Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
There is a lot of voting news today so this will be the morning edition of today’s news. There have been voting machine problems reported around the country. All of the reported problems, so far, have been on DRE machines. None of the reported problems would have been solved by the inclusion of a vvpat printer or an audit. In fact, of the reports we have seen so far, the inclusion of vvpat printers on DREs has actually caused problems with paper jams.
Headlines for those stories, and the other notable voting news items so far today, all follow below…
- NAtional: States Prepare for Tests of Voting-System Changes
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/us/politics/05voting.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=login - NAtional: Perspective: The Democratic Party’s dangerous experiment
http://www.news.com/The-Democratic-Partys-dangerous-experiment/2010-1028_3-6229091.html?tag=nefd.lede - NAtional: ‘Crash tested’ e-voting machines spread doubt on Super Tuesday
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/05/super_tuesday_evoting_doubts/ - NAtional: AUDIO: How Do You Know If Your Vote is Counted Accurately or Even at All?
https://bradblog.com/?p=5650 - NAtional: Super Tuesday: An e-voting report from the trenches
A closer look at three states’ e-voting readiness
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9060961&pageNumber=1 - NAtional: Why America Needs Coalition — Clean Elections and Freedom
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/51382 - AR: Tuesday will test success of Arkansas’ earlier party primaries
http://www.pbcommercial.com/articles/2008/02/05/ap-state-ar/d8uk84c82.txt - CA: Counting votes — it ain’t fast food, folks!
http://www.calvoter.org/news/blog/index.html\ - CA: 20 Calif. Counties Scrap Electronic Vote Machines
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18672642 - CA: Columnist – Thomas Elias: Voting machines back on track
http://www.appeal-democrat.com/articles/machines_59898___article.html/election_voting.html - CA: Columnist – Peter Schrag: A one-of-a-kind Rube Goldberg election machine
http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/687192.html - CA: After a reboot, does my vote count?
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13544_1-9864972-35.html - CA: State Officials Predict Slow Vote Count
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/15222388/detail.html - CA: Los Angeles County – California’s Butterfly Ballot?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/04/californias-butterfly-ba_n_84969.html - CA: Riverside county back to using paper ballots
http://www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080205/NEWS03/80205005/1263/update - CA: Riverside County – County using all-paper ballots
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/riverside/20080205-0359-election.html - CA: San Diego County – Out of touch: Voting machines sit idle
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/02/05/news/top_stories/17_55_082_3_08.txt - CA: San Diego County – Registrar staff expects to work through night
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20080205-9999-1n5vote.html - CA: San Joaquin County – Paper ballots filling in for touchscreens
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080205/A_NEWS/802050330 - CA: San Mateo County – Dozens to help oversee voting
Local Democrats volunteer to ensure smooth counting
http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/localnews/ci_8172879 - CO: Editorial – Lessons in other states’ elections
http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_8166324 - GA: Extra eyes on the polls for presidential contests
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/02/04/pollwatch0205.html - GA: Georgia voters head to the polls for Super Tuesday
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/251/story/239407.html - GA: Glitches Reported at Metro Atlanta Polls
http://www.11alive.com/news/article_news.aspx?storyid=110698 - GA: State workers fan out when problems arise at polls
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/02/05/pollpolice_0206.html - GA: Habersham County – State still investigating Habersham
Several reported violations in July election means polls may be monitored
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/article/3197/ - GA: Hall County – Glitch slows things to start with at Wilson II polling place
http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=206554 - IA: Culver, Mauro disagree on paying for voting machine upgrades
http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2008/02/05/ap-state-ia/d8ujvprg1.txt - IL: Early voters took their chances
Those who chose candidates who dropped out knew it could happen
http://www.suntimes.com/news/brown/776716,CST-NWS-brown05.article - IL: ELECTION ’08: State officials alert to voter fraud
http://mywebtimes.com/ottnews/archives/ottawa/display.php?id=352864 - IL: Chicago and Cook County – Some voters face minor problems, delays, election officials report
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-illinois-primary-voting_webfeb06,0,7841800.story - IN: Requiring IDs, Revoking IDs
http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/archives/indiana_requiring_ids_revoking_ids/ - MO: St Louis – Some technical issues reported at polls in St. Louis
http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080205/BREAKING01/80205006 - NJ: Hudson County – N.J. governor vote delayed because of poll problems
http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/new_jersey/20080205_ap_njgovernorvotedelayedbecauseofpollproblems.html - NJ: Hudson County – Machine problems at Corzine’s voting station
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/politics&id=5936011 - NJ: Hudson County – Technical Difficulties Delay The Vote In Hoboken
Several Voting Machines Malfunction
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/voting.super.tuesday.2.646027.html - NJ: Hudson County – Some Voting Machines Malfunction On Super Tuesday
Technical Difficulties Delay The Vote
http://wjz.com/xcampaign08/voting.super.tuesday.2.646035.html - NJ: Hudson County – Hoboken voting machine now working
http://www.nj.com/hudsoncountynow/index.ssf/2008/02/hoboken_voting_machine_now_wor.html - NJ: Hudson County – Computer Glitch Delays Corzine’s Vote
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/computer-glitch-delays-corzines-vote/ - NY: Lawsuits could jeopardize NY’s compliance with federal voting law
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=7822383&nav=menu183_2 - NY: Ruling rocks N.Y. voting debate
State Supreme Court gives touch-screen company’s bid new life.
