Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
The Princeton Report is being reported on, favorably, all over with demonstrations on CNN and Fox and recent articles in US News and World Reports, Information Week, and the UKs SC Magazine. Verified Voting Foundation has an excellent article with quotes from Dr.s David Dill and Doug Jones. / Do you have a file cabinet or office desk? Then you probably have a key to the Diebold memory card door. / “How many machines will Bucks County [Pennsylvania] receive for $5 million? Attachment B of the contract references 650 machines. Attachment E of the very same contract references 800 machines. When those who signed the contract are asked which number is correct, one is told “Neither. The county will receive 700-some machines.” No specific number is forthcoming.” I have confidence. Not! …
NAtional: Princeton University Researchers Demonstrate New Vulnerabilities in Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine LINK
NAtional: Six years later, another Florida fiasco awaits LINK
NAtional: William Jackson | Cybereye: E-standards needed for national elections LINK
NAtional: How to Hack an Election in One Minute. Princeton U. researchers have released a study and video that demonstrate the ease of altering votes on an electronic voting machine. LINK
NAtional: E-Voting Machines Pose Election Threat, Professor Says LINK
NAtional: The eSlate may not be so clean. Like punch cards, electronic ballots vulnerable to mistakes and fraud, experts say LINK
NAtional: Princeton Study On Electronic Voting – New Book Exposes Further Vote Hacking Details LINK
NAtional: Princeton prof says mini-bar keys open Diebold voting machines LINK
NAtional: Diebold’s Proper Access Controls = Mini-Bar Key. Princeton Professor Says Key To Gain Entry To Memory Card Is Standard Key Found Anywhere LINK
NAtional: “Hotel Minibar” Keys Open Diebold Voting Machines LINK
NAtional: “It’s not who votes that counts, it’s who counts the votes,” Joseph Stalin LINK
NAtional: Unfit for Use in ANY Democracy LINK
CO: Editorial – No need to panic over vote machines LINK
C: Douglas County – County feels electors will like voting by eSlate LINK
CT: One Vote Against Scanners LINK
MD: Officials review primary problems LINK
MD: Montgomery County – As Ballot Tally Starts, Montgomery Interrogated LINK
MD: Montgomery County – Montgomery Officials Admit to Lack of Planning LINK
MN: Letter to the Editor: Ensuring that Minnesota’s votes are counted accurately LINK
MO: Another Defeat For Voter ID Requirements LINK
PA: Bucks County – eVoting Update LINK
WA: King County – Election 2006: All-new touch screens and no one at the top LINK
WA: King County – Election will test security policies LINK
WA: Kitsap County – Tasting the Freedom of a Voter’s Rights LINK
WI: Primary Election Plagued By Computer Problems LINK
WI: Election chief blasted by aldermen LINK
WV: Belmont County – New Voting Centers Have Some Residents Upset LINK
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Is anyone encouraging registered voters to vote by absentee ballot to create a paper trail that can be recounted? It’s not too late to sign-up with your local board of elections via the internet for November’s election.
Say! What about absentee voting!? It can be done in the privacy of one’s very own home at the kitchen table!
With absentee voting, one can take all the time in the world!
Like the Dixiecrat declared, there’s a paper trail with absentee voting!
Let’s here it for absentee voting everybody!
Hip Hip Hooray!
Everybody vote absentee!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I got mine in the mail and didn’t even ask for one. Kind of odd if you ask me. I’m going to use it because I live in FL and that’s the only way to vote with a paper trail. I’m just worried they will lose it in the mail somewhere. These guys are career criminals, so I’m sure they will find a way to steal my vote this time too. If they do though I’ll be looking for the crowds who have had it (like in Mexico)
Lisa B #3
Here in California you can drop your absentee ballot off at ant polling station on the day of the election. Saves on the worry that it was received in time.
Check into your own state’s procedure.
Since your name is on the envelope, and poll workers check your name off as having received your absentee ballot, you can call anytime after the election to demand that they show you the list that they at least received it. If they didn’t get it, sue to recast your ballot. As for counting your vote, there’s not much verification once the ballot has been removed from the envelope, but at least the precinct has a piece of paper and the number of pieces of paper have to add up to and exactly match the number of registered names checked off for ballots received. We have to tackle this problem at the precinct level. If we can keep each precinct honest and accurate the entire state has a good chance of being accurate.