Election day is tomorrow

Fulton and Clayton Counties, Georgia have decided that they will have enough time at the polls for all voters who want to vote to do that. They both decided not to ask the state, before-hand, to allow them to keep the polls open longer than normally allowed. Wouldn’t it have been better to ask to keep them open longer and have no one waiting on line than to force people to wait on line so you can close at the normal time? Of course, both counties have said they can handle the crowds because they have enough machines. They ignore, again, that the bottle-neck has been and will be the voter check-in procedure and their overly slow computer system. In other states it may be the ballot-on-demand system for optical-scan ballots.

In another great article from Kim Zetter and the WiredBlog, Threat Level, she reports on ‘vote-flipping’ and the ES&S voting machines.

Also from Kim is the news that one Michigan election official warned the EAC over a week ago that ES&S M-100 optical-scan machines used in her county don’t consistently tally ballots. These machines are used all across the country....

• Featured - National: Report: ES&S Voting Machines Can Be Maliciously Calibrated to Favor Specific Candidates
  http://blog.wired.com/27.../11/report-ess-voti.html
• Featured – MI: Michigan Election Official Reveals ES&S Machines Don't Tally Votes Consistently
  http://blog.wired.com/27.../11/michigan-electi.html
• National: On Eve of Election Day, Is the Nation’s Voting System Ready? Reports of Irregularities Pour in from Across US in Record Early Voting
  http://www.democracynow....n_eve_of_election_day_is
• National: The Pitfalls of Electronic Voting
  http://media.www.sbstate...nic.Voting-3519172.shtml
• National: Opinion - Will your vote count tomorrow?
  http://www.computerworld...8995&intsrc=hm_list
• National: My Take: E-Voting Not User-Friendly
  http://dsc.discovery.com...h-electronic-voting.html
• National: Would Congressional Democrats Cover Up Election Fraud? Part 2 in the "Democracy" in America Series – No Way, Right?!?!
  http://www.opednews.com/...rk-Adams-081102-529.html
• National: Touchscreen Voting Machines Cause Long Lines and Disenfranchise Voters
  http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.5577
• National: Impossibly Long Lines for Elderly, Other Voters in FL, GA, Elsewhere
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6611
• National: Opinion - Short-Circuiting the Vote
  Tuesday's election will be the most technologically advanced in American history. But will it be the most reliable?
  http://www.newsweek.com/id/167189
• National: Nov. 4, 2008: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
  http://www.pcworld.com/b...d_possibly_go_wrong.html
• National: Expected High Voter Turnout Has Government Officials, Watchdog Groups on Alert
  http://elections.foxnews...s-watchdog-groups-alert/
• National: How to Make Reliable Voting Machines
  http://media.www.csucaul...g.Machines-3521282.shtml
• National: Concerns continue to shadow e-voting
  http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/848
• National: Could voting meltdown history repeat itself?
  http://ap.google.com/art...F8o0PW_B39XLCvQD947NS103
• National: Combat Vote Suppression
  http://www.thenation.com...te_suppression?rel=hpbox
• National: Oprah’s Problem With Electronic Voting
  http://theboard.blogs.ny...-with-electronic-voting/
• CO: Purged voters in the dark over Election Day status
  Thousands potentially could be denied right to cast ballots over bureaucratic snafus
  http://coloradoindepende...over-election-day-status
• FL: Florida tops states in concerns sent to pre-election hot line
  http://www.cnn.com/2008/...ICS/11/03/voter.hotline/
• GA: Fulton and Clayton won’t extend voting hours
  http://www.ajc.com/traff...fulton_voting_hours.html
• IN: Marion County - Appeals court likely to rule on challenged ballots
  http://www.indystar.com/...081103/NEWS0502/81103032
• LA: League of Women Voters of Louisiana (LWVLA) calls for the Governor and Secretary of State
  http://lwv-la.org/
• MI: ES&S Op-Scans Giving 'Different Results Each Time Same Ballots Run Through Machines' in MI County
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6613
• NJ: New voters could get ballot that's provisional
  It would not be counted Tuesday
  http://www.app.com/apps/...rticle?AID=2008811030316
• OH: Ohio voting machines to be tested Tuesday
  http://www.bucyrustelegr...81103/UPDATES01/81103003
• OH: Election Boards Ordered To Offer Paper Ballots
  http://www.bucyrusonline...ticles/000016/001615.htm
• OH: Franklin County - Absentee Voting Winds Down With Long Lines
  Secretary of State predicts 80% voter turnout.
  http://www.610wtvn.com/c...656&article=4516570
• PA: Committee of Seventy Fields Largest Ever Voter Assistance Program for Historic November 4th Election
  http://tinyurl.com/6jyt75
• TX: Texas rights group cautions against voting straight ticket; El Paso County official says voting machines are fine
  http://www.newspapertree...voting-machines-are-fine
• VA: Federal hearing on election suit Monday
  http://www.dailypress.co...1103nov03,0,331431.story
• VA: Federal Judge to Hear Va. Election Suit Today
  http://www.washingtonpos.../03/AR2008110301184.html
• VA: Judge rejects NAACP request for paper ballots, extended voting hours; McCain sues Va. electoral board over military ballots
  http://www.inrich.com/cv...RTD-2008-11-03-0218.html
• VA: Judge Refuses to Order Longer Voting Hours in Va.
  http://www.washingtonpos.../03/AR2008110302058.html
• VA: Voting Groups Target Virginia
  http://washingtonindepen...g-groups-target-virginia
• VA: McCain lawsuit asks federal court to order Va. to count late overseas military ballots
  http://www.startribune.c...ec7PaP3iUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
• VA: McCain sues to force Va. to count military ballots
  http://www.washingtonpos.../03/AR2008110302347.html

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