12 days until Election Day.
This morning there were two press releases from Pennsylvania. The links were broken so I have re-posted those articles to the top and added ‘tinyurls’.
Hispanic voters in Nevada are getting calls to tell them they can vote over the phone. The callers, Spanish speakers, claim they are from one party yet the information they are passing on is clearly false and meant to disenfranchise the unwary voter.
Sequoia Voting Systems appears to be in the middle of another huge problem in Washington DC. They printed and mailed the Districts absentee ballots. It seems that either ballots were misprinted and races were left off or the wrong ballots were sent to voters in the right wards. …
- PA: Press Release – Coalition of Voters and Civil Rights Groups File Federal Lawsuit in Pennsylvania Seeking Emergency Paper Ballots
http://tinyurl.com/5qadup - PA: Pennsylvania Department of State Debunks Myths Associated With Election, Voting
http://tinyurl.com/6sxeq3 - National: ELECTION 2008: Recount Veteran Muses on Florida Legal Battles
http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2008/10/election-2008-r.html - National: Errors, mischief could lead to long election night
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gGnXAe9LtYL6kK0RfS4kG9VYGacgD94034C00 - National: Opinion – Resources So All Can Vote
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/opinion.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-10-23-0028.html - National: Election Day Could Become ‘Nightmare’
http://news.aol.com/elections/article/election-day-could-become-nightmare/223321 - National: How you can conduct a voter-verifiable election online, right now
http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2008/10/23/crypto_voting/ - National: Big Setbacks for GOP Voter Suppression Efforts in Swing States
http://www.alternet.org/election08/104322/big_setbacks_for_gop_voter_suppression_efforts_in_swing_states/ - National: How can we fight voter suppression?
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977486860 - AR: St. Francis County – Poll workers, voters discuss early-voting process in SFC
http://www.thnews.com/article.php?id=6743 - AZ: Out-of-state, Out of Luck?
http://media.www.ecollegetimes.com/media/storage/paper991/news/2008/10/23/News/OutOfState.Out.Of.Luck-3500408.shtml - CA: Orange County – Wells Fargo will use employees as poll workers in ‘corporate sponsorship’ deal with Orange County
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-ocvote23-2008oct23,0,6436513.story - CO: El Paso County – No margin for errors
More near-misses and mistakes highlight election-related pressures
http://www.csindy.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A31653 - DE: Opinion – Rumor about election malfunctions sparks extra inspections
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20081023/OPINION11/810230320/1004/OPINION - FL: Voting Rights Watch: Controversy intensifies over Florida voter ID requirements
http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2008/10/voting-rights-watch-controversy.asp - FL: Polk and Sarasota Counties – Some voters are mailed incomplete ballots
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20081023/ARTICLE/810230299?Title=Some_voeters_are_mailed_incomplete_ballots - GA: Can’t ‘Video Your Vote’ in Ga.
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2008/10/23/videovote.html - MD: Election officials brace for historic turn-out
http://www.baltimoreexaminer.com/local/32444914.html - NJ: E-Vote: Clash Over New Jersey Voting Machine Reliability
http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/424063 - NV: Voting controversy surfaces
Issue concerns those who registered with missing, incorrect information
http://www.lvrj.com/news/32204254.html - NY: Voter Groups Issue Election Report Card
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/united-states/voter-groups-issue-election-report-card-6063.html - PA:Federal Lawsuit Finally Filed Against PA to Demand Emergency Paper Ballots for Voters
NAACP, Voting Rights Coalition Demand Paper Ballots If ‘Majority’ of Voting Machines Fail
https://bradblog.com/?p=6551 - PA: Turnout may be both blessing and curse
Valley officials gird for record numbers — and maybe gridlock — at local polls.
http://www.mcall.com/news/elections/local/all-a1_5turnout.6637097oct23,0,2162817.story - PA: State fights two lawsuits over voting rights
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08297/922298-100.stm - PA: Cortes Responds to Voter Fraud Suit Allegations
http://tinyurl.com/69jsye - PA: Lawsuit: Paper ballots should be on hand in Pa.
http://www.timesleader.com/news/ap?articleID=970799 - PA: Wayne County – County sells electronic voting machines
http://www.wayneindependent.com/news/x1261536543/County-sells-electronic-voting-machines - TN: ES&S Voting Machines in Tennessee Flip Votes
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/ess-voting-mach.html - TX: Harris County – For more, a vote along party line is just the ticket
Lengthy ballot here is cited as one impetus for straight voting
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6073645.html - WV: Who’s to blame for jumping votes on WV touchscreen machines?
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081023-whos-to-blame-for-jumping-votes-on-wv-touchscreen-machines.html - WV: Voters allege e-voting machines switching votes
http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/internet/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=11611 - WV: Vote Flips 5 Times From Dem to Rep for Voter in Yet Another WV County
Epidemic of ES&S iVotronic Touch-Screen Voting Machine Failures – Now in At Least Two States – Continues to Grow…
https://bradblog.com/?p=6550 - Washington DC: Ballot snafu could affect D.C. absentee voters
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