Blogged by John Gideon on 3/9/2006 5:09PM  

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org

It's been a very busy day today. Summit Co., Ohio found that 30% of the memory cards in their ES&S optical scan machines have failed. Apparently ES&S has no quality control. Will they tell the rest of the country about these problems? It's probably too late for counties in Texas that have had major failures in their primary last Tuesday. Tarrant Co., TX reported that 100,000 votes were added to the totals on their Hart Intercivic DREs. The solution? Remove 50,000 per candidate and call it good enough. In Pinellas Co., FL voters reported that their votes on Sequoia Edge machines were being swapped to the default candidate. We've heard that one before. Of course, ES&S and Hart are both calling the elections a huge success with only a few human problems....

  • NAtional: Paper Ballots: The Times They Are A-Changin' LINK
  • NAtional: New State Voter Registration Databases Could Bar Millions from Voting, Brennan Study Shows LINK
  • NAtional: Paper Trail Machines Split Disabled Advocacy Groups LINK
  • NAtional: Putting two and two together... LINK
  • CO: Election delays frustrate clerks LINK
  • FL: You don't need to be conspiracy buff to like a paper trail LINK
  • FL: Brent Batten: Collier ahead in the elections security game LINK
  • FL: Leon County - Elections flak. County has responsibility, too LINK
  • FL: Leon County - Voting-machine company says no thanks, Leon LINK
  • FL: Pinellas County - Human error slows vote count. Vote counting suffers a two-hour delay because of a technician's mistake. (Apparently the technician allowed a computer to freeze-up. Another case of blaming it on the human and not the technology) LINK
  • FL: Pinellas County - Incumbents return in a big way (Notice that voters complain about vote swapping on the machines) (Sequoia Edge) LINK
  • IL: Lake County - Not many voting early so far LINK
  • IN: Greene County - Polling sites need work LINK
  • LA: New Orleans - Cleo Fields files appeal to have N.O. elections canceled LINK
  • LA: Tangipahoa County - Tangipahoa getting newest voting machines (Sequoia) LINK
  • MD: Paper Ballot Bill Passes in State House 137-0 LINK
  • MD: House Approves Switch to Paper Ballot for 2006 Md.'s Elections LINK
  • MD: House votes to require paper record of vote LINK
  • MD: Bill targets electronic voting LINK
  • MI: Our View: When voting, read the instructions LINK
  • MO: ES&S to Use Technology Developed by ILTS Subsidiary Unisyn Voting Solutions for Jackson County Voting System (Inka-Vote Precinct Ballot Scanners) LINK
  • MS: Winston County - Plan helps cover cost of voting machines for Winston County LINK
  • MS: Winston County - County polling place plan passes U.S. Department of Justice scrutiny LINK
  • NY: Albany Faces Dual Signals on Elections LINK
  • OH: Cuyahoga County - Third elections worker indicted over presidential recount LINK
  • OH: Seneca County - Chadless choosing (ES&S M-100) LINK
  • OH: Summit County - ES&S Voting Machines Fail LINK
  • OH: Summit County - Summit voting gear flunks (ES&S Optical-scan memory cards) LINK
  • OH: Summit County - Election board in Akron reports problems with new equipment (ES&S Optical-scan memory cards) LINK
  • PA: Clarion County - County expresses confident in new voting machines (Diebold TSx) LINK
  • PA: Perry County - Voting machines to go on display LINK
  • PA: York County - County picks vote machines (Sequoia Edge) LINK
  • TX: E-Voting Woes: You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet... LINK
  • TX: Bowie County - Voting system a winner on election night (ES&S Automark) LINK
  • TX: El Paso County - Recount sought in District 78 race LINK
  • TX: Hidalgo County - Garcia Won't Concede Election, Questions Many Ballots (ES&S iVotronic) LINK
  • TX: Hidalgo County - Salinas earns majority over Garcia with all precincts in (County found votes on unused machines) (ES&S iVotronic) LINK
  • TX: Jefferson County - Highest turnout in years meets technical glitches (ES&S iVotronic) LINK
  • TX: Potter County - Hairy Potter elections (ES&S) LINK
  • TX: Robertson County - Robertson County says glitches delayed results (ES&S) LINK
  • TX: Tarrant County - Vote spike blamed on program snafu (Hart InterCivic) LINK
  • TX: Tarrant County - Tarrant County elections officials report glitch. No local contest is altered as some votes counted up to six times (Hart InterCivic) LINK
  • TX: Tom Green County - Ballots unlikely to get ax (Hart Intercivic) LINK
  • TX: Webb and Bexar Counties - Editorial: E-voting continues to present problems (ES&S) LINK
  • TX: Williamson County - Ballot counting runs into lags in Williamson County LINK
  • WA: New voter registration systems criticized LINK
  • **"Daily Voting News" is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in "Daily Voting News" may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or BradBlog.Com**

