Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
A recent study by Missourians for Honest Elections, of St. Louis County call center sheets and maintenance logs filed by election board technicians at the polls last Feb. 5, revealed interesting data. 181 problems were reported and of those reports 89 (essentially 50% of the problems) involved the voting machine voter verified paper audit trail printers. The problems ranged from 36 votes not appearing at all on the paper trail to failure to print, loose cables, jammed paper, and “printer error.” We want to save DREs by installing a vvpat printer. Why?
Mesa Co Colorado election officials were prepared to defy any orders from the state not to use their iVotronic voting machines in Nov. In fact, while the machines were decertified by the state the county purchased 130 more of the DREs. Now the county is hat-in-hand in front of the county commission asking for a whopping $5,759 per month for storage for those 130 new machines. If they were using optical-scan they would not need the extra storage and could probably cut down on the amount of storage they are using. It takes far less room to store one optical scan machine per polling place than it does all of the DREs needed to serve the county’s polling places….
- NAtional: “Emergency” Bill Tries to Make Electronic Voting More Accurate, But Will It?
http://www.alternet.org/election08/81163/?page=1 - NAtional: Internet Voting is Too Risky for Public Elections
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2806&Itemid=26 - NAtional: Helpless, Helpless, Helpless
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_marta_st_080402_helpless_2c_helpless_2c_.htm - CA: California review of the ES&S AutoMARK and M100
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1269 - CO: Storage cost jumps for voting machines
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/04/02/040308_1B_Vote_warehouse.html - CT: Procedures Alone Insufficient For Effective Election Audits
http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=180 - CT: Connecticut: Coalition Releases 2nd Post-Election Audit Report
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2805&Itemid=113 - IA: Editorial – A more uniform system
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2008/04/02/news_opinion/editorial/4d2ff12d4f9d69268625741e00763c08.txt - IA: E-Vote: Iowa Governor Signs Voter Machine Legislation
http://www.govtech.com/gt/282120?topic=117673 - IA: Lee County – New voting machines in county’s future
http://www.dailygate.com/articles/2008/04/03/news/03.txt - IN: Rokita wants voting machine vendor to pay up
http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2008/04/03/updates/breaking_news/doc47f54796e61d9610194790.txt - KS: Strictness a sticking point in voter ID bill
Democrats urge a softer stance to avoid veto from gov.
http://www.hutchnews.com/Todaystop/bill2008-04-02T20-59-23 - LA: Voting-sites change passes committee
http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080403/NEWS01/804030318/1002 - MA: More democracy now
Why Beacon Hill should allow same-day voter registration
http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid59014.aspx - MO: Opinion – Is Missouri’s voting technology headed for a crash?
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/editorialcommentary/story/943B3DBC43544A688625741E007EC759?OpenDocument - MS: Voter ID: Up for the Final Count
http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/comments.php?id=16716_0_4_0_C - OH: Cuyahoga Co. review leaves few unscanned primary votes uncounted
http://www.bucyrustelegraphforum.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080402/UPDATES01/80402015 - PA: Election systems could face problems, official says
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_560482.html - PA: Mercer County – County, UniLect asking judge to settle question
http://www.sharonherald.com/local/local_story_093225625.html - PA: Wayne County Democrats up 11 percent
http://www.wayneindependent.com/news/x79621773 - TX: Comal County – Nathan Macias Suing Over Vote Count
http://www.fredericksburgstandard.com/articles/2008/04/02/news/03news.txt
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see below, Hart complains that certification process in Colorado is not valid.
http://www.thedenverchan…ics/14971448/detail.html
“Recertification testing in Colorado is flawed, in our belief,” said Peter Lichtenheld, marketing director for Hart Intercivic of Austin, Texas, one of the manufacturers of electronic voting machines.
see below, about 1 month later, on Hart’s own site:
http://www.hartintercivic.com/pr/85
excerpt-
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published 02/28/2008
AUSTIN, Texas – Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman announced, today, that Hart InterCivic’s paper ballot scanners, Ballot Now and eScan, are certified for use in the State of Colorado,
“We are thrilled that we are in a position to continue to serve the County Clerks and Recorders, and the voters in the State of Colorado, with accurate, secure, and accessible election solutions,” remarked Phillip Braithwaite, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Hart InterCivic’s elections division.
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If I put together statement A
“Recertification testing in Colorado is flawed, in our belief” said Peter of Hart
and statement B
“thrilled that we are in a position to continue to serve” said Phillip of Hart
do I get C? :
“We are thrilled to be in a position to serve Colorado with election solutions that have passed flawed certification”
?