Election day is tomorrow

Well, here we are. Tomorrow is the day we have been building toward. Today much of the news is articles of reassurance from election officials across the nation. They say they are ready. Tomorrow we will see just how ready they are. Our main reporting tomorrow will be on voting machine problems and long lines due to voting machine and voter registration data base problems. No matter how much officials assure their voters that they are ready machines still fail to work, polls open late, votes are flipped, polls run out of paper ballots, e-poll books fail, machines are allotted unfairly, and lines will be long. Wednesday and the rest of the week we will hear about the tabulation and reporting problems. Lost votes from tabulators that were not designed or built to handle the number of votes they are expected to count; ballot printing and programming errors that result in hundreds of lost votes. These and more have been the stories of the past. Can we expect any better for the rest of this week? I hope so but I’m not holding my breath....

• National: Tales from the trenches – More election stories
  http://www.opednews.com/...runwasser-081102-69.html
• National: Why touchscreen voting machines suck
  http://www.northbynorthw...en-voting-machines-suck/
• National: Voting Rights Watch: FL and GA leading states nationally for voter complaints
  http://southernstudies.o...ch-fl-and-ga-leading.asp
• National: Researcher teases out truth of election ballots
  http://www.speroforum.co...icle.asp?idarticle=16612
• National: Opinion - Will your vote count tomorrow?
  http://www.computerworld...ic&articleId=328995
• National: E-Voting's Biggest Test
  The 2008 presidential election could be shaken by flawed electronic voting technology.
  http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/21626/
• National: Fears of US ballot-box overload trigger citizens' army
  http://afp.google.com/ar...NcdGfT9×5r91bHwTSmA
• National: Voter Integrity Group Urges Preservation of Unadjusted National Exit Poll
  http://www.opednews.com/...in-Zeese-081103-374.html
• National: E-voting Groups Are Watching a Handful of States
  http://www.pcworld.com/b...a_handful_of_states.html
• National: Ed Felten on E-voting: What Can Go Wrong
  http://www.pcworld.com/b...g_what_can_go_wrong.html
• National: A Brief History of Ballots In America
  http://www.time.com/time...e/0,8599,1855857,00.html
• National: Editorial - Pitfalls at the polls
  Congress and the president need to create uniform, national standards for voting procedures and ballots.
  http://www.latimes.com/n...008nov03,0,5508699.story
• National: Hacking the vote
  http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1286
• National: Make your vote count
  It might not, if you're not careful; here's how to avoid many common mistakes on Election Day
  http://www.baltimoresun....g03nov03,0,5437475.story
• National: E-voting worries linger as Election Day nears
  http://news.cnet.com/830...13578_3-10080863-38.html
• National: High Turnout May Add to Problems at Polling Places
  http://www.nytimes.com/2...olitics/03voting.html?hp
• National: Protect Your Vote - Avoid Election Machine Errors
  http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/546021/
• National: Escape from voting machine Hell
  http://weblog.infoworld..../11/escape_from_vot.html
• National: The State Of The Ballot Fight In Battleground States
  http://www.nationaljourn...ine/rg_20081103_3928.php
• AZ: Poll monitors set to play vital role
  http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/129545
• CA: UCSB Put Finishing Touch on State’s Touch-Screen Voting Machine Ban
  http://www.noozhawk.com/...tate_voting_machine_ban/
• CA: Alameda County - RFID enabling California county to get the vote in quicker
  http://www.rfidnews.org/...-get-the-vote-in-quicker
• CA: Los Angeles County - Advocates demand ballots for all
  http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_10883183
• CO: Adams County - Colorado Voting Machine Removed, Quarantined, After Vote Flips Multiple Times to McCain
  http://www.casavaria.com...ultiple-times-to-mccain/
• CO: Arapahoe agrees to have paper ballots close by
  http://www.denverpost.com/ci_10882826
• CT: Voter Registration Sets Record; Record Balloting Predicted
  http://www.courant.com/n...artnov03,0,2565316.story
• FL: Early voting crushes records
  http://www.palmbeachpost...2/a1a_election_1103.html
• FL: Florida Democrats file lawsuit against GOP
  http://www.miamiherald.c...lorida/story/753542.html
• FL: Can Florida Avoid Election Chaos?
  http://www.time.com/time...e/0,8599,1855855,00.html
• FL: Hundreds of poll watchers to fan out at voting sites
  http://www.palmbeachpost.../02/a4a_elexqa_1103.html
• GA: Lawyers across state plan to keep their eyes on voting procedures
  U.S. attorney, FBI will be on lookout for fraud, abuses
  http://www.ajc.com/searc.../11/02/lawyers_1102.html
• MA: Some towns still swear by hand-counting the ballots
  http://www.telegram.com/...WS/811030341/1007/NEWS05
• MN: What happens when your vote is challenged in Minnesota?
  http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/15528
• NC: In N. Carolina, 41 percent of voters have already cast ballots
  http://www.miamiherald.c...ics/AP/story/753848.html
• NE: New ballots aim to avoid butterfly effect
  http://www.omaha.com/ind...2835&u_sid=10476689
• OH: Officials confident Ohio voters won't see goofs like in '04
  http://www.dispatchpolit...ec=politics&sid=101
• OH: Summit pleased as punch
  Election officials finally say goodbye to all-nighters, unveil high-tech ballots counted by computers in 1976
  http://www.ohio.com/news...op_stories/33737169.html
• OH: Editorial - Voting Challenges
  http://www.istockanalyst...s+articleid_2760223.html
• OH: Ohio: Suit Filed for Election Observers, "Dial Up" Provisional Ballots, and a Comment
  http://www.opednews.com/...-Collins-081103-473.html
• OH: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
  How is Jennifer Brunner, Ohio's embattled Secretary of State, holding up as the election (and the likely accusations of impropriety) approach?
  http://www.tnr.com/polit...5-4bd1-9932-9409895caa8b
• PA: Penn students help protect the vote
  http://media.www.dailype...t.The.Vote-3519868.shtml
• PA: Voting disputes can be immediately challenged
  http://www.poconorecord..../20081103/NEWS/811030315
• TX: Counties dispute bad election rating
  http://www.amarillo.com/...10308/new_11636219.shtml
• VA: Federal judge to hear NAACP election lawsuit today
  http://www.inrich.com/cv...RTD-2008-11-03-0188.html
• WV: Carper calls for re-evaluation of voting system
  Several voters say machines switched their selections
  http://wvgazette.com/News/200811020398

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