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    READER COMMENTS ON
    "'Daily Voting News' For March 09, 2006"
    (6 Responses so far...)

    COMMENT #1 [Permalink]
    ... Floridiot said on 3/9/2006 @ 5:31 pm PT...


    I love it, when you get that many links to look at in a day
    Thats got to get through to the "sheeple" somehow
    John, when you get 50 links (one for each state), then I'll know we're cookin with gas, then
    ( or should I say, solar?)


    COMMENT #2 [Permalink]
    ... Floridiot said on 3/9/2006 @ 5:57 pm PT...


    As usual OT, but you have to Check this out The headliner is
    "White House Linked to Mitch Wade Iran Group?"
    If its reported properly by the MSM, this could be the big one


    COMMENT #3 [Permalink]
    ... Peg C said on 3/9/2006 @ 6:22 pm PT...


    Thanks for the link, Floridiot. Ve-e-e-r-ry interesting...


    COMMENT #4 [Permalink]
    ... Dredd said on 3/10/2006 @ 4:14 am PT...


    Yeah, Floridiot, I agree with Peg C ... that article tells me my "suspicions" are on track.

    I feel that many of these types of contracts are money laundering where public money is making it into the coffers of the republican party for the election.

    Some dork doing "intelligence" is just another bu$hit lie to funnel tax money into coffers that increase the republican dictatorship that has taken over this country.

    Billions and trillions of dollars are being misdirected and the MSM and writers and every professional is becoming an "intelligence" operative. Give them "classified" info about 1902 ford trucks and then you got them.

    We ran across the embryonic appearances in the Oviedo Voice thread days. Many people in this net are unaware of where the money is coming from and who they are helping.

    The greatest crimes in the history of this nation are being perpetrated by the republican dictatorship.


    COMMENT #5 [Permalink]
    ... Dredd said on 3/10/2006 @ 7:51 am PT...


    OT

    The polls keeeeeepppp ooonnnn gooooinnnng down, down, and down.


    COMMENT #6 [Permalink]
    ... pralki said on 5/2/2006 @ 4:04 am PT...


    I also oneself something would want to find out on this theme. Very attentively I will read every post.


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    VotersUnite.org's Daily Voting News 'Daily Voting News'
    For December 04, 2008

    by John Gideon

    The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) was signed into law in Oct. 2002. Amongst other things HAVA required the formation of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) and provided some mandates, in Title III of the law, for federal elections including some standards for voting systems. Those standards include, but are not limited to, accessibility for voters with disabilities and accuracy in the vote count. Testing by experts in accessibility has shown that none of the Direct Recording Electronic (DRE, usually touch-screen) voting systems presently in use meet the requirements for accessibility for disabled voters. Failures in testing and vote counting in real elections have also proven that, at times, the voting systems presently being used across the country do not meet the federally mandated requirements for accuracy.

    So what guidance has been provided by the EAC to the states with regards to Title III? Well, actually none. In fact even though voting systems presently in use do not meet federal law the EAC is just now getting around to issuing guidance to state and local election officials and, according to the draft of the plan ‘featured’ below, it is going to take another two years before the EAC can complete the guidance.

    Why can’t they just tell the vendors and the states that the law is clear and, if they fail to follow that law, violations will be referred to the DoJ? The fact that the vendors misrepresent their products as being accessible is a clear violation of the law. It is time they are held responsible and it doesn’t take two years of studying Title III of HAVA to make that clear....

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