Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
The worst county for elections in the US, Cuyahoga Co. Ohio has taken another step into the realm of the absurd. The county wants to get their votes tabulated as quickly as possible and they apparently aren’t worried as much about accuracy so they are using a new add-on device from Diebold that has never been used in an election and is not even complete with the federal inspection process yet. This device reads the data from the voting machine memory cards, six cards at a time in one minute. The county just has to get the totals out quickly; never mind the accuracy of those totals. / Massachusetts has still not settled on accessible voting machines. Three weeks from election day is too late to bring in new machines and train workers. The state, apparently, is also going to ignore HAVA and not require a new machine at each polling place….
NAtional: First Bush-Appointed Chair of US EAC Says ‘No Standards’ For E-Voting Devices, System ‘Ripe for Stealing Elections’! LINK
NAtional: Dealing With Failure LINK
NAtional: Provisional Ballot Problems Loom For November 7, According to New Publication LINK
NAtional: Blocking the 2006 Vote LINK
NAtional: New Voter ID Laws Could Cost Millions Their Right To Vote, According to New Briefing Paper LINK
AK: Struggle For 2004 Election Data Continues LINK
CA: California To Pay Back Misspent Election Funds LINK
CA: Note Warns Calif. Hispanics on Voting LINK
CA: Alameda County – Mobile Voting Machine Aims To Increase Participation LINK
CA: Alameda County – Supervisors Accept Voting System Assessment LINK
CA: Humboldt County – Vote-PAD files claim LINK
GA: Election board votes to send new letter to 305,000 misinformed voters LINK
IA: Linn County – Poll Worker Help Wanted LINK
IN: Jasper County – No hanging chads for November’s election LINK
IL: Early voting opens throughout state, will ease process LINK
MA: Lynn – Election officials face time quandary LINK
MD: Requests for Absentee Ballots Innundate Election Boards LINK
MD: Interest in absentee ballots grows LINK
MO: Missouri Supreme Court Latest to Strike Down Modern Day Poll Tax LINK
MO: Voter ID: The Missouri Supreme Court Evaluates Legislative “Foresight” LINK
NM: Voting woes still exist LINK
NV: Clark County – Clark County Voters Will Get Ballot Books On Time LINK
OH: Counting more absentee votes may take some counties longer LINK
OH: Chaos or calm? Voting machines, new ID rule greet voters in Ohio LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County – Out with new, in with newer:Latest vote-counters untried LINK
TN: Shelby County – Judge says no to electronic voting machine naysayers LINK
IReland: Ahern makes case for e-voting LINK
VEnezuela: AP Interview: Venezuela electoral chief guarantees voter secrecy LINK
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THIS is asstounding, from the article John linked to for MD (page 2)
“While Ehrlich and Duncan argue that paper ballots are more reliable than electronic touchscreen machines, some election experts argue the opposite is true.
“It’s just astounding that there would be this widespread call for absentee ballots when we know that a higher percentage of them won’t get counted, for whatever reason,” said John Willis, former Maryland secretary of state and an acknowledged expert on Maryland elections.
“It’s fear driving this,” he said. “You are actually increasing the potential for challenges the more you use paper.”
Willis said every study he has seen has shown that electronic machines such as those used in Maryland are more reliable and produce a more accurate count than paper ballots.
“The obsession with paper is leading us backward to problems we know have occurred in the past,” he said.
GODDAMIDIOT!! I am so freaking mad! (John, I did forward parts of you post about who is minding the store in Maryland to WaPo (they haven’t written back yet like they did with the BOE scrub). I think I’ll add tsend this post as well – adding to the pile of crap coming from some hack “Maryland Voting Expert”