http://www.stargazettenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080205/NEWS01/802050327/-1/ARCHIVESdate=20070313 - NY: Chemung County – Chemung Leg. Approves New Voting Machines
http://www.weny.com/News-Local.asp?ARTICLE3864=7369761 - NY: Debate in Essex Co. over voting machines for the disabled
http://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/news/articles.asp?articleID=10272 - NY: Otsego County – New voting machines ordered
http://www.thedailystar.com/local/local_story_036040042.html - NY: Saratoga County – Saratoga stuck with obsolete voting machines?
Upgrades in parts of county don’t meet the newer requirements of federal law
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=661159&category=REGION&newsdate=2/5/2008 - NY: Ulster County – Hearing focus is voting machine law
http://www.dailyfreeman.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19262582&BRD=1769&PAG=461&dept_id=74958&rfi=6 - OH: Large number of people want paper ballots; shortage feared
http://www.bucyrustelegraphforum.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080205/UPDATES01/80205003 - OH: Cuyahoga County elections board fires one ballot printer
Replacement scanner ballots ordered after six tests fail
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1202203843245850.xml&coll=2 - OH: Cuyahoga’s plan to vote on paper goes before federal court judge
http://www.wdtn.com/Global/story.asp?S=7824682 - OH: Franklin County – Paper ballots await voters
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/02/05/papervote.ART_ART_02-05-08_A6_4298T5M.html?sid=101 - OH: Union County officials contest state’s decision on paper ballots
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/02/05/voting_wrap.html?sid=101 - PA: Editorial – It’s time to fix voting
http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2008/02/05/editorial/editorial/daily662.txt - WV: Kanawha County – Audit finds flaws in table games election, but determines no laws were broken
http://www.dailymail.com/News/Kanawha/200802050255
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So I just went to go vote at my new polling place here in Phoenix, Az and I wasn’t on the rolls. I had to vote provisionally. Okay, I’ve worked the polls twice and once I ran it. I’ll get to see how the provisional ballot works as someone who filled one out now. So I called the number on the pink receipt I got and finally got through to someone and asked why I wasn’t on the voter rolls as someone who did everything I needed to do and I even have a voter id card with all the current and correct information on it. And I also wanted to know if and when my provisional vote will be counted. This is the first time I’ve voted at this polling place and I re registered from independant to Democrat in November and got my card in the mail that says I’m a democrat. The woman passed me on to someone named Judy and she said that my party affiliation on their system was” no preference”. I said, “no, I have a card here that says I am a democrat, so it must be in the system”. She said that my vote would not be counted because I was in the system as NP. I verified for her the ID number on my card and she went off for a while and came back and said she would change the party affiliation in the system so it would be counted. I found an innocuous letter underneath the mountain of junk on my desk back in January that said something like “our records indicate that the address we have on file for you is different from the address on file at the post office, blah blah this needs to be taken care of by “this ” date”, which had already passed. I freaked out and went online to see if I was still registered and everything online looked fine. I think independents who have changed to democrat and/or moved and are gonna be at a new polling place have been put on a caging list. Judy at Maricopa County said something about a glitch in the system that people who registered before November 7 2007 are on the rolls. The issue date on my card is 11-16-07. Can we finally indict some people for sh** like this? PLEASE!?
Another important vote is the FISA retroactive immunity for telecoms who helped preznit blush spy on Americans.
Hold the bastards accountable so the soldiers who died for freedoms in America while those that sent them there took them away while they weren’t watching.