Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
Riverside County Registrar of Voters Barbara Dunmore has decided to not follow directives from the SoS and not to post the results at the precincts. The reasons? For one, she said, there’s nothing to keep people from walking off with the tallies. More importantly, observers might be able to deduce how particular people voted at polls where only a handful of voters cast ballots, violating a central principle of American elections, she said. It seems that no excuse is too small for Ms. Dunmore. Loraine and Cuyahoga Co.’s in Ohio report that they had to do what many counties in many other states have had to do and they “modified the machines, wiring them directly into elections computers to bypass the limited capacity in the machines’ memory cards”. Has anyone heard of ITA testing and federal certification? Arkansas continues to fail all around in their elections administration and with ES&S as their vendor….
AR: Train Wreck – Early Voting Delayed, Lack Of Ballots LINK
AR: Train Wreck – Counties use paper ballots as early voting starts LINK
AR: Craighead County � Train Wreck – Early Voting Delayed in Craighead County Due to Lack of Ballots LINK
AR: Lonoke County � Train Wreck – FROM THE PUBLISHER >> A dubious distinction for the county LINK
AR: Marion and Baxter Counties � Train Wreck – In Marion County Early voting starts Baxter County waiting on electronic ballots LINK
AR: White County � Train Wreck – ‘Homemade’ paper ballots utilized in White County LINK
OH: Loraine and Cuyahoga Counties � Train Wreck – How the vote got messed up (Diebold OS) LINK
PA: Allegheny County � Train Wreck – Dozen primary ballots still missing LINK
PA: Bucks County � Train Wreck – County eager to try new voting machines (Danaher 1242) LINK
NAtional: Electronic Voting Machine Study Exposes Most Serious Security Flaws Ever Documented LINK
NAtional: WaPo Article on E-Voting “Debate” Treats Corporate Flacks as Righteous Witnesses LINK
CA: El Dorado County – New voting system in place LINK
CA: Mt. Shasta County – Tips for those going to the polls June 6th LINK
CA: Riverside County – County in good (and bad) company LINK
CO: Lawsuit over electronic voting threatened LINK
CO: Group vows lawsuit to block vote machines LINK
MO: Lake clerks wary of voter ID law’s impact LINK
MS: Lee County – Lee voters will see only slight change in machines LINK
NJ: Atlantic City – Don’t just blame messengers: Fix absentee abuse LINK
NJ: Essex County – County certifies 700 electronic voting machines (Sequoia) LINK
PA: Centre County – County seeks electoral paper trail (ES&S iVotronic) LINK
WI: Winnebago County – County board to reconsider touch-screen voting (Diebold) LINK
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this is about the "How the vote got messed up" story link from above, concerning Loraine and Cuyahoga counties in Ohio:
Here’s a quote from the ‘The Plain Dealer’ at http://www.cleveland.com
"One of the key problems involved the memory cards for the machines. They did not have the capacity to hold the 2,000 different ballots to be used in Cuyahoga County for the primary."
Can anyone explain why/how it is that they have 2K different ballots for a primary election?
It seems insane. And the solution–to ‘wire’ (I assume they mean modem connection, or some kind of internet-networking connection)
the voting machines to the ‘election machines’ seems even more insane.
Why would any one machine need to have more than one set of ballots–the right ones?
Can’t the ballots be put up on a secure ftp site, and then downloaded by election workers from each county, according to the ballots that they need, and put onto the machines (after they have been checked–there’s a key point–the election workers from each county should be able to confirm that the ballots are correct and don’t contain any evil trojan horses, etc) When the ballots are put onto each machine, it would seem to be an ideal time to put other things on the machines as well, that should not be there.
The author of the plain dealer article gives her email address. I’ll email her and post her reply back here if she makes one.
John
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. . . . . Now Thats A Ticket . . .
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