Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
“The question most frequently asked after the election is whether it was a success,” said Doug Chapin, electionline.org’s director. “Success can be measured in a two ways. If success is measured through picking winners, then yes, there were few races in which polling-place problems could have affected the outcome. But, on the other hand, if it is measured through whether every voter who showed up at a polling place had an opportunity to cast their vote without problems or obstacles, then the answer is no.” We agree with this assessment and we encourage everyone to read electionline.org’s newly released report. / Apparently the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) appears to have decided that the new (2007) voting systems standards decertify all Direct Recording Electronic voting machines….
NAtional: Analysis of 2006 Election Finds Problems Nationwide; Lack of Post-vote Controversy Masks Widespread Voting Difficulties LINK
NAtional: Midterm elections get report card LINK
NAtional: Feds to Toughen E-Voting Standards? LINK
NAtional: Cox No Fan of Paper Balloting LINK
NAtional: Cathy Cox goes to Washington, and still doesn’t like paper ballots LINK
NAtional: Protect the Vote Locally LINK
NAtional: Opinion – Congress should revamp our broken voting system LINK
NAtional: Editorial – Congress should patch election holes by 2008 LINK
NAtional: E-voting measures sought to avoid disputes LINK
NAtional: Electionline.org gives midterms mixed grades; e-voting failures ‘plentiful’ LINK
AL: Canvass forces statewide recount of Prichard trade measure LINK
CA: In The Voting Booth, Name Order Can Sway An Election LINK
CA: Split Decision On Voting Machines LINK
CA: Riverside County – Mail-in ballot count trying patience
Long lines, machines that didn’t go online among unresolved issues LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Vote Disparity Still a Mystery In Fla. Election For Congress LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Tests show some discrepancies Congressional race LINK
FL: Sarasota County – NYTimes Editorial Gets it Right on FL-13…Except for the Paper ‘Trail’ Part LINK
FL: Sarasota County – High undervote has precedent LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Vote-machine tests find nothing LINK
FL: Sarasota County – D-13 audit results argued LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Testers re-enact Election Day — results differ LINK
FL: Sarasota County – On day 1 of vote test, numbers don’t add up LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Sarasota ponders voting options LINK
FL: Sarasota County – D-13 audit results argued LINK
FL: Sarasota County – County to pick voting system reform panel LINK
FL: Sarasota County ““ First voting machine audit showed some problems LINK
FL: Sarasota County – First Day of State Run ‘Audit Testing’ in Sarasota Reveals 7% Error Rate in Testing on Paperless ES&S Touch-Screen Machines LINK
IL: Kane County – Will Kane County ballots be thrown out? LINK
IL: Kane County – Dems’ bid to toss late ballots denied LINK
IN: Gibson County – Recount begins this morning LINK
KY: Grayson favors election changes LINK
KY: Calloway County – New machines caused most voters’ woes LINK
ME: Secret Balloting Issue Resurfaces in Waldoboro LINK
NC: Split Precincts Cause Big Headaches LINK
NC: NC-8 – Manual recount to decide Hayes-Kissell House race LINK
NC: NC-8 – Manual recount underway in 8th District Hayes-Kissell race LINK
NC: NC-8 – Kissell gains two in recount’s 1st phase LINK
NJ: Warren County – Election board studies how to speed up vote counts LINK
NM: N.M. considering mail-in elections LINK
OH: Five sue over electronic systems LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County – Cuyahoga commissioners consider scrapping touch-screen machines LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County – Commissioners want new voting machines
$17 million touch screens can’t handle big elections, Cuyahoga officials say LINK
OH: Lake County – New Ohio ballot law causing confusion LINK
PA: Lancaster County – Her goal? No more Election Day woes LINK
PA: Lancaster County – Elections clerk: “ËœHuman error’ at root of mistakes LINK
RI: Judge set to hear challenge to ballot recount procedures LINK
WA: Snohomish County – Final election ballots tallied LINK
Venezuela – Voting gets safeguards in Venezuela LINK
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“The question most frequently asked after the election is whether it was a success,” said Doug Chapin, electionline.org’s director. “Success can be measured in a two ways. If success is measured through picking winners, then yes, there were few races in which polling-place problems could have affected the outcome. But, on the other hand, if it is measured through whether every voter who showed up at a polling place had an opportunity to cast their vote without problems or obstacles, then the answer is no.” We agree with this assessment and we encourage everyone to read electionline.org’s newly released report. / Apparently the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) appears to have decided that the new (2007) voting systems standards decertify all Direct Recording Electronic voting machines….
In the mind of Utah’s top election official, (Lt. governor Gary Herbert), That whole episode where Emery Utah county clerk Bruce Funk called in experts to check out his Diebold voting machines and made national news for exposing security flaws that shocked national experts never happened!
There was a program on C-SPAN2 covering a forum in Washington D.C. about problems with the 2006 elections. It was basically as interesting as watching paint dry, and was little more then watching election officials congradulate each other about what a great job they did, but there were a couple of panels. One of the panels had 8 people including Lt. governor Herbert, Thad Hall, and a guy from B.Y.U. who oversees exit polls in conjunction with the Lt. governors office named David B. Magelby.
The following is a word for word quote from Lt. governor Herbert (Caps and bold letters for emphasis):
“We got all of our 29 counties, all of our 29 clerks, all of the commissioners who have to fund this, it’s been a very expensive process, and said let’s build it from the bottom up and get everybody’s buy-in and get some kind of a consensus about how we’re going to go about the implementation of the Help America Vote Act. And truly, that’s been one of the smartest things I did, and the fact that we have a statewide system that all 29 counties, all 29 clerks VOLUNTARILY JOINED THE SAME STATEWIDE SYSTEM, AS OPPOSED TO ME HAVING TO USE SOME KIND OF DICTATORIAL APPROACH, and I think that’s fostered a lot more cooperative spirit of proactive, positive approach to make sure that we do the best we can with what we’ve got.”
There you go! Apparently, some people have to right to make their own world. We just live in it!
OT,.. update on New Hampshire Demo Get Out The Vote – phone line jamming by the Republican Party. Proceeding to a civil law suit,.. Rethugs ask the court to limit damages to less than $5,000.00,.. court disagrees allowing the Demo Party request to recover $2 million dollars in total damages if final ruling in their favor.
Pound the Fascists were it hurts them most,.. in the wallet and their bank accounts. If you disrupt democracy with your Nazi games,.. then pay through the nose to undo the damage you wrought and restore democracy until made whole once again. Then and only then will Nazi/Fascists not be so eager/hell bent to tamper with our political systems, hijack democracy, and covertly install their shadow governments, in complete disregard for the will/intentions/desires of the electorate.
Link to Boston Globe article for details.