to deliver ballots and programming on time for the start of elections (something like the 10th state in which this has happened with ES&S so far this year, as regular BRAD BLOG readers know. But shhh...don't tell anyone!)
On Monday, the day before the election, at least one county election director in Arkansas pleaded with voters to choose paper on Election Day. "Grab a paper ballot, vote it and put it in the ballot box. It will go smoother," Benton County's election coordinator told voters on Monday.
Well, now it looks like ES&S has failed even further (we're shocked, shocked!) as tabulators in some counties failed to work at all, so ballots can't be counted until tomorrow at the earliest. And now the AR Secretary of State wants some answers about all of it.
Andrew Bagley, a justice of peace candidate, said the note told the curious that tabulation of votes would be delayed, quote,"because the vendor failed to supply a chip for the tabulator."
Deputy Secretary of State Janet Harris said state officials and technicians for Election Systems & Software of Omaha, Nebraska,which provided the equipment, had been working on the Phillips County issue all day. She said the company plans to reprogram a chip and drive it back to the county tomorrow.
Secretary of State Charlie Daniels says he wants to find out why a $15 million contract with ESS for the voting machines wasn't completely fulfilled by the time voting started in party primaries. Officials in four of Arkansas' 75 counties were not able to use the touch-screen voting machines provided by ESS, which meet the requirements of the Help America Vote Act.
While the article says that ES&S' machines apparently "meet the requirements of the Help America Vote Act," we guess none of those HAVA requirements include anything about the machines actually being required to work.
(Hat tip John Gideon, natch.)

Fox 'News' and Repubs Were FOR Prosecuting Journalists Before They Were Against It
Video Trailer of Film Koch Brothers & PBS Tried to Keep You From Seeing
'Green News Report' 5/21/13
Climate Scientist on Climate Change Effect on Tornadoes
Bad News at ABC, NBC, CBS
Terminator: Schwarzenegger's Deadly Workers' Comp 'Reform'
IRS 'Scandal' Almost as Phony as Sherrod, ACORN 'Scandals'
WHAT IRS 'MISCONDUCT'?
Deficit Shrinks by Half Under Obama
'Green News Report' 5/16/13
Holder: 'Banks Are NOT too Big To Jail'
Repubs Suddenly Care About Big Government Overreach?!
KPFK 'BradCast': CO2 Madness, Obama Scandalpalooza
More Vote-by-Mail Fail, This Time in L.A.
INTERNET VOTING 'HACKED' ON 'THE VOICE'
'Weapons-Grade Climate Denial' from WSJ
Jon Stewart Explains the GOP Benghazi 'Scandal' For You
'White Boys' Bring Election Woes to Riverbank, CA
Dancing Everywhere on Earth
Singing Bowie in Outer Space
KPFK 'BradCast': SC's Unverifiable Election, Syria's Unverified WMD
Unverifiable Sanford 'LANDSLIDE' in South Carolina!
Report: Syrian Rebels, Not Regime, Used Sarin Nerve Gas
Wrong and Wronger on CO Election Bill
VA GOP VOTER REG FRAUDSTER OFF HOOK
Criminal GOP Voter Registration Fraud Probe Expanding in VA
DOJ PROBE SOUGHT AFTER VA ARREST
Arrest in VA: GOP Voter Reg Scandal Widens
ALL TOGETHER: ROVE, SPROUL, KOCHS, RNC
LATimes: RNC's 'Fired' Sproul Working for Repubs in 'as Many as 30 States'
'Fired' Sproul Group 'Cloned', Still Working for Republicans in At Least 10 States
FINALLY: FOX ON GOP REG FRAUD SCANDAL
COLORADO FOLLOWS FLORIDA WITH GOP CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
CRIMINAL PROBE LAUNCHED INTO GOP VOTER REGISTRATION FRAUD SCANDAL IN FL
Brad Breaks PA Photo ID & GOP Registration Fraud Scandal News on Hartmann TV
CAUGHT ON TAPE: COORDINATED NATIONWIDE GOP VOTER REG SCAM
CRIMINAL ELECTION FRAUD COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST GOP 'FRAUD' FIRM
RICK SCOTT GETS ROLLED IN GOP REGISTRATION FRAUD SCANDAL
VIDEO: Brad Breaks GOP Reg Fraud Scandal on Hartmann TV
RNC FIRES NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION FIRM FOR FRAUD
EXCLUSIVE: Intvw w/ FL Official Who First Discovered GOP Reg Fraud
GOP REGISTRATION FRAUD FOUND IN FL
It Isn't Journalism: Woeful MSM Coverage of Wisconsin's Supreme Court Election 'Recount'





















































