Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Remember ““ 1-866-Our-Vote / In an attempt to stop HBO from airing the documentary ‘Hacking Democracy’ which starts tomorrow evening and runs for the whole month at various times, Diebold has made threats and pointed out mistakes that they feel are in the documentary. What is funny is that the errors Diebold claims are in the documentary are not even in this film. / On Guam, Bill 355 passed the territories legislature, if now signed into law by Governor Felix Camacho, would suspend the use of electronic voting machines in local elections until their use can be demonstrated to be as accurate and effective as traditional paper ballots. / Today we feature links to a well done series of informational articles in ‘Computerworld’….
NAtional: Election Protection ’06 – New Public Service Radio Campaign Enlists Ben Affleck, Jodie Foster, Alec Baldwin and Kyra Sedgwick to Voice Radio Spots Informing Voters of Their Polling Place Rights LINK
NAtional: HBO vetoes Diebold’s docu request LINK
NAtional: Diebold Fumbles Attempt to Stop HBO Airing of ‘Hacking Democracy’! LINK
NAtional: Timely questions on electronic voting LINK
NAtional: Will Your Vote Count?
Concerns mount over possible breakdowns, voter confusion, and fraud. LINK
NAtional: ACCURATE Comments on The EAC’s VSTCP Manual LINK
NAtional: Many eyes will watch the polls LINK
NAtional: Vote fraud fears fewer, yet some back voter IDs LINK
NAtional: Perspective: Every vote counts, right? LINK
NAtional: Rage against the machine
Diebold struggles to bounce back from the controversy surrounding its voting machines. LINK
NAtional: E-voting: Laws, lingo and technologies
Do you know your DREs from your VVPATs? LINK
NAtional: E-voting and voter registration: The vendors LINK
NAtional: Brad Friedman – Review: Hacks, lies and videotape
E-voting activist Brad Friedman looks at HBO’s ‘Hacking Democracy’ LINK
NAtional: E-voting state by state: What you need to know LINK
NAtional: Voters in Fla., Texas complain of e-voting glitches LINK
NAtional: U.S. Attorney’s Office: We’re ready to investigate election fraud LINK
NAtional: New Tools Encourage Americans To Exercise Right to Vote LINK
NAtional: CNN’s Lou Dobb’s: Early Voting Troubles in Florida, Plus HBO’s New Hacking Diebold Documentary LINK
NAtional: High-Tech Voting Raises Election Anxiety LINK
NAtional: Primary and early e-voting problems point to gathering storm LINK
AR: Early voting going smoothly most places; some counties report technical problems LINK
AZ: Ariz. voting under scrutiny
Film director, lawyers among many watching for errors, complaints LINK
AZ: Judge orders count of people with no ID who leave without voting LINK
CA: Riverside and San Bernardino Counties – Early voters, absentees kick-start Inland balloting LINK
CA: San Diego County – San Diego County sued over election plan LINK
CA: San Diego County Registrar Sued by Voter Seeking Compliance of State’s Paper Ballot Order, ‘Immediate Action’ Concerning Diebold Voting Machine ‘Sleepovers’! LINK
CO: Patience a winner on election night LINK
CT: Report: voting machines can be compromised, but safeguards in place LINK
FL: Duval County – Legal Team Plans To Monitor Elections LINK
FL: Palm Beach County – Extra word muddles absentee ballots LINK
FL: Palm Beach County – Elections supervisor promises smooth voting Tuesday LINK
FL: Suwannee County – Voting machine security not an issue here LINK
IL: Cook County – Officials expect fewer Chicago-area voting problems than in March LINK
IL: Chicago/Cook County – New Machines And Ballots For Election Day LINK
IN: New voting machines win approval of advocate for disabled LINK
IN: Columnist – Your fellow citizens want you to show your ID LINK
IN: Parke County officials confident election will go smoothly LINK
KS: County tests voting equipment LINK
MD: Record number of voters apply for absentee ballots LINK
MD: Experts divided over accuracy of voting machines LINK
MD: Baltimore County – A flood of absentee ballot requests LINK
MD: Prince George’s County Faces Absentee Ballot Shortage LINK
NJ: Hot line set for voting problems LINK
OH: Area county officials are predicting costliest election in Ohio history LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County – Elections board to use computers to watch polls LINK
OH: Trumbull and Mahoning Counties – Local ballots will be counted early LINK
PA: Varied e-voting systems prepare for biggest test LINK
PA: Electronic voting machines praised LINK
PA: Warren County – New voting machines ready for their debut LINK
TX: Judge orders state to stop prosecuting part of state election law LINK
TX: Denton and Tarrant County – Glitch keeps voter from casting her ballot early LINK
UT: Cache County – E-vote ready for first general election LINK
VA: Tazewell County – Electoral Board questioned about minutes, machine test LINK
GUam: iVotronic terminals 86’ed by senators LINK
NEtherlands: Voting machines too insecure for election 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**
I’ve already posted this on another thread, but it’s so fundamental, I want to make sure everyone reads it.
It’s time to dispose of some voting machine myths perpetuated by the BushCo media apologists.
There is no such thing as a computer “glitch”.
The computer does what it’s TOLD to do.
Nothing more. Nothing less.
The need to “calibrate” touchscreens is pure BS, a classic straw man. Did you ever have to calibrate a Diebold ATM before you made a deposit? Did you ever have to re-calibrate YOUR computer before linking to a blog?
Why is it that touchscreens are “mis-calibrated”, yet switch Democratic votes to the GOP 95% of the time?
If it were a truly random occurrence, it would be 50%/50%. The media and naysayers disregard this proof of programmable fraud.
Remember the 2004 EIRS database? Of 88 touchscreen incidents, 86 switched votes from Kerry to Bush.
These “glitches” occurred in different locations, mostly in FL and OH. THEY WERE INDEPENDENT EVENTS.
So how do we compute the odds?
The probability is equal to the sum of the individual probabilities of getting 86, 87 and 88 switches.
In Excel:
1.23689E-23 =BINOMDIST(86,88,0.5,FALSE)
2.84343E-25 =BINOMDIST(87,88,0.5,FALSE)
3.23117E-27 =BINOMDIST(88,88,0.5,FALSE)
THE PROBABILITY IS 1.26565E-23 or
1 in 79,010,724,999,066,700,000,000
That’s ONE in 79 SEXTILLION.
I’ve written thousands of programs on mainframes, minis and PCs. Any computational errors were due to faulty programming/logic. It was NEVER a computer “glitch”, just a programming error.
Every professional software developer knows that a program never runs perfectly the first time.
Hell, anyone can program a computer to add. Even Diebold. So what’s the problem? They don’t want to count the votes. So how do they get the machines certified? Money talks. And the Democrats won’t do anything about it.
Diebold has had four years to clean up and publish the code. But why should they? It does exactly what they want it to do.
If you still believe that the DRE problems are just “glitches” and not due to malicious programming, you’re living in a dream world.
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This simple Excel model demonstrates one way of hacking a central tabulator for three sample precincts, each containing 100 voters, using a random number generator. To test the model, enter a percentage of democratic votes to be switched. You can also change the default number of (pre-hack) democratic votes in each precinct.
http://www.geocities.com/electi...omVoteHack.xls
Pass it on.
I forgot to say earlier, that on my absentee ballot, there were two Dem candidates spots that you had to fill in smack-dab on the outer fold of the ballot, one was Davis for Governor
Coincidence ?, I think not
I wonder how many spoiled votes it’ll bring for Davis when they run them through the machine